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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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solar concrete kiln design questions (slrpnk.net)

This might be a bit of a reach but I’m wondering if anyone here knows enough about concrete production to help me plan the layout of my next photobash. I’d like to do a scene of a solar-thermal concrete factory – there are several supposedly in the works, like Synhelion’s new partnership with Cemex, funded by the US DoE,...

Scrappy Capy Distro just released a new anarchist fiction zine called Harbour (one of my stories is in it) (en.scrappycapydistro.info)

Scrappy Capy Distro has released the first issue of Harbour, an anarchist literary journal. It has 7 pieces from 6 authors, poets, and artists. You can download it for free online, or get it on paper if you happen to live in Berlin and know the anarchist scene there....

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Awesome! I hope it helps! Best of luck

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Sorry about that, does this work better?

uploads.slrpnk.net/upload/…/EWdFU9F.jpg

…slrpnk.net/…/i-made-a-chart-of-spices-and-their-…

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Whoops, this should be higher rez, didn’t realize movim was compressing it

mega.nz/file/mR8iGbII#fVw3lCzdpxsyp60cOl50-HO93sY…

And the pdf version is available here: …files.wordpress.com/…/spice_list_printable.pdf

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Thanks, glad you like it!

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These sound amazing and I’m definitely saving this recipe!

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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…

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I’m kinda glad I don’t have time at the moment to get obsessed with a new topic (though it’s lurking in my future now) - this is really cool. I used to mess around with RTLSDR stuff, this looks like it’ll scratch the same itch and possibly be more useful. Meshnets seem like a wonderful solarpunk technology and I really look forward to seeing where this’ll go.

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I look forward to seeing it!

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Thanks!

[Art] Cyberpunk City by Artur Sadlos (lemmy.zip)

I know posting cyberpunk artwork is the quickest way to get those precious upvotes, but I don’t like posting random art for no reason. I’d rather find an actual artist’s work that happens to be cyberpunk than some AI-generated thing or someone who spent an hour learning Blender and posted the results. Of course, sometimes...

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This is the most elaborate photobash I’ve ever seen. Huge scope but the details fit together so carefully. The layout and colors are excellent

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I will admit I wasn’t thrilled to see the ISA, but mostly put it off to the cyberpunk origins of the game (I think Shadow run has a similar region).

I don’t think the Confederacy had anything worth trying again, but I also get that there’s a lot of lore and glamorization around it that’ll mean there’ll always be someone who thinks it’s worth a second try.

I’ve also been only been in a few parts of that region a few times. I know it’s a diverse area with a lot of history and complexity and that opinions are all over the place. I’m skeptical you can discuss/conduct secession in the American south without dragging the lost cause mythos and it’s inherent racism and revisionism along with it. So even if people from all groups were largely in favor of secession, I’m uncertain as to how much confederate branding end up being included, especially in a more solarpunk world. It’s another of those things I don’t feel qualified to write about. I just don’t know the people well enough.

I think what I’d really like is to find a few people from the area with a different vision for what a solarpunk southeast could look like, and to break the sort of Confederacy default attached to the place.

All of that said, I think this is fairly mild and leaves room for changes in future drafts. I’d almost prefer a handwavy ‘the US broke up during the Global Climate Wars’ and we can add to it in future editions but I’m not against what’s here either.

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Ten years is a long time but I appreciate their ambition

[Anime] Megazone 23 - I'm not sure about this one... (lemmy.zip)

Megazone 23 is a 3-part OVA (each episode being over an hour) made in 1985-89. I’ve seen it included in cyberpunk anime lists as being a classic 80s cyberpunk, along with Cyber City Oedo 808. But I don’t see it. I guess it’s somewhat cyberpunk, but nothing compared to Cyber City Oedo 808....

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Oh man, I had this on my list of cyberpunk animes to watch every since it was mentioned on the post about Streets of Fire influencing cyberpunk. I got my SO and the friend we watch TV with every week to watch the first episode with me.

They refuse to watch the rest. It’s amazing and really bad and I have to know what happens next. (At least it’s given me some bargaining power since I can always offer it as a condition when we’re negotiating the next show to watch).

It’s just baffling all around - when the girl the main character likes is gonna hook up with another guy he uses the mech to explode through the wall and grab her and carry her off like fuckin king kong, and somehow that’s okay? They discover that all of the world is just their city, a simulation on a spaceship so the plot shifts to them deciding to use the rest of the spaceship for filming a low budget movie? He’s on the run from the military and escapes into the computer core, so the lead guy is like, don’t shoot in there, use your beam swords (or something like that) and all the mechs suddenly draw light sabers.

Who even is the military? They dress and act like a conventional earth military during the coup but apparently they’ve been fighting the spaceship for control - do they answer to anyone? They don’t appear to be from this level, they’re fighting their way upwards(?). And they know there’s another ship they need to fight soon, so they’ve wisely decided to shoot their own ship up first so the enemy can’t, I guess?

It’s a trip and I really should pick it up again.

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That makes a lot of sense!

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Good to know. I looked it up around when I asked and it looks like there’s a couple websites in the US you can try to opt out on but one requires a SSN and a fee, so I’m skeptical.

Caustic Soda Locomotive at a Drying Station (slrpnk.net)

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....

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This is really cool, thank you for taking the time to model your design, it really helps me picture it, and it seems like there’s some good advantages there in smaller modular units being easier to lift off, and capable of higher pressure.

I copied an original soda locomotive design, where the water boiler is inside the larger tank of caustic soda:

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/78a75704-ebfb-4115-b820-671757926019.webp

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/85d76fac-e23f-42cf-a909-c80388c3c595.webp

The soda heats the water, releasing steam, which is run in pipes back and forth through the boiling tank and soda tank to further heat it, then driven through the pistons, before being condensed and released into the outer vessel to produce more heat.

I like the idea of pushing the design choices further, mixing in electric motors etc.

The good news is the canisters of soda don’t need to be lifted into the focal point of the solar concentrator. Historically at least it sounds like they often connected them to an external (coal) boiler and pipes superheated steam through to dry them. It seems to me these could use a similar setup with a hookup leading to something like this: inhabitat.com/…/concentrated_solar/

That should lower the labor amount a bit, and make for safer work.

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I absolutely love lowtechmagazine! I haven’t read the others so I’ll check them out, thank you very much!

Unsupported Acer Chromebook Repurposed as Linux Writing Laptop (imgur.com)

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...

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Just wanted to let you know I got Alpine installed on the spare and it’s running great! It’s small enough to fit just on the built in storage chip - even with Mate, udisks2, and other creature comforts, wavemaker cards (sort of a web app scrivener clone) and libreoffice-writer it’s still got 7 gigs free. Plus it’s fast enough to have both writing tools and a web browser open at the same time without lagging. I’m impressed.

I’ve got some old old laptops which I saved because they’re physically in great shape, but too weak to run almost anything modern. I’ll see if this’ll work for them next.

Thanks for the recommendation!

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