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via sunnyside up on Tumblr

Image description – two lines written on a painted metal post – first line written in blue marker “I have” – second line written in black marker “2 Pens”

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“Because green skyscrapers and high-rises are a bullshit non-solution to serious systemic problems.”

“But if you want greenery on a building nonetheless, do I have an idea for you – a portable, modular, scalable solution called ‘potted plants on your balcony’.”

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• Troy Vettese, Drew Pendergrass, Half-Earth Socialism (2022)
• Max Ajl, A People’s Green New Deal (2021)
• Red Nation, The Red Deal (2021)

“Imagine a world where you don’t feel forced to go to your job just to put food on the table, where climate collapse isn’t driving every global disaster. A world where decisions about what products get made, what public goods are free and accessible, are made by everyday people, not by CEOs and board members. A world where community and chosen family are just a bike ride, a high-speed train, or a quick walk away.”

“The goal of oppressors is to limit your imagination about what is possible without them, so you might never imagine more for yourself and the world you live in.”

—Ashley C. Ford

“This temperature corresponds to 0 degrees Fahrenheit, so it was “probably a round, easy number to remember”

That’s what Allouche and team will be working on next, as they build their research summary into a full report, to be published in September 2024. “These findings give good reasons for ‘3 degrees of change’ to be further explored,” Allouche says.

Three Degrees Of Change: Frozen food in a Resilient and Sustainable Food System (PDF)

• a quick update from my post a few days back
• this was the first iteration (very barebones to check on fitting)
• everything up and running (QMK made the firmware incredibly easy)
• so far, thoroughly enjoying the experience
• and yes, it’s all open source
  • main repository
  • alep repository with gerbers, firmware, and KiCad PCB file
• and I’m already working on the next iteration
  • reset switch
  • re-adjusting some routing
  • adding in a base (Plaid or Seigaiha style)
    • I really like the plateless build

(we should be able to fit in a couple more panels, right?)

Piped

Bring back the Feast of Fools, callithumpian parades, and the Lord of Misrule!

Have been working my way through FlatFootFox’s Let’s Design a Keyboard with Ergogen tutorial – this is just the first iteration

• number of keys of a Corne, aesthetics of Splaytaroid, less aggressive splay than A. dux
• next big challenge is dealing with the firmware
• deciding whether I want to keep it split or go monoblock (Reviung41 or Splaytaroid)
• following iterations with work with implementing the fancy features – switch plate, bottom plate, case of some sort, RGB, OLED

“But, you will be sitting on a pile of ruins.”

We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. The world is growing this minute.

—Buenaventura Durruti, interview with Pierre van Paassen (1936-07-24)

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-van-paasen-interview-with-buenaventura-durruti

To Know the Dark

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

—Wendell Berry, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (1998)

via Paul Bogard, The End of Night (2013)

was just a quick question – on the GTK side of things, we have the progression of LXDE → XFCE → Gnome – but on the Qt side of things, with LXQT → ??? → Plasma, there’s kind of a missing middle option?