ekay @ewankeep@mspsocial.net

If you can't fix it, you don't own it.

Repair:
- Is better than recycling
- Saves you money
- Teaches engineering
- Saves the planet

https://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

some jackass: nobody bikes in January
me: (see image)
some jackass: you need a car to go grocery shopping, at least when you do big stock-up trips
me: (see image)

https://www.plant-e.com/en/informatie/
OMG it's real 😱

I remember splashing a couple electrodes in my hydroponic avocado's water and reading ~200mV, and thinking "uhm, maybe I can step it up to a couple volts with a charge pump and fire up an LED!".
They did it. They friggin' did it.

Follow-back Policy:

* Talk to me! If I think you're interesting or I'm engaged with what your doing, I'm more likely to follow back.

* Have SOMETHING in your profile. Or at least your header image. For serious.

🚫 If your content stresses me out, I will either not follow or unfollow. Only I get to determine what stresses me out.

🚫 If you pick fights with me, I will either not follow or unfollow.

My new spidercloth suit isn't quite ready yet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/24/spidercloth/

@ajroach42 i've got a kindle is there some sort of different-than-amazong software i can put on it?

I know to use calibre on my desktop but other than that i don't know anything about ebooks i normally just open them on my desktop

This looks like a cool project.

"The Open Book aims to be a simple device that anyone with a soldering iron can build for themselves. The Open Book should be comprehensible: the reader should be able to look at it and understand, at least in broad strokes, how it works. It should be extensible, so that a reader with different needs can write code and add accessories that make the book work for them."

http://oddlyspecific.org/book/

#TheOpenBook #OddlySpecific #Arduino

No to Chrome – #Google wants to automate us

https://notochrome.org/

There is a simple first step that every internet user can take to make things a little better. Seek out a better web browser to replace Google Chrome and tell everyone to do the same.

There are some new metal printing techniques that allow existing printers to generate parts that are ready for debinding with no intermediate steps. All those solid metal bits in engines and shit? They're about to be ours.

Now is the time to join streets.mn‘s Climate Committee:

“We’ll be talking about the ways streets.mn intersects with climate breakdown and how we can foster and facilitate engagement and action within our mission.

We’re still in early planning stages, so there’s lots of room for your ideas and energy. What we’re firm on is a conversation grounded in the reality of climate science and our institutional commitment.”

https://streets.mn/2020/01/21/join-the-streets-mn-climate-committee/

The Zora Canon, a list of the 100 greatest books ever written by African American women, selected by African American women: https://zora.medium.com/100-best-books-by-black-women-authors-zora-canon-46b3492bdded

(I have not read nearly enough of these.)

@garbados Speaking of which, I really like this old Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/tech-climate-change-luddites-data

going back in time to 2010 so i can teach my past self neoluddism

How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel & Kant to Overturn Segregation in America

http://www.openculture.com/?p=103465 https://t.co/TbIqfqnUYV

Hey people, hit us up with your best small-scale ecotopian visions. Not the grand, world-defining ideologies, but some more local level wholesomeness 💚🖤❤️🥰💚🖤❤️

“Let us say boldly that if the violations of law by the white man in the slums over the years were calculated and compared with the law-breaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man. These are often difficult things to say but I have come to see more and more that it is necessary to utter the truth in order to deal with the great problems that we face in our society.”

Anyone know of any #solarpunk #podcasts? If none exist who wants to start one with me?