Author • Ex-chair of the Ecological Land Co-op • @xr arrestee • Consulting scholar at #SterlingCollege, Vermont • Resident of #TheHappyPig, Ireland • Savourer
#DarkOptimism #SurvivingTheFuture #LeanLogic #ConversationsForOurTime
| Website | https://darkoptimism.org |
| The best thing ever! | https://leanlogic.online |
| My physical community | https://darkoptimism.org/projects#TheHappyPig |
| My online community — join us :) | https://survivingthefuture.darkoptimism.org/ |
Oh, and this guide helped me get my bearings after leaving Twitter/Facebook. Or just ask around, if you prefer! 🙂
Nikodemus’ Guide to Mastodon by Nikodemus Siivola <@nikodemus@kamu.social>, updated 2022-12-08. Read time 20-30 min Translations: Ukrainian Mastodon is a microblogging social network somewhat similar to Twitter, or your Facebook timeline. In some ways it is akin to Twitter of early 2010s, but i...
@InspirationForum Indeed! I felt warmly welcomed here myself, so am happy to #payitforward.
Just shout if you need any tips on things here (following @FediTips is a good one!), and welcome to the non-corporate, actually-warmly-conversational, collectively-controlled, can't-be-bought-out future of the internet.
While I'm not online all that much, I've gotta say, I'm having a lot more fun here than I ever did on the darkside!! 😁
I have just read the following from a friend in Wales. Sue, a veteran of Greenham Common, is in her late 70s & in poor health; & yet has been subject to arrest & imposition of unreasonable bail conditions, while her partner was subject to a raid on their home by police at 3am.
Her crime? To protest peacefully in defence of the right to protest.
The United Kingdom & its constituent parts have become, under a Labour government, a police state.
Age verification appears to be an online trojan horse for identity verification, long demanded by authoritarians, the litigious rich, big tech data miners and the advertising industry.
An attempt to lock down the free internet, render everything walled and every action and interaction tracked and traceable.
Interview: "It looks like I've hit a nerve."
~Francesca Albanese
The US has sanctioned Albanese following her scathing report, which named over 60 companies, including major US technology firms Google, Amazon & Microsoft, involved in "the transformation of Israel's economy of occupation to an economy of genocide".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/francesca-albanese-defiant-face-trump-sanctions
What a breath of fresh air to hear directly from #FrancescaAlbanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, now banned from the US for doing her job.
To hear someone who simply speaks the truth, with courage, decisiveness and the smile of integrity in her eyes.
Makes me realise how rarely that makes it to any mass broadcast:
Interview: "It looks like I've hit a nerve."
~Francesca Albanese
The US has sanctioned Albanese following her scathing report, which named over 60 companies, including major US technology firms Google, Amazon & Microsoft, involved in "the transformation of Israel's economy of occupation to an economy of genocide".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/francesca-albanese-defiant-face-trump-sanctions
For those wishing to sign a petition to show her some support (409,000 already signed):
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