it really depends, there are people who use solar power who aren’t solarpunk at all, and people who don’t use solar power at all who are very solarpunk!

i’d recommend a quick read of the solarpunk manifesto to give you an overview of what it’s like: https://slrpnk.net/post/350429

there’s the artistic side of solarpunk, because being able to imagine a better world in the first place is vital. then there’s the more practical side of solarpunk, where people are focused on making that better world happen here & now, on a global & local scale.

as you can imagine, the practical side of solarpunk would be pretty far-reaching, so it’s hard to know what resources to share, but there are a load of cool resources already in various communities on the solarpunk instance, so you might want to check out any that take your fancy. there’re resources on everything from foraging your own plants to prison abolition and landback!

that first panel’s gorgeous! apart from the guy trampling mrs fillyjonk’s flowers :P

description!

panel 1: a woman holding a large purse sweats nervously while buying a cinema ticket for a film “whispers & explosions”. there’s a large sign above the teller that says “NO OUTSIDE FOOD OR BEVERAGE”

panel 2: the woman sits down in the cinema with two friends, cackling “hehehehe”. all three women are grinning diabolically, looking at the woman’s purse.

panel 3: the woman’s friends are now wielding spoons aloft, while the woman’s purse is opened, revealing it to be full to the brim with steaming hot soup. everyone leans over the soup, chanting “PURSE SOUP! PURSE SOUP!”

i like cats too, pimple 🥹💚

and in turn, the us & israel both learned it from britain & other european countries. european colonisers have been teaching each other how to maximise their cruelty, murder & land theft since at least the greek empire & the concept of western “civilisation” 😮‍💨

i’m always trying to take notes & inspiration from solarpunk stories about what can be done here & now, so for me, if a story’s setting is post-apocalyptic or society only improved after some extinction event getting rid of most humans, i tend to skip it.

most of us have been consuming (or at least couldn’t avoid hearing about) apocalypse-themed media for our whole lives. i think it’s really important for us as a society to work on imagining a non-apocalyptic world, because we need to imagine something before we can make it reality. 🙌

intrusive thoughts are about fears and the things we least want to happen, not from any instincts or hidden/suppressed desires that we have. that’s why they’re so upsetting and sometimes end up getting worse when trying to avoid them, because it ends up fuelling that fear.

sometimes intrusive thoughts are caused by the smallest things, too! i once had a minor accident with a knife, and then couldn’t be around knives for years without having intrusive thoughts about stabbing myself, for example. there’s no ancient instinct telling me to stab myself, nor did i have some secret suppressed desire to stab myself, it was just my brain processing fear badly and coming up with nightmare scenarios as a way of saying “don’t do this, this would be bad”.

tl;dr: you’re not a bad person if you have intrusive thoughts, no matter what they are. they’re just examples of what you don’t want to happen.

we can have a little hate, as a treat! i’d say not “giving yourself over to hatred” is pretty vital, though.

the more we build communities together, the fewer chances fascism has to convert people. it’s a lot harder to convince you (universal you, not you specifically) that immigrants/trans people/disabled people/whomever are terrible, if you’re in community with people like that & have first-hand experience to tell you when someone’s just being a wanker whipping up fear

“destroy fascism” is still a priority of course, no tolerant society should ever tolerate fascism. i do think the main priority should be to build better communities/systems/societies first & foremost, so that we have safety nets in place asap, tho

(i hope this doesn’t come across as argumentative, my intention is more to add on to your point!)

more cute li’l black cats for the rest of us! 🥳

the two i’ve had are both the sweetest softest babies. 🤩

clay/earthen/cob houses might be the way to go in your neck of the woods! they used to be the go-to house here in central & eastern ireland, which isn’t a million miles away, climate-wise.

they’re surprisingly warm in winter & keep out the damp easily (i assume because they’re more porous than bricks-and-mortar).

the main obstacle here in ireland is getting planning permission to build anything that’s even slightly out of the norm. 😅

housecats sometimes crouch down instinctively the same way! as if they’re trying to somehow hide in long grass, despite being indoors🤭

“The simplest thing is to send an F-16 to put out the fire,” Kreuzer added.

All three justified the idea of summary killings on the grounds that burning waste “constitutes terrorism”.

According to Israel, dropping 2000lb “bunker busters” on people in tents isn’t terrorism, but people burning rubbish in order to cook food & generate heat is.