"A community center initially set up to help coal miners respecialize and find other jobs, now became a place for unofficial 'pilgrimages' of people striving to find their role in life and learn the history from those who lived it."

The "community center" solarpunk writing prompt got illustrated by the awesome Lemonaut ! As always, I'm incredibly impressed with their art.

You can listen to the podcast episode about it at https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/the-community-center

I think what the Lemonaut does here is the essence of solarpunk : very intentionally creating new visual and narrative symbols we need to tell stories about our future. No AI could create such a vision.

I love how this one mixes the mundane prospects of looking for a new profession, identity, with the Solarpunk hope.

If you like their work, you can support them at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thelemonaut and read more of their art, including the (recently trending) Solarpunk Story, at https://www.tumblr.com/the-lemonaut/710271433164668928/thats-why-im-looking-into-solarpunk-and-am

US Claims IDF Is Investigating Hind Rajab’s Death, But Aid Group Says It Isn’t

The artist is Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

Original designs done by u/555i and u/roguecache (on reddit)

Combo created by u/CombatantWombatant.

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[Description: A woodblock portrait poster of an older brown-haired mexican woman with a white flower in her hair and a red bandana obscuring her face below her eyes. Text at the above the portrait says "UNA MUJER LUCHANDO" (A woman fighter) and below says "EL FUTURO DE TODAS ESTÁ CAMBIANDO" (The future of everyone is changing)]

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https://cohost.org/roguecache just made a new solarpunk logo; i think it's very well designed and keeps the simplicity while still keeping sun, nature and technology meanings

A steamy water vapor pixel art infographic just dropped 🧖‍♂️

Concept art for Earthen: Dirt Simulator, an upcoming free open-source game about solarpunk gardening & soil life 🌱 https://gitlab.com/vrtxd1/Earthen

• 🌞 Light mode
• 📱 Hand-drawn w/ dotpict
• 🩷 Thanks for all the upvotes and comments
• 🏴‍☠️ License: CC BY Creative Commons Attr. 4.0 Intl. vrtxd
• 🗓️ Tue 8 May 2024

Oxygenic Photosynthesis ☀️ i.e. how most plants use carbon dioxide, water & sunlight to produce carbohydrates & oxygen.

Concept art for Earthen: Dirt Simulator, an upcoming free open-source game about solarpunk gardening & soil life 🌱 https://gitlab.com/vrtxd1/Earthen

• 🌞 Light mode
• 📱 Hand-drawn w/ dotpict
• 🩷 Thanks for all the upvotes and comments
• 🏴‍☠️ License: CC BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International vrtxd
• 🗓️ v 1.0 Sun 8 Jan 2023, v 2.0 Mon 6 May 2024

The Little Trashmaid by s0s2

Another (very quick) take on the caustic soda locomotive concept based on this comment on my last postcard about what a version with swappable boilers might look like.

The idea is that instead of pumping out the caustic soda to dry it, they would instead unbolt and lift off the boiler, probably using an overhead or gantry crane, and replace it with an already-dry one. The dilute one would be inspected, and placed on a concrete containment pad where it could be connected to a solar steam generator, so the superheated steam could dry the caustic soda. This is actually pretty similar to how they apparently did it historically, except using a coal boiler and obviously without removing the boiler from the locomotive.

Ideally, this would be a bit safer as the boiling hot caustic soda would remain contained for the majority of the time, with less risk of spills during the drying process, and the extra boilers and frequent inspections could help prevent corroded parts from disabling a locomotive and stopping a train line. It might even be faster, depending on how complex the hookup process is.

In the end, it’s probably not a whole lot more practical, but I really liked the idea (suggested first by Carrier_Indomitable over on r/trains, and then with some cool visual details by @[email protected] on the last post.

Created by A_Guy195

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From Syria: Erasing an Inconvenient Revolution

By HellYeahAnarchistPosters via alphanerd4

I've also tried with red stars but red on green kinda triggers my astigmatism