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JacobCoffinWrites

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I write science fiction, draw, paint, photobash, do woodworking, and dabble in 2d videogames design. Big fan of reducing waste, and of building community

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To be honest, I don’t think I plan to do anything else with this project, but I still have the libreoffice document with selectable text and I’m happy to share it if you or anyone wants to use it to make something new.

mega.nz/file/edcmEAbA#EPFIg2YGU0e9L_SjVp6UT-Q6dMb…

Introductions and Drill Press Repair (imgur.com)

Hi! I’m Jacob, it looks like I’m going to be taking over as mod for this community. It looks like the original intent was to celebrate/talk about repairing stuff/the right to repair stuff, and perhaps the intersection of tech and solarpunk ideals and how to mix them. I’m a big believer in using what we have, including...

One Button Sound Recorder made from spare parts (slrpnk.net)

My grandmother recently lost her vision. She wanted a sound recorder so she could continue writing/recording her stories, but she’s never been comfortable with computers or small electronics, even when she could see them. One of the features she really wanted was automatic transcription voice to text. But all the voice...

Airship Transporting Grain - Postcard from a Solarpunk Future (imgur.com)

A quick one based on u/Sam-Nales’s comment about combining airship mooring masts with screw conveyors/screw elevators similar to those used by grain silos on my last post over on reddit. I talked it over with the folks on the farming community: slrpnk.net/post/3643695 and feel like there’s a definite place for grain and...

Picture frame made from salvaged wood (movim.slrpnk.net)

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....

Question: what would infrastructure for caustic soda locomotives look like if they had seen mainstream use?

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...

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This would lend itself to stencils pretty well though (one color, no islands), especially with a touch of spray adhesive on the back. I’ve done the symbol from one of the more common solarpunk flags, and getting the blank spot inside the gear positioned would be a little finicky if doing graffiti.

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/3a521645-6068-461f-93f4-26f6dbd8749c.webp

You’d want to bridge the corners there, to make it all one piece, if you wanted to be able to put it up quickly. I was just painting a laptop so I had plenty of time to fuss with it.

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/3988f2f2-78c3-4634-bdc0-4f1fd4977002.webp

Rubber Scraper/Spatula handle replacement (imgur.com)

For the last few years I’ve been keeping the parts of any tools or kitchen implements that break with the intent to fix them. We had a rubber scraper/rubber spatula that snapped where the plastic handle thinned to fit inside the rubber head. The actual spatula part was still good, so I turned a new handle for it....

How do you envision Solarpunk Music?

Am curious if Solarpunk music is a thing or not yet? If it is please do share some links to tracks to check out, am very cruious. If it isnt a thing yet, what type of music do you imagined it would be like? I found this on the Tubes, which is very relaxing, ambiance type of music. This is personally the type of music I have in...

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Lots of folk punk type music, stuff drawing it’s roots from old protest songs, union songs, revolutionary stuff.

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I’m pretty psyched and I’ve only been on the team for a few months - how long have you been working on this, if you go back to its earliest versions?

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It’s a tabletop role playing game - like a solarpunk scifi version of DnD (or the TTRPG of your pick). The rulebook and other resources available there enable people to play it. Specifically it helps one individual (the GM) run their own campaigns/games, by giving them a suggested set of rules and a vibrant setting they can use all or some of (or just take inspiration from), and it helps the rest of a group of players to create characters and interact with the setting. Together they do a sort of collective storytelling.

In the broader scope of what it does, hopefully it helps people who aren’t super familiar with solarpunk and it’s associated philosophies and movements to imagine a better world, other ways we could do things as a society.

Looking for advice on turning a mountain bike into a cargo bike

I’ve been riding the same Gary Fisher Hoo Koo E Koo Mountain Bike since my uncle found it in a sandpit and gave it to me to ride while away on my first internship. It was in somewhat rough shape back then, and it’s kind of the bicycle of Thesius at this point as parts failed and I found ways to replace them....

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That definitely adds a lot of length to the back! I think I see these on the bike path sometimes but didn’t realize its an add-on rather than a custom-built bike. I’d been thinking when my SO and I have kids in a few years, we’d get one of those cargo bikes with the big wheelbarrow bucket on the front, where kids or probably another adult or groceries can ride. But I’ve never ridden either version - do the ones with the cargo in the front handle worse? Are there other tradeoffs?

I like his electric bike conversion. I’m brand new to anything more than the most absolute basic bicycle maintenance (this bike’s rear derailer was held together with zip ties at one point), so I hadn’t waded in to electric bike options and tradeoffs yet. I’ve heard they’re a huge game changer and an improvement on cars in the kind of built-up areas where I live. I’d figured I’ll set this one up for some cargo capacity, then sort of feel out what I want once I’ve been using it a bit.

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That’s good to know! My SO’s bike has a basket, and I was surprised at how much of a difference it made. I found myself using her bike more than mine last year. For stuff like hauling groceries, would it be better to use saddlebags over the rear rack?

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The bike has rear mounting points but the type of bike racks that seem to be designed to use them claim lower weight limits. There are others that wrap around the seat post and rear fork.

Like this one claims to be able to support 310lbs

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/7440b817-eced-4039-ac5d-a801f36ceff8.webp

Would the frame of the bike and the wheel able to take that? Is the weight made up?

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This is great info, thanks for taking the time to write it out! I didn’t even notice the front rack at first, does the handlebar basket just latch on to the rack? I think this (minus the trailer for now) makes a lot of sense for me

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This is awesome advice, thank you! I bought a rear rack and some cable housing (I’m worried the rear derailer cable will scrape on the rack mountings). I’m going to start with the rear rack and panniers.

My front fork is some kind of chunky mountain bike built-in-shocks thing and I’m not sure there’s a way to mount a front rack to it, but I’ll try to figure something out once the rear one is set up. Failing that, I’ll look for one of those handlebar baskets.

I figure I’ll start small, see if this is useful, and add capacity as I go.

Thanks again!

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Thank you!

Need inspiration on why someone powerful might commit crimes even in a solarpunk society? The Swindled podcast goes in-depth on a wide range of white-collar crimes (swindledpodcast.com)

I’ve been thinking about campaigns and discussing possible plotlines with my SO, and while we were talking about options for investigations and the reasons people might commit crimes even in a solarpunk society where everyone has enough, and they reminded me of this podcast which focuses on white collar crimes, their impacts...

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Eat off frisbees

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I wonder if all that airborne grit effects the windmills. Just the same, I’m glad for any green energy progress

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