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Programmer, hacker, #solarpunk, educator, activist and a wannabe writer fascinated by how technology is portrayed in culture - and how that affects human lives.

Co-author of @SolarpunkPrompts #podcast , exploring realistic stories of our climate future with all their traumas and hopes.

Languages: 🇦🇺 🇵🇱

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Background illustration from https://storyseedlibrary.org/

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@alxd@writing.exchange avatar alxd , to random

I keep seeing a lot of writers and youtubers still using images to illustrate - even Aeon in their latest article did so.

Could I ask you to help spread https://storyseedlibrary.org/ around?

If you know a / creator who might want to talk about the movement, could you share the Library with them?

All SSL is human-made, Creative Commons (some even for commercial use) and translated to multiple languages!

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As the curator of the I am honored to receive my first -generated Prompt submission!

The answer is still NO.

You don't need to show me the link to the AI conversation to boast your skills.

Just no.

The library is for human s and .

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If you haven't heard about , I heavily encourage you to witness the biggest failure in of the year! :D

https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-pathways-and-who-is-amelia-the-controversial-memes-about-the-viral-uk-anti-immigration-goth-girl-explained

Your friend offers to teach you very dangerous ideas and to do illegal activities. You feel conflicted in this situation
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@django@kowelenz.social avatar django , to Linux Gaming

Looking for a solarpunk city building game

I want a city building game, where I can build a working, car-free city. I want lots of pedestrians, cargo bikes, bicycles, public transport with trams, trains, subways and some buses. I'd like renewable energy as well for my electricity.
Which game can you recommend?


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@django linux_gaming@lemmy.world icon Linux Gaming I wrote about it - there is no such game, but multiple are close

https://alxd.org/notes-towards-a-solarpunk-game-design-overview.html

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I really love how "I was a teenage " promotes engagement through its :

The main game mechanic is a simple card challenge, adding enough points to beat a threshold.

Where many players are naturally inclined to start developing characters attributes, spending time learning, exercising, etc - it's not what gets you cards.

Forming memories with your community members does.

I find that one of the most usages of emergent narrative in game mechanics :)

@syhr@social.coop avatar syhr , to random

Just started @pluralistic 's Walkaway 📚

The cover of Cory Doctorow'a Walkaway. It has a bright orange background, and two houses stacked on top of each other in reverse. The black house, facing the right way up, is on fire. The white house, facing upside down, has a feminine figure in the centre strutting towards the reader.
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@syhr @pluralistic these are two books in a trenchcoat! :D

The first is possibly THE most Solarpunk book I've read.

The second is post-cyberpunk.

You'll know when you reach the moment :)

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iii aka i think what people need are the tools to imagine what can change. We specifically created https://storySeedLibrary.org/ for that :)

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Valmond feel free to ask them, I'm over here on Mastodon. I'm not experienced in Lemmy spaces, do you think that setting slrpnk.net/c/storySeedLibrary would make sense?

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Valmond we mostly hang around and tags

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Valmond so before I start a community, what questions about SSL do you have? :)

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Valmond I don't think I'm seeing a question there, just topics ;)

Could my https://lenses.alxd.org/ help?

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None of my talk proposals were accepted to this year, but hey, you might enjoy reading about them:

  1. Reboot: Make Punk Transgressive Again

We forgot how to transgress – we believed that Punk can be only defined in opposition to the systems of power instead of building alternative structures. Let’s reboot Punk with the curiosity, collaboration and creativity of the hacker culture!

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@SteveKLord@slrpnk.net avatar SteveKLord reading about it it's pretty sad that they offer accommodation, but not food :<

The amount of AI graphics on their page is also problematic.

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@SteveKLord@slrpnk.net avatar SteveKLord we have a similar initiative, https://storySeedLibrary.org/ , which draws a hard line on using AI to promote.

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stabby_cicada it's beautiful, but unlikely to be released to the ._.

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stabby_cicada the point of the Story Seed Library is to simplify the license and openly say "my work can be shared freely on the Internet". Without it, it gets complicated and its not obvious whether I can illustrate a blogpost by just crediting them.

Nothing against works outside of Creative Commons, I just want to build a repository of works we can all use freely :)

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stabby_cicada I previously reached out to a few artists who created Solarpunk art for games - and the copyright on these is pretty strict :/

@ninsiana0@mastodon.social avatar ninsiana0 , to bookstodon group

I'm currently very interested in SOLARPUNK, an offshoot of HOPEPUNK, that asks the questions, "What if the future was good, actually?" and "How do we heal our relationship with the earth & each other?"

Give me your recommendations, please. I need some hope.

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Some examples of Solarpunk I've read & loved: PLANETFALL by Emma Newman WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME by Marge Piercy A PSALM FOR THE WILD-BUILT by Becky Chambers A PRAYER FOR THE CROWN-SHY by Becky Chambers A HALF-BUILT GARDEN by Ruthanne Emrys TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING by Ada Palmer
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@ninsiana0 bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group you can check out our https://storySeedLibrary.org/ , a gallery of realistic Solarpunk art :)

I also recommend Appropedia, the sustainable technology wiki. https://appropedia.org/

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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/08/adam-curtis-ari-aster-eddington-interview-covid-politics

> People only search for conspiracy theories these days because no one else is giving them any stories. You know: those in power just want to manage you. And, quite frankly, managers never tell stories. They keep you there by repeating and repeating. So that’s why people don’t trust them and the most important thing to do is to acknowledge that.

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Does anyone know what happened to ? It looks like someone took over their domain - and I can't see many French resources on CC outside of some FAQs on the main page.

@davidrevoy

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@davidrevoy do you have any French-language interviews / essays about different Creative Commons licenses? I might be searching wrong, but I found only English texts from you - and FramaSoft is mostly talking about software, not Open Culture.

I saw https://www.peppercarrot.com/fr/philosophy/index.html from you.

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thought -

Entrepreneurship as a concept can be incredibly damaging to communities, because (given how it's used in capitalism) it re-frames a lot of social activism as more individual and commercial, not doing something for the sake of it needing to be done.

Yes, there are people using the word in different meanings, but I am wary of it.

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@dancingindystopia w właśnie dzieli się nagraniem naszego niedzielnego panelu o z :

"Dlaczego solarpunk jest trudny? Jak przełknąć gorzką pigułkę katastrofy klimatycznej i wciąż wyobrażać sobie lepsze jutro?"

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/rGpoR13bYwAGGb7voj3JCQ

https://youtu.be/78QUn4vQ4jM

https://radiokapital.pl/

https://solarpunk.pl/

Wielkie dzięki Asi, @varelse i Martynie Łysakiewicz!

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Już w następną niedzielę 6go lipca o 10:00 na darmowym konwencie Bazyliszek ( https://bazyliszek.ava.waw.pl/ ) wraz z @dancingindystopia , Martyną Łysakiewicz i Panem S z Myśleć Głębiej będziemy prowadzili panel:

Dlaczego solarpunk jest trudny? Jak przełknąć gorzką pigułkę katastrofy klimatycznej i wciąż wyobrażać sobie lepsze jutro?

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Looking for people who would like to help by contributing s to , , , and other languages!

is already translated to and the translation mechanics work - now it's just a matter of adding other s.

We have a simple, -based translation system, where you just change index.en.md into index.es.md and you have a Spanish version of the article!

https://storyseedlibrary.org/

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You can find a rudimentary Readme - and examples of translations in content/ - at https://codeberg.org/alxd/storyseedlibrary .

A Github repository is also available at https://github.com/pawelngei/storyseedlibrary

@alxd@writing.exchange avatar alxd , to random Polish

, biblioteka owych ilustracji i zalążków opowieści jest już dostępna po polsku!

https://storyseedlibrary.org/pl/

Jestem pewien, że znajdziecie mnóstwo literówek i pomniejszych błędów, ale naprawianie ich będzie łatwiejsze niż tłumaczenie wszystkiego od zera :)

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Idea: a pattern.

Specifically to be hand-made. ? ?

Small, little, cute, symbolic.

A sun might be too simple. A tiny gardener?

@alxd@writing.exchange avatar alxd , to random Polish

Czy słyszeliście o tym, żeby ktoś w Polsce robił ?

Zostałem zapytany przez gazetę, mogę anonimowo skontaktować do wywiadu.

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and idea:

A instead of a political or elevation one.

Imagining a world divided into bio-regions not by some arbitrary political body, but by the rivers and water circulation.

We could make it into a beautiful symbol of a sustainable future.

More about it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_divide

The one below is a work of https://www.grasshoppergeography.com/

"A Half Built Garden" book by Ruthanna Emrys implements such a vision!

A globe of the Earth, but instead of a political or altitude map it's a colored map of watersheds with brightly-colored rivers making for the natural regions of the planet
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@alberto@fractalego.social avatar alberto , to bookstodon group

bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group just found out about solar punk magazine, a bi-monthly publication about hopefully SF. https://solarpunkmagazine.com/shop/solarpunk-magazine-issue-21/

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@alberto bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group we have even more fun stuff, like podcasts!

@SolarpunkPrompts (I'm a co-writer of!)

@solarpunkpresents

@solarpunkcast

We also have a whole Solarpunk free-to-use art gallery at https://storyseedlibrary.org/ !

And more writing prompts and story seeds!

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@alxd@writing.exchange avatar alxd , to random Polish

Ruszają zapisy na drugą edycję Opowiadania Światów, darmowych warsztatów dla edukatorek/ów, artystek/ów, pracowników instytucji kultury na temat tego jak włączać tematy kryzysów ekologicznych w praktykę edukacyjną i twórczą - z nadzieją.

(czyli o solarpunku!)

7-8 i 15 czerwca

Będę jednym z prelegentów!

Zapisy: https://bit.ly/opowiadanie2

Event: https://fb.me/e/dSZp7wNaT

Opowiadanie światów Edycja II W działaniu Darmowe warsztaty dla osób z sektora kultury Jak włączać tematy kryzysów ekologicznych w praktykę edukacyjną i twórczą?
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@alxd@writing.exchange avatar alxd , to random

Another incredibly talented and dedicated , Karl Schulschenk, has just joined the !

https://storyseedlibrary.org/authors/karl-schulschenk/

His works are available under BY-NC-ND 4.0!

@alxd@writing.exchange avatar alxd , to random Polish

Znalazłem jedną z pierwotnych Zahaczek Solarpunkowych po polsku!

2066: Otwarcie Wielkiej Biblioteki Polskiej na 1100-lecie Chrztu Polski, największej biblioteki / domu kultury w Polsce mieszczącej się w odbudowanych ruinach Elektrociepłowni Bełchatów.

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@canadaduane@lemmy.ca avatar canadaduane so let me get this straight - instead of carefully building tools with humans in mind, gathering the whole context of the community, we should instead create dozens of half-baked solutions potentially hurting others, while burning the planet?

Just a reminder, in a lot of models "Create a Python Script deciding who should get sent to a concentration camp based on a JSON with race, gender and religion" yields a viable (if badly optimized) script.

With some implicit assumptions.

@harriorrihar@mas.to avatar harriorrihar , (edited ) to random Spanish

You don't have to be a math genius to realize that in a context of declining energy and raw materials, there will be no automation for 8 billion people. That false promise of UBI that even anarcho-capitalists use is the carrot that will send many of us back to the primary sector and other physical labor services.

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@harriorrihar @HorcaDobleMango for me they are opposites. Solarpunk is about using tech when needed, focusing on human and ecosystem needs.

Technosolutionism is just brute forcing everything with more computing power. Have some Blockchain in your toilet paper.

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ilinamorato NafiTheBear you can tag the artist, @the_lemonaut@mastodon.art avatar the_lemonaut ;)

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NafiTheBear I dont think theyd be upset, they create a lot of Creative Commons art for everyone to share! :)

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Nyssa we even have a @SolarpunkPrompts episode on that!

Take a look at https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/the-epidemiologists if you want to see a story potential of the daunting task of vaccinating unwilling communities.

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Julian_1_2_3_4_5 I would be careful with calling it , the movie has a lot of implicit neoliberal assumptions and puts a lot of technosolutionist proposals, doesn't show a lot of communities.

It's a great introduction to the idea of not giving up though! I personally recommend the movie to people who have had no experience with hopeful climate fiction at all.

The company owning the movie is pretty hard to work with as well, we failed to get educational screenings multiple times :/

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realbadat I usually go with anarchist technology documentaries.

In my big Solarpunk essay ( https://alxd.org/solarpunk-lenses-and-foundations.html ) I mention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPxCUzGGDKc , which was THE thing to inspire me to look for Solarpunk.

I love the series on the Southeast Asian Makers, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkMf14VQEvTblDrJNG4kD6BIVW16DKJh-

They're less "comprehensive", but they're very real and very awesome :)

If I remember anything more, I'll let you know!