I get very close, very often, to simply leaving Mastodon. There are lots of wonderfully brilliant people here who know how to interact respectfully online... but there's also huge Reply Guy energy. And a lot of simple disrespect. Hate follows, people who treat others like they're inherently suspect until proven otherwise (and it's impossible to prove otherwise). TONS of friendly fire and purity posturing.
I keep trying to decode how to weed that element out, to no success.
ok I'm pretty excited my article with my friend @ana@wandering.shop is out in Ecological Citizen🌞
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It's about #solarpunk as a lens for reimagining our relationship with the natural world.
full issue: https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=Vol+8+No+2
direct link to article: https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/Vol%208%20No%202.pdf
@ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social #climatechange
Just finished writing a short story that's been haunting me for about 5 months.
I call it #Weird #Solarpunk
(h/t to @megapolisomancy.bsky.social & his Weird Fic article for that moniker)
"unsettling", world is Wrong, but also very much solarpunk🤨
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/reading-weird-fiction-in-an-age-of-fascism/
please pay attention to who is stopping atrocities
then help them
""Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” ground to a halt...when a federal judge ordered a two-week ban on construction. The ruling follows...a lawsuit by environmental groups & the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians."
https://gizmodo.com/environmentalist-lawsuit-halts-construction-of-floridas-alligator-alcatraz-2000640871?ref=meditationsinanemergency.com
Every Monday, I pick up farm share and take half to the food pantry (works out great because the food pantry distributes on Tues, so the food is practically farm-to-table).
Yesterday, the food pantry guy asked what CSA I use because the food is such high quality and "it goes really fast."
1/n
Never gonna forgive Americans for being idiots about Biden's economy.
"In the final years of Biden’s presidency, the US(managed)both low inflation & record low unemployment. But Trump has reversed that...(causing)stagflation, when jobs stagnate & prices spike."
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-jobs-report-july-recession
This is just lovely.
Anyone who says the arts aren't restorative of life, essential to what makes us human, is trying to destroy you (and life; the soulless & anti-humanness of these people is core to what is destroying things right now).
https://youtu.be/ABYnqp-bxvg?feature=shared
(h/t @pkrugman.bsky.social )
We need to start thinking seriously about how to track important data while the government is cooking the books & the NYT is providing cover.
"Trump is acting now to have the right people in place to keep up the illusion that he is good for the country."
https://lucid.substack.com/p/how-authoritarians-cook-the-books
We are in a time of great cultural change, when the old ideas are pressed to their absurd extreme, breaking everything, and the new ones scream out through the pain.
Healthcare is a human right.
Trans people exist.
Billionaires should not.
No corruption.
No deal-making.
No kings.
https://lucid.substack.com/p/we-are-living-through-moral-collapse
There's a special cupcake store where I get cupcakes for my birthday; two cupcakes (one for me, one for hubby).
I look forward to it — it's my birthday treat.
It kind of struggled as a business but it managed.
Until Trump2.0
Now they're closed, paper on the windows.
Trump took cupcake.
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞