Le 12e chapitre de ma nouvelle #velorutopia est sorti ce matin, et mon petit doigt me dit que les copains @ploum et @loevenbruck pourraient bien rosir de plaisir !
https://standblog.org/blog/post/2025/10/01/Velorutopia-chapitre-12-La-mer
#bikepunk #solarpunk #utopie #positif #climat #velo
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
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I the only one who dreams of a #solarpunk reboot of Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 movie featuring an antiheroic solar panel entrepreneur titled "There will be light"
I the only one who dreams of a #solarpunk reboot of Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 movie featuring an antiheroic solar panel entrepreneur titled "There will be light"
In any case, day 2: Ursula K Le Guin.
As I've said elsewhere, part of her science fiction thesis is that "human" can encompass much more than what we mere Terrans think of it as, and that moral standing extends broadly throughout the universe. This is the antithesis of Tokens fantasy, wherein "race" is real and determines moral standing. For Le Guin, it's barely okay to intervene in complex alien politics unless you carefully ensure you're not causing systemic harms; for Tolkien, it's okay to ambush and murder orc children, because they are by nature evil.
Add to her excellent politics Le Guin's masterful worldbuilding and unparalleled range of plots, and you have the one author I loved as a decidedly liberal and naïve teen and love even more now that I'm an adult. She's an absolute legend and deserves a very high place on any list of women authors (or list of authors, period.).
For a short story, try "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" which you can read here: https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf
For fantasy "A Wizard of Earthsea" (also has a nice graphic novel adaptation), or for science fiction, "The Left Hand of Darkness" or if you want a more anarchist flavor, "The Dispossessed."
I'll close this with an amazing quote from her:
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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Day 3: Octavia Butler.
Incredibly dark, graphic, and disturbing near-future science fiction, which has proved absolutely prophetic. In the 1990's she was writing about a charismatic Conservative Christian and white nationalist president elected in 2024, and the horrors his paramilitary followers would unleash, including forced labor & indoctrination camps. Did I mention those books include ebikes & pseudo-cellphones too? Characters fleeing north from a disastrous social collapse in Loss Angeles? This is "The Parable of the Sower" and "The Parable of the Talents" and the later was tragically rushed to an end because of Butler's declining health.
Her work deals unflinchingly with racism and the darker parts of society, and to those who might say "her depiction of social collapse is overblown," I'd say that while it's not literally the world we live in, it's *effectively* the world that the poorest of us live in. If you're a homeless undocumented latinx person in LA right now, I'm not sure how meaningfully different your world is from the one she depicts.
Her work comes with a strong content warning for lots of things, including racial violence, sexual abuse and slavery, including of children, animal harm, etc., so it's not for everyone. Reading it in 2023 was certainly an incredible trip. Her politics are really cool though; with explicit pro-LGBTQ themes and tinges of what might today be considered #SolarPunk.
Cory Doctorow
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TONIGHT (Thursday)
*September* #Solarpunk #Bookclub!
We're reading *Lost Cause* by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
9.25, 8pm ET
Jitsi Meet
https://meet.jit.si/SolarpunkBookclubSept2025
Solarpunk Future! Discord https://discord.gg/Xpsknjmh
Get bookclub reminders, links, and recaps
https://www.subscribepage.com/solarpunk_bookclub
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it); and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/our-friend-the-electron/
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@pluralistic Thank you for helping solar power get to people. As you share, the fossil fuel and technology sectors are trying to add choke points to solar power systems. #solar, #solarpunk, #offgridsolar, #balconysolar, #growyourown, #solarpower, #solarpanels
yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
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#ScribesAndMakers 9/25. How would you describe your #fashion sense?
I don't follow #trends and I don't let anyone tell me what to wear. It has to be comfortable, made from natural fibres. I mostly buy second-hand and I love #upcycling and #visibleMending.
Sometimes I wear boring grey or leggings, sometimes I get compliments like "how dare you at your age!" Then I dare even more: I do love colours! I love jeans.
A bright green patch with red intuitive stitching covers a hole in a dark blue linen shirt. Why throw clothes away when you can embellish them with visible mending!
A checked blazer in English country style had a worn collar. I revamped it with a traditional, cheerful yellow Provençal print featuring chickens and added patches at the bottom and on the side pocket for a more harmonious look.
A long jeans coat was so boring that I coloured it up with applications of patches and spirals of saree silk.
very colourful jeans with visible mending, inspired by a famous 1960s cover.
TONIGHT (Thursday)
*September* #Solarpunk #Bookclub!
We're reading *Lost Cause* by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
9.25, 8pm ET
Jitsi Meet
https://meet.jit.si/SolarpunkBookclubSept2025
Solarpunk Future! Discord https://discord.gg/Xpsknjmh
Get bookclub reminders, links, and recaps
https://www.subscribepage.com/solarpunk_bookclub
#ScribesAndMakers 9/25. How would you describe your #fashion sense?
I don't follow #trends and I don't let anyone tell me what to wear. It has to be comfortable, made from natural fibres. I mostly buy second-hand and I love #upcycling and #visibleMending.
Sometimes I wear boring grey or leggings, sometimes I get compliments like "how dare you at your age!" Then I dare even more: I do love colours! I love jeans.
A bright green patch with red intuitive stitching covers a hole in a dark blue linen shirt. Why throw clothes away when you can embellish them with visible mending!
A checked blazer in English country style had a worn collar. I revamped it with a traditional, cheerful yellow Provençal print featuring chickens and added patches at the bottom and on the side pocket for a more harmonious look.
A long jeans coat was so boring that I coloured it up with applications of patches and spirals of saree silk.
very colourful jeans with visible mending, inspired by a famous 1960s cover.
@NatureMC definitely #SolarPunk (sorry, hit publish too quick!!) - I love them!!!
Here are my gig trousers; darned and patched all over, and the material is so weak but I’ve got too much invested now to ever throw them out!
#ScribesAndMakers 9/25. How would you describe your #fashion sense?
I don't follow #trends and I don't let anyone tell me what to wear. It has to be comfortable, made from natural fibres. I mostly buy second-hand and I love #upcycling and #visibleMending.
Sometimes I wear boring grey or leggings, sometimes I get compliments like "how dare you at your age!" Then I dare even more: I do love colours! I love jeans.
A bright green patch with red intuitive stitching covers a hole in a dark blue linen shirt. Why throw clothes away when you can embellish them with visible mending!
A checked blazer in English country style had a worn collar. I revamped it with a traditional, cheerful yellow Provençal print featuring chickens and added patches at the bottom and on the side pocket for a more harmonious look.
A long jeans coat was so boring that I coloured it up with applications of patches and spirals of saree silk.
very colourful jeans with visible mending, inspired by a famous 1960s cover.