Sunshine and Seedlings: A Newsletter by HydroponicTrash

Within the algorithmic bubbles beneath the surface of the internet, there is a growing wave of people who are opting out of social media, opting out of technology, or simply opting out of the corpo-internet-techbubble hellscape.

I recently moved from Substack to Ghost, and hit some major issues getting my emails to work.

Hey y'all!

Getting Ghost up and running was pretty easy, minus a couple problems that made me want to rip my hair out.

My last post was written right after the 2024 election.

We are staring down the proverbial barrel after the US election.

This is for educational purposes only.

Shits fucked.

If you’ve followed me for a while you know that I tend to focus on actionable things during climate collapse.

I often post about projects that use high-tech gadgets, equipment, and methods, but at the same time, I remain fiercely critical of them.

This was an exercise in Design Fiction inspired by the The 2023 Work Kit of Design Fiction by the Near Future Laboratory.

The thing about futures is that it’s hard to feel yourself in them.

Chromebooks are a ubiquitous staple mostly in educational spaces.

This article is a response to the first week of a course put together by the Institute for Social Ecology and Solarpunk Surf Club called “Solarpunk, Art, and Social Ecological Aesthetics”.

TL;DR I made a tiny free store to share resources with my fellow neighbors and give things away for free that otherwise would have ended up in a landfill or thrift store.