#solarpunk

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I've been trying to get a newsletter out for months. I finally finished it! Yeah, me!

It goes out tomorrow.

"Maybe dystopia isn't so bad." << pun?

Some musing on this, plus a bit about potent magic and updates to my recommended list.

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It's the shortest daylight day of the year which is a very significant day for a powered instance! Its also very foggy so only estimated 195Wh today, due to the nature of the estimation I suspect we'll get 50Wh...

Anyway, on this important day a particular happy to all the solarcene users particularly @Serenity and @The_Sun as well as all our friends.

I think that solarcene will celebrate all key solstice events from now on!

ok folks, here's your assignment: when this show comes to Netflix on Wed (Dec 17th), WATCH IT... or at least turn on Netflix and let it run in background.

GET THOSE VIEWS, baby! Let's signal to Netflix we want more of this!

https://solarpunkstories.substack.com/p/the-most-solarpunk-tv-show-youve

day 8: Does your world have any weird laws, practices, or beliefs?

Haaah... it is in the name "A New Faith".

Read: https://tinjar.ghost.io/anf/a-new-faith-part-3-chapter-44/

I wouldn't call it weird. But the laws and practices and beliefs seem increasingly rare as compared to what is happening in our world right now.

Is being empathetic weird? You tell me.

December 8. How does your work compare to the earliest work in your genre?

I am no expert in this - but I hear that Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" is one of the early ones to tell the kind of story "A New Faith" is. That one is dystopian, IMO. My novel is more on the side. But one could interpret strains in it, too. Both are in the category.

It disturbs me how often I see folks self-styled as using AI.

Just don't.

I can't think of a faster way to say "I don't understand either solarpunk or AI".

Using AI is counter to the entire idea of a just and sustainable world.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brightgreenfutures/p/solarpunk-dont-need-no-ai

I feel alienated from most stuff. I want to participate but I'm constantly told my stuff is too dark.

To me solarpunk's most interesting story is when people start to fight back against capitalism, not 20 years after we won.
Where are the bullet holes in walls, the statues commemorating victories of the people against corporate robot armies?

It's not about realism, for it's about... in my guts, do I feel like this is a honest camera and not an advertising? I feel unease from it.

Mua-hahahaha!!!

Yes. Yes that's right.

Down with the consumer economy of built-in obsolescence, disposable tech, and subscriptions.

Up with Right to Repair, Permacomputing, Library and Share Economies!

(Also trollololol on "device hoarding" and "costing economy {sic})

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html

A lot of visions might seem sterile because they show a already realized, but with no trace of the struggle, no cultural shifts arising from the period of change.

If I was to imagine a stabilized, sustainable Solarpunk world it would seem very alien and unintuitive to us.

It's because it's not a technological change that's needed - but a cultural one.

Things we already can do but can't perceive or describe them as viable.