Christoph Rupprecht

When Statues Become Fathers - STREET ART UTOPIA Explore how a Swedish campaign creatively uses statues to highlight the importance of equal parenting and challenge traditional gender roles.

https://streetartutopia.com/2025/11/23/when-statues-become-fathers-creative-street-art-on-equal-parenting/

A collection of intricately designed ceramic pottery, including a teapot and several mugs, showcasing various warm colors and geometric patterns. The pottery is arranged on a neutral brown background.

TGIF! I just finished writing up my newsletter that will go out tomorrow and I started it by mentioning that my pieces for this month’s collection had to share kiln space with a fair number of pieces by kids & students as well as my larger sculptural […]

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@futurebird Not sure I could use the web without adblock…

Minority influence: how can degrowth step up? A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth: ecosocialism vs. horizontalism.

Thanks to @postcarboninstitute for republishing our piece on resilience org:
Minority influence: how can degrowth step up? - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-10-30/minority-influence-how-can-degrowth-step-up/
#degrowth #ProspectsForDegrowth

“I mean, I could come up with more. It’s everywhere. You literally worry that your kid is going to be beaten up or killed.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/as-told-to/a-mother-and-her-trans-teen-decide-to-leave-the-us
#transgender #parenting #usa

Meme en dos paneles. Capturas de ROUGE ONE. Panel 1: Krennik pregunta "¿una cuenta de Mastodon? ¿En serio? ¿Un hombre de tu talento?" Panel 2: Galen Erso responde: "es una vida tranquila."

#Mastodon #quietlife

Why the fuck is it okay for the Japanese news to echo language in the talking points about the 外国人問題

Language matters. Talk about the over-tourism problem, or the international driver’s liscense conversion problem, or even the immigration problem.

Issues are problems. People are not a fucking […]

"I'm a naturalized US citizen."
"Born in USA"
"My family came to the US 200 years ago."
"3 generations served in the US Army."
"We have always been a Christian family"
"I have no disabilities or mental illnesses"
"I am employed, own my home."
"I'm not gay, trans or interested in vintage […]

An incomplete list of people excluded from 'international' conferences that are in-person only and aren't streamed or recorded
- People with caring responsibilities
- People with disabilities
- People with health vulnerabilities
- People who don't fly in recognition of climate emergencies
- […]

I missed last month's #solarpunk essay from @AndrewDanaHudson , but I think the 10-year-check-in is a worthy read:

https://www.solarshades.club/p/the-political-dimensions-of-solarpunk10

The world has changed. Solarpunk influenced it, even without a single Masterpiece. We are continuing to […]

外国人を人間扱いすべきかどうか、簡単に議論の余地あり案件になりますね

From: @www3_nhk_or_news
https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/@www3_nhk_or_news/114819555113585895

Just found the weather machines that are making all the hurricanes, wildfires, and heatwaves worse

I am proud to present you with an interview with an incredible @adapalmer straight from this year #Bazyliszek convention, now available as a #solarpunkPrompts special! […]

Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation

Two white Astrantia major flowers, commonly known as Greater Masterwort, set against a blurred background of green foliage. The upper flower is in full bloom, showcasing its intricate structure. It has numerous slender, pointed white bracts that radiate outwards like petals, with a slight hint of green at their tips, particularly visible on the underside. At the center of the flower, there's a dense cluster of tiny, tightly packed florets, predominantly white with some light green and a touch of yellow or light brown at their very core. The background is a soft, out-of-focus blur of various shades of green.

Greater Masterwort

#BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography

Reporter: How did the Israelis treat you, we saw them giving sandwiches? Greta Thunberg: They probably have posted lots of PR stunts, they did an illegal act by kidnapping us in international waters but that’s not the real story here. The real story is the genocide in Gaza and systematic starvation. Reporter: Are you worried about the others? Greta: Yes…I’m calling for everyone who can to mobilize to demand their immediate release and, of course, to demand not only humanitarian aid being let into Gaza but also a ceasefire and most importantly an end to the occupation, an end to the systemic oppression and violence that Palestinians are facing on an everyday basis. Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?” Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”

This is how.

Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

Microsoft has blocked emails with the words “Palestine,” “Gaza,” and “Genocide” in the subject line or in the body of the message from being sent to recipients both inside and outside the company. 🫠

https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email

𝗘𝗡 | The challenges digitalisation brings to peasant agroecology : https://www.eurovia.org/publications/ecvc-position-on-digitalisation 𝗘𝗦 | Los retos de la digitalización para la agroecologia campesina : https://www.eurovia.org/es/publicaciones/los-retos-de-la-digitalizacion-para-la-agroecologia-campesina 𝗙𝗥 | Les défis de la numérisation pour l’agroécologie paysanne : https://www.eurovia.org/fr/publications/les-defis-de-la-numerisation-pour-lagroecologie-paysanne

𝗘𝗡 | The challenges digitalisation brings to peasant agroecology : https://www.eurovia.org/publications/ecvc-position-on-digitalisation

𝗘𝗦 | Los retos de la digitalización para la agroecologia campesina […]

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US PhD program timeline: 1. Meet adbisor 2. Research proposal 3. Qualifying exams 4. Propose dissertation 5. Reseaech and write 6. Submit 7. Defend The last two steps in the timeline are crossed out and replaced -- in red -- by: 6. Get grabbed of the sidewalk by masked governnent agents 7. Be whisked out of the state before a judge has time to intervene 8. ????

Holy sh*t. This is a real xkcd, not funny, disturbing, and also one that must be shared

https://xkcd.com/3081/

The Next Terrorist Attack And What Comes After

Timothy Snyder (who has been consistently amazing throughout this crisis!) has written a very important article preparing people’s minds for what I fear is near-inevitable: a US equivalent to the Reichstag fire.

Congrats Alexandra Elbakyan for successfully defending her Ph.D., on "Openness as an epistemic value of scientific communication", on April 9! 🎉 https://web.archive.org/web/20240425100014/https://iphras.ru/page26414303.htm

See also her most recent paper, "From Black Open Access to Open Access […]

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

This stunning shot captures a wasp mid-flight, clutching its freshly caught prey. Known for their hunting prowess, wasps often paralyze their victims with venom before bringing them back to their nests as nourishment for their larvae.
✨ Fun Fact: Some wasp […]

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A black and white photo of a mosaic of three frames from the Huygens Descent Imager Spectral Radiometer shows the surprising channels observed on Titan's surface during Huygens' descent.

A colorful map of the surface of Titan made by NASA showing the regions of Lakes, Crater, Dunes, Hummocky, Labyrinth, Plains. It's like a map of Earth projected as an ellipse, there are purple regions to indicate "Dunes" about the equator. Hummocky is a term from geology for rounded hills, kind of like rolling hills? Labyrinth doesn't mean that David Bowie is there sadly... it's more like there are lots of cracks and canyons.

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is a fascinating and deeply alien world. Many bodies in space are, well, dead. No weather, no climate, no geology. Not Titan! Things are Happening on Titan, but none of the elements building the complexity and weather of this […]

[Original post on sauropods.win]

Columbia University cedes to Trump administration demands after threat to withhold funds Columbia University appears to have ceded to the Trump administration’s demands after a threat to withhold $400 million in federal funds.

So is it now appropriate to officially refer to Columbia as "Columbia MAGA Univerisity" and put that in t-shirts and diplomas?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/columbia-university-cedes-trump-administration-demands-after-threat/story?id=120039126

...and all other universities that fold?

#academicchatter

Ecosystem Restoration by Vesod in London, UK. A surreal, nature-themed mural by Vesod, featuring a contemplative figure surrounded by lush greenery, birds, geometric shapes, and vibrant colors, illustrating a harmonious connection between humans and nature

@streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com "Ecosystem Restoration" by Vesod in London, UK.

I find Trump as repulsive as most people here, but as a German, one thing I want to push back on is focusing on one man.

Hitler's rise was possible because he was able to exploit the racial hatred and conspiratorial thinking that already existed.

It's MAGA acolytes that see Trump as an […]

two kids, one pushing a bike, on a woonerf in Haarlem. grown ups sitting at a bar.

We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.