arielkroon

arielkroon, 19 days ago to community

This tree-planting initiative from #Woolwich Township in partnership with a bunch of #community orgs and #WaterlooRegion itself is so inspiring!

https://aroundtheregion.ca/dedicated-tree-planters-beautify-rural-roadways-with-22000-trees/

What's that quote about not doubting that a handful of committed people can change things for the better? Maybe this isn't affecting the entire world, but it sure is affecting this corner of it, and hopefully it's inspirational to other municipalities and regions across #Canada

@WaterlooEvents @waterlooregion #HopePunk

arielkroon, 22 days ago to Apocalypse

I wrote an article for Unsustainable Magazine that is based around my dissertation research findings about what it means to wish for systems overhaul. The consequences of that desire are what I consider now in this article. It gets a bit personal; I am embedded within my own specific context and my observations come out of that situation.

https://www.unsustainablemagazine.com/apocalyptic-desire/
@academicchatter #apocalypse #scholarship #academia #desire #AffectTheory #consequences #Theory #theoretical #LiteraryTheory

arielkroon, 29 days ago to solarpunk

Yesterday, I gave a video tour of our current mulch / garden situation and uploaded it to the @solarpunkpresents YouTube. We lay down a bunch of cardboard to smother the unwanted plants in the places we wanted to make gardens, then re-used wood chips that have been sitting out all winter from the old tree in the backyard. If you're interested, check it out!

https://youtu.be/NLCOZw9QgS8

#solarpunk #mulch #gardening #SheetMulching #LasagnaGardening #stumpGrinding #SolarrpunkActionWeek #SPAW

arielkroon, 1 month ago to random

Made a garden box on Thursday! Gonna make three more of these suckers this week, line them, and fill'em up. The last frost date is May 16 and I'm gonna be READY.

arielkroon, 1 month ago to random

Got my COVID booster yesterday and I have spent all day on the couch... I've never reacted so strongly to a booster before! Some powerful mojo in that one, it seems...

arielkroon, 1 month ago to Futurology

Is every #academic research assistant/associate position in the Humanities for graduate students only?! I gotta start looking elsewhere.... wherever that is...

@academicchatter #research #AcademicResearch #FediHire #JobSearching #halp

arielkroon, 2 months ago to Waterloo

At "Seedy Saturday" at the library, put on by the Horticultural Society here. This makes me want badly to be a good gardener, the kind that doesn't just sow seeds and then forget they exist for weeks. My lavender experiment haunts me....

@WaterlooEvents @waterlooregion #kitchener #gardening #seeds

ASCopeland, 3 months ago to random

Any Audio Cultures researchers interested in putting a panel together for @AoIR ?

#SoundStudies #PodcastStudies #DigitalAudio #Digitisation #AIVoice #InternetSoundscapes

arielkroon, 3 months ago to scifi

Hey #SFFWriters and #solarpunks, this mag is soliciting #positive #SciFi from #SFWA members and also other forms of #writing from non-members for their second issue. They also pay rather well (comparatively). http://thenewmodality.com/contributor-commitments-rates-guidelines/

#writing #AmWriting #SF #ScienceFiction #fantasy #poetry #journalism @sffbipoc

lawrenceevalyn, 3 months ago to Wikipedia

For a long time I've been bothered by problems with the Paradise Lost #wikipedia article. Periodically I go try to improve one section or another, but I feel like it needs a group effort. Do I know any Miltonists or #Milton sympathizers interested in a mini editathon?? or Milton haters if you've got the receipts!

(#ParadiseLost? is that a hashtag anyone would use??)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost

arielkroon, 3 months ago to solarpunk

Pretty excited that the Solarpunk Conference Journal is out! I have a paper in it called "Disrupting the present in a positive way: Solarpunk and learning from the past". I'm so happy to see it out, and amongst such fantastic company!

Click the link below to give it a read:

https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:62961/

#solarpunk #TheSolarpunkConference #Journal #ConferenceProceedings @academicchatter #Journal #publication

arielkroon, 4 months ago to random

Second day at the con!

ETA come say hi and be SUPER AWKWARD with me!

arielkroon, 4 months ago to solarpunk

On a related note: hey friends, if you had to describe what #solarpunk is on the space of a single poster board, what would you write?

(I have my own plan for bulleted points, but want to know what you think is most important to get across to con-goers who maybe have never heard of solarpunk before.)

arielkroon, 4 months ago to solarpunk

Next week I'll be at Kitchener Tri-Con at THE MUSEUM - come by and see me! I'll be at a table talking about solarpunk and repping Solarpunk Presents.

#solarpunk @waterlooregion @WaterlooEvents #convention #TriCon #THEMUSEUM

arielkroon, 5 months ago to Cats

Y'all I wrote about my #cats this week for my @solarpunkpresents article bc I'm a hopeless #cat lady and also a chronic overthinker, so of course I'm super conflicted about straight-up owning another living being.

Anyone else feel like this, tho? #Ethics where #pets are concerned are so squishy. I'm glad that the word #kahu exists honestly, shoutout to #Hawaiian people for being mad wise about #relations with non-human #animals.

Thoughts?

http://tinyurl.com/3fac6w59

#solarpunk #solarpunks

arielkroon, 5 months ago to random

Finally have started to listen to Christmas carols / seasonal music to try to force myself into a more festive mood (never mind that I've had Mariah Carey's version of "All I Want For Christmas is You" as my hellish earworm all month; I must have racked up some bad karma earlier).

Anyway, yearly reminder to myself that I am a cranky git who dislikes most post-1947 Christmas-themed media, so I really should stop trying.

arielkroon, 5 months ago to Podcast

Stoked that the #podcast episode on #solarpunk that I recorded with @joey, @hydroponictrash, and @solarpunkcast is live at @podcast

It's a reflection on / continuation of the conversation we started at the #SolarpunkConference last June called "From #CapitalistRealism to Solarpunk #Reality"

If you don't already listen to #TheFireTheseTimes I highly recommend it!

https://thefirethesetimes.com/2023/12/16/from-capitalist-realism-to-solarpunk-realities/

arielkroon, 5 months ago to random

Every year the COP tries to be the Council of Elrond deciding what to do about the Ring (aka fossil fuels), except instead of Boromir, it's Denethor advocating that we need to use it to save/preserve the world as it was, and now he's the host. There are no adults in charge.

arielkroon, 5 months ago to random

Liberating things: saying "I don't actually know yet" cheerfully in response to a question at a conference about a game I was developing. I did this as a first-year PhD and that's a high I won't soon forget. Baffled the older prof asking me too.

arielkroon, 5 months ago to random

Also the woman sitting across the aisle has a stroller and it turns out it is holding a carrier with a bunny inside! She has the bunny out in her arms now. It looks so soft and sweet ...

arielkroon, 5 months ago to random

Finally saw The Batman last night, and my ice-cold take is that I enjoyed watching a sophomore superhero screw up and develop character. It's the same reason I like Spiderman stories: he fails and then learns and gets good. Also kudos to the film for not beating the dead horse of backstory. I feel like I watched a superhero origin film without it being a superhero origin film. If that makes sense.