Notices by Linda Woodrow (lindawoodrow@mastodon.social)

The baby quails are hatching! They are so tiny and vulnerable, those eggs are the size of a cherry, you wonder how they ever survive. #retrosuburbia #permaculture

@LeftistLawyer Wonderful article. Quotable bit for me - "The rich aren’t building bunkers because of Covid-19. They’re building them, perhaps, because of global warming. Or, perhaps mass insurrection. Maybe an asteroid? The point being, those society deems most worthy of attaining the holy grail of self-actualization feel, deep in their bones, that one butterfly flapping its wings in just the right place and time will bring this entire charade to the ground."

#WritersCoffeeClub 24/1: How long is the longest story you’ve ever written? Can you link to it? My solarpunk/hopepunk novel. Near-future realist climate fiction, way too many of its plotlines appearing in the news. https://www.lindawoodrow.com/

I don't 100% agree with this, but the 90% I agree with is insightful. https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/why-i-remain-optimistic

My #OptOut #SpendingStrike post today is about what we in Australia call "mates rates". It means, you know someone who can do the job or lend you the tools, give you advice, teach you how to do it, for cash or barter or 'you owe me one' or even 'what goes around comes around'. I'm bad at it - I'm a massive introvert, but my partner chats to neighbours, dog walkers, anyone, lets them know what he has and can do, finds out what they have and can do, none of it transactional, relationship building.

@itzyg Who sends immigration to raid a primary school?! I'm in Australia. This just seems incomprehensible.

@RustedComputing https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34290981

Btreakfast. Homemade Greek yoghurt with homegrown banana, passionfruit, gudgin syrup. #FromTheGarden #retrosuburbia #permaculture

Nice little haul of mushrooms from our mushroom logs today. What shall I cook with them? #fromthegarden #recipes

@LifeTimeCooking I worry about this.Some things that have been central in my life are permaculture, feminism, science, history, art.Mollison called permaculture "revolution disguised as gardening".The feminist saying "the personal is political" is part of my life story.My thesis is about storytelling climate science as a novel.I find Anzac stories profound. Beyond party politics, what to call politics & what to call ethics, stories, science, how to be a good human, is not always obvious to me.

@k8izwrite You might find it useful to start out following hashtags like #writing #writers #writingcommunity

@k8izwrite I'm a writer, solarpunk fiction and permaculture non-fiction, and I teach teachers of vocational eduction.

If you're in Victoria (Au) in April, I'm on the program, with author of "The Rewilding" Donna Cameron, in a talk about imaginingour way into degrowth and sustainability in a rapidly collapsing world. Blurb says "Learn how they integrated the actualities of off-grid living within page-turning plot lines grounded in realities that are sadly all too possible. Why is fiction a more powerful vehicle to help people imagine another kind of life?" Should be great fun. #solarpunk https://www.offgridevent.com.au/talksprogram

Ripe ladyfingers we're eating now (but the rest have ripened all at once, so banana cake time), ripening Thai (I think) bananas and the silver bag in the background is a huge bunch of Cavs just about ready. Two more bunches of ladyfingers, one Cav and one Phillipino coming on. Feel rich. #permaculture #retrosuburbia

@chrisamoody @FediThing There are whole sm pages devoted to baby invented words, and people find them charming. Not just their own babies'. Because they are so often not gibberish, but exactly perfect encapsulations of an idea.

@chrisamoody @FediThing No. The human just beginning to talk is having such original thoughts, they *often* have to invent words.

@dcdeejay @jeffjarvis Ownership overlaps but does not guarantee control, not of such massive amorphous bodies as "the public". It's a bit like herding cats, or chickens. Building people's defenses against disinformation might be a tactic. Make us un-herd-able.

@mattcomi Oh, as a lover of words, I think this is so terrible. So many nuances, connotations, intertextuality lost. As a lover of good editing (and microfiction) I can see the glory in three word communication. But an LLM can't do it. Yet. Ever.

My #OptOut #SpendingStrike post today is about line drying clothes. A friend tells me that in US this was just not done, would draw complaints from neighbours when she lived in US 30 years ago. Is this still so? I love the smell of line dried sheets, and sun is such a good disinfectant, and driers are such energy sucking short lived appliances. It's a wet day here, but still, the clothes will at worst get another rinse in sweet smelling, soft rain water.

@curmudgeonaf Yes, this research is a bit more sophisticated version of that. With some nice modelling and numbers. Maybe skip right through to the conclusion first, then go back to see how the modelling shows it. " The question of how much production is necessary to end poverty cannot be answered by assessing PPP-based incomes or aggregate GDP. It is necessary to assess what is being produced, and whether people have access to necessary goods and services.