Passing this link on from the fractal anarchism community on slrpnk.net. It's probably just a reminder or reinforcement for a lot of folks on here but it makes a good case for building community wherever possible, as a foundation for other action:

https://thewhitepages.net/p/seven-reasons-why-hosting-a-silly

#solarpunk

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/115999729344157519

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families.

Amazing speech from Robert Evans on 'It Could Happen Here.'

"Robert's keynote speech for the Japanese American National Museum on combatting authoritarianism in the modern world."

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/what-must-be-done-the-battle-321137537/

A friend sent me this Covid Policy Statement (from a church in Vancouver, Canada) and I feel so seen that I'm in tears. It's well written and relatively comprehensive. It is also an astonishing example of care and compassion combined with science to inform an approach to covid.

I'm sharing it here for the many Fedi friends who may be heartened by it or find it useful.

https://www.stmargaretscedarcottage.ca/why-are-we-still-masking.html

@LonelinessCorps

#CovidIsNotOver #PandemicIsNotOver #LonelinessCorps #Covid19 #Covid

@pluralistic Hi, we are a group of parents in Vancouver that are trying to push back against local school board plans to deploy Microsoft Copilot into classrooms.

We have started a petition to show that parents are concerned and do not consent to their children using genAI in classrooms.

It would help so much if you could share it.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/voice-ai-concerns-to-vancouver-school-board

Just assembled a page on my personal website with instructions on how to disable AI features across many services(mainly ones I encounter/use, will surely have to add more to the list soon).

https://kokorobot.ca/site/remove_ai.html

#GreenLathe is organizing a #Solarpunk #healthcare #conference this November the 8th!

https://www.greenlathe.org/

A FREE virtual conference brought to you by Public Invention and GreenLathe Collective, featuring scientists and inventors covering topics such as:

Open Medical Hardware

Open Software for Medical Systems

Community Action and Resilience in Medicine

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I know these people, they're actual #openSource #openHardware scientists and I'd love to join! :)

#health #climate

Doctorow on Solar Transition in far better shape than we're given to believe

"the material bill for solarization is in freefall, with no end in sight. The amount of stuff we need to make panels, transmission lines and batteries keeps declining. Further: the efficiency gains of “clean” technology are astounding — meaning that, for example, it not only takes a lot less material to make a solar panel, the panel we make out of so much less stuff generates a lot more power. More: we keep finding ways to substitute more abundant materials for materials that are harder to find or refine (for example, swapping out lithium in batteries and replacing it with sodium, one of the most abundant minerals on Earth). Finally: we keep finding new sources of the materials that we can’t readily substitute for"

#solarPunk #renewableEnergy #fossilFuels #climateChange #energyTransition

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-10-02-there-goes-the-sun-carbon-shifting-039f968e727d

Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed A| Nonprofit Climate Central has hired the scientist behind a key database of costly weather disasters to rebuild it.

https://slrpnk.net/post/25686004