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You know, there should be a #SoapOpera where all the characters spend all day in drudgery then go home and chat with each other on social media.

I'm not sure where the drama would come from but it would be fairly realistic I think.

🚨 Breaking News: A "Dragon prince" dino discovery "rewrites" the T.rex family tree! 🦖 Because apparently, a new fossil is the Jurassic equivalent of a plot twist in a soap opera. 🤦‍♂️ Get ready for paleontology's latest episode of "As the World Excavates." 📜
bbc.com/news/articles/cy8dzv3v #DinoDiscovery #TReXFamilyTree #Paleontology #SoapOpera #FossilFinds #HackerNews #ngated

www.bbc.comNew species of dinosaur discovered that 'rewrites' T.rex family treeThe dinosaur skeletons, found hidden in a museum collection in Mongolia, is an ancestor of the mighty tyrannosaurs.

🎉 Another day, another tech blogger unleashing their inner Shakespeare on the thrilling topic of file formats! 🌟 This riveting tale somehow manages to make the nuances of #.gif vs. #.jpeg debate sound like the climax of a daytime soap opera. 🤯✨ How will the world ever survive without this critical analysis? 🙄📂
solhsa.com/oldernews2025.html# #techblogger #fileformats #analysis #soapopera #HackerNews #ngated

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huh. today i learned that soap operas are called that because when the genre was developing, many of the sponsors/producers of the shows were soap manufacturers. i expected it to be some sort of metaphor but no it's very literal. operas* produced to sell soap

*in a sense. not technically operas but reminiscent of them because of their drama

Hot take:

Solarpunk doesn't need any more short stories. It needs generational telenovelas set in a climate-affected future.

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Imagine replacing "how can I fit all the world context in 10 pages" with the depth of a lived-in experience of the different members of the household, who survived different "eras" of #cimateChange . Imagine them being human, with relatable human problems, but painted against the changing world.

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The idea of #solarpunk #soapOpera (is it a #solarOpera ?) was initially suggested to me as a mockery of the movement, but I see a huge potential in such a formula!

Imagine several generations living through the #climateChange with very different approaches, seeing their lives completely uprooted. There's so much to explore between the characters who resist or embrace the changes in society!

"Honey, just don't tell grandpa you don't want to be a coal miner."

I've just penned a short #blogpost about my interview with the @solarpunkpresents #podcast ! You can find it at alxd.org/solarpunk-presents-in

In this episode we discussed #solarpunk #technology , how listening to #disability activists can make us see more, #infrastructure versus artifacts, invisible power structures, #trains and brain implants!

Christina really liked the idea of telling a Solarpunk story through a multi-generational #soapOpera ;)

alxd - solarpunk hacker · Solarpunk Presents interview - "Tech and the Power of Solarpunk Narratives, with Paweł Ngei"On the 27th of May 2024 the Solarpunk Presents podcast published an interview with me, available on YouTube, Spotify and Google Podcasts. I would like to thank Christina for the invitation to the podcast and a wonderful conversation! We discussed how the depictions of technology in our culture shape our imaginations of the future, how our treatment of disabled people allows us to see our biases more clearly, what appropriate technology is and how we could start seeing every tech as infrastructure, not artifacts! We also looked at the (often invisible) power structures present when not everybody understands how a technology works. Christina really liked the idea of telling a Solarpunk story through a generational soap opera focusing on a family or a community! If at any point I make little sense, I have to thank my doggo for a very early morning wake-up ;) About the podcast: Solarpunk Presents is a podcast that explores the people and projects working on bringing us a better world today. Solarpunk is more than just an idea, more than …

Wir (@Raelis und ich) haben da mal was gemacht. Als Vorlage der Musik wurde die Titelmusik von "Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten" in der Fassung von 1996 verwendet und nachgebaut.
Die Lyrics wurden von @Raelis ausgedacht, um über die typischen Furry-Probleme zu berichten.

Front voice: @Raelis
Back voice: @Bandie
Lyrics: @Raelis
Music arrangement: @Bandie

Update:

  • Einige Gesangs- und Musik-Fixes
  • Bass-Line entspricht nun dem Original
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