🎇 Help save Philly's local solarpunk bookstore! Iffy Books, which has offered everything from books on permaculture to first aid workshops to open hours for soldering assistance, needs your help. Please share this letter widely!

I've been grateful for the opportunity this space offered me to rekindle my relationship with digital art for merch and run solar art and queer zine workshops. Iffy Books is irreplaceable in our community. To keep offering programs and resources that foster climate activism, right to repair, and skill sharing in Philly, we need to take action now.

https://post.lurk.org/@iffybooks/114704476101632628

#books #bookstodon #reading #philly #philadelphia #iffyBooks #climate #climateJustice #anarchist #anarchy #bookstore #bookshop #bookstores #skillsharing #skillshare #rightToRepair #solarPunk #solar #permaculture #permacomputing

if i didn't mention already, #philly has regular #meshtastic #meetups at #IffyBooks a local bookstore where hackers have happened to congregate from time to time.

https://iffybooks.net/series/%F0%9F%93%A1-meshtastic-101/

#PHL

Hey folks, we have our monthly Third Friday meetup tomorrow night at Iffy Books! Whether you're a novice, pro, or somebody bringing a date for a different sorta icebreaker it'll be a beautiful night in the city for popping locks. Swing by if you're in the neighborhood! #tooolphilly #IffyBooks

https://www.meetup.com/philadelphia-chapter-of-the-open-organisation-of-lockpickers/events/302434223/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

Hey folks! Third Friday is tomorrow and TOOOL will be at #IffyBooks popping locks!

https://www.meetup.com/philadelphia-chapter-of-the-open-organisation-of-lockpickers/events/301363052/

i like the cut of Philadelphia's #iffybooks' jib
https://iffybooks.net/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

@pixouls It is in fact a small world :P Haven't been into the city much since before the shutdowns but still need to hit #IffyBooks They're having a meetup this May I'm planning on going to, but hopefully I'll see the store sooner than that: https://www.meetup.com/SecShell/events/283441501/?_xtd=gqFypzY4MzYwNjihcKNhcGk&from=ref

I'll be repping Philly 2600, Philly Mesh, and Networks of Philly. Here's to a new renaissance of local collaboration!

My #funaday yesterday... i watched a guy play basketball real good and had a beer, then i did a lil art!
Plans to learn some new crafts and projects so, thatll be up here soon.
Thats bout it tho... also set up to do a rad thing at iffy books out here in philly! Check them out!!!! #iffyBooks #independent #indiebooks #independentbookstores #iffy

Be well and safe out there!

Iffy Books is a new little bookstore in philly seeking to share knowledge of hacking, free culture, gardening, zines.

Today I went with my friend to set up a Wemo D1 clone with another non-techie friend and we were able to get this chip to display a website! It was my friend's first time learning html and css, and as a designer it was a lot of fun for her. I enjoyed being able to learn a new board to use with the Arduino other than the circuit playground.

The guide zine is available for free (along with the zines for all the other workshops) if you want to try as well. It's still a work in progress since today's session was also a bit of debugging, but great fun!

https://iffybooks.net/pocket-wifi-portal/

You might see that there is actually a use of some work by #varia on there! @rra

Iffy Books will be soon to join Mastodon too (after a little persuasion :) )

I'm also very excited to learn about efforts to implement a mesh network for Philadelphia!

https://phillymesh.net/

#IffyBooks #mesh #meshtastic