Working on a lecture on solarpunk / utopian futures and how utopian ideas seem utterly stupid and unachievable. Then after we DO achieve them, we forget they were ever utopian and consider them normal.

Like the concept of a weekend.

Once a preposterous idea and now the cadence by which we live our lives. Weekdays are workdays and weekends are not. As if their sunsets have different colours.

I think it's good to remind ourselves that we have made utopias happen.

#solarpunk

No Kings Day is almost here — and it’s going to be even bigger than Hands Off!

More than 500,000 Americans have signed up to hit the streets on Saturday at over 2,000 events all across our country.

Join the nationwide peaceful protests to say NO KINGS in the USA: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible

All is not lost.

We do still have options, good choices we can make that will lead to a better – or at least less disastrous – future.
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Imagine being surrounded by lush natural landscapes, buildings covered with verdant plants and vegetation complete with rooftop gardens, and cities that are completely powered by clean energy. Imagine having our technologies built in harmony with nature and shared equally with everyone on the planet. This is what our world should look like as envisioned by the solarpunk movement.
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In this thread I will post several excerpts from an inspiring article at Earth.org, together with uplifting images that might raise our spirits as we seek to build a happier and more just world for our children and their children.

LEARN MORE ➡️ https://earth.org/solarpunk/

#Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth #SolarPunk

In 9 days new bills arrive for the servers, media storage and emails send

At this moment I am still a massive 660 euros short for this month (estimate) and that worries me a loot.. 😟

If you can and would like to help me out in paying these bills you can so via:

https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost
https://stux.me/donate
https://liberapay.com/mstdn

Boosts are also much appreciated❤️ 

A reminder to support your hardworking server #admin if you have the means.

Mstdn.social is run by one person (who is awesome!) and that instance has THOUSANDS of users.

Beige is also super fab, but we are waaaay smaller (fewer than 1000 users).

I have a regular small donation going out to @stux (and one to my beige admin, of course) every month, and I try to kick in more when I can.

These fine folks really should not have to be paying out-of-pocket to keep the rest of us online.

Every cent helps!

From: @stux
https://mstdn.social/@stux/114664464539046952

Good tutorial in French explaining the features and benefits of Hetzner's Storage Share service, a cloud storage solution that integrates with Nextcloud, a popular open-source file management platform.

From just €4.29 per month, you can get your own Nextcloud instance as an alternative to Google, Microsoft, etc. It comes with 1 TB of storage, unlimited users and is hosted in Europe.

It's not free, but neither are the US competitors — it's actually cheaper than Google One (10€) or Microsoft 365 (13€).

You don't need any IT skills to install it; just create an account, pay and start using it. 🙂

You can do it only for yourself or offer storage to family, friends and your community too.

Article: https://next.ink/4687/on-a-teste-storage-share-instance-nextcloud-dhetzner-a-prix-serre/

Hetzner Storage Share website: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

#nextcloud #hetzner #cloud #EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean

Always frustrating when people talk about immigrants being a drain on the UK. Jim Ratcliffe recently bought a cycle team, a yacht team, a ski lodge, a Swiss football team, Manchester United, the Mercedes F1 team and sponsors New Zealand rugby - largely funded by tax avoidance. He owns not one but two superyachts aswell as two hotels. He is a Brexiteer and Eurosceptic who for tax purposes says he lives in Monaco and owns an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, where he relocated his business in 2010 to avoid tax. His vast thirty billion wealth comes from petrochemicals, oil and plastic. Jim wants fracking and doesn't care about the consequences.

Assuming the cost of one migrant is c.£12000 per year (and assuming that person gives nothing back to the economy, which we know to be wrong), just in money that Jim avoids paying the country he contributed to being cut off from our neighbours whose hospitality he enjoys so much, that would easily fund half a million immigrants per year. And they're not pumping oil and plastic into the environment.

Jim is one man.

I know this is EXTRAORDINARILY BAD TIMING but I am writing it to pin to my profiles.

So, I do a lot of stuff. I work in critical infrastructure. I volunteer operate career clinics. I teach and speak on the topics. I have not tooled my life to become wealthy by any means - I try to do ethical and interesting stuff.

Leaving X two years ago really hit my ability to be able to reach audiences. The hard fact is, I use the money I make on side gigs like commercial speaking to be able to do community stuff and run a free conference.

49/50 people reading this are not the target of this message. If you happen to be a security leader in an organization that hires speakers for security awareness, security education, or niche cybersecurity events - you can hire me! It's an important part of my ability to do more outreach, especially now with a massive and costly move.

If you are looking for a speaker in the next year, I have a easy to work with agent at https://www.leadingauthorities.com/speakers/lesley-carhart

My commercial prices are negotiable. I do not charge for community speaking. I cannot currently speak commercially in Australia and I am personally eating the cost of travel to the US for engagements.

Plenty of examples of my talks in bio and on YouTube!