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Human. Artist. Solarpunk. Dork.

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2025-03-20 22:43:58

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@nprofile…skc4
It's an organization that's been in my community for 50 years, yeah. But now me and my ADHD crew are coming in and pushing buttons and making waves because we see how it could be. I can get boots on the ground for my ideas, an organization to support it, and some community recognition with good context attached to it - because we're a nonprofit.
Montana has the largest per capita nonprofit count though, with decent reputations, so maybe we just do it different than you urban folk.

2025-03-20 22:40:54

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@nprofile…skc4
I'm going to push back on this.
I work for a nonprofit, and we do our absolute best with what we can get. I'm fixing houses for people in my community. Getting heat into homes for single moms, getting ramps installed for elderly folks, and making their homes energy efficient.
Are there bad ones? Yeah. Hell yeah. But it's a model that can work for small organizations, because - properly run - it's not making anyone a profit.
Sure I have a board. They're a hell of a network.
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2025-03-18 14:24:37

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@nprofile…tw9l Are these supposed to be different evolutions of the same building? Seems like these have evolved like Pokemon, not like IRL buildings. Cute!

2025-03-18 14:24:37

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@nprofile…tw9l Are these supposed to be different evolutions of the same building? Seems like these have evolved like Pokemon, not like IRL buildings. Cute!

2025-02-11 15:53:25

Discussion: what do you say to "conservatives" who want to fight to keep this regime in power?
I don't have the privilege of removing myself from their presence, because it's the VAST majority of my community. I care about them like I care about the deer in my back yard and the trees by the creek - they are a part of my environment.
I cannot be aggressive because they'll respond in kind, and that's just sinking to their level. I'll never gain ground.
#montana #solarpunk #formers #exits

2024-12-13 23:22:51

I keep thinking of the things I am doing to prepare myself and my community for #climatechange as "growth". Growing community. Growing soil. Growing a garden. Personal growth. Environmental growth.
Yet when we scale this up "growth" becomes something else. It becomes exploitative. On the national and corporate scales, "growth" means little more than "extract more money".
How do we separate those two concepts? The connotations between the two need to be wildly different for a #solarpunk future.

2024-12-13 17:56:19

Technology will not save us from the climate crisis. We must do that work ourselves.
Technology will help us get through the climate crisis, because we are humans and we use tools.
#solarpunk #climate #climatecrisis

2024-12-01 19:36:47

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@nprofile…wfh6 The 3rd one. I need 1,000 of those at 60ft long. Let's GO!

2024-10-22 15:21:11

If you find ANY resistance in yourself to wishing personal happiness for the other, you are holding a knife by the blade.
“But they have said cruel things!”
Yes, that is true.
“But they want to do damage to people and America!”
Yeah, probably.
“But they are evil!”
Perhaps.
I’m not talking about their humanity.
I’m talking about yours.
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2024-09-30 17:06:02

I do not dream of labor. I do not dream of work.
I dream of gardens. Dream of life. I dream of
time to spend with those I love. I dream of quiet nights.
I dream a dream so simply quiet, chaotic, small, and loud.
I dream of days of sunshine and of heavy thunderclouds.
I dream of insects, mushrooms, water, soil and air and fire.
I dream the end my working days.
I pray my dreams aren't liars.

2024-08-06 16:17:06

@npub1hyk…3p33 Has nailed a #solarpunk tenet on its head:
Technology will not save us. But it will continue to get better, and we have the chance to use it to create a better, solarpunk future.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/06/with-great-power/#comes-great-responsibility

2024-07-11 01:52:19

#degrowth is essential for a #solarpunk future
Is that too idealistic? How the hell do we talk to normal people about that?
Edit: ☝️ That wasn't rhetorical y'all. Talk to me.

2024-03-12 18:55:13

*Hapsburg Capitalism* is my new favorite term.
Mmm... Enshittification (which autocorrect just suggested to me) is pretty dang high up there as well.
Thank you, @npub1hyk…3p33 for those little gems.