Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events, and to act as town square for the community.
🌟 Community Highlights 🌟
- !fullyautomatedrpg@slrpnk.net - for discussing solarpunk tabletop gaming, organizing games, and sharing questions, new content, and memes (They also just released their first full Solarpunk TTRPG Adventure book! Be sure to check it out!)
- !climate_action_individual@slrpnk.net - Discuss actions that we can directly take as individuals to reduce environmental harm.
- !electrification@slrpnk.net - Community dedicated to news and discussions around electrification of industry, homes, heating, etc.
📸 Meta Post Image: Community Aid Network 🎞️
This month’s meta image is another Story Seed Library banger, ‘Community Aid Network’ created by Daniele Turturici (CC BY-SA 4.0).
“A united, compassionate, and resilient community comes together in times of crisis. A coordinated network of volunteers provides rescue efforts, medical assistance, and warm meals to people displaced by an environmental disaster. Everyone can contribute, even those without specialized training. While it is wise not to rely entirely on technology, it can also play a crucial role in managing critical situations by streamlining both physical operations and organizational efforts, helping communities respond more effectively when every moment counts. But that’s not all. Emotional support is just as important. When people feel safe, protected, and supported by their community, they are more willing to give back and help others in return, creating a positive cycle that benefits everyone.”
As a fun bonus, there’s also a coloring book version of the image! :)
🔋 How to Support SLRPNK.net 🌱
If you’d like to donate to SLRPNK to help cover Internet, electricity, and domain name costs, you can now send a one-time (just select do not auto-renew) or reoccurring donation via Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/F-hub.org/
Currently, F-hub.org and thus SLRPNK is receiving 70.44€/month in donations from 14 people, which is covering most of our recurring expenses. Thanks a lot!
We are also working on a short transparency report for 2026 of all the income from donations and the expenses for domains and server hardware. Expect it to be shared here later this year.
💬 Open Discussion 💬
Now it’s your turn to share whatever you’d like down below; your thoughts, ideas, concerns, hopes, or anything related to the server. If you have a new community you’d like to shine a spotlight, shine away! If you’re a new user wanting to say hi, feel free to post an introduction :)
SLRPNK Community Resources:
- Community Wiki - Moderators, you can create your own Wiki here for your communities!
- Movim Chat - Open to all members (use your SLRPNK login credentials)
- Etherpad - Collaborative document editor (we are currently looking for an alternative for this as the Etherpad project has started to use LLMs for development quite heavily).
🗃️ Meta Archive 📰
Our Monthly Meta posts are sometimes home to more in-depth sections written by our admins. Many of our newer members may not be familiar with some of the past guides, so for those interested, we’ve compiled a list below.
- December 2024 - How to Prepare for a Fascist Regime
- February 2025 - How to avoid Big Tech and maximize your digital security & privacy
- June 2025 - A brief guide on Security Culture & Adopting FOSS as prefiguration
- July 2025 - How to build community with fun projects!
⬛ Union Resources 🟥
These are unions from around the world who can train you to become an effective organizer to form a grassroots union with your co-workers!
That pic reminds me of a post I made a while back hoping to brainstorm ways to nudge modern healthcare toward the solarpunk mentality. What we have now, especially in the big-hospital setting like where I work, seems so hopelessly incompatible with solarpunk, which still kinda drives me nuts.
Revisiting that thread, it looks like it got more attention than I realized, but still not much I can act on or forward along to others with some actual authority (of which, I don’t really have squat).
Anywho, relinking it here just incase someone more creative than me stumbles across it - always looking for new improvements!
I’m really loving the art for these posts. And this one has a coloring page?! You guys kill me with awesomeness!
Artists of slrpnk! I’m in need of an icon for !ancienthistory@slrpnk.net if anyone feels moved to make one:)
Hey, this is the art I borrowed my PFP from! Love how it captures the concept of mutual aid and the ways that communities overcome disaster and misfortune through cooperation, far more common than successfully making it through on “rugged individualism.”
Consider banning AI images
EDIT: Apparently the artist is (or was) real as evidences by this image posted about 8 years ago. Why they’ve adopted such a style and never put any linework videos on their YT the world may never know.
Do you believe this month’s meta image is AI generated (on close inspection, it does not appear to have any telltale signs that it is, it looks hand drawn to me). Or are you referring to a different incident?
I think it’s similar to what David Revoy constantly runs into - one of those popular styles for meat proxies to train their slop extruders on
Dang I thought it was AI too, it has that vibe at first glance. But you’re right, if you look at the details it is pretty clearly not.
The artist also made an uncolored version with only the line-art visible, which I don’t think an AI would be able to reliably produce and then color in with such accuracy.
I added red lines where some of the cables cross behind others. This is the work of an artist who gives a shit about his craft.
yeah, that alone tells me it’s real. i’ma block this guy because he’s being super fucking weird about it.
peeping moderation history… OH BROTHER, THIS GUY STINKS!!
I’ll defend any statement I’ve ever made.
You can generate the linework and do the coloring separately so that’s not a sound argument.
Since you’ve brought the topic up, who is the artist?
Daniele Turturici. There is a section in this very community discussion post dedicated to it, with a link to its source from the Story Seed Library (which does not allow AI generated content of any kind, and even suggests artists poison their artwork to fight back against AI slop).
They published 3 of these between Jan 8 and Feb 5, 6 pieces total in the last two years. Their insta has more images but I can’t view the details on any of them without a Meta/Facebook account. Their reddit account posted those 3 images I mentioned.
They have an artstation page but it doesn’t include any dates, the image metadata says the oldest post was modified Oct 2026. I’m noticing a profound lack of consistent style. They always draw the characters different from one post to the next. Robots.txt for the site specifically says NoAI.
They have a YouTube but they’ve never shown any linework only coloring.
Might be an artist, probably AI, might be an artist who adopted AI. It just feels really slop to me, idk how you can loot at this style and think it’s got no signs.
It doesn’t have any of the typical GenAI inconsistencies. I would even go so far as suspecting the artist intentionally drew things into the image that AI typically messes up like cabling that continues out of view and comes back into the image, and people holding hands in certain poses etc.
All the hands and feet i can see have the correct number of fingers and toes respectively.
The words are actual words, you can even make out menu on the sign behind the engineer.
Edit: even these dudes in the background appear to be proportionally sound.
Although that line on the finger does abruptly end but we’ve found images from the author predating AI.
They have an artstation page but it doesn’t include any dates
I can see dates for all their images on their art station at the bottom right (on desktop). As an example, this image of theirs was posted 8 years ago, and this one 6 years ago, far before AI was capable of making such things.
Ah, I see, www.artstation.com has a different interface than danieleturturici.artstation.com very interesting design choice by the site owners.
This is good enough for me, thank you for going this far.
Looking at the 6 images available on their Story Seed Library profile, they all seem to have a very consistent art style to me, with very similar faces, expressions, color use, same robots, and consistent line weights. The oldest submission there is from August of last year.
The signs of slop I usually see in highly detailed pieces of art like those would be inconsistent perspective, odd lines that suddenly end, messed up hands, fine details that don’t make sense or form anything recognizable, etc. I don’t see any of that in this artist’s work.
It’s not impossible that an artist could use AI to create small individual pieces of an artwork and assemble them together into a final image, but I feel like it’d be very difficult to maintain a consist art style across the whole image using that method, and I feel like an artist would have to make so many manual corrections using that method, it might just be easier to draw the whole thing manually instead.
I haven’t kept up to to date of what AI art generators can make, perhaps the latest ones could generate something this complex and artful while maintaining consistency, but I don’t think an AI would’ve been able to do it without it being more noticeable last year, IMHO.
they all seem to have a very consistent art style
You seem to be arguing against my statement about their artstation page: https://danieleturturici.artstation.com/
Specifically between Ox the Tech Guy and OLTRE images it was literally a completely different style every time.
If anything the line consistency is a flag for me, real humans generally adjust brush size as they work pretty organically.
Ah, I see on the link you provided, which seems to be a different type of artist showcase page from artstation, the dates are indeed not visible. Where as they are visible on the artist album page.
