jellyfishdirigible:

solarpunk-aesthetic:

sassypixiestrashcan:

no, listen, when I say I want to integrate more specific solarpunk stuff in my life, i don’t mean to ask for yet again new “aesthetic” clothes that now you have to buy or make to show your support of the movement (screw that i’m consuming enough as it is), or more posts about impossible house goals, or whatever, I’m asking you what my options to build a portable and eco friendly phone charger are, im asking you viable tiny-appartment edible plants growing tricks on a budget,  im asking tips to slow down when my mind and society tell me im not fast enough, i don’t need more rich art nouveau amateurs aesthetics or pristine but cold venus project, okay, i know i should joins associations where I am tho i’m constantly on the move, thanks for that, just, you know, can we get a bit more practical ??? how do I hack my temporary flat into going off the grid for the time i’m here

Hello! ☀️ Here are a few practical suggestions for stuff you can do: 

• Make a bottle tower garden (a small one could do well on a windowsill) 
  
• Make eco-friendly household cleaners
• Germinate strawberry seeds and care for the plants 
• Grow plants from cuttings (you can grow almost anything this way) 
• Make a sun jar 
• Grow low maintenance houseplants 
• Make a string garden 
• Make a wall planter 
• Germinate an avocado seed 
• Make a shoe pocket garden 
• Build a mini solar generator 
• Re-grow kitchen scraps 
• Find the right solar battery charger 
• Recycle old solar cells 

Hope you find something useful in there! I post stuff up from time to time under my diy tag. Feel free to drop me a message if you have any requests!

• grow oyster mushrooms on waste coffee grounds (also works with shiitake)
  
• a list of some food plants that can grow indoors with reduced light
• windowsill herbs
• egg carton seed germination
  
• germinate chayote and keep it as a houseplant (the root, stem, leaves, fruit, and seed are all edible)
  
• choosing a portable solar panel
  
• tips for energy efficient apartment life (but jsyk LED is better than CFL, and a tank bank or expanding water bottle is better than a brick or bottle of gravel)
  
• DIY draft stoppers
• DIY solar oven and recipes
  
• evaporative refrigeration
• use conkers/horse chestnuts to replace soap and detergents
• use baking soda as dry shampoo
• cleaning with vinegar do’s & don’ts and common myths
  
• DIY dryer balls
  
• apartment-friendly bokashi composting and DIY bokashi bran
• DIY moss terrarium for your soul (ain’t many souls slower or more patient than moss)
  
• and a list of some easy care indoor plants for your nerves
• and for your bathroom and your air quality
• recycle t-shirts into yarn for your crafts

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theburialofstrawberries:

Delhi has been in the middle of intense communal violence. SEWA is India’s largest women-only trade union and is helping coordinate relief efforts. Please donate to them here: https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-sewa

More details on where your donation would go in the link. 

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lgbtunis-moved:

fuck all of you guys. im posting nick robles horny nightcrawler art.

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faranae:

prochoice-is-pro-compassion:

pinkqueerpunk:

aroacemonster:

Friendly reminder that LGBTQ+, Queer, and LGBT+ are the preferred terms for the community (x).

Friendly reminder that Queer is approved by 72.9% of the people, and the groups who don’t prefer it’s use as an umbrella term are straight people, exclusionists, transmeds, truscums, sex-negative people, and sex work critical people (x).

Friendly reminder that aros and aces are excluded only 9.2% / 8.1% of the time respectively while being included  78.9% / 81.2% of the time (x)

Friendly reminder that exclusionists are in the minority and aro/ace people are included in the LGBTQ+ community by the people within the community.

Also, i checked out the survey the second claim sources a while back: this is not OP choosing the words truscum, exclusionist, etc. These are labels that the survey gave people the option to self-identify as. It’s self-proclaimed exclusionists who dont like the word queer, not random accusations

yeah that’s super important. 

This one gets reblogged on main. The reclassification of ‘queer’ as an inexcusable slur is a recent development which stems in part from exclusionist rhetoric. We reclaimed it decades ago. Learn our history. You are not immune to TERF propaganda, but you can absolutely choose to educate yourself to spite it.

Be kind. 💜

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softwedge:

jedihighcouncil:

I’m rlly frustrated bc I’m watching return of the Jedi and I just saw the scene where they’re talking about the sarlacc and I can’t stop thinking abt this one Tumblr post that’s something about how it wouldn’t be for that long bc he’d starve to death and Luke is like “tell him that r2. Tell him that he’s a dumbass r2. Tell him” and I’ve been googling for a billion years but I can’t find it and I rlly wanna find this post so if any of u have it plsssssss add the link and I’d die for u

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fanficswriter123:

humanpersonface:

atopfourthwall:

pyrrhiccomedy:

shaaknaa:

pococurantina:

achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily:

achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily:

inkwingart:

x4w:

rb this with ur opinion on this shade of pink:

This is magenta, and not pink. Unlike pink, magenta doesn’t actually exist. Our brain just invents magenta to serve as what it considers a logical bridge between red and violet, which each exist at opposite ends of a linear spectrum.

TL;DR this color is fake (and also I hate it)

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Wait til you learn about Stygean Blue

Your brain is a badly-designed hot mess of bootstrapped chemistry that will tell you that all kinds of shit is happening that has no correlation to physical reality, including time travel. It just makes things up. Your brain is guessing about what’s happening when your eyes saccade, what’s happening in your blind spot, and what the majority of the visible light spectrum looks like, and you don’t know it’s happening because it doesn’t aid your survival to become aware that a lot of what you see is fake.

The human eye only has three types of color sensitive cones, which detect red, blue, and green light. Your brain is making up every other color you perceive.

Let’s have a little fun with that thought. This is the visible spectrum of light.

You will of course note that yellow is on the chart. Yellow has a discreet wavelength, and is therefore a distinct physical color. But we can’t see it.

“Sorry, what the fuck?”

What we call yellow is just what our brain shrugs and spits out when our red and green cones are equally stimulated. We have light receptors that can pick up on the physical spectrum of light we call yellow: that’s why yellow things don’t just look like moving black blocks to us. But your brain has no fucking idea what the color yellow looks like. 

Some animals have eyes that can perceive the color yellow! Goldfish have a yellow cone in their eyes. If they could talk, they could tell us what yellow looks like. But we wouldn’t be able to understand it.

What your brain actually sees of the color spectrum:

We can measure the wavelength of light, so we know that when we see ‘yellow,’ we are seeing light in that 550-ish nanometers range. But we don’t have a cone in our eyes that can pick that up. Your brain just has a very consistent guess about what color that wavelength of light could be. We decided to name that guess ‘yellow.’ We can’t imagine what yellow really looks like any more than a dog can imagine the color red.

Here’s the funny thing: your brain is never perceiving just one photon of light at a time. Something like 2*10⁸ photons per second are hitting your retina under normal conditions. Your brain doesn’t individually process all of them. So it averages them out. It grabs a bunch of photons all coming from the same direction, with the same pattern, and goes, “yeah, that cup is blue, fuck it, next.”

That’s how colors blend in our eyes. So sure, if a photon of light with a wavelength of 550 nanometers bounces into our eyes, we see what we call “yellow.” But if we see two photons at the same time, coming from the same object, one of which is 500 nms and the other of which is 600 nms, your brain will average them out and you will still see yellow even though none of the light you just saw was 550 nms.

So how does magenta factor into this?

Well, as we’ve just established, when your brain sees light from two different slices of the visible light spectrum, it will try to just average them together. Green plus red is yellow, fuck it. If it’s more red than green, we’ll call that ‘orange.’ Literally who gives a shit, we’re trying to forage over here. There are bears out here and it’s so scary.

What happens if you take the average of blue and red light, which we perceive to be magenta? What’s the centerpoint of that line?

Fucking green.

Hey, that’s not gonna work? We live on a planet where EVERYTHING IS GREEN. If something is NOT green, that means it’s either food, or a potential source of danger, and either way your brain wants you to know about it.

So your brain goes, WHOOPS. Okay - this is fine. We already made up yellow, orange, cyan, and violet. We’ll just make up another color. Something that looks really, really different from green. 

And so it made up magenta.

So, physics-wise, is magenta “real?”

No; there’s no single wavelength of light that corresponds to magenta. But you’re rarely seeing only a single wavelength of light anyway. And even when you are, every color other than RGB is a dart thrown on the wall by your meat computer. This is the CIE Chromaticity Diagram:

Explaining this thing is a little more than I want to take on on a Saturday morning, but I’ve included a link above that goes into it a little more. The point is that only the colors that actually touch the ‘outline’ of the shape actually correspond to a specific wavelength of light. All of the other colors are blends of multiple wavelengths. So magenta isn’t special.

Given that color is just a fun trick your brain is playing on you to help you find food and avoid danger, is magenta real?

Yeah, absolutely. Or at least, it’s just as real as most of what we see. It’s what we see when we mix up blue and red. It would be disastrous from a survival standpoint to perceive that color as green, so we don’t. Because it’s not green. Light that’s green has a wavelength of around 510 nm. Stuff that’s magenta bounces back light that is both ~400 and ~700. Your brain knows the difference. So it fills in the gap for you, with the best guess it has, same as it does with your blind spot.

The perception of color exists within your brain, and your brain says you see magenta. So you see magenta.

So I googled Stygian Blue and…

Yall.

FORBIDDEN.

FORBIDDEN

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witchofobsession:

mountain-laurel-hemlock:

So earlier I made a post talking about my Papaw and storms which got me thinking about superstitions and folk beliefs I’ve picked up from my family’s Appalachian roots. Here’s a few that I thought of that I’m pretty sure are Appalachian in origin, but then again who knows.

• light a candle/lantern in the window in bad weather to act as a guide (I don’t know if this is a widespread one or just my Papaw)
• open the window when someone dies so their soul can leave the house
  
• cover mirrors and pictures of the deceased so they don’t see themself and then stay in the house
  
• stop the clocks or else the spirit will stay
  
• ask a daddy long legs where something/someone is and it’ll point the way with one of its legs
  
• windchimes raise the dead
  
• bells ward off spirits and harm
• when momma was little, Papaw would always have her wear bells if she wanted to go play in the woods to make sure the spirits wouldn’t steal her away
• he did the same thing for me and my siblings
• it also serves a practical purpose of scaring off animals and making kids easier to find
  
• don’t talk in a graveyard after dark or you’ll get haunted
  
• it’s fine to sit in the graveyard after dark, the lights you see are the spirits (unless they’re fireflies in which case they’re fireflies)
• groups of these lights are the children dancing!
• just make sure you don’t speak 
  
• go in the river to wash away sickness
  
• or use dirty dishwater to get rid of sickness (that one’s fun because in one method you get to curse at it a lot)
  
• method one: rub a rag that’s been dipped in dirty dishwater and wrung out onto the sickness, then take it outside and beat it against a large rock to beat away the sickness. repeat a couple times.
• method two: start the same as method one, but instead of hitting a rock with it, tie it to a tree. as the rag dries and loses the dirty water smell (usually around a week), the sickness will fade too.
  
• mamaw always insisted ghost water lets you talk to the dead
• ghost water is water gathered inside a graveyard
  
• it’s bad luck to kill a cricket!
  
• stump water gets rid of freckles and warts
• stump water is rainwater that collected in a hollow stump, as you can probably deduce from the name
  
• never take something from the river without leaving something in exchange
  

The first 7 and the last one I was also taught here in Ireland. That’s really interesting!

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