Repair Cafe Barry
@RepairCafe_Barry@toot.wales  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Our golden rule is "if you can fit it through the doors and it's not a microwave, we'll try and fix it!"

We can't make guarantees but between our volunteers we have a wide variety of skills and expertise.

What will you be bringing to our next event on Saturday 5th July between 10am and 1pm?

#RepairCafe#RightToRepair#SolarPunk

Richard, a man with light skin tone and short grey hair, kneeling on the floor working on a lawn mower while a woman with light skin tone and long brown hair tied up in a bun stands watching. Around them are tables at which different people are sitting working on items.
Richard, a man with light skin tone and short grey hair, kneeling on the floor working on a lawn mower while a woman with light skin tone and long brown hair tied up in a bun stands watching. Around them are tables at which different people are sitting working on items.
Richard, a man with light skin tone and short grey hair, kneeling on the floor working on a lawn mower while a woman with light skin tone and long brown hair tied up in a bun stands watching. Around them are tables at which different people are sitting working on items.
Kevin, a man with tanned light skin tone and short black hair, and Gary, a man with light skin tone and short blonde hair, sitting a table. Kevin is working on a red toy musical keyboard while Gary is working on what appears to be part of a vacuum cleaner. On the table is a mug of coffee, various electrical sockets, and a screwdriver.
Kevin, a man with tanned light skin tone and short black hair, and Gary, a man with light skin tone and short blonde hair, sitting a table. Kevin is working on a red toy musical keyboard while Gary is working on what appears to be part of a vacuum cleaner. On the table is a mug of coffee, various electrical sockets, and a screwdriver.
Kevin, a man with tanned light skin tone and short black hair, and Gary, a man with light skin tone and short blonde hair, sitting a table. Kevin is working on a red toy musical keyboard while Gary is working on what appears to be part of a vacuum cleaner. On the table is a mug of coffee, various electrical sockets, and a screwdriver.
Kevin, a man with light skin tone and long grey hair tied back, sat at a table working on the head of a vacuum cleaner. On the table are various screwdriver heads, a silver bowl with screws in it, an electric screwdriver. He is holding a manual screwdriver and using it on the head.
Kevin, a man with light skin tone and long grey hair tied back, sat at a table working on the head of a vacuum cleaner. On the table are various screwdriver heads, a silver bowl with screws in it, an electric screwdriver. He is holding a manual screwdriver and using it on the head.
Kevin, a man with light skin tone and long grey hair tied back, sat at a table working on the head of a vacuum cleaner. On the table are various screwdriver heads, a silver bowl with screws in it, an electric screwdriver. He is holding a manual screwdriver and using it on the head.
Solarpunk 2050
@solarpunk2050@dice.camp  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

The core book of #solarpunk #ttrpg is missing two chapters. You will get updates later this year. The reason: everything is play tested before being published. And this takes time. One missing chapter is #religion or #philosophy . I will add "The Children of Gaia" and similar groups. As there are several flavours of this religion I need more and similar names. Not only "children of". Any ideas? #solarpunk2050

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Lemon
@the_lemonaut@mastodon.art  ·  activity timestamp last month

A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️

Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉

Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts

#solarPunk#hopePunk #art#myArt #comics #sustainability

Page 4. "If we can imagine absolute Cyberpunk dystopia with ease but not the opposite, it's because we don't have enough popular stories yet which would showcase that believable alternative." A lady is reading a Solarpunk book. She exclaims: "So you're telling me people can just do stuff without a monetary incentive or the risk of hunger and homelessness? Movie number 3752 about robots enslaving humanity was much more realistic!" "The hard part for Solarpunks is imagining what the culture and structure of this new society would look like. How would it operate?" Drawing: the author sits gloomily at a desk, mumbling "I wish I could try out this hobby but the tools are so expensive, and I don't even know if it'll be a long-term interest or not...". But then they have an epiphany. "Wait, I could literally just go to the library!" "How does this new world think? And what do we change about ourselves to get closer to it?" The final doodle is of a man stating we must ensure economic growth until the end of time, though the woman next to him retorts: "You and what endless planetary resources?" She then suggests that we instead produce what's necessary and give it to those who need it.
Page 4. "If we can imagine absolute Cyberpunk dystopia with ease but not the opposite, it's because we don't have enough popular stories yet which would showcase that believable alternative." A lady is reading a Solarpunk book. She exclaims: "So you're telling me people can just do stuff without a monetary incentive or the risk of hunger and homelessness? Movie number 3752 about robots enslaving humanity was much more realistic!" "The hard part for Solarpunks is imagining what the culture and structure of this new society would look like. How would it operate?" Drawing: the author sits gloomily at a desk, mumbling "I wish I could try out this hobby but the tools are so expensive, and I don't even know if it'll be a long-term interest or not...". But then they have an epiphany. "Wait, I could literally just go to the library!" "How does this new world think? And what do we change about ourselves to get closer to it?" The final doodle is of a man stating we must ensure economic growth until the end of time, though the woman next to him retorts: "You and what endless planetary resources?" She then suggests that we instead produce what's necessary and give it to those who need it.
Page 4. "If we can imagine absolute Cyberpunk dystopia with ease but not the opposite, it's because we don't have enough popular stories yet which would showcase that believable alternative." A lady is reading a Solarpunk book. She exclaims: "So you're telling me people can just do stuff without a monetary incentive or the risk of hunger and homelessness? Movie number 3752 about robots enslaving humanity was much more realistic!" "The hard part for Solarpunks is imagining what the culture and structure of this new society would look like. How would it operate?" Drawing: the author sits gloomily at a desk, mumbling "I wish I could try out this hobby but the tools are so expensive, and I don't even know if it'll be a long-term interest or not...". But then they have an epiphany. "Wait, I could literally just go to the library!" "How does this new world think? And what do we change about ourselves to get closer to it?" The final doodle is of a man stating we must ensure economic growth until the end of time, though the woman next to him retorts: "You and what endless planetary resources?" She then suggests that we instead produce what's necessary and give it to those who need it.
Page 3. "And that tomorrow part is important! When it comes to technology, we can stop climate change and achieve a sustainable world right now." A whole section next to this text is filled with various sustainable technologies: perma- and polyculture, wind turbines, vernacular architecture, reforestation, libraries of everything, trains, trams, bikes, solar panels, habitat restoration, degrowth etc. "We don't need to wait until a fancy piece of tech comes along and fixes everything." There's a rendition of that meme where people are huddling together to discuss something. A contraption called "carbon sucker 9000 appears". The group gives it a thumbs up and continues discussing their own stuff like minimizing plane travel. "What we need is large cultural and societal change. But most people struggle to imagine anything but dystopia." In a frame nearby, a rich guy gleefully puts his foot on a pair of scales, favoring a bag of money over the planet. However, just out of frame is a group of people with tools, ready to take the planet back. "Solarpunk is for filling that blank space! And a grounded, though not unambitious, approach makes it feel more achievable to the average person."
Page 3. "And that tomorrow part is important! When it comes to technology, we can stop climate change and achieve a sustainable world right now." A whole section next to this text is filled with various sustainable technologies: perma- and polyculture, wind turbines, vernacular architecture, reforestation, libraries of everything, trains, trams, bikes, solar panels, habitat restoration, degrowth etc. "We don't need to wait until a fancy piece of tech comes along and fixes everything." There's a rendition of that meme where people are huddling together to discuss something. A contraption called "carbon sucker 9000 appears". The group gives it a thumbs up and continues discussing their own stuff like minimizing plane travel. "What we need is large cultural and societal change. But most people struggle to imagine anything but dystopia." In a frame nearby, a rich guy gleefully puts his foot on a pair of scales, favoring a bag of money over the planet. However, just out of frame is a group of people with tools, ready to take the planet back. "Solarpunk is for filling that blank space! And a grounded, though not unambitious, approach makes it feel more achievable to the average person."
Page 3. "And that tomorrow part is important! When it comes to technology, we can stop climate change and achieve a sustainable world right now." A whole section next to this text is filled with various sustainable technologies: perma- and polyculture, wind turbines, vernacular architecture, reforestation, libraries of everything, trains, trams, bikes, solar panels, habitat restoration, degrowth etc. "We don't need to wait until a fancy piece of tech comes along and fixes everything." There's a rendition of that meme where people are huddling together to discuss something. A contraption called "carbon sucker 9000 appears". The group gives it a thumbs up and continues discussing their own stuff like minimizing plane travel. "What we need is large cultural and societal change. But most people struggle to imagine anything but dystopia." In a frame nearby, a rich guy gleefully puts his foot on a pair of scales, favoring a bag of money over the planet. However, just out of frame is a group of people with tools, ready to take the planet back. "Solarpunk is for filling that blank space! And a grounded, though not unambitious, approach makes it feel more achievable to the average person."
Page 2. "Well, let's see...Solarpunk isn't just an aesthetic, it's an emerging genre and artistic movement." The statement is accompanied by mandala-like drawing of several hands drawing the Solarpunk symbol. Then there's a dualistic drawing: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk next to each other. In the Cyberpunk drawing, a man is holding a gun, and in the other he is unloading soil from a big bag into a garden bed. Three tiny people are floating next to the Solarpunk man, imagining what tasty stuff can grow from that soil. The caption reads: "Solarpunk is also sort of CyberPunk's counterpart. While Cyberpunk concerns itself with wrecking bad old systems, Solarpunk is about building new, better ones. SolarPunk's creation was very intentional - it's for letting us imagine a tomorrow that's not a fucking shitshow." In the corner, the artist points at a box labeled "future" and asks "If it's alive, what do you reckon it looks like?"
Page 2. "Well, let's see...Solarpunk isn't just an aesthetic, it's an emerging genre and artistic movement." The statement is accompanied by mandala-like drawing of several hands drawing the Solarpunk symbol. Then there's a dualistic drawing: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk next to each other. In the Cyberpunk drawing, a man is holding a gun, and in the other he is unloading soil from a big bag into a garden bed. Three tiny people are floating next to the Solarpunk man, imagining what tasty stuff can grow from that soil. The caption reads: "Solarpunk is also sort of CyberPunk's counterpart. While Cyberpunk concerns itself with wrecking bad old systems, Solarpunk is about building new, better ones. SolarPunk's creation was very intentional - it's for letting us imagine a tomorrow that's not a fucking shitshow." In the corner, the artist points at a box labeled "future" and asks "If it's alive, what do you reckon it looks like?"
Page 2. "Well, let's see...Solarpunk isn't just an aesthetic, it's an emerging genre and artistic movement." The statement is accompanied by mandala-like drawing of several hands drawing the Solarpunk symbol. Then there's a dualistic drawing: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk next to each other. In the Cyberpunk drawing, a man is holding a gun, and in the other he is unloading soil from a big bag into a garden bed. Three tiny people are floating next to the Solarpunk man, imagining what tasty stuff can grow from that soil. The caption reads: "Solarpunk is also sort of CyberPunk's counterpart. While Cyberpunk concerns itself with wrecking bad old systems, Solarpunk is about building new, better ones. SolarPunk's creation was very intentional - it's for letting us imagine a tomorrow that's not a fucking shitshow." In the corner, the artist points at a box labeled "future" and asks "If it's alive, what do you reckon it looks like?"
Page 1 of comic. The uppermost caption states: "I like realistic Solarpunk. I think it's the best kind, actually!" Under it is a horizontal space filled with doodles: someone exiting a tool library, a girl holding a mended sock, a chama group is pooling donations, a woman browses Wikipedia, a volunteer is filling a bowl with free soup. "By realistic I mean grounded. Something that we could imagine happening in our real world. No magic (a drawing of a girl with fire powers), no supernatural elements unless you know what you're doing (a talking cat), no cure-all tech (a man is claiming a tiny piece of tech is going to solve everything). The artist appears. "I feel that way because of my answer to this question: what is Solarpunk for?"
Page 1 of comic. The uppermost caption states: "I like realistic Solarpunk. I think it's the best kind, actually!" Under it is a horizontal space filled with doodles: someone exiting a tool library, a girl holding a mended sock, a chama group is pooling donations, a woman browses Wikipedia, a volunteer is filling a bowl with free soup. "By realistic I mean grounded. Something that we could imagine happening in our real world. No magic (a drawing of a girl with fire powers), no supernatural elements unless you know what you're doing (a talking cat), no cure-all tech (a man is claiming a tiny piece of tech is going to solve everything). The artist appears. "I feel that way because of my answer to this question: what is Solarpunk for?"
Page 1 of comic. The uppermost caption states: "I like realistic Solarpunk. I think it's the best kind, actually!" Under it is a horizontal space filled with doodles: someone exiting a tool library, a girl holding a mended sock, a chama group is pooling donations, a woman browses Wikipedia, a volunteer is filling a bowl with free soup. "By realistic I mean grounded. Something that we could imagine happening in our real world. No magic (a drawing of a girl with fire powers), no supernatural elements unless you know what you're doing (a talking cat), no cure-all tech (a man is claiming a tiny piece of tech is going to solve everything). The artist appears. "I feel that way because of my answer to this question: what is Solarpunk for?"
Repair Cafe Barry
@RepairCafe_Barry@toot.wales  ·  activity timestamp last month

Our sewing experts were kept very busy at our May café. Ann and Peter had a queue of people waiting for their skills!

Between them they repaired clothing items, soft toys, shopping trolleys, and much more.

We're at Barry library on the first Saturday of every month to fix your items for free - pop it in your diary and tell your friends!

#Sewing#SolarPunk#RepairCafe

Peter, a man with light skin tone and balding grey hair and beard wearing glasses, sitting at a table smiling at the camera. On the table in front of him is a brown koala teddy bear, a plastic tub filled with different coloured threads, a plate of cupcakes, a book with many needles laid on top of it, and a red donations bucket.
Peter, a man with light skin tone and balding grey hair and beard wearing glasses, sitting at a table smiling at the camera. On the table in front of him is a brown koala teddy bear, a plastic tub filled with different coloured threads, a plate of cupcakes, a book with many needles laid on top of it, and a red donations bucket.
Peter, a man with light skin tone and balding grey hair and beard wearing glasses, sitting at a table smiling at the camera. On the table in front of him is a brown koala teddy bear, a plastic tub filled with different coloured threads, a plate of cupcakes, a book with many needles laid on top of it, and a red donations bucket.
The sewing table at Barry repair cafe. Ann, a woman with light skin tone and brown hair wearing glasses, leans over the table sewing a beach bag. Beside her, Peter, a man with light skin tone and balding grey hair and beard, is threading a needle ready to sew up a brown teddy bear which is laying on the table in front of him.
The sewing table at Barry repair cafe. Ann, a woman with light skin tone and brown hair wearing glasses, leans over the table sewing a beach bag. Beside her, Peter, a man with light skin tone and balding grey hair and beard, is threading a needle ready to sew up a brown teddy bear which is laying on the table in front of him.
The sewing table at Barry repair cafe. Ann, a woman with light skin tone and brown hair wearing glasses, leans over the table sewing a beach bag. Beside her, Peter, a man with light skin tone and balding grey hair and beard, is threading a needle ready to sew up a brown teddy bear which is laying on the table in front of him.
Fay
@fay@toot.wales  ·  activity timestamp last month

First Contact, Second Chances is now available on Amazon!
For those unfamiliar with the Shantivira series: the books envision alternative ways of organizing our society to allow everyone to fulfil their potential and live good lives – despite living on a planet with finite resources – packaged in a fun, sci-fi adventure story.
Set in 2016, this latest instalment may currently be the only contemporary science fiction novel to feature Brexit!

Get it here: https://mybook.to/FCSC
#solarpunk

First Contact, Second Chances book cover, egg-yolk yellow with turquoise trees, spacecraft and dragonfly. Background is a tranquil lake bordered by trees.
First Contact, Second Chances book cover, egg-yolk yellow with turquoise trees, spacecraft and dragonfly. Background is a tranquil lake bordered by trees.