Maybe this is a hot take, or maybe this is a super cold take, but
Home ec & Cooking classes are infinitely more valuable than any of the so called "core" high school classes.





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Maybe this is a hot take, or maybe this is a super cold take, but
Home ec & Cooking classes are infinitely more valuable than any of the so called "core" high school classes.

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So, Solarpunk Action Week 2.0 has been a bit of a wash for me on account of my chronic pain acting up, and my job (grocery store cashier) taking up all my spoons. I'm starting to do a little better though, so I'm gonna try and get a couple things done before the week is out. *fingers crossed*
1.) My birthday is on Friday, and I asked my parents for a beekeeper's suit. Once I have my own protective gear, I'm hoping to join the local beekeeper's co-op and start learning how to keep honeybees. :D
2.) My work jeans have some holes in them again. I'm gonna try to patch them. :P
3.) Finish the hat I've been spool-knitting (it's almost done). Maybe make another one.
4.) Reach out to my local chapter of Food Not Bombs and see if there's any direct action I can get in on. The FNB chapter here is mostly defunct, but it'd be nice to see if it can get going again.
5.) Start taking down my balcony vegetable garden. I'd like to see if I can squeeze a few more cherry tomatoes out of my tomato plant, but it seems to have contracted powdery mildew, and it's dying pretty fast. In any case, the plants out there are starting to look a little worse for wear as fall sets in, and I don't want my parents complaining about having eyesores on their balcony. ^_^;
6.) Start learning basic sign language so I can better communicate with our Deaf/HOH customers at the grocery store. I've only seen one of our regulars come in lately since masks became mandatory by law.
7.) Paint some rocks with encouraging messages and cute pictures, and leave them out around the neighborhood. I did this early on in the pandemic, and quite enjoyed it.
I dunno how much of this I'll actually be able to get done this week, but if I have the spoons, I'm gonna try. And of course, there's no reason I can't continue to work on these things even after SPAW is over. :)
A little something I've been making for the front lobby of my apartment building. Just gotta seal the paint now. I might hold off on putting it out until after the pandemic, though.
How to get cats to like you
1: Approach slowly and let them come to you
You can approach slowly until you see them notice you. Once you have the cat's attention, stop and if you can, sit on the ground. Let the cat come to you. If the cat looks away again, you can continue moving forward slowly, and stop again when the cat notices you again. If the cat runs away, it's done. Don't bother chasing after them, down that road nothing but heartache.
2: Let the cat smell you and initiate contact
Make sure the cat has access to your hand, and that you're not just immediatly trying to pet them as soon as they get near. Usually after a good sniff, the cat will kind of hit your hand with her forehead, and that's when you can start petting.
3: Listen to the cat's body language
Cats will lean into your hand if they enjoy what you're doing. I typically keep my hand in one place and let the cat move her body around to fit where she wants to be petted. If at any point the cat starts moving a lot or pushing at your hand with their paws, stop what you're doing immediately and wait. Once they seem to have relaxed a bit, you can go back in gentler than before, maybe in a different area.
4: Let the cat walk away
If the cat wants to leave, let it. Making a cat you don't know well stay by physically forcing it will make it not trust you. If the cat wants to come back, she will. Often cats will walk outside of your reach, realize that you're not petting them anymore, and come right back. Other times they're just done with getting petted for now and want to go do something else. Enjoy the time you get to spend with the cat and don't try to make it last longer than it's meant to.
5: Other Tips
Blinking slowly tells them you're not planning on moving any time soon and that you're not going to pounce on them. Most cats really like scratches behind their ears and pets centered on their shoulders. Many also really like being scratched at the base of their tail.
Edit: The reason why this is in the lunarpunk and solarpunk tags is because I feel like connecting with animals is a solunarpunk thing, and I wanted to share my knowledge on how to do that with cats.
Everyone should garden
Sometimes when I'm talking to people about sustainability they're like, "well, not everyone wants to garden" and it's like, on the one hand I'm sure that's true because of the diversity of the human experience means that someone out there would hate gardening no matter what.
But on the other hand.... what???? Why would someone NOT want to experience the miracle of life and then have the freshest ingredients possible to cook with??? All while releasing no green house gasses and being super cheap???
Humans have literally lived forever surrounded by plants with cultivating plants as a vital part of how we have lived for thousands of years and you're telling me that we should stop doing that because some people don't like to garden??
Gardening isn't a hobby! It's a way of life that we all need to be living if we can because our current way of life is unsustainable! Also everyone that can garden should so we can support the people who can't. Gardening is what made us human and we can't stop now.

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I think it's important to remember in the discussion about the morality of torrenting, that we are not talking about stealing art from starving independent small artists here.
We're talking about wanting to see a movie that was made 5 years ago by a giant cooperation that has already paid everyone who worked on it everything they're going to get. In a digital age where a digital copy of something takes no resources to create.
Right to Darkness/Right to Night
Human beings have lived with a relatively strict day/night cycle for as far back as humans have been around. Yes, there was fire, but the rooms were still relatively dim, and outside was almost always just lit by the moon. Daily darkness, where not much could get done has been a part of human culture and biology forever.
Now we have the problem of light polution, where the light of electricity spreads everywhere and then you can't see the stars at night in the cities. Obviously it's good that we have electric lights. There are many people who want to be out doing things at night. But it's also a problem, because for most, nightime is a time of calm and processing the day, and it can be difficult for the human brain to know that it's time for that to happen if it has too much light coming at it.
I think in Solunarpunk societies, people would have a recognized right to darkness/night, that made itself apparent in the design of light sources and buildings, so that anyone who wanted to could enjoy the dark, cool, and quiet regardless of where they live.
This could manifest as rules about how streetlights can be made, so that the designs that are used are the ones that have the least amount of light seepage
Possibly different light zones, so the bars and clubs and other nightime activity stuff is all in one area, so those people can be safely lit, while other neighborhoods have street lights that only come on if someone is walking there, and are as unobtrusive as possible, so that people can stargaze and sleep in peace.
Inside houses, there might be automatic window darkeners that activate whenever you turn on a light, so the outside isn't affected, that then turn transparent when the light is off for long enough.
Most houses would have smart lighting with a "night mode" that kept the lighting warmer and dimmer. If you had no lights on, red floor lights will turn on if it senses you moving so you can see where you're going in safety.
Or maybe people just start using their night vision for more things. People just don't turn on the lights at night if they don't have to.
I imagine that in a right to night would also mean that it would be expected that work ends at sunset. People are free to pursue their own passions at night, and are free of daytime responsibilities. No one could pressure someone to stay later than they wanted to, but especially after sunset, because that would be extremely rude and people would call them out for it.
Stargazing would become an important family activity. Children would grow up knowing the names of all the constellations they could see, as well as the names of the planets and the stars. A sense of wonder about our universe would begin to arise again in our society.
Any moon bases built in the future would be on the side of the moon that always faces away from us, just in case the light could be seen at night. There would be observation sites on the side facing Earth that are too small to be seen, but are connected to each other underground. These observation sites would be open and available all the time, for anyone to come and marvel at the beauty of our home planet.
⭐Let me see the stars⭐
Places where you can see the sky without any visible lights around should be commonly available and accessable. People have a right to see the stars. Stargazing platforms should be in every public park, and rooftops should be available to those who live there.