@ajroach42 This is incredible!!!  

I love the score by @DoctorDeathray!!!
 

#FediMusic #FediArt #CommunityMedia #PublicDomain #ArtFED #ResINT

Anyway, if you want #communityMedia and community focused alternatives to the products produced by the tech silos, it means we're all going to have to do a lot more work collecting, curating, sharing, and funding media production.

Community is inconvenient. Someone has to wash the dishes, someone has to peel the potatoes, someone has to write the 5000 word thinkpieces on American and Japanese soft power as evidenced by the way our various media have spread (and not spread) through the world.

I've talked a lot about our toys, and why we make them, but I figure I should explain again.

I make the toys that I want to see in the world.

I've been collecting toys for years, but those toys are so often made by or in service of corporations that want to lock up our culture and burn our planet.

So I created my own characters, started writing, mined the public domain, and started making my own toys and telling my own stories.

Stories that don't enrich some far off corporation or overstuffed capitalist, toys that are made sustainably, by people who are being paid a reasonable amount of money.

We tell stories that reflect our values, it's #CommunityMedia, and we're making toys that reflect those values too.

It's one part #anticapitalism, on part #openculture, and a small dose of #smallThings

We can't do it without your support, so if you see something you like in the toys that we make, boost it. If you want something, and you can afford it, buy it.

Ask questions, help us tell stories.

Thanks.

California? "The legislation would fix a loophole in the existing law. While services like Netflix, Hulu and YouTube TV look increasingly like a cable package, they aren’t subject to the provisions of the law that require cable access fees to be collected. The bill would change that". #localnews #communitymedia https://whatworks.news/2026/01/11/cord-cutting-threatens-local-access-cable-can-legislation-save-this-vital-community-lifeline/
Cord-cutting threatens local access cable. Can legislation save this vital community lifeline?

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If you're seeing my #publicDomain work, or seeing #NETV #NewEllijayTelevision for the first time, or even if you're already familiar with what we do and the ideas behind #communityMedia let me take this moment to make a small pitch:

New Ellijay Television needs advertisers to keep it going. Let me advertise your art project, indie website, small business, album, or other thing.

We'll stick you up on the Sponsor section of NewEllijay.News and run your 30 second spot at least 4x a day on our live stream and our cable network.

If you're not making much/any money on the thing you make, but you just want to get the word out, I'll run the ad for free.

If you're making money on the thing, and you want to get the word out to make more money, our packages for fedifolks start at $50/month.

Let's talk.

SUZI GASTREIN – Akaku Studios

Please LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE… It Really Helps Our Channel. Jason Schwartz with SUZY GASTREIN- Suzy is the grand hostess and equipment coordinator at Akaku Community Media, the…

SUZI GASTREIN – Akaku Studios

Please LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE… It Really Helps Our Channel. Jason Schwartz with SUZY GASTREIN- Suzy is the grand hostess and equipment coordinator at Akaku Community Media, the…

Sundog mentioned a moment ago that the AJC is going to stop it's print publication.

https://retro.social/@[email protected]claim.technology/115600041119909279

And this started me back down the alternative newswire rabbit hole that I've been circling as I think about the future of #NewEllijayTelevision and what #communityMedia needs to become in order to meet this moment.

We have the infrastructure to reboot something like the Underground Press Syndicate ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Press_Syndicate .)

It would be easier and cheaper and more valuable today than it was in the 60s and 70s. We could have a digital and print distribution that actually spans the globe.

We could enable local news and media organizations to expand their reach well beyond their current limitations, and I'm positive that there is a way to make it self sustaining, and even profitable (What that way is, I don't know! I'm just certain that there must be one.)

DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab (@[email protected])

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