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(Low Barrier of Entry) Ways to Live a Solarpunk Lifestyle

I wanna start foraging, especially because it's mulberry season where I live, but my tiny apartment kitchen is tiny, and I don't have nearly enough space for all the gear to preserve the foods, nor the freezer space. What I need is a community kitchen, where I can borrow space and equipment. Shit, I might need to start another post on the community kitchens and/or their being analogous to tool libraries and communal workshop space.

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Earliest 'true' saddle in east Asia discovered

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In the interest of horse-girl infodumping, I recall seeing some at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK, and luckily they have some pics for their online collection, thank you Gilcrease.

This one is the one I remembered offhand, with a high pommel and cantle (turns out it's not Cherokee): https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/84987

Here's one that used antler for the pommel and cantle, which I thought was neat: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/84984

This one actually has stirrups, looks like the girth attachments are more sophicated than my Dunning-Kruger ass imagined, but the stirrup leathers are, in fact, looped over each of the wooden bars: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/84985

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nature calendar

This is the kind of thing I think about to get the useful bits out of the "touch grass" meme.

Unfortunately I'm not very good at it and time isn't real until the stores put out the commercialized holiday crap: It's only really summer when the 4th of July kitsch is put out on the shelves. It sucks and I want to be better about it.

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Star Trek: Prodigy has been cancelled 😭

I don't have access to it, but I was so looking forward to a Trek with an actual planned story arc. Plus I'm also young enough to have a sentimental attachment to Voyager despite later figuring out that liking it as an adult means sifting out the good bits among a sea of cringe and wtf. Why can't the Maquis wear clothes that don't look fished out of a swampy dumpster? Why can't they figure out Chakotay (and what fucken tribe he's from)? Why are they so lazy as to always fall back on foiling Tuvok and Neelix? The kid could be annoying but at least we got to see a different, enjoyable side of Neelix.

I have good intentions about writing my own fixfic about Voyager, but I'm already negligent about my writing hobby.