#we live in a society

[alpaca-clouds]

Solarpunk and the Third Place

Let's talk about third places. It is a topic that has been brought up in a lot of Solarpunk and leftwing places have brought up during the last few months. Andrewism has made a video on it for example. And given that during the last few weeks I actually made a lot of use of third places, I thought I also could talk a bit more about it.

See, I have spoken about this: Due to my roommate just being very hard to live with right now, I kinda fled my home. (Which yes, is due to her mental health, but that does not make it any better for me.) And basically I just looked into: Where the hell could I spend my time?

And then I remembered the thing that I did throughout my youth: Hang out at gaming stores and, well, play games. I did that a lot for so long, given it is often a place for nerds to gather. And yeah, what can I say? It still works.

Heck, I found even someone who plays Digimon Cards with me.

But of course we do know - again it has been discussed a lot - that in recent times a lot of third places have either been erased, or the way we live have stopped the third places to work the way they used to work like this.

Let's quickly go over what a third place is: A third place is a place where you can hang out and get to know people. A place distinct from the place you live and the place you work in (or school, for students). Stuff like a park, a café, a library... things like that. Places that encourage you to interact with new people and start conversations.

Recently those places have been destroyed a lot. Partly because a lot of them have become hard to afford (especially on a regular basis), partly because they have become shut down, and partly because our culture actually does no longer encourage interacting with strangers.

And, I mean. Yeah. Parks are counted among third places, but honestly, I cannot remember that I actually interacted with a stranger in a park. If a stranger talks to me, I am afraid they are a creep. And if I see someone I think I could get along with, I do not dare to talk to them.

The fact that most of us run around glued to our electric devices (I am counting myself there as well) does not help this fact, right? If I am sitting in a café, I am usually working on my laptop, which will make it less likely that folks interact with me. And, of course, my autistic self will also not do that in turn.

Solarpunk both as a genre and a vision for the future is very much build around the idea of community and working together as a community. And for that we need third places in Solarpunk futures. Places that are easily accessible and that people can just go to to talk to people.

But more than that, Solarpunk also needs a society and social rules that actually allow for folks to interact with each other, talk to each other and ask each other for help and stuff.

Sure, there also need to be safe and silent spaces for people with needs like that (including autistic folks like me). And really... Frankly, I would not know how to talk with someone outside a nerd context, lol.

#solarpunk #lunarpunk #third places #community #community building #cooperation #hang out #parks #society #we live in a society #social life

[skshark]

#196 #r196 #rule #r/196 #196archive #ruleposting #silly #we live in a society #bottom text

[disease]

a collection of “potato chips shaped like hearts” ranging from $900–$7,000 currently on eBay...

#we live in a society #consumerism #absurdism #lol #junk food #eBay #u

[unbidden-yidden]

If you ever need a quick cure for the disease of American individualism, pick up an item - any essential item in your house (food, clothing, medicine, etc.) and consider all of the labor it took to make this one item. Not just creating the item, but creating the raw materials to make the item, gathering them in one place, creating all the equipment necessary to manufacture the materials, shipping equipment to gather them, and then making the item itself. Think about the hours of labor, the many skills and many hands that went into making this one singular item, so that you could have it in your house to eat or to wear or to use. How long would it take you, as one person, to not only learn the necessary skills to grow and gather the raw materials and make the equipment, but to also then make this individual item? And what if it's a recurring item that you need daily, like food or medicine or clean water?

Now pick up another kind of item.

#we live in a society

[coldasyou]

16 TRACKS??????

#we live in a society #personal

[thepeacefulgarden]

Self-care is great, but the truth is, it only goes so far.

#kindness #compassion #community care #you matter #family #friendship #found family #we live in a society #activism fatigue #compassion fatigue

[mojang-officialer]

watching a minecraft youtuber and they're sponsored by a fucking law firm????????????

#we live in a society

[protectionsquad24601]

Sherlock Holmes, despite being one of the most adapted characters in media, is almost always characterized differently than in the source material. Despite having a habit of unnerving people with his deductions, and his distaste for the police force, Sherlock Holmes is canonically good at reassuring people, gets along amicably with clients, and has an affectionate relationship with Watson. However, he is almost always adapted to be extremely stoic and unable to interact with people in a regular fashion, as is a common trope with genius characters. Whether being smart but socially inept is a caricature of Savant Syndrome or a result of an effort to create flaw in a character whose skills were not balanced out with much deficit, it is clear that Sherlock Holmes has been the subject of much transformation in the public consciousness, straying from the envisioning of Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle. Is this modified personality better, creating a more well-rounded and interesting character? Or, does it instead stereotype and boil down the traits that, left alone, made Sherlock Holmes the quintessential star of detective fiction, restorting to trite and digestible cliché? In this essay I will

#sherlock holmes #sir arthur conan doyle #john watson #we live in a society #is this a joke? #i dont know anymore #sherlock #lil analysis for yall

[seasononesam]

Stackednatural- 243/327

Ladies Drink Free (12x16) March 30th, 2017

#supernatural #spn #claire novak #dean winchester #sam winchester #spnedit #supernaturaledit #stackednatural23 #* #we live in a society

[watcher0033]

They fucking know it. 😭❤️‍🩹

#oscars #oscars 2023 #angela bassett #she is THE QUEEN #SHE DESERVED THAT WIN #SHE HAS BEEN ROBBED #michael b jordan #jonathan majors #black panther wakanda forever #black panther #poc #Hollywood #we live in a society

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

Merry: the world is wrong on a deeply fundamental level unrelated to the status of its truthfulness or the nature of its individual elements.

Renko: the world is incorrect, we could fix society if we just explained things properly

Sumireko, ruining her sleep schedule: Reimu is my favorite Touhou character, she's just so [wildly incorrect assessment of Reimu, who is this actual person she knows in real life] [is somehow the most well-adjusted member of the Hifuu Club]

#shenanigans #touhou #hifuu club #nobilis #glitch rpg #excrucian #excrucians #maribel hearn #renko usami #sumireko usami #reimu hakurei #we live in a society

[homosexualslug]

when you and your friends are joking about how there's going to be a mattel cinematic universe now after barbie was so successful only to realize that's exactly what has already been in the works for the last few years

note: blumhouse is thankfully no longer attached to this one

#WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY #I hope all of these all die in development hell #but especially the polly pocket one #barbie #barbie movie #mattel films #mattel cinematic universe #barbie 2023 #hot wheels #american girl #polly pocket #major matt mason #also it's not under mattel films but worth noting that there was a GI crossover in the last transformers movie #.txt

[repairpasta]

I hope all people who had to be the Harley Quinn to someone's "omg I'm literally the joker" find their Poison Ivy

#poison ivy #harley quinn #im da joker baby #we live in a society #harlivy

[bonithica-art]

some more beatles drawings

#nobody liked my jeremy and blue meanie ship fanart #0 likes for jeremy and chief meanie 82 likes for mclennon #we live in a society #the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #art #fanart #60s #lennon mccartney

[mbrainspaz]

people might be like "you waste like 4 hours a day scrolling tumblr and sometimes tiktok, why do you hate reels so much?"

well ya see, reels™™™ from "meta™" are a collection of completely uncultivated mindless gibberish content infested with rage bait ghouls that's constantly being thrust into my face on two platforms where I have worked for years to cultivate my experiences. On instagram I followed only artists I liked in order to see their art. On facebook I wanted to see posts from people I actually know, and nothing else. Meta hates that because I'm not CONSUMING enough CONTENT. Not clicking enough Links. Not interacting with enough brandsss.

In barges Reels with its endless stream of drivel about random bullshit like funny horse videos and celebrity drama. Do I watch videos like that on tiktok? Absolutely, and the crucial difference is that I went to tiktok and intentionally cultivated an algorithm that would give me content that I wanted to see when and where I wanted to see it. I wasn't tricked into going down a braindead video funnel by clickbait. I continuously and consciously cultivate my tiktok algorithm with a reasonable degree of success. Meanwhile Reels is over on the sidelines sobbing, begging me to click just ONE VIDEO PLEASE GODS JUST CLICK ONE! I refuse to be suckered in to watching some hour long rage bait video about ice cream in a toilet like 45 million other idiots. Like my aunt from Indiana who had to let the world know that she knows not to eat ice cream out of a toilet.

I wish I could set Reels™ on fire and feed it to wild dogs.

#social media #reels can burn in hell forever thanks #we live in a society #old people on facebook #facebook shenanigans #big tech bullshit #mindless media drones #rage against the machines #the robot uprising is upon us #personal problems #rant

[whereserpentswalk]

My classics professor said "we live in a society" word for word (English is not her first language) today, and also mentioned having a crush on a lotr character. She may be one of the best teachers I have ever had.

#196 #my thougts #classics #classic #college #we live in a society #lotr