Posts by bedap@sunbeam.city
(DIR) Post #1458678 by bedap@sunbeam.city
2018-11-24T18:37:55Z
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Does anyone have recommendations/opinions on specific paid VPN services? Lots of them are having sales this weekend, so it's probably a good time to finally buy one.I already use Protonmail, so I was considering just getting their paid version, but I just don't know much about it. Hints, tips, and tricks greatly appreciated!
(DIR) Post #1572604 by bedap@sunbeam.city
2018-11-29T02:37:47Z
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Using "utopian" as an insult makes no sense to me. If you're not striving for utopia, literally what the fuck are you doing?
(DIR) Post #1714788 by bedap@sunbeam.city
2018-12-04T16:42:12Z
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My phone doesn't recognize "fediverse," but it does recognize "fediwoods" (which I never remember having typed). I want the fediwoods to be a real thing now, the ancient, energetic forest at the edge of town, shrouded in mystery and allure. Who knows how far the fediwoods stretch? No one has ever come out from the other side.
(DIR) Post #9fopXfQZyJIqv0Qe9Y by bedap@sunbeam.city
2019-02-13T15:31:37Z
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A student of mine once wrote an amazing essay about how increased efficiency always means we use more, not less. Here's Low Tech with a great article on the topic. A transition to renewable energy is meaningless if we don't topple our culture of consumption. That's a crucial part of my #solarpunk philosophy. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/01/bedazzled-by-energy-efficiency.html
(DIR) Post #9gVZR1BO480vl8w5my by bedap@sunbeam.city
2019-03-06T22:06:07Z
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Idea: an open source, user-maintained, wiki-style tree map of public spaces for all cities. Species, cultivar, estimated age, plant date, role in ecosystems, etc., all available in an instant.
(DIR) Post #9hOtJaLsqx9uSlQrCa by bedap@sunbeam.city
2019-04-02T02:03:18Z
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Just in case you didn't know, SBC is a democratically run cooperative! You can read about our mission & goals on our wiki (wiki.sunbeam.city/doku.php), but the short of it is that we're solarpunks looking to do radical solarpunk shit. And you don't have to have an account on our Mastodon to join the co-op!We also run a Plume instance (cafe.sunbeam.city) for longform blogging, open to anyone and have a sister Pleroma instance (habitat.lunarpunk.space). For instances looking to convert to a co-op or other democratic form, we offer to host a Loomio page for polls and discussion.If you're interested in any of our platforms on the fediverse, they're open to everyone! And if you're interested in becoming a co-op member, let me know 😊
(DIR) Post #9i716MOGCx5Vw2pBgW by bedap@sunbeam.city
2019-04-23T19:20:06Z
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The instance socialnetwork.ninja has been suspended for just literally being a cop.
(DIR) Post #9jDFlnDFzvcW8pb13w by bedap@sunbeam.city
2019-05-26T19:22:55Z
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Remember a few months ago when someone posted that the fediverse at large needed to be prepared to unanimously ban the first corporate instance that would inevitably try to monetize and corporatize this space?This is just a reminder that librem.one is here doing just that, and it's really important that they experience instance suspension on a large scale, despite claiming to be about privacy and security.
(DIR) Post #9kNuBrbSEz1VQf1r6m by bedap@sunbeam.city
2019-06-07T03:19:09Z
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With both Solarpunkification and the lichen game making the rounds, the #solarpunk game idea that came to me a few weeks ago has been rattling around again. Who wants to make a game with me?
(DIR) Post #9kT1OTmGGIQBVOvy1w by bedap@sunbeam.city
2019-07-03T02:13:02Z
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Recently, I've found myself increasingly distanced from the news. There are plenty of reasons for this, but I have little conscionable justification for being so out of touch with what is happening.Since Twitter used to be my news outlet, and the fediverse has a pretty strong culture of not blasting news constantly, I went in search of an aggregate that I can check occasionally to stay on top of things. One I found is: http://www.newsyoumayhavemissed.comThe people running the site probably fall around liberal/borderline "socialist," which is meh. BUT, they frequently give information on how to follow-up on what you're reading and how to start taking action. Imo, this is invaluable. It's just first steps, but those actions can lead a person a long way toward even more radical praxis.
(DIR) Post #9kgttmwt7HBoal2Tg0 by bedap@sunbeam.city
2019-06-24T21:36:27Z
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One of the greatest revolutionary hurdles will be normalizing the discomfort of unlearning. We've learned to live with and enact so many endless expressions of oppression, and the process of identifying, isolating, reflecting on, and dismantling those impulses is very, very long under the best of conditions.
(DIR) Post #9lAHrjZreTIv3KITnU by bedap@sunbeam.city
2019-07-23T23:29:56Z
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Having my library card number memorized like a Cool Guyâ„¢
(DIR) Post #9lFpsERbnfwgsWmScS by bedap@sunbeam.city
2019-07-26T20:10:16Z
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This amazing article came out yesterday about frog cognition. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/07/poison-frog-creates-mental-maps/Just the first paragraph is making me real hype:"A poison frog about the size and color of a mint chocolate bonbon is quietly upending what we thought we knew about how frogs think. Native to tropical rainforests of central and South America, the land-adapted species Dendrobates auratus eschews rivers and lakes entirely, instead laying its eggs on the forest floor. When the eggs hatch, the frog piggybacks its tadpoles up into trees, placing them in water accumulated within tree holes and bromeliads."(cc: @InvaderXan who ought to love this)
(DIR) Post #9mPxhyI6X7AgS8IWhc by bedap@sunbeam.city
2019-08-12T19:51:04Z
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This weekend, I discovered the illustrated children's book T-Rex Time Machine. Lots of the children's books I saw had weird/uncomfortable/neoliberal/antiquated messages about manners or love or society, but not T-rex Time Machine.Within the first three pages, the t-rexes have eaten a time traveling scientist come to colonize the past. They then travel to our present and marvel at the way food is everywhere, always. They eat everything they want for free, until the cops come to stop them. The dinos then throw boiling cup noodle on the police and evade arrest, fleeing back to their time machine.Honestly, what heroes. #BraverThanTheTroops
(DIR) Post #9mSA9grnZ19UG0hg6y by bedap@sunbeam.city
2019-08-31T18:13:29Z
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Suspending three instances:dobbs.town for culty requirements and ableismms-olive.club for racism and ableismsocial.sunshinegardens.org for racism, ableism, and general edgelord bs that is super not punk
(DIR) Post #9uFIB4sa9UNl9SSpwe by bedap@sunbeam.city
2020-03-08T18:51:54Z
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It is okay, friends, I promise, to let this place close. We might even learn something in the process.