Disclaimer: Beautifully colorized landscape and architecture drawings with historic themes make me drool!

That Europeans discovered the ‘new world’, and that it was inhabited by ‘savages’ aka people with forgettable cultures, skills, and lifestyles.

I’m just starting to learn how to sew more complex stuff, do you happen to have any good resources?

I experience the transition from one activity to another a little like a jump into cold water. It’s just very intense and I guess that’s why my mind wants to avoid it. I learn to better anticipate and vow to accept the brief mental pain of starting something new and it makes it easier to jump to new activities.

I also used cigarettes to ‘mark’ the transition between activities. They help, and also are rotten bad for your health, expensive, and stink like hell.

I experience the same problem. I am a grown ass woman and functional in most areas of my life. I deliver my freelance projects on time. I’ve studied in the university and finished all the assignments. I keep animals and plants alive. I’ve raised a child. But something in my brain compels me, absolutely compels me, to ignore the good advice I give myself at least some of the time and binge on something - can be different things from substance to activities to mind obsessions. While being completely aware that ‘it only gets harder when you sabotage yourself’. And that is what the whole ADHD issue comes from. That you can’t will away the executive dysfunction.

So it’s good for you that you manage to obey the reminder, but not really possible that easily for many people. Besides being aware that you want this for yourself (this does help me as well when I remember to remember it), what else would you say contributes to you being successful in this?

Juli und August, die Fiebermonate. Bin ich wach oder schlafe ich? Ist es noch Montag oder schon 2027? Egal, alle anderen haben auch schon den Verstand verloren.

Rechenzentren?

Oh mushrooms, I wish I had time to get back to those!

Where goblincore swamp and solarpunk forest meet, where the sacred grove is being tended, the bog creature has been up to this:

• Lots of DIY food production. This year I’m probably at 50% home grown and home raised.
• Continuous learning and improving to work low tech as well as low energy input (short transport paths, few step processes) around house and garden.
• Recycle and reuse. Got no money anyways, great chance to learn how to reuse everything. My furniture is punk as fuck, most is self-build or recovered. Sewing machine shall be my powerful ally for making new clothes out of old ones.
• Small, smaller, still smaller, and very quiet. I practice degrowth as a spiritual practice. I try to notice and to consider my many non-human neighbours and consciously try to keep a tiny footprint and to do a slow and steady work instead of big interventions.
• I used to be more active in community work, but it’s not within my means and capabilities at the moment. Seeds I helped plant in the past are growing though, so that’s not lost and I will pick it up again in the future.
• Returning to joyful creative work. My spirit of creating had been fucked over for years by the power of the algorithm and I am rediscovering my true roars and whispers.
• Remain open to new ideas out there and try to keep a bit updated about what the youngsters do and want and like, to not become a fossil.

Very big THANK YOU!!! Some real treasures in here. I want to like this a thousand times.

I think I might have a mild form of that. I experience a kind of time blindness, which I only realized recently. Things in the past are kind of there, but not really in a coherent timeline I can access, and I know that the future exists but the difference between 3 hours, 3 days and 3 months can be hard to really grasp. I feel like I just now begin to understand how time works and how I can work with it, and I’m in my 40s.

I’d be curious about your experience, so please feel free to elaborate.

Thanks, sometimes I need to find these in my feed. My sleep average for the last month was probably under 6 hours per night and I kept pushing. And that’s me who wants to consciously foster degrowth and slowdown. Capitalist brainwashing is not easy to get out of one’s head.

First day off the coffee, and sitting around confused and hungry, and now this bit of information. Well I guess I need to feed myself with real food now. Okay.

I’m undiagnosed spectrumy and used Cannabis in my youth, then stopped for 20 years, and now I’m using it again. Does it change the decisions I take? Absolutely. It does not always coincide with what society thinks is good for me, but really works for how I function. It’s for this and the adaptations I made for myself that I went from being a nervous alienated wreck after optimizing my sober self into total burnout to someone much more grounded and happy.

Just sit on them to find out. If they flatten, no. If they crumble, then yes!

I’ve just planted mine late and therefore have none yet, but they look very healthy and today I found the first small cucumberlings - just a few days more now!

‘mild melon’ thanks for that, made me laugh! Little punk rock soft boy cucumbers. Mine are shy to grow because I’m eyeing them too greedily, knife in hand.

This article doesn’t do much more than argue about the meaning of words. So call it adaptation instead of tolerance, now what?

It can be both. Usually authorities try to evacuate people before the fire approaches too much, but sometimes wind comes up and spreads the fire faster. Some places are very difficult to access, with narrow curvy roads through flammable forest. Sometimes these roads don’t get closed down quickly enough and people get trapped. Mountainous terrain on fire gets chaotic easily.

May this be a fresh and moist summer, may the water stay around and keep us safe!

Edit: What can be done? What has been done here so far is the introduction of stricter rules about cleaning land (lots of brushcutting and mowing, great profits for the fossil fuel industry), and giving more money to fire fighting mechanisms (which introduces a certain tendency to commit arson to get more funds).

I believe we need to repair and shape water retention landscapes in the long term and respect water, soil, and non-human beings as conscious creatures to negotiate the building of these landscapes with. It would be a work of generations and few people are at the moment willing to think that far ahead, it’s always just reacting to the many manifestations of the polycrisis and desperately slapping more technology on top of everything.

I used to be so dismissive of movie villains. ‘Come on, make some effort to create realistic characters! Nobody is possibly going to be this evil in such a tacky over the top way!’