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Jan 10

Floating Cities, No Longer Science Fiction, Begin to Take Shape -

notyourcaptainspeaking:
this, folks, is exactly what I’m apprehensive about when it comes to Solarpunk.
The projects described in this article are fundamentally opposed to Solarpunk. Seasteading in its current form is run by Libertarians in Silicon Valley with lots of money envisioning their version of Utopia. Rich people will form communities in the ocean that exploit land-dwelling vagabonds. It is fundamentally classist and anti-communist, and isolationist (in the sense that these communities make an eco-friendly facade, while exporting their exploitative practice.)
But damn, if those cities don’t look Solarpunk. A lot of the aesthetic of Solarpunk thrives on these sorts of green (the color, not the euphemism) environmentally-resistant public spaces and planned spaces. Hell, I could imagine a Solarpunk floating city, given the vision was a teensy bit less isolationist-libertarian.
My apprehension is not a rejection of Solarpunk - I think Solarpunk and what it stands for is awesome. And in many ways, I can’t even say that Solarpunk voices are mistakenly sharing unthoughtful solutions to environmental disasters. Let pieces like these remind us that it’s possible to look Solarpunk and not embody its ideals, and that we should never support a project without examining its politics (not just its aesthetic).
(And let me reiterate that I am not accusing anyone in particular of doing this, or that there even is anyone embracing solarpunk that does this. In some way, this reminder is for myself as much as it is for whoever’s reading this).
This is a great point.

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stereofeathers:

What if they’re right… what if rich people ARENT all that ba-
Oh hmm. Hmmmm.

beshnav:

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“The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education (via philosophybits)

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antifainternational:

poblacht-na-n-oibrithe:
Pro tips from original antifa.

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cinematicwasteland:

Maniac Cop (1988)
A murderous ex-police officer returns from the dead and seeks revenge on the people who wronged him.

cornsnoot:

unyanizedcatboys:
cornsnoot:
my fave thing about alligators is that evolution was just like.. “yeah that’s fine” and left them for 80 million years
My favorite thing about evolution is that it’s tried to make crabs on at least 4 different occasions independently of previous species
so this IS peak performance

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iamianbrooks:

1) AVENGED FAMILY
2) IMMEDIATELY PARTY

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maxmarvel123:

Silver Age Hellboy
[Jack Kirby’s the Mighty Thor Vol. 1 #142 (1967) homage]
[a fake comic book cover done with vintage Silver Age Marvel style and used as a prop comic for the first Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy film (2004)]
Artist by: Mike Mignola

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nonserviam161:
Last will of Joe Hill, 1915.
Joe Hill was a labor-activist, songwriter and member of the Industrial workers of the world. Following a controversial trial in which he was convicted for murder, he was executed in November 1915. The day before the execution he wrote his last will.
Him standing there as big as life, and smiling with his eyes,
Says Joe, “What they forgot to kill went on to organize!”

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