https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ70hCa3JJo < this guy made one out of junk!! I haven’t tried it myself though

Your part in this transformation was never about matching the magnitude of the problem: It’s about finding a way to stay in it that’s personally sustainable.

This feels really meaningful to me. My disability means that I can’t often participate in the ways that I want to and I hit my capacity much faster than I feel like I should. But it really is a marathon, not a sprint.

Maybe I could say that I’m frustrated by my physical limitations even as I acknowledge that it doesn’t all fall on me.

The Pilot Metropolitan is also very affordable and writes nicely. I know OP didn’t ask for a fountain pen, but fountain pens are universally refillable and a good one (such as the Metropolitan or basically every TWSBI) is repairable too, in a way that ballpoints really can’t be - in my opinion, a good fountain pen is truly Buy It For Life.

If you’re willing to spend some money, there are some lovely ballpoints on the market. But in general, a ballpoint pen is not a BIFL item.

Found the vulva c:

This is beautiful :O

Very cool!! You must look stunning in it! Nice job stashbusting too :D Does it have a band over the forehead?

Right yeah like it won’t make you sick but you don’t know it’s off yet. Plus you could add a little bit extra if it is a bit “flat”

Wanted to swing in here with a disability perspective if that’s okay - while it’s not exactly off-grid living, a lot of people with disabilities have homes that are optimized for accessibility which can be confusing for visitors! We also tend to need stuff to be done a specific way which, while not technology related, is really important and can add a learning curve.

Some examples off the top of my head: Computers might have screen readers, trackballs, alternative keyboards, accessible buttons, etc. Stuff like light switches, thermostats, door handles might be modified to suit limited mobility. Appliances like microwaves or coffee makers can be voice activated or have larger/more grippable buttons (which aren’t always intuitive in today’s touch-screen world).

The smallest personal example I can think of would be cooking with food allergies, which I know is not an unusual thing these days, but a lot of my friends are still confused about how cross contamination works, e.g. if you use a butter knife for butter you can use it to spread that butter on your toast but you cannot dip it in the jar of jam, because that would contaminate the jam with dairy and gluten. Or, a personal example, I was teaching my partner how make a mug cake using only one tablespoon measurer and explained that you must add the ingredients in a specific order (such as flour last) or you’d be successively contaminating each ingredient for my little brother.

My household also just does a lot of things very specifically for our needs, like we vacuum instead of sweep because of my allergies, and I go around and shut curtains in various rooms throughout the day because our AC isn’t strong and we try to use it as little as possible. I wash laundry on cold to protect the fabric but dry it on hot to kill the dust mites. We use soap bars instead of soap dispensers for hand washing which often throws off guests, and I keep the liquid dish soap in a hair conditioner pump bottle (it’s what I had, can’t afford a fancy decorative one, also it works really well anyway) which also throws off guests XD And the left side of the sink is always clear and we do not put dirty dishes in there, partly so we can refill water bottles without them touching dirty dishes and partly to accommodate my partner’s autism.

My balcony garden has a weird system of jars underneath the plant stands to catch any water that drains out of the pots after I water them, plus there’s currently a bunch of soup pots and random containers on the roof to catch rainwater. There’s no spigot on my balcony and I don’t have the energy to go back and forth a bunch for water XD And my “watering can” is an old vinegar jug.

Not sure if any of that is helpful for what you’re looking for, just some thoughts c:

Same thing, I don’t fuck around with milk or meat. Otherwise I try to use my best judgment. Saw someone say they threw out unopened baking powder that had expired and ngl I was a little bit horrified…

Fuck Flock and all the companies like them <3

Yes, good. I want to convert everyone I know to Linux. Windows just sucks (she says, typing from a Windows OS, because the software she needs for her job isn’t supported on Linux ;-;)

I loved being apart of the Canvas event, it was so much fun to work together with everyone and see things change <3

For my personal solarpunk journey, my partner and I once again hosted our regular community night and ended up bringing together some groups of people I think wouldn’t have connected otherwise, which was really special. Hosting casual events like these feels really important to me - it gives me a lot of hope and feels very grounded and real compared to the constant doom and gloom of The US Government and The News and so on. Hosting is a lot for me to handle physically speaking unfortunately so I’ve been sick in bed since then. But it’s worth it!

Solarpunk plans for this month: working on my submission to the Lunarpunk anthology, participating in Postcrossing which I just discovered exists, hosting another community night, and working on customizing some of my clothes with paint, stencils, and stamps c:

I want one SO BAD my balcony gets tons and tons of sunlight!!

I reject the idea that law enforcement is always necessary. Laws are frequently unjust and anti-solarpunk. I don’t care about people breaking laws if the laws don’t serve the people. But let’s say all the laws are just - I also reject the idea that we need a bunch of power-hungry assholes with weapons and legal immunity to “enforce” them.

Here’s the thing - we rely on the police to do a broad range of tasks and, at least in the US, we hand them a gun to do all of those tasks. The traffic lights are down? Take your gun and go stand in the intersection. Parking tickets? You’ll need your gun for that. Homeless people on the streets? Don’t forget your gun. House broken into? Here’s a gun, try not to shoot the wrong person.

The simple answer is that we should have a different team of (trained, specialized) people for each of those scenarios. Police don’t receive training in each of those areas which means they are frequently in danger and frequently relying on violence or the threat of violence to get things done. It’s not fair to the officers and its not fair to the people they “serve.” I want to see a team who handles traffic, a team to respond to homeless people (though hopefully we’ll be on our way to finally providing housing for all), a separate team for crimes like burglary and theft, etc etc.

Here’s a resource for you (and others) to check out, they explain things much more succinctly than me: https://defundthepolice.org/alternatives-to-police-services/

As for a military - I will be completely honest, I haven’t educated myself as much on alternatives to that, but I do question your assumption that we will always need to defend ourselves. It assumes that people will always be attacking us.

I can’t imagine that the amount of vitamins lost would be so great as to justify throwing away food. Or maybe I’m just poor. The only food I can afford to throw away is food that would definitely make me sick if I ate it.

Eurgh :/

No I see it something about how the porch is angled makes it seem like something really big

:O that sounds so fancy!! I don’t have any rosemary this year… you can bet your heiney I’ll have some next year tho

You might post this over on https://slrpnk.net/c/disasterresponse as well!!

:D!! Thank you very much!!