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SPCC A Casa Amarela
  • Introduction
  • Intro
  • Macieira
  • 001 opening story
  • 002 first weeks of SPCC
  • 003 first informal group meeting
  • 004 SPCC - the start
  • 005 another day, another floor
  • 007 it lives!
  • 006 Rainbow Rooms
  • 008 didn't do shit
  • 009 no water again
  • 010 More work done!
  • 011 waterworks
  • 012 a third of a wall
  • 013 First room
  • 014 One wood wall up and Fuchsia room up!
  • 015 yes officer
  • 016 red room
  • 017 shower
  • 018 hydrant fixed
  • 019 decor
  • 020 orange room
  • 021 Latest News
  • 022 Windows and etc.
  • 023 Electricity!
  • Hydro Pole
  • 024 ARRRRRRRRRRRR
  • 026 squats, social centres, free spaces...
  • 025 squats, social centres, free spaces...
  • 027 Personalitty issues
  • 029 new website look
  • 030 S's Birthday Party!
  • 031 spoils of war
  • 032 water and doors
  • 033 entropy of partying
  • 035 work
  • 034 house meeting
  • 036 yellow room
  • 037 pics
  • 038 visitors
  • 028 an emphasis on exuberance
  • 040 builder gathering
  • 039 progress?
  • 042 Update
  • 043 barbecue
  • 044 tiki bar
  • 045 a valued location
  • 046 teste
  • 047 Gallery
  • 048 first CS guests
  • 049 Chill Out progress
  • 050 tipping point
  • 051 swimming pool
  • 053 the reality of good and evil in all of us
  • 054 Uff
  • 052 Harald's birthday
  • 055 positive derivative
  • 056 Free Shop
  • 057 New era?
  • 058 helpex approved!
  • 060 another party another breakthrough
  • 062 back to basics
  • 063 sunshine AC
  • 064 our DIY photovoltaic system
  • 065 ghetto techno
  • 066 churrasco anti nacionalista + kawak kay sound system
  • 067 dug up roots
  • 068 Christian Louboutin
  • 069 we did it!
  • 070 First RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE!
  • 072 our first humanure factory
  • 073 blue thursday
  • 074 short stop
  • 075 indulge
  • 076 thank you
  • 077 Kat's account of her stay (and their trip)
  • 078 first request study results
  • 079 humanure
  • 080 Chill Out bar progress
  • 081 low tech hiatus
  • 082 mini rave + kawak kay sound system + free food + free booze
  • 083 free means fun
  • 084 dinner + kawak kay sound system + R's birthday party
  • 085 heat wave hangover
  • 086 Dry toilets, humanure, and closing the sewage loop
  • 087 mild frustration
  • 088 never there when shit happens
  • 089 Enough is enough!
  • 091 good times are back
  • 092 Naked man, pushing shopping cart with a shot gun?
  • 093 Solar panel photos
  • 094 best registry cleaner
  • 095 3ꠁniversᲩo Associa磯 Musical INDUSTRIAL PT / 3rd anniversary of the INDUSTRIAL PT non-profit musi
  • 096 new BFB (Big Fucking Battery)
  • 097 new subwoofer, extra hands
  • 098 hitchhiker gathering craze
  • 099 hitchhiker gathering flash rave + KKSS
  • 100 new work ethics thanks to... work ethics
  • 101 Hitch hikers invasion, part 2, can it be?
  • 102 windmills, swimming pools, cane constructions, gardens and anarcho-syndicalism
  • 059 Nomad Base
  • 103 power struggles, again
  • 104 Big issues, and big decisions to be made
  • 105 solar workshop
  • 106 Today's game
  • 108 parties, philosophies and cultural exchange
  • 107 Flash workshop day + communal dinner + debate
  • 109 fire sculptures and bunker tracks
  • 110 solar energy shortcomings
  • 090 cane frames
  • 111 Hitchhiking gathering and issues gone
  • 112 plumbing fire
  • 113 big brother okupa
  • 114 power
  • 116 holidays and post boomers
  • 117 Return to the squat
  • 118 first google guest
  • 119 on planning
  • 120 Two weeks at SPCC
  • 121 Demolishing is coming!!
  • 122 paintathon
  • 123 A journey
  • 124 why i choose to celebrate the demolition
  • 126 More signs of demolition
  • 127 Baile da Contra Cultura
  • 128 what works, what doesn't work
  • 129 Topographers on site, and kids.
  • 130 the demolition crew and the freeloader crew
  • 131 2 weeks to close the squat!
  • 132 impromptu meeting, couriers and our deadline
  • 134 another paintathon
  • 135 facts, stories and politics
  • 133 THE BIG DEMOLITION PARTY - PAINT THE FUCK UP
  • 136 party people
  • 137 dear spcc
  • 138 Last words
  • 139 How to make a solar panel
  • 141 demolition on its way, but not today
  • 061 About
  • 142 follow up on our characters
  • 143 can't trust a contractor
  • 144 the big demolition party short video
  • 145 new dates for the demolition
  • 146 moving on digitally
  • 147 all gone! SPCC has been cleared!
  • 115 thanks and more
  • 148 SPCC featured in the german Jungle World
  • 150 where you can find me
  • 151 Acts change Facts: Nicolas's movie about SPCC
  • medo e ignorância no controlo policial
  • 152 SPCC featured in the travel comic compilation "Boring Europa"
  • 153 my experience at SPCC featured in an interview about my experience as an engineering student
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Last updated 5 years ago

From: starstuffharvestingstarlight Date: 2010-06-29 21:39:15 Title: humanure

we've successfully built a dry toilet. thanks Tori for the input and skills. it's much better than the previous one, with no smell at all and no need to carry around water buckets. also, we put it in our compost pile for the first time and it didn't stink remotely as bad as i expected. just a brown sludge. not as smelly as our leftover compost. we might need a big composting bin now to speed up the process. since humanure can carry diseases, we need to be more careful about it. we'll be writing a story soon on how we did it.

we've also successfully started our green roof (a tiny patch). it still needs about 100L of soil, which we still have to get. i abandoned the full water filtering system on all of the farmed soil. instead, we will collect the rain water and add a filter after the collector. this makes the set up much easier. getting off the water grid is probably the hardest step these days. we are also using the concrete tiles as a replacement to the stone layer, since it allows for quick water flow down. we will use the existing water collecting layer and the pipes, so all we need is to plug a container to these pipes.

we're also starting our own solar panel construction. i got some damaged solar cells on ebay and we'll be running trials on building and using these. i'll write more on this soon.

now that summer is starting, people tend to abandon their dogs. that's what happened last week, when someone abandoned two puppies near our street. O took them in, so we now have two more dogs. they are friendly but clearly traumatized. they are great guard dogs though.

other than that, we were helping a couple out until they found a place to stay. the guy was clearly troubled, and once he realized he couldn't stay, he robbed us and left (this is the current established perspective on what happened). nothing much. he took the house money box (about 50€ in), my mp3 player (which is worth nothing these days) and money from A's pocket (about 3€). again, people on survival mode show a very obvious behavior pattern, which i will try to summarize. 1) they are unlikely to say thank you or i'm sorry, even when you give them food or shelter (he fit this, she didn't) 2) they tend to empty praise people around them excessively (he fit this, she didn't) 3) they tend to be overly friendly, yet selfish and hoarding (he fit this, she didn't) all of this is mainly connected to, in my opinion, self preservation and awareness of ingroups. someone on survival mode will not care for anyone but themselves. but they know human groups are tribal and that they need to create a "non zero sum", a fake reciprocity that creates a sense of understanding, so that they are welcome in a community. he did this with skill, though he wasn't the most skilled we've hosted so far. he was friendly and funny and tried to compliment and be friends with everyone. yet he never said thank you for the food or appreciated what we were doing for him. he enjoyed our surplus while he could, and once he realized he couldn't move in, he took off with our money.

i do wonder how this works. the fact that the people in the house weren't willing to take him in caused him to go on self preservation mode. people off the street are frequently like this.

we later learned that he had done this before to his girlfriend. he also stole money from her and skipped rent. her perspective is that he's bipolar. my view is that he is exploiting her for being insecure. i can find no other explanation for someone putting up with this kind of behavior. when he left, he didn't say goodbye to her at all. he left her behind and took off with his stolen goods.

it is tragic that the people that need help are the ones that end up falling in the selfish preservation loop. like previous people that lived with us, the pattern repeats itself over and over. when self preservation is an issue, people will hoard, be selfish and violent. but self preservation is a fable, made up in the junkie / social outcast mind. we live in a society of surplus, with food, water, electricity everywhere, with safe streets. no one is "out to get us". there is no need for a survival mode approach, except if one choses to make that the defining story of their lives. inevitably, it will leave them alone, or with enablers, that will perpetuate the cycle of abuse and violence.

healing this is incredibly hard. it requires a very positive setting that allows for each individual to grow out of their vicious cycles. unfortunately, at our house we can't really do it when someone is so down this loop. they require full professional help. maybe one of our future helpxers or surfers can turn out to be a psychologist and help us out. but more and more, we're understanding that sometimes we have to push people away to preserve our community. this is a tremendous political defeat for me. over and over again, anarchy doesn't work because of anarchists and their selfish authoritarian ways.

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godspeed starstuff ☆★☆☆★★★☆☆☆☆☆

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