swifts nest in colonies, tend to keep the same nest for life, and require nests to be fairly high up & sheltered.

hollow bricks like this allow swifts to do what comes naturally to them, with v minimal change on our side of things, since they’re just being added during the building process & not being retrofitted.

individual bird boxes in trees etc can be great for other birds, but it’d be tough to convince swifts to use them!

i think that website allows just the outlines to be used as well, if that’s what folks prefer!

the image on the adobe link isn’t displaying for me for some reason, but i think multiple raised fists might be cool to use, like this one:

https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/black-lives-matter_4797126

or maybe something with signs: https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/social-justice_10523661

https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/green_2641213

basically i’m voting for colourful icons as an aesthetic choice, & icons with multiple people to keep a focus on collectivism :)

it really depends, there are people who use solar power who aren’t solarpunk at all, and people who don’t use solar power at all who are very solarpunk!

i’d recommend a quick read of the solarpunk manifesto to give you an overview of what it’s like: https://slrpnk.net/post/350429

there’s the artistic side of solarpunk, because being able to imagine a better world in the first place is vital. then there’s the more practical side of solarpunk, where people are focused on making that better world happen here & now, on a global & local scale.

as you can imagine, the practical side of solarpunk would be pretty far-reaching, so it’s hard to know what resources to share, but there are a load of cool resources already in various communities on the solarpunk instance, so you might want to check out any that take your fancy. there’re resources on everything from foraging your own plants to prison abolition and landback!

for context, this is a quote from kat blaque 💚

https://youtu.be/3buXUIz2Amk&t=2m25s

for context, this is a quote from kat blaque 💚

https://youtu.be/3buXUIz2Amk&t=2m25s

fair enough, it’s just a suggestion or jumping off point, what works in one area won’t necessarily work everywhere.

best of luck organising some way to make sure people in your community stay fed etc in emergencies, however you do so!

oh absolutely! it’s vital research & the article seems well-written but still accessible to a lay-person like me.

my only issue was with the editor or whomever wrote the misleading headline (i was expecting to read about a human father), not the article itself & certainly not the researchers.

then i’m sorry that you’ve had that experience.

maybe try to organise a directory of local businesses/services/shared resources etc without discussing politics at all, if it’s something that gets people in your locality upset.

if your area has to deal with some extreme weather & gets flooded, for example, ensuring that everyone can stay fed & have access to medical care will be a lot easier if the groundwork has already been done in advance.

then you have misidentified them, those aren’t leftists.

try the same tactics anyway. you don’t have to be best friends with your neighbours & agree with them on everything in order to set up a mutually beneficial system, but that system will never get made if everyone just dismisses the possibility before ever making an attempt.

we can do both, imo! working class parties are great at organising folks on a larger scale, and on a smaller scale, sharing skills & resources in our local communities will still be useful under socialism, or even just in the case of bad storms & businesses being temporarily shut down

*mice fathers’ microplastic exposure tied to their mice children’s metabolic problems

i know it’s mentioned in the article, but it feels like a pretty misleading title to omit that this study wasn’t done on humans

now’s the time to get really active in your immediate local community, figuring out a barter system & pooling resources so everyone will be okay during a collapse.

if you live near fairly conservative people, try starting it off with making a local directory of small businesses & trades, so people can support them. that’s a great starting point for getting to know who has what skills in your local area.

then after a while, you can try expanding that to making a local directory of resources and/or tools, and frame it as a way of sticking it to bigger businesses. “why should everyone buy their own separate lawnmower when people can borrow mine & the few others already in people’s garages? we win, walmart loses!”

sounds like a delicious snack to me!

… then again, if they made a nutritionally-balanced kibble for humans, i’d eat it all the time. like huel, but kibble instead of drinks or mac & cheese 😅

and in turn, the us & israel both learned it from britain & other european countries. european colonisers have been teaching each other how to maximise their cruelty, murder & land theft since at least the greek empire & the concept of western “civilisation” 😮‍💨

i’m always trying to take notes & inspiration from solarpunk stories about what can be done here & now, so for me, if a story’s setting is post-apocalyptic or society only improved after some extinction event getting rid of most humans, i tend to skip it.

most of us have been consuming (or at least couldn’t avoid hearing about) apocalypse-themed media for our whole lives. i think it’s really important for us as a society to work on imagining a non-apocalyptic world, because we need to imagine something before we can make it reality. 🙌

yeah! it didn’t even occur to me that the colours might be limited or muted, it feels v atmospheric & dramatic to me! :D

ooh i love this! 100% would play this exploration game/rpg :D

intrusive thoughts are about fears and the things we least want to happen, not from any instincts or hidden/suppressed desires that we have. that’s why they’re so upsetting and sometimes end up getting worse when trying to avoid them, because it ends up fuelling that fear.

sometimes intrusive thoughts are caused by the smallest things, too! i once had a minor accident with a knife, and then couldn’t be around knives for years without having intrusive thoughts about stabbing myself, for example. there’s no ancient instinct telling me to stab myself, nor did i have some secret suppressed desire to stab myself, it was just my brain processing fear badly and coming up with nightmare scenarios as a way of saying “don’t do this, this would be bad”.

tl;dr: you’re not a bad person if you have intrusive thoughts, no matter what they are. they’re just examples of what you don’t want to happen.

idk, i’m vegan and i think it’d be perfectly ethical to eat centi-billionaires 🤷