StrypeyJun 6, 2019

'Permanent Holiday', #MikeLove:
https://invidio.us/watch?v=fU7hZ3smj0g

I think I've shared this video before, but if I did it wouldn't have been using the invidio.us link. For those who haven't come across it, invidio.us is a way to watch YT videos using #FreeCode #Javascript, instead of Goggle spyware.

Mike Love - Permanent Holiday (HiSessions.com Acoustic Live!)

www.MikeLoveMusic.com https://www.facebook.com/MikeLove808 Find HI*Sessions on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/his... The last song from Mike Love features another great reggae song, "Perm

Show threadStrypeyJun 6, 2019
'Permanent Holiday' is one of my go-to videos when I've feeling a bit down, as I have been over the last couple of days. Another one is this #FlashMob video by a kiwi group called #TheBabysittersCircus:
https://invidio.us/watch?v=9k4wM-NWEyo
The Babysitters Circus - Everything's Gonna Be Alright [Official Video HD]

The Babysitters Circus - Everything's Gonna Be Alright [Official Video HD] I The Babysitters Circus (TBC) sono un nuovo gruppo neo-zelandese di musica funky/groove composta da Jason Kerrison, Jamie Gr

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Oops! That's not the full 'Everything's Gonna Be Alright' video. Here's the official version:
https://invidio.us/watch?v=VAtL9itQ0Nc

Hmm. Invidio.us search is usually pretty good but I've had to go to some effort to find official versions of some videos today.

The Babysitters Circus - Everythings Gonna Be Alright

The Babysitters Circus - Everything's Gonna Be Alright. Shot during a live flash mob performance in downtown Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.thebabysitterscircus.co.nz http://www.facebook.com/theba

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Show threadStrypeyJun 6, 2019
#ShotsOfAwe is a channel I'd love to see in the #PeerTube video #fediverse (if it isn't already). This video seemed to speak to how I'm feeling at present:

'Beyond Anxiety and Depression ... A Call to Awakening!'
https://invidio.us/watch?v=cVQFAcdAhZM
BEYOND ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION... A CALL TO AWAKENING!

WE NEED A NEW STORY, A NEW FRAMEWORK, A NEW DIRECTION FOR OUR SPECIES... WATCH! Videography: Jason Goodman Editing and post: Omid Pakbin Music: FLUXSEEDS

Show threadStrypeyJun 6, 2019
Next I watched this keynote by #DeepEcology pioneer #JoannaMacey, speaking at the #Bioneers conference:
https://invidio.us/watch?v=mrCPVtf0bWA
Joanna Macy - Choosing Life | Bioneers

Deep Ecology extends an inalienable right to life to all beings. A systems theorist, author and lifelong activist, Joanna Macy describes how healing the world and healing your heart and soul go hand in

Show threadStrypeyJun 6, 2019
#Bioneers.org is another organization I'd love to see putting their videos on a #PeerTube channel, or even hosting their own instance. The question is, how to make this manageable for organizations that have great videos to share, but may have limited sysadmin capacity? One option is community-hosted instances that gather videos on particular themes (eg 'environmentalism' or 'conference talks'). What about mass training of activist sysadmins, who can run services for some orgs they support?
Show threadmike_hales 💔*!?¿*Jun 6, 2019
@strypey The guy in the SoA video is certainly tuned to some proper stuff. He's not wrong. But o goodness couldn't he quiet-down some? How is it that such dopamine-driven folks feel that what the rest of us need or deserve is a high voltage charge of their emotionality?
Yes, it takes all sorts - but I'll be a lot happier about our collective future, when I see evidence that radical emos like this are acknowledging that many of us on this planet are of another kind. There are many ways. Respect?
Show threadStrypeyJun 7, 2019
@mike_hales this is an intriguing response. I learned about SoA from a friend who is as cynical and anti-emo as they come. TBH I'm really surprised you found it so triggering.
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I'm a little surprised too - that I felt a comment should be made, rather than by my response. After a few sentences I could see where he was at - he's a very articulate and emotionally 'full' speaker - and appreciating how real and significant this is. But before he was halfway, all feeling of kinship and resonance was being overwhelmed by his pressure and his performance, hardly taking a breath, launching fresh waves - leaving no space for a listener to be with themself . .
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. . as if being overwhelming in emotional force was where the matter lies, rather than being accepted by someone holding their own space. For a person of my melancholic kind this is no unusual experience. But to find someone shooting themself in the foot in such a way is disappointing. Bcos this kind of self-absorption is rather present in activist fields - many like to participate in this kind of emotional torrent (as if it were the politics?) - I felt I'd comment. Not personal
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. . not personal strypey, you understand? Just taking opportunity to touch on this kind of issue within what IMO needs to be a deeply pluriversal transformational politics. Ppl come in different kinds and mutual recognition can be distressingly lacking across emotional cultures. There's a politics in this - assumptions that activism and solidarity are *like this* (in this emotional mode) rather than possibly *like this* (other mode). 2nd cousin to sectarianism? Takes all sorts!
Show threadStrypeyJun 7, 2019
@mike_hales thanks for the clarification. Took no offence, just hoping you would elaborate on your response, just as you did 😊
Show threadStrypeyJun 7, 2019
@mike_hales this reminds me a bit of conversation I had with some folks from a UK tech coop about an #Enspiral community gathering they attended, which they found a bit too much of a love-in for their taste. It seems to work for Enspiral folks and it's very much compatible with how I like to work as a community developer, but I acknowledge it's not for everyone. As you say, different strokes for different folks ;)
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@strypey 'Love-in' is fine :) It's monoculture that's the problem I feel. It's hard enabling both kinds of tribes to be happily present in the same space - a room, a public square, a media space, whatever? I'd hope the Enspiral guys were good at this, being arch-facilitators.
>different strokes for different folks
More than this . . literacy in different emotional tribes' ways is part of the obligation on facilitative activists? Recognising both/all and shaping common space comfortably for all?
Show threadStrypeyJun 8, 2019
@mike_hales totally agree. I've recognized this as a paradox of facilitation. Too much dependence on particular formats or techniques can turn inclusive (multi-)culture into exclusive (mono-)cult. The only "consensus process" is the one everyone present agrees to 😏 As the #AgileManifesto reminds us, "people before process".