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Updated the T-Deck and Heltec LoRA modules to the latest version of Meshtastic. The UI looks sooo much better. 3D printed cases, buttons, and added batteries. Now they can legit be used off grid and recharged with a portable solar panel.
April 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Updated the T-Deck and Heltec LoRA modules to the latest version of Meshtastic. The UI looks sooo much better. 3D printed cases, buttons, and added batteries. Now they can legit be used off grid and recharged with a portable solar panel.
Infrastructures of resistance and community building: I’m building up my seed collection. It’s one of the things that makes sense to me during this chaotic fascist rise. I’m hoping these seeds will be metaphorical seeds for something else: local resistance.
February 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Infrastructures of resistance and community building: I’m building up my seed collection. It’s one of the things that makes sense to me during this chaotic fascist rise. I’m hoping these seeds will be metaphorical seeds for something else: local resistance.
Wish I could stay for the speculative fiction book discussion, but I got two more weeks of traveling for work before I can relax. After that I can start to bloom again and start writing, start new projects, and make new videos.
January 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Wish I could stay for the speculative fiction book discussion, but I got two more weeks of traveling for work before I can relax. After that I can start to bloom again and start writing, start new projects, and make new videos.
Picked up some good stuff while I was there!
January 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Picked up some good stuff while I was there!
Visited Philadelphia for a work trip, didn’t have much free time but I did get a chance to finally visit Iffy Books in person! One of my favorite bookstores I’ve had the pleasure to know/visit.
January 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Visited Philadelphia for a work trip, didn’t have much free time but I did get a chance to finally visit Iffy Books in person! One of my favorite bookstores I’ve had the pleasure to know/visit.
Scrapping computers and spare parts to build and rebuild off-grid servers, 3D printed and salvaged shitty robotics, and modifying firearms - is for sure Jawa coded.
November 23, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Scrapping computers and spare parts to build and rebuild off-grid servers, 3D printed and salvaged shitty robotics, and modifying firearms - is for sure Jawa coded.
Some of my favorites so far are the flutes and instruments on pages 48 + 49. Wooden bicycles on page 57. 3D printed shoes on page 95. And the animal enclosures on page 134. All of them link to various 3D models and instructions on how to build them.
November 22, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Some of my favorites so far are the flutes and instruments on pages 48 + 49. Wooden bicycles on page 57. 3D printed shoes on page 95. And the animal enclosures on page 134. All of them link to various 3D models and instructions on how to build them.
Can’t wait to read this! Written by David Graeber and @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social. The illustrations look really cool, and it’s refreshing to see both speculative and real places mixed together. I wish more books looked and flowed like this!
November 20, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Can’t wait to read this! Written by David Graeber and @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social. The illustrations look really cool, and it’s refreshing to see both speculative and real places mixed together. I wish more books looked and flowed like this!
You can just grow things in soil, or use hydroponics to grow plants. I grow plants out of old reusable food containers with holes drilled into the top, and use cut up pool noodles to hold the plants in place.
November 19, 2024 at 4:36 PM
You can just grow things in soil, or use hydroponics to grow plants. I grow plants out of old reusable food containers with holes drilled into the top, and use cut up pool noodles to hold the plants in place.
Growing plants indoors/in controlled environments can help when you: -Don't have land to really grow things on -Live in an apartment but want the ability to grow things -Are in the depths of winter but still want access to plants that can't survive outside.
November 19, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Growing plants indoors/in controlled environments can help when you: -Don't have land to really grow things on -Live in an apartment but want the ability to grow things -Are in the depths of winter but still want access to plants that can't survive outside.
All of this is interconnected. Building autonomous power, communications, and manufacturing systems can allow us to divest from the current systems, create the things that people need, while also paying close attention to the environmental impacts of what we make and how we do it.
November 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
All of this is interconnected. Building autonomous power, communications, and manufacturing systems can allow us to divest from the current systems, create the things that people need, while also paying close attention to the environmental impacts of what we make and how we do it.
The book "Living Structures" has tons of plans and prototypes of this idea. Using common parts, they can be configured to create beds, desks, chairs, play pens, and even entire structures! The full book is here: www.publiccollectors.org/LivingStruct...
November 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
The book "Living Structures" has tons of plans and prototypes of this idea. Using common parts, they can be configured to create beds, desks, chairs, play pens, and even entire structures! The full book is here: www.publiccollectors.org/LivingStruct...
You can check out tools at the community tool library to assemble it, or contact the community building federation to have someone put it together if you physically can't. All done without monetary exchange or barriers, because the raw materials were reused.
November 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
You can check out tools at the community tool library to assemble it, or contact the community building federation to have someone put it together if you physically can't. All done without monetary exchange or barriers, because the raw materials were reused.
Imagine not having to buy a new desk. Instead you log into your community internet network, request a design from your local fablab, drop off some old modular parts and spare plywood found from a construction site. The parts are cut, and standard hardware is sourced or recycled to create it.
November 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Imagine not having to buy a new desk. Instead you log into your community internet network, request a design from your local fablab, drop off some old modular parts and spare plywood found from a construction site. The parts are cut, and standard hardware is sourced or recycled to create it.
The idea is to use standards like the ones proposed by openstructures.net/about to create modular parts that can be 3D printed, or lazer-cut from wood or recycled plastics. So parts can be interchangeable and matched to create any config.
November 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
The idea is to use standards like the ones proposed by openstructures.net/about to create modular parts that can be 3D printed, or lazer-cut from wood or recycled plastics. So parts can be interchangeable and matched to create any config.
Localized manufacturing might play a huge role in us providing everyday needs for people, in equitable and ecological ways. With rising inflation - making durable, affordable, and recycled goods within local communities will be important. 🧵
November 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Localized manufacturing might play a huge role in us providing everyday needs for people, in equitable and ecological ways. With rising inflation - making durable, affordable, and recycled goods within local communities will be important. 🧵
This is just part of a larger web of change. But by doing something like this we can meet the material needs of people, regenerate native foodways, help foster environments for ecological growth and regeneration. Feed people while also healing the ecology.
November 16, 2024 at 8:53 PM
This is just part of a larger web of change. But by doing something like this we can meet the material needs of people, regenerate native foodways, help foster environments for ecological growth and regeneration. Feed people while also healing the ecology.
This will have to happen across the board, from urban, suburban, and rural settings. We can turn lawns into native gardens, make every home and plot of land into small farms. All being driven by Indigenous communities & their ag knowledge combined with ideas from permaculture.
November 16, 2024 at 8:53 PM
This will have to happen across the board, from urban, suburban, and rural settings. We can turn lawns into native gardens, make every home and plot of land into small farms. All being driven by Indigenous communities & their ag knowledge combined with ideas from permaculture.
While that might win grounds in the short term, the long term battle will be laying the foundations for systems-wide change. It will be taking power away from capitalism in the form of everyday infrastructures. And putting them into equitable, communal hands.
November 16, 2024 at 8:53 PM
While that might win grounds in the short term, the long term battle will be laying the foundations for systems-wide change. It will be taking power away from capitalism in the form of everyday infrastructures. And putting them into equitable, communal hands.
It seems like people are starting to singularly focus on armed struggle against fascism with everything happening. I would argue that's just a small portion of the overall resistance we have to focus on. It's all the "un-sexy" parts of resistance that will really keep long-term change happening.
November 16, 2024 at 8:53 PM
It seems like people are starting to singularly focus on armed struggle against fascism with everything happening. I would argue that's just a small portion of the overall resistance we have to focus on. It's all the "un-sexy" parts of resistance that will really keep long-term change happening.
Making tepache, which is a fermented drink that originated from the indigenous nahua group in Mexico/Central America. Puts pineapple rinds to use, add it with water, brown sugar or piloncillo, cinnamon and cloves. Let it ferment for at least three days. Sweet, yet complex.
July 2, 2023 at 4:35 PM
Making tepache, which is a fermented drink that originated from the indigenous nahua group in Mexico/Central America. Puts pineapple rinds to use, add it with water, brown sugar or piloncillo, cinnamon and cloves. Let it ferment for at least three days. Sweet, yet complex.
Writing a short #solarpunk story about a guy looking for replacement parts for his algae growth tank. Life changed a lot after the workers unionized, and the direct neighborhood councils started running things. One annoying thing hasn't changed: replacing a broken old part.
April 24, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Writing a short #solarpunk story about a guy looking for replacement parts for his algae growth tank. Life changed a lot after the workers unionized, and the direct neighborhood councils started running things. One annoying thing hasn't changed: replacing a broken old part.