hell yeah, fair play to people for holding out! 🙌 it can’t be easy when farmers are getting compensated less and less for their labour, even though we don’t get food or clothes without farmers.

Eighty-six-year-old Mervin Raudabaugh, Jr., found a creative solution to end the pressure to sell two contiguous farms. He reportedly staved off developers by turning to “a farmland preservation program dedicating taxpayer dollars toward protecting agricultural resources.”

here’s hoping more people can do things like this to get data centre builders to back off! 🤞

for someone who hates pretending, she seems like a natural! :D

i don’t think any news anywhere in the world would be relevant to this community, but european colonialism is europe’s problem to deal with and stop continuing.

imo, yes. this is caused by:

• britain occupying palestine during world war 1,

• more europeans & USians of european descent occupying the area after world war 2, and

• funding of that occupation by europeans & USians of european descent to this day.

they’re so cute! 🫶💕 the hands and feet look like they’d be especially tough to knit, fair play!

misabel does a great “wanderer above the sea of fog” impression here

you can always do that using your imagination, which as a handy little bonus, won’t make it any more difficult for you to eat food, drink water, and breathe air in future 🫠

oh to be more moomin-minded 🙂‍↕️💚

on-the-run activities: reading and knitting ✍️✍️

the developer of bad parenting has apparently been grooming 14-17 year old children on his discord.

there’s a google doc going around with more details/screenshots, and his game’s fandom site refers to him “dating” a 14 year old child.

https://badparenting.fandom.com/wiki/2oo2

this is a new account spamming multiple communities with ragebait & antisemitism, they’ll probably delete their account soon if they don’t get attention fast enough 🙄

this is a new ragebait account that’s spamming multiple communities with anti-semitic posts. they’re probably going to delete their account pretty soon, they just desperately want some attention first

but for now, he looks so happy with his li’l wagging tail! 🥹💚

swifts nest in colonies, tend to keep the same nest for life, and require nests to be fairly high up & sheltered.

hollow bricks like this allow swifts to do what comes naturally to them, with v minimal change on our side of things, since they’re just being added during the building process & not being retrofitted.

individual bird boxes in trees etc can be great for other birds, but it’d be tough to convince swifts to use them!

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

for context, this is a quote from kat blaque 💚

https://youtu.be/3buXUIz2Amk&t=2m25s

for context, this is a quote from kat blaque 💚

https://youtu.be/3buXUIz2Amk&t=2m25s

for context, this is a quote from kat blaque 💚

https://youtu.be/3buXUIz2Amk&t=2m25s

fair enough, it’s just a suggestion or jumping off point, what works in one area won’t necessarily work everywhere.

best of luck organising some way to make sure people in your community stay fed etc in emergencies, however you do so!