JacobCoffinWrites

One of my goals for my postcard series is to show a rebuilding society that prioritizes reducing waste and externalities, and examining what weird technologies might appeal to them because of those goals/limitations. So I’ve been wanting to do a scene of a caustic soda locomotive ever since I first heard about them....

Soda locomotives saw very limited use, and though I’ve found some awesome photos and descriptions thanks to the research of enthusiasts online, I haven’t really found anything describing what exactly the process of draining the probably-boiling-hot caustic slop from the locomotive and refilling it with water and fresh...

Apologies if this doesn’t fit the community...

I’m not sure why but I’ve always found the Civil Defense to be really cool, and I often try to work it into my stories in one form or another (though none of those have been published yet). When I was helping with reorganizing FA!’s box text on the military, I thought it’d be a good addition....

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/7767375...

I love systems that turn a problem into an asset. It’s the kind of balanced improvement we’re almost taught is impossible. So cities capturing storm water, effectively turning floodwater into drinking water they can use by allowing it to filter back down into the aquifer, seems like a great move. Especially when it comes...

Something neat I’ve discovered - you can repost the content of your movim blog straight into a lemmy post and it’s all compatible, uses the same markup. I’ll repost all this to imgur as a backup at some point but for now this is awesome....

These books (the first three, at least, skip the bonus fourth one) are a lot of fun. I come back to them now and then when I want a comfortable read and I’m always surprised by how good they are....

This is my second step-by-step post using our local movim microblog platform rather than imgur. I’ve also done an imgur post as a backup but I’m seriously impressed with movim, very glad to have a noncorporate place to centralize my projects. Let me know if there’s any issue with the link....

I’m not sure if this is a good fit for this community, but I’ve read enough to know there are some very knowledgeable folks here, so I thought I’d give it a shot. Feel free to remove if it’s off topic/too specific....

This is my first step-by-step post using our local movim microblog rather than imgur. I’ll upload it to imgur later as a backup but I’m seriously impressed with movim, very glad to have a noncorporate place for my projects. Let me know if there’s any issue with the link....

This is I think the third time in my life I’ve made a character sheet for a tabletop RPG so I’ve probably messed something up, but I thought I’d share it just the same. I tried to focus on making someone who is good at fixing and making things, and who only has some basic recreational sport fighting knowhow which he’d be...

I think this one is a pretty safe recommendation. I found it on a list of protocyberpunk stories a few years ago, and it looks like it shows up on similar lists fairly often, but I think it better qualifies just as early cyberpunk. It was published a month after Neuromancer, and Shiner thanks Gibson and Sterling for their help...

This is the last of my crossposts, I’m writing up a new book recommendation right now. cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/1381483...

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/14508843...

Another post I made back on Cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social and am cross-posting from:slrpnk.net/post/963170...

Cross-posting this recommendation I made back on Cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social from: slrpnk.net/post/1483143 because it’s still a good read and I’m not sure how well known it is....

One of my hobbies is fixing up old furniture to give away. This one was interesting because I was able to combine two pieces of damaged furniture to produce something decent....

My SO’s company handles food. Sometimes that food goes bad. In this case, they got a whole shipment of milk days away from its expiration date (at which point they can’t serve it, and local food pantries very sensibly won’t accept it). Luckily, they’re not committed to dumping it down the drain, and they’ll let us take...

The picture shows a sticker with an orange fox drawn on it, sort of poking up from the bottom left corner. The fox has a green bandana. The fox’s speech bubble says “a tasty sandwich will fix me

I’ve really enjoyed reading about people’s ideas for solarpunk cities over the last few months, and even making some designs of my own while working on my photobashes....

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/6072301...

One of my hobbies is fixing up ewaste laptops and giving them away. I actually do lots of ewaste electronics, from TVs to space heaters, but the laptops are where I put in the most work. Some are new, intact, and ready to go with nothing more than a OS reset. Others have had parts removed or damaged, and need more work. Most of...

I’ve seen some discussion, mostly over on Mastodon, about whether solarpunk games should include violence. They make the case that we already devote too much headspace to killing, and believe that solarpunk should be held above that, as a space to think about alternatives....