Notices by Ariel Kroon (arielkroon@wandering.shop)

@derek Oh that looks like such a lovely work station!

Anyone have any leads on a retailer of acorn flour in Canada? Like, we have so many oak trees, and I know it was a traditional ingredient for people here. It seems kinda bonkers that the only non-American retailer that I can find is Turkish.

#acorn #AcornFlour #TraditionalFoods #flour #glutenfreeFlour #baking
#oakTrees #oak #trees #HelpMeFindThis

Just a friendly request for my followers and friends to CW posts related to current US politics.

Last time Trump was elected, I ended up having a nervous breakdown because of the bad news firehose and, while I am now off of Twitter (and about to delete FB and Insta), I fear for my mental health and the mental health of countless others (esp young people) over the next few years if history repeats itself (and it looks like it will)...

#AmericanPolitics #USPolitics #USPoli #mentalhealth

Trying to sign in to the #pixelfed app on Android and having a heck of a time getting past the login authorization screen. Any tips? #pixelfedapp #androidapp #android #applogin

In climate conversations lately I feel a bit like Arwen in her first appearance in Fellowship of the Ring, telling Frodo not to give in to the spreading evil infection of the Morgul blade as she works furiously with Aragorn and Sam to make a poultice out of kingsfoil.

Trying to tell people in the midst of climate catastrophe not to give in to despair and doomerism because it will consume their soul as I get my friends and their friends to apply plants to stop the poison... #ClimateDespair

Remember that this is super shitty but there are people out there who know how to use the "magic" of the natural world to mitigate the worst effects of #doomerism enough to get you to a safe place (might be mental, might be physical), where you can recover to the point where you *might* actually decide to tackle the crisis head-on and do the hardest thing in the world.

On that note, have some #solarpunk resources: https://solarpunkpresents.com/2023/02/23/what-is-solarpunk-to-you-anyway/

A bit I didn't include at the end of my #LotR / #climate analogy is that Frodo (or your average person living through #ClimateCollapse) doesn't succumb to the Morgul blade (#doomerism) but he's never the same even after bringing the Ring to Mordor.

Dude has major PTSD, has Seen Things, and can't enjoy life the way he used to. He even tells Sam that he's saved the Shire, but not for him.

Things will never be the same, even after the day has been saved. But things will *be*. And that matters.

This is not the first time I have wanted such a thing as a healthy foods snack cafe; instead of muffins they'd have like, apple slices and crackers with peanut butter; instead of croissants they'd have like, grapes or something.

Hey all, I'm on PixelFed - come join me if you haven't already, and if you're already there, give me a shout at https://pixelfed.social/saintsally

#PixelFed

@bobjonkman @flyingsquirrel Nice! I'll have to bring a container if I wander that way next summer ;)

@flyingsquirrel I had the same thought about mulberries in my area :p

I've been having fun the past couple days checking out and adding to https://beta.fallingfruit.org - an amazing resource for foragers the world over. I'm not adding my fave spots because I selfishly would like to keep them sekrit, mwahaha, and hopefully I'll get over that because seriously, there's wild food in abundance all over the city and this scarcity mindset does nobody any good.

#foraging #forager #FallingFruit #Flora #NativePlants #EdiblePlants #Wildcrafting #WildFood

Mist rises from Lake Huron... (said in the cadence of "Smoke rises from Isengard...)

The finalized schedule for Can*Con is out & I'm VERY excited! Sat am, I'll be a panelist for "Oceans and Coastlines of the Near Future" with Cathy Hird & Mark Robinson & modded by Clare Wall, then I'll mod the Sat pm panel "Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Post-Apocalypse" with Tiffany Morris, Suzan Palumbo, & Waubgeshig
Rice

Hope to see you there!

#SF #sciencefiction #scifi #IndigenousHorror #Ecohorror #PostApocalypse #ClimateChange #Oceans #Coastlines #FutureFiction #Futurism #CanCon24

Friends I might join the Canadian Embroidery Guild.

Hey all, I'm pretty sure I know folks who'd be interested in this ;)

https://workandclimatepoetryanthology.wordpress.com

#poetry #anthology #writing #climate #publishing #PoetryInAWarmingWorld

*Even though there couldn’t be a better time to be an AI expert ... I cannot help but find most of the projects that are hiring to be unexciting, unimaginative, and ultimately unlikely to go anywhere."

https://blog.ryan-chartier.net/blog/2024/07/08/generative-ai-has-no-clothes.html

I am immensely proud of @RyanChartier for putting this together and getting it out there! He has a pretty unique perspective on #generativeAI since he worked in #MachineLearning for a long time.

@academicchatter #DigtalHumanities #ML #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CompSci

Was woken up out of a dead sleep by an emergency alert from the City of Calgary that told me to not shower because there is a water shortage.

First as tragedy, then as farce indeed.

#YYC #WaterShortage #WaterRestrictions #ClimateChange #WaterMainBreak #ThereIsNoWarInBaSingSe

Picked up a bunch of new business cards from Studio Comix Press here in Kitchener. They look so nice!

Got a free trial from a friend to LinkedIn Premium because I was super interested and I am underemployed. Any port in a storm, right?

Having access to an entire library of courses is amazing; what is not is the fact that in my very first course on PM fundamentals the instructor casually mentions that some stakeholders would be opposed because they would lose their jobs.

Like... shouldn't that be cause for an all-team meeting to talk about how to go forward without being a shitty person?