The Deep Adaptation Forum (DAF) is dedicated “to embodying and enabling loving responses to our predicament”. Our “predicament” is societal collapse arising from our climate emergency, global economic and environmental crises, species extinction, soil degradation, extreme weather events, forced migration, historical and systemic planet and people abuse, and much more.
https://www.deepadaptation.info/
Susie Bootja Bootja
So good. Art by an Indigenous Australian person, I think that there is meaning to this in their worldview or cosmic reality, I don't know anything about that, but I totally dig this. To me it does have a cosmic feel or maybe it reminds me of pictures of galaxies and nebulae. I think maybe the stars start to vibrate and everything seems alive and full of energy.
Maybe the colors will help scour my mind and make it fresh and clean on chore day.
Yeah, I knew some lovely people who worked at Twitter too. And did you know they once had unfettered API access and anyone could create their own client? Some of us loved that so much we built things that helped legitimise them as an open platform. And then one day they just switched that off.
Legitimacy is gold to venture-capital-funded startups. They need people with it to convince everyday folks that this latest iteration of the same old rug pull is different. Until they’ve grown so much that they don’t need it anymore, that is. I guess we haven’t learned that much after all.
You want to understand Bluesky? Imagine if Google had invented email and scaled Gmail before allowing others to set up their own email servers, knowing that maybe a handful would and that they were large enough to make the rules ad infinitum. That’s Bluesky.
Don’t fall for the latest venture-capital funded Silicon Valley social network no matter who tells you it’s fine and no matter how many words they use to do so. Especially when we’ve had a noncommercial and noncorporate alternative for close to a decade now in the form of the fediverse.
I know it’s a low bar but can we please at least get it through our thick heads that venture capital funded Silicon Valley Big Tech does not deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Attached: 1 image I can't wait to use Bluesky, but I will not be joining Bluesky. As much as I trust and respect the Bluesky executives and board members I am acquainted with, I believe the service itself is insufficiently enshittification-resistant to trust: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/#graceful-failure-modes If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/15/dogs-breakfast/#by-clicking-this-you-agree-on-behalf-of-your-employer-to-release-me-from-all-obligations-and-waivers-arising-from-any-and-all-NON-NEGOTIATED-agreements 1/
"Empire has always feared this: the power of the majority united. It’s why they didn’t just assassinate Sankara, Lumumba, Nkrumah, and Cabral — they tried to kill the very dream of Pan-Africanism. Each of them dared to speak of a united Africa, one free from the chokehold of colonial borders, foreign debt, and imperial control. They knew that Pan-Africanism was — and remains — the greatest threat to Western imperialism."
Creativity is nourished by play.
If it’s possible to fail doing it, then it doesn’t count as play.
This month, my #solarpunk bookclub is reading ALWAYS COMING HOME by the amazing Ursula K Le Guin! It's free/online, sign up below to get the jitsi link (like zoom) & reminders.
WHEN: 8/28 8pm ET
SIGNUPS: https://www.subscribepage.com/solarpunk_bookclub
Solarpunk Future! Discord: https://discord.gg/u6gKT7vE
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What does it really take to build a different world—one rooted in human connection, care, and joy?
At the 2025 Wisdom & Action Forum, Helena Norberg-Hodge shares five guiding words for personal and collective transformation: reconnect, rethink, resist, renew, and rejoice. From simple acts of gathering in community to redefining our pace of life, she offers a grounded call to action that begins close to home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=lvHP_65XonvEZLBj&v=UhFgni62F50&feature=youtu.be
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
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