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… or has access to a debit or credit card, or has a bank account with either, or has a PayPal account, or has bitcoin, or Tor, or Linux, or one of many other things some and often many people just don't have…
#PermaComputing #FrugalComputing #UnBanked #DeBanked #Durable #Repairable #CircularEconomy #LibraryEconomy #Sustainable #Communal #RightToTinker #Repair #RightToAmend #RightToDIY #Reuse #Repurpose #ReInvent #RightToSalvage #RightToRepair #RightToOwn #RightToShare #RightToSell
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116792075961548489
Actual cookbooks are better than online recipe slop sites.
Physical cookbooks are great.
Cool thing though, if you want to search for digital recipes online but don't want slop sites, use your local library's app and just check out an eCookbook.
It's even ad free!
(You can also go checkout a physical cookbook as well! They have an entire section at your library for them! 641.5x under the dewey decimal system!)
#solarpunk #libraries #libraryeconomy #food #cooking #cookbooks
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
That is so cool, @tinker ! Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday !
#solarpunk #libraries #libraryOfThings #libraryEconomy #eBike
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA has an e-bike lending library!
Just... go and check out an ebike. Ride it for a week for free. And then turn it back in. You can check it out multiple times so long as no has a hold for it.
#solarpunk #libraries #libraryOfThings #libraryEconomy #eBike
@Elena_ldmn @tissagelibertaire Merci pour le partage. C'est dans la lignée du fabuleux épisode de @srslywrong intitulé Library Socialism & Usufruct
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/189-library-socialism-usufruct/
#srslywrong #libraries #libraryeconomy #librarysocialism
Maine Tool Library lends a bunch of useful tools. Check out the options.
https://portlandmainetoollibrary.myturn.com/library/inventory/browse
My library puts on a free concert each Monday night during the summer with a new band each week.
I love libraries.
My library has a free (to the end user) type/level 2 electric vehicle charger!
Since we're all pitching in a little bit of money via taxes (and our library gets a very small percentage of our town's taxes) and since this is a community not for profit charger, its a very inexpensive way to encourage EVs in town and encourage folks to visit the library for its other perks.
This is a wonderful example of solarpunk and library economies.
@cerement @richardwonka @pluralistic
And their more recent, expanded take on this, What if We Ran the Economy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW5EVNT--DA
#libraryeconomy #socialecology #commons #governance #solarpunk #andrewism #economicsystems #libraries #cooperation #economy #usufruct #sharing #libraryofeverything
@george @rewind also ive found a few digital tools and resources for managing tool libraries, might be helpful for getting more people involved
http://www.toollibrarian.com/
https://localtools.org/
https://sharestarter.org/
#libraryEconomy #sharingEconomy #toolLibrary #libraryOfThings
What is the library economy? What does it look like? What if we ran a library economy?
Andrew Sage a.k.a. Andrewism (@drewthewho) discusses below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW5EVNT--DA
#Socialism #Anarchism #LibraryEconomy #Solarpunk #Andrewism #Economy #Economics #Community
In Which We Answer Some Questions
Here are some questions posed to us for inclusion in an allied organization’s newsletter. We cover community art, direct giving, research, ableism, and more.
Table of Contents
The artwork on your website is amazing, where does it come from?
Our art comes from our community. We practice constructionism and actively engage in constructing things in the world. Practicing our art makes our souls grow.
Featured Art
“Floralis (Flourite Spheralite)” by Adriel Jeremiah Wool is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 About the art: Floralis (Flourite Spheralite)Description: A bursting kaleidoscopic geometrical form with 4 sides of symmetry pointing angularly to each of the four corners of a square shaped canvas against a dark grey textured wall. There is a small red shaped plus at the very center, surrounded by orangish-peach and periwinkle butterfly like shapes at 45 degree angles from each other aligned to the mid center going up and also to the sides. The butterfly shapes are encased in a deeper red flower like shape before a region of light blue geometric textures. Near the corners are feathered white, dark grey-purple, burgundy and orange feather like edges.
About the artist: Adriel Jeremiah WoolOur featured artist is Adriel Jeremiah Wool.
Adriel Jeremiah is an computer programmer with a deep background in origami and folding. This artwork is an extension of a world view involving folding; often involving higher dimensional spaces. Many of these designs contain the mathematical magic of the transcendental numbers of nature, and all of them are the extension of the provisions of space itself; to be both physically folded, and conceptually folded, circularily and across many levels of expression.Shop Art by Adriel
His spectacular new piece derives its color stream from a fluorite crystal that has a spheralite imperfection / inclusion (the red, purple, and orange).
AJ describes what these fractal pieces are in this accordion. Their construction will broaden your perspective on perspective.My artwork is digital photography in a world where objects exist in more than 3 dimensions, and where no known means of physical representation has yet been discovered to exist.
AJ is a regular contributor at Stimpunks. He kindly licenses his work as free cultural work. He helps us tell our stories with his art, music, photography, videos, audio engineering, poetry, prose, and lived experience.
AJ has a gallery in Ketchum, Idaho. Drop by if you’re around. He tries to make it a welcoming third place.
About the process: My artwork is digital photography in a world where objects exist in more than 3 dimensions, and where no known means of physical representation has yet been discovered to exist.Stimpunks is gently debugging society.
The charity protects, helps and comforts individuals, while pointing out library-level flaws in some of the concepts that end up harming those individuals.
This help is profoundly wonderful, morally and functionally coherent to great need, and as true as a pure circle in its cause-and-effect form.
The artist hopes to convey this: that the universe is given forth folded and unfolded. Although explicit understanding helps, it is too cumbersome, and should only provide refinement to something already greater that exists.
That greater thing is what was given to the artist first by the practice of origami. An enlivening of the intuitive mind, experience with a universe of many dimensions, and the promise of creation revealed when one folds a flat square into the likeness of a higher dimensional thing. That inspiration reaches a young mind in a powerful way.
The artist wants the viewer to see proof of what their intuitive mind already knows is true, the universe is a multidimensional phenomenon and the ability to understand its nature already exists within us each.The artist hopes the viewer will be inspired to seek the understanding of freedoms available to the individual inspired by the exposure to artistic expressions, and of a nature of dimensionality unimaginably greater than the object presented here.
A time has come to again look at changes in the way technology allows us to see the world and experience it. First was the human eye, with a lens made of flesh. Later humans developed a replacement for the eye but in the form and fashion of the lens of the eye; this time it was made of glass doped with metals to enhance its control of light. To see, the human eye has a retina filled with responsive cells which look for contrast and color.
Technology has allowed us to create a replacement for the retina called a CCD with metals which respond to color and report those values to a microchip which converts them to bits and bytes for storage. I will present to you the same extension of sight by explaining how the images you will see come into existence.
In my artwork the landscape is created via the execution of a seed of a formula, allowed to grow and flourish in a mathematical set of steps. In a similar way, crystals grow underground in a cave over many millennia but they follow a seed of a universal pattern related to their atomic structure and facilitated by the chemical nature of their environments. In our regular world, we have 3 directions we can move, forward-back, up-down and left-right, but these crystals can move in another set of directions allowed by the universe and mathematics. They are, and must be considered elements of nature, and it follows that the methods used to convey them must be considered legitimate tools of expression.
A crystal starts at a virtual geometric position, a virtual center, then it mathematically and procedurally grows outward and inward according to a seed formula. However it exists in a dark world devoid of light and color; it is only a cloud of form. As an artist, I create an eye with a lens which follows the same mathematical processes as the lens of a camera and the eye itself. I situate the virtual eye to be gazing upon the crystal as I create sources of light which will illuminate the crystal and reflect light back to the lens.
As an artist I imbue color to the crystal, I imbue reflectivity, I imbue refractability, and I imbue density or transparency exactly towards the same purpose as a painter would do, in combining pigmented oils on canvas with a brush in his or her hand.
My artwork is digital photography in a world where objects exist in more than 3 dimensions, and where no known means of physical representation has yet been discovered to exist.
Adriel Jeremiah Wool
It’s gonna be an art party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZRFkJsGNjI
We’re gonna make, make something great for
All of us to see and appreciate
It’s gonna be an art party
It’s gonna be an art party
Come on over it’s time to start
It’s a great big party where we make and share art
Art Party (feat. Portugal. The Man & Paul Williams) – YouTube
What is your latest research on?
Monotropism, neuroqueer learning spaces, and Cavendish Space.
What does direct support look like for your organization? The website mentions a lot about mutual aid?
Direct support includes, first and foremost, giving people money with no strings attached. Folks know what they need and how best to spend the money. We also help people navigate our systems by filling forms and making calls for them. We provide warm lines and peer respite. We practice library economies, competency networks, sharing spoons, and support swapping.
“Mutuality is a feeling, an action, and a relationship based on shared benefit between individuals and groups in a society. It materialises in many, many ways and is arguably a universal constant of our human nature. We rely on mutuality to survive and progress through our day to day life.” (Andrewism)
“When systems of power fail, it is mutuality—neighbours helping neighbours—that holds communities together.” (Andrewism)
How can individuals reading get involved in mutual aid in their communities?
Start with pod mapping.
Source: Mutual Aid 101 – Google Slides
What are some wins you want to share with the community at large?
Our Map of Monotropic Experiences has been widely shared and incorporated into care settings and training.
What are some barriers you want the community at large to know about regarding ableism?
We live in an age of mass behaviorism. Behaviorism such as ABA and PBS are rife in education and healthcare settings. “Behaviorism is a dehumanizing mechanism of learning that reduces human beings to simple inputs and outputs. There is an ever-growing body of research suggesting that behaviorism is not only harmful to how we learn, but is also oppressive, ableist, and racist.” (Human Restoration Project)
Behaviorist education is ableist education. Behaviorist healthcare is ableist healthcare.
How can we best support Stimpunks.org?
How can Non-Disabled People show up better? And love better?
We exist as friction. Load-share the burden of existing as friction.
I love how activist research is also about transformative action. Can you speak more to this?
“three characteristics that delineate activist research from other types of research:”
(1) combination of knowledge production and transformative action;
(2) systematic multi-level collaboration; and
(3) challenges to power.
(Denisha Jones)
A hallmark of good research is that it embraces epistemic justice and rejects scientism.
Another hallmark of good research is naming the systems of power. If you’re not naming the systems of power in your research, you’re missing a vital component.
The ideas of community, interdependence, and the political really spoke to me, can you speak more on this?
In the past, the disability rights movement focused on independence, including it as one of the pillars of the ADA. Disability Justice moves away from independence framing, because independence is a myth.
“I am fighting for an interdependence that embraces need and tells the truth: no one does it on their own and the myth of independence is just that, a myth.” (Mia Mingus)
“Access intimacy is interdependence in action.” (Mia Mingus)
“It is time to celebrate our interdependence!” (Jorn Bettin)
“We recognize that there is no justice that neglects disability.” (Philosophy – Stimpunks Foundation)
Working at my org I really believe this and feel that everyone who works here also believes this. We cannot neglect disability in our policy and conversations and our care. If you have anything to add to this.
There is no path to justice that does not involve direct confrontation with ableism and inaccessibility. To neglect disability is to neglect two of the major forces of injustice.
Ableism is at the root of all -isms.
“Ableism is what makes all other “isms” effective.
White supremacy is the goal, ableism is the toolkit.” (Imani Barbarin)
“…so much of what disability actually is, is just humanity; and so much of what ableism is, is a humanity heist.” “Ableism enables all forms of inequity and hampers all liberation efforts.” (Talila A. Lewis)
Disabled and neurodivergent people are always edge cases, and edge cases are stress cases.
We choose the margin, because design is tested at the edges.
“Living as we did on the edge we developed a particular way of seeing reality. We looked both from the outside in and from the inside out. We focused our attention on the centre as well as on the margin. We understood both.” (bell hooks)
“No one knows best the motion of the ocean than the fish that must fight the current to swim upstream.” “By focusing on the parts of the system that are most complex and where the people living it are the most vulnerable we understand the system best.” (Tressie McMillan Cottom)
I really like these ideas: Community is resistance. Asking for help. Showing up to give help. Collaboration.
I think if we’re going to have a future we need to embrace and act in these ideas. How would someone start if they are new to these ideas and new to community engagement?
Find people with which you share a concern or passion. You can do this via the pod mapping described above.
“Communities of Practice are groups of people who share a concern or passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” (Wenger-Trayner, E. & Wenger-Trayner, B. 2015)
“Through free association, people will find those of mutual interests in every sphere of life to form groups on the basis of their affinity.” (Andrewism)
#ableism #accessIntimacy #accessibility #activistResearch #affinityGroups #art #behaviorism #biopsychosocial #care #cavendishSpace #community #competencyNetwork #constructionism #criticalWellness #directSupport #disabilityJustice #edgeCases #edges #education #epistemicInjustice #equity #forcedIntimacy #framing #identityFirst #interdependence #libraryEconomy #monotropism #mutualAid #mutuality #neuroqueerLearningSpaces #pathologyParadigm #peerRespite #podMapping #power #scientism #sharingSpoons #supportSwapping #warmLines #wellness
Alright! Meet and greet went really well. Both the Executive Director of all the libraries and the director of my specific branch were very interested in building out the tool library.
The Executive Director gave me her card and asked me to email her. She'll get me in touch with the project lead who would oversee this.
I'll reach out to them and see what the current plans are and if there are any obstacles to address.
This is exciting!!!!
#solarPunk #LibraryEconomy #ToolLibrary #mutualAid #LibraryOfThings
Idea: a community clothing closet; basically a thrift store of just clothes, categorized in type and size (but not gender because whatever). You can take out clothes in exchange for signing up on a volunteer sheet or bringing detergent or just with a membership card, depending on how the economy works. But when clothes are returned they go into a sorted laundry area; volunteers do laundry and hang the clothes back up so they can be borrowed by others.
@dx Yes! This is one of the things I love about #LibraryEconomy https://www.law.georgetown.edu/environmental-law-review/blog/is-a-library-centric-economy-the-answer-to-sustainable-living/
Gonna start a Tool library.
Kanopy is having an "Animated April" event, highlighting animated movies, cartoons, anime, and more.
Free with your local library card* (no ads)
@fisherstudio @neonsnake - You know, as much as I post about my local library and all the resources they offer, I hadn't realized that I internalized data retrieval as an individual problem.
Of course your local library would be a primary starting place to check on ways to retrieve and store data and may have a CD reader!
Thank you!
I'll run down today and see if I can move the data from the CD or a USB stick!
Seed Library Launch (coinciding with Earth Day) has been posted to the events page of my local library. A couple weeks later will be my Hydroponics for Beginners.
My course will focus on hydroponics growing with a focus on indoor, inexpensive, and passive means. Additional info will be given on mutual aid and community fridges. We'll end with everyone taking home a full grow kit (1-gallon bin, with halo grow lights, nutrients, and grow medium). We'll get our first seeds from the seed library!!!
#solarPunk #hydroponics #indoorGardening #mutualAid #libraryEconomy #seedLibrary
A #solarpunk photobash, this time a scene from a #LibraryEconomy.
I’ve mentioned elsewhere that I set these postcards a bit earlier in the solarpunk timeline than a lot of other works I know of in the genre. I like seeing the work in progress, the intermediate steps. So I think this photobash is set somewhere in the transition towards a library economy
More info here: https://slrpnk.net/post/5821833
This #photobash and all the other postcards are CC-BY, use them how you want: https://jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/postcards-from-a-solarpunk-future/
I decided to run an experiment this year that I’m excited about! My goal is to test the #libraryeconomy (it’s the future) in practice. I set up a simple spreadsheet for myself and my friends (and hopefully, friends of friends) to create a “things library”. Whatever’s there, we can borrow from each other, free of charge. Stuff such as instruments or tools, but also things that take up space and are not used often, such as an extra duvet for guests, or hiking gear. #solarpunk #sustainability