passive solar hill folk⚑

@evanarchitective
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anarchy, permaculture, transhumanity, biotecture, ecopoiesis, guerrilla microclimatology, they/y'all
an important one is just planting trees that grow edible fruit on them in public places. A person at a restaraunt I was at today was liking climbing around poking in the leaves of a tree and we were wondering what they were doing until they came down with a fig! Did not realize the thing was a fruiting plant at all at first glance.
Ok these are pretty amazing

life's a ditch

dig it

"As hunter-gatherers we were brilliant scientists, but we were nodes locked in a complex network we had little to no say in. And so we warped and mutilated our world with fire and countless other inventions, trying to have as big of an impact as we could, to extend our reach beyond our arms. [...] Cambrian explosions of the meme, even while we warped the land to collapse diversity of the gene."

- @rechelon William Gillis' review of James C Scott's Against the Grain

https://c4ss.org/content/51209

Avoiding the Blame — What a Focus on Grain Obscures

James C. Scott (2017). Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. New Haven: Yale University Press. James C. Scott’s latest book, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, is sure to become a classic and a brick in the wall of core anarchist theory. It covers somewhat different but complementary...

Center for a Stateless Society

"There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it [a] train of cities and institutions. Let us rise into another idea: they will disappear."

Ralph Waldo #Emerson, “Circles”

#quotes #words #impermanence

"What are you doing?"
"Reading."
"Always reading. Do you want to live in those books?"
"No, it's the other way. I want them to live in me."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published https://goo.gl/8PAVuJ https://t.co/nER7NeOF28
An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

Imagine you could talk to Hieronymus Bosch, the authors of the Book of Revelation, or of the Voynich Manuscript—a bizarre 15th century text written in an uncrackable code; that you could solve centuries-old mysteries by asking them, “what were you thinking?” You might be disappointed to hear them say, as does Luigi Serafini, author and illustrator of the Codex Seraphinianus, “At the end of the day [it’s] similar to the Rorschach inkblot test.

Open Culture
life goal:
build a library full of books you would have wanted to find as a kid growing up
Life is hard for a dirty salvager on this junk planet. If the heat of the desert's twin suns don't kill you, the molten rain coming down from the ship graveyard orbiting the planet might. But today is a good day. Today you found what looks to be a fully operational spacecraft.
#writingprompts #writing
Textiles Trader selling his wares Textiles #Aliens #fantasyart #scifi #conceptart #illustration #worldbuilding #comics