Written by Hi! This is the summary of days 51 to 60 where we discuss plastic-free shopping, tasty salad tests, performing on TV (and not being good at it), the true cost, protesting but still serving the system by driving with fossil fuels to get there, manifestos and omens, sentencing the exploiters of the planet, 666 in my payslip and the way watermelon should be.
I’m Aleya, and I founded Fastfrwrd.info. I have been carrying out a Carbon Neutral Strike where I avoid oil, gas and plastic as much as I can. I have been posting daily updates since Earth Day, April 22, 2025 on this process as well as my musings about the world as it is now.
Day 51: bought tomatoes $200 JMD, cabbage $300 JMD, lettuce (wrapped in plastic) $120 JMD, more veganaise $2k JMD (it’s an import), mangoes $300JMD and passion fruits $200JMD or $300JMD.
Everything except the lettuce and veganaise are plastic free!
Very nice.
Made a salad: lettuce, tomatoes, cabbage, lime juice, one passion fruit, one can of broad beans, scallion, garlic, ginger, sriracha veganaise, added chia seed and sunflower seeds too.
Now for the taste test: Mmmm.
The passionfruit is surprising.
Omg!!!! Forgot i got coconut ice cream!!! Ingredients are as follows: coconut milk, water, cane sugar and vanilla extract.
It tastes amazing!! $966 JMD
Day 52: I go on tv tomorrow. Working on Twine today to make my interactive fictions more vibrant.
Not much to report. Salad making is not foolproof.
Day 53: Im at the tv station early. Not nervous yet.
Should have been nervous, i would have sung better. Oh well.
Made fries because i am low cash afte making the trip to the tv station so I’m taking stuff from the freezer. Also had rice and black bean in tomato sauce with a scotch bonnet pepper and herbs and seasoning, etc.
Actually on the air my voice wasn’t strong because the nerves hit a bit on stage so I don’t think nerves would be the issue. Just didn’t sing well
Day 54: the network is down but good news I’ve figured out a game i can make in twine. I can visualize it now.
It will need meticulous planning
We’ll see.
Day 55: I’ve started asking around for a programming mentor. Canva’s AI is based on OpenAI so there’s theft involved. Can’t use it.
Day 56: Parallax, my song, could be a song about Transatlantic trade. The interpretation: “I’m caught, I’m bought, I’m sold. I’m caught, I’m sold, I’m bought.”
Then the perspective of the agressor: “I bought into the temper, I bought into the will. I bought in shifting parallaxis, parallaxis, parallaxis…”
A parallax is not a concept I fully grasp but I did research it before putting out the song and it fit.
So a quick Ecosia search says: The effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions. Like a star viewed from different points on the planet.
Racial parallax. The perspective based on more recent events than a global outlook of the entire span of time. How can we let 1.5 to stay alive slide away from us? Why haven’t we called an emergency. Well people are in the streets fighting and that is good. But how are they getting there. The intent is awesome. But a home strike would spare us the emissions which is why I suggested that.
One day a week, stay home and help join a Climate Anxiety Hotline and Climate Adaptation entity.
Made ice cream based on the ingredient list of the coconut milk ice cream I got for $966 JMD. One used ice cream pint carton, one pack coconut milk powder, cane sugar and vanilla flavouring and water. Mix well. Freeze.
I just checked in on it. It’s frothing up already!! Its getting thick!! I didnt expect that. We’ll see how it comes out.
Day 57: Might start having a life again soon. Accidentally ate both egg and milk in a cinnamon roll and it tasted of it. Bleh. It was just this doughy, gummy, eggy thing. Was not enjoyable. Cheating tastes bad and so do mistakes. I thought it was vegan. Had ripe jackfruit and ripe plantain for lunch.
Day 58: The true cost. The literacy rate of a country requires payment — under neoliberal capitalism at least, not by necessity. But yes. Literacy that allows a billionaire to sell their wares easily by explaining the product on the packaging instead of having to verbally explain. That costs something.
The same literacy that ensures your employees absorb your information and can do their job. Also a cost. 18 years minimum most times.
National defense that protects record keeping and history so that we can all benefit from traditions and trades of the past and improve upon them for the new times.
I don’t think defense systems are necessary to protect the above-mentioned – they start fights they don’t finish them. Invest more in mediators not soldiers. Mediators anticipate, soldiers react. One is more futuristic in its approach, it deals literally in futures by being involved from the beginning, learning the parties involved and being able to anticipate conflict and prevent it through a human-centric design that reduces that conflict as much as possible and that is their primary function and concern.
But also, take away the power to decide from the few and give it to the many and we’ll see if the people will choose to send their children and friends and family to war.
Identification Records: Having unique identifiers as citizens facilitates peace-keeping at the expense of some privacy. However the government is trusted with this information because the democracy feels as though it is their choice. Unique identifiers can in some cases prevent crime. Such as theft. Those who are wealthy benefit from the government’s trust with the people to keep their data. This facilitates protecting wealth. That has a cost.
Land allocation: The rules of law and order – protected by legal codes and law enforcement – means that people are also able to accrue and hoard land. That there are people who live on the street. Or starving. And could make use of that land to build a home and have something to eat. The person who is in such a situation does not do this due to the ‘rule of law.’ This illusion of a barrier is maintained by the government’s laws that enforce the idea of hoarding even at the expense of others being perfectly normal and inescapable.
My motto: “To survive and thrive and stick to 1.5!”
Isn’t today’s renter economy similar to feudalism? Isn’t it serfdom where monthly (I think serfs paid once a season or something) we pay to the fiefdom (?) Isn’t this really just serfdom that we pay to the lords and call them lords, call them landlords… uh… isn’t this just serfdom on steroids?? I… hm… what is this place.
Anyway. What else — I really need to find what differs today’s renter economy from fiefdom, serfdom etc. Bookmarked for later.
Other things they owe: exhaustion of soil resources. That should be fined because we need more soil than just 60 years worth. I think that any company that has benefitted from the exhaustion of our soil, knowing full well since COP 1 that we have a significant impact on this planet.
They say we have to prepare for 2 or 3 degrees. How is that an answer.
1.5 to stay alive. We don’t have any time left to play.
I have to say. I still had a lot more manifesto left in me while I was writing and I could have probably written myself out of the quagmire I ended up in when trying to sentence our planet’s main exploiters.
I thought i was being long-winded and inaccessible. And I had also heard a negative sound that I followed Stellar-style as an omen while in a process.
Day 59: Part of the mystery of math to me is how it stays the same. That those numbers will reliably recur. Is that object permanence?
5th 666 in my payslip
If watermelon flavouring was how watermelon actually tasted, i would eat watermelon. Watermelon flavor is tart. Real watermelons? Sugary travesty. Fake watermelon. How watermelon should be.
Day 60: I haven’t even touched Ableton since I downloaded it.
I suppose I’m more disappointed by my dwarfed feelings regarding the total lack of momnetum I have on making any game whatsoever knowing that I don’t have any funding to look forward to right now and the platform is not monetized.
Day 61: There’s a little critter that snuggled into my clothing fold and got all snug. Don’t want to disturb cause it was just so cute. This little wiggle.