The image is a black and white photograph featuring a person sitting inside a large, transparent container, which appears to be a fishbowl or a similar enclosure. The person is wearing a clear plastic garment that covers their body, and they are holding a small object in their hands. The container is positioned within a window frame, which is cracked and shows signs of wear, including peeling paint and exposed wires. The background is a plain wall with visible cracks and peeling paint, adding to the overall sense of decay. The person's hair is neatly styled, and their face is obscured by the plastic covering. The photograph has a vintage or artistic quality, with a focus on the contrast between the person and the deteriorating surroundings.
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If you have a spare buck, throw it towards @Sbarry8520 whos been working to build a house for his family in The Gambia. He is probably the first person to fund building an entire house from fediverse donations which is pretty damn cool if you ask me. mstdn.social/@Sbarry8520/11515โฆ
1. All things work together for good. ยฒThere are no exceptions except in the egoโs judgment. ยณThe ego exerts maximal vigilance about what it permits into awareness, and this is not the way a balanced mind holds together. โดThe ego is thrown further off balance because it keeps its primary motivation from your awareness, and raises control rather than sanity to predominance. โตThe ego has every reason to do this, according to the thought system which gave rise to it and which it serves. โถSane 1
judgment would inevitably judge against the ego, and must be obliterated by the ego in the interest of its self-preservation. 2. A major source of the egoโs off-balanced state is its lack of discrimination between the body and the Thoughts of God. ยฒThoughts of God are unacceptable to the ego, because they clearly point to the nonexistence of the ego itself. ยณThe ego therefore either distorts them or refuses to accept them. โดIt cannot, however, make them cease to be. โตIt 2
therefore tries to conceal not only โunacceptableโ body impulses, but also the Thoughts of God, because both are threatening to it. โถBeing concerned primarily with its own preservation in the face of threat, the ego perceives them as the same. โทBy perceiving them as the same, the ego attempts to save itself from being swept away, as it would surely be in the presence of knowledge. 3. Any thought system that confuses God and the body must be insane. ยฒYet this confusion is essential to the ego, 3
which judges only in terms of threat or non-threat to itself. ยณIn one sense the egoโs fear of God is at least logical, since the idea of Him does dispel the ego. โดBut fear of the body, with which the ego identifies so closely, makes no sense at all. 4. The body is the egoโs home by its own election. ยฒIt is the only identification with which the ego feels safe, since the bodyโs vulnerability is its own best argument that you cannot be of God. ยณThis is the belief that the 4
ego sponsors eagerly. โดYet the ego hates the body, because it cannot accept it as good enough to be its home. โตHere is where the mind becomes actually dazed. โถBeing told by the ego that it is really part of the body and that the body is its protector, the mind is also told that the body cannot protect it. โทTherefore, the mind asks, โWhere can I go for protection?โ to which the ego replies, โTurn to me.โ โธThe mind, and not without cause, reminds the ego that it has itself 5
insisted that it is identified with the body, so there is no point in turning to _it_ for protection. โนThe ego has no real answer to this because there is none, but it does have a typical solution. ยนโฐIt obliterates the question from the mindโs awareness. ยนยนOnce out of awareness the question can and does produce uneasiness, but it cannot be answered because it cannot be asked. 5. This is the question that _must_ be asked: โWhere can I go for protection?โ ยฒโSeek and ye shall findโ 6
does not mean that you should seek blindly and desperately for something you would not recognize. ยณMeaningful seeking is consciously undertaken, consciously organized and consciously directed. โดThe goal must be formulated clearly and kept in mind. โตLearning and wanting to learn are inseparable. โถYou learn best when you believe what you are trying to learn is of value to you. โทHowever, not everything you may want to learn has lasting value. โธIndeed, many of the things you want to learn may be 7
chosen _because_ their value will not last. 6. The ego thinks it is an advantage not to commit itself to anything that is eternal, because the eternal must come from God. ยฒEternalness is the one function the ego has tried to develop, but has systematically failed to achieve. ยณThe ego compromises with the issue of the eternal, just as it does with all issues touching on the real question in any way. โดBy becoming involved with tangential 8
issues, it hopes to hide the real question and keep it out of mind. โตThe egoโs characteristic busyness with nonessentials is for precisely that purpose. โถPreoccupations with problems set up to be incapable of solution are favorite ego devices for impeding learning progress. โทIn all these diversionary tactics, however, the one question that is never asked by those who pursue them is, โWhat for?โ โธThis is the question that _you_ 9
must learn to ask in connection with everything. โนWhat is the purpose? ยนโฐWhatever it is, it will direct your efforts automatically. ยนยนWhen you make a decision of purpose, then, you have made a decision about your future effort; a decision that will remain in effect unless you change your mind. - A Course in Miracles (acim.org/acim/en/s/84#1:1-6:11 | T-4.V.1:1โ6:11) 10
โจ A Course in Miracles, read the complete Chapterย 4.V โThe Ego-Body Illusionโ: All things work together for good. There are no exceptions except in the egoโs judgment. The ego exertsโฆ
#MatrixDown: So, is the main issue of #Matrix too many users using the main instance, a condition actively pushed by #Vector, creating half-centralized ecosystem?
Is it the issue that #Matrix servers are a overly complex and resource hungry systems, which are hard to administrate and even harder to troubleshoot? ๐ค
Or is it a combination of these problems? Hmmm. ๐
No - running your own server is not really hard. I started using Matrix just a few days ago and from day two on I had my own server as soon as I found element-hq.github.io/synapse/lโฆ
You can either use Docker or run it native in Debian/Ubuntu. Using PostgreSQL instead of SQLite is recommened. Migrating after the initial setup is also possible but maybe a bit tricky.
I decided against Conduit as it is still beta and I did not want to deal with beta issues before even knowing how it should be with a stable server. Maybe I will give it try later. The server here has 32 GB RAM and 6 cores, so the additional load by Synapse is not a big deal so far.
Looks like it's good we're having different systems to test and use.
I'm testing @delta now and apart from privacy concerns I heard about in the past, it looks like a good, pretty much decentralized option to me, with low hosting and Admin efforts which also seems important to me for wide adoption.
Also try XMPP, that's very low effort, reliable, has been around for a while and is an IETF standard for instant messaging communication. Clients like Conversations by @daniel are simple and reliable and @dino works really well.
It even is a protocol exactly for that use-case. It's technology that makes me happy, as it just works well.
Well, I used #XMPP for 2 years or so, with #Jabber and #Dino on Windows. Very often messages were not delivered or not e2e encrypted, especially with the Dino clients.
It was hosted by a friend for a few people. The troubleshooting caused a lot of work for him. So we stopped it and moved to #Deltachat.
Muitos jogadores jรก estรฃo se aventurando em Hollow Knight Silksong, mas alguns deles podem ter dรบvidas sobre como funciona o sistema de save do jogo! Veja como salvar o progresso
โThereโs a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, the enemies of the state tend to become the people.โ
-William Adama, Battlestar Galactica (2004)
With Trump sending the military into more and more cities, the line feels more relevant than ever. So I turned it into a sticker. If youโd like the design, itโs free to use. As a subtle nod to Battlestar Galactica, I recommend clipping the corners.
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Hereโs a scarlet tanager (Piranga olivacea)โfemale, I believe. I captured this image years ago while she lingered in an oak tree just beyond my fence. It was the first time Iโd photographed one, and I remember thinking: maybe Iโll see a male someday. Who knows.
If youโre captivated by indigo buntings and other members of the Cardinalidae familyโbetter known as the cardinal familyโstep into my photo gallery for a visual feast. Come take a look:
What if the real flouride conspiracy is that Alex Jones is trying to give people that listen to his show cavities and most people should increase flouride intake and brush their teeth with flouride toothoaste more often and only a small percent would have better health if they reduced intake
But flouride water can still pose health problems for infants because it is easier for them to accidentally have too much flourude
anecdotal refutation: I have not used fluoridated toothpaste for over 20 years. I have had zero tooth cavities. My mouth feels healthy and teeth are strong.
Tooth health is mostly due to diet, not what you brush your teeth with.
Angela Rayner, already disgraced and forced to resign, is now being lined up for a payout funded by the very taxpayers she betrayed. The TaxPayersโ Alliance has called her out for what she is: a complete hypocrite.
Ordinary Britons are being hammered with record taxes, mortgages, and bills. Families are counting pennies, pensioners are choosing between heating and eating, and veterans are sleeping on the streets. Yet somehow, when it comes to failed politicians, thereโs always money to spare. Always a cushy parachute. Always one rule for them, another for us.
Raynerโs scandals should have ended her career. Instead, she might walk away with a reward, paid out of the pockets of people who have been crushed by the very government she was part of. Thatโs not just wrong, itโs insulting.
If Labour cared about integrity, theyโd block this payout immediately. If Keir Starmer had a backbone, heโd demand she refuse a penny. But we all know how this goes, excuses, spin, and silence while the public is fleeced yet again.
๐ฌ๐ง Enough is enough. No golden handshakes for hypocrites. No taxpayer bailouts for failed politicians. Sack them, strip them, and make them live by the same rules as the rest of us.
Angela Rayner has been branded a "complete hypocrite" by William Yarwood as he demanded that the ex-Deputy Prime Minister does not receive a Government payout, following her resignation.
On a rainy day in 2025, I found poetry in a single drop. Where water meets life, stillness becomes wonder. This piece is my tribute to the beauty of the ordinary โ to the quiet moments that speak louder than words. linktr.ee/M.ALK
Discover the world through my lens and brush: from wild primates in deep contemplation to delicate watercolor cacti kissed by dew. Original art for nature lovers. Prints available.
I must say I'm surprised at how closely my own developed opinion and vision for solarpunk is to @eruditelijah
There's only one thing I would like to emphasize just because I think it's really important, and that is that solarpunk is, or at least should be, activist fiction. The writing of it is activist, the choices of topic are activist, the characters have activist tendencies that offer us role models. This aspect of solarpunk fiction is what makes it valuable in the now, imo
@amici @eruditelijah I wrote a piece on nonbinariness awhile back for @solarpunkgnome 's excellent series on Solarpunk & Spirituality. Applies here (imho) re: solarpunk writing have overt activism. Yes! And we need more!
We also need the aspirational writing that gets us to dream bigger and seeds inspiration. So we need the present, the far future, and ways to get there. We need it all in the generative engine of #solarpunk. @SolarpunkPrompts has some great ideas about missing pieces.
Personally I don't like the far-future, it gets escapist very quickly because it requires too much of a leap of imagination to get there. It becomes sort-of like a nice dream, but not an actionable dream.
However, if we can find a path to get there that works in writing, all the better.
Maybe a version of the saga-format could work? Sagas, a literally style from my own country of Norway and developed in the viking age, tackle generational events.
For instance, Snorre's King Sagas, written after the viking age, outlines the biographies of every king of Norway across hundreds of years
Instead of kings, you can have community sagas, biographies of communities with the focus on a few representative characters, detailing their contributions to community change from birth to old age. Over several books you have the full evolution of a community from, for instance, early 21st century to 23rd century
@amici I actually really like that saga idea! I enjoy far future stuff too, but I do think most solarpunk does focus on near future or even alt history.
I've been thinking about creating a story of sorts that focuses on how the world can change from today on into the far future, so I may check out that story you suggested to get an idea on how to go about that.
Focusing on community rather than a few 'main characters' is the key to this I think too.
@eruditelijah I must admit I just mentioned Snorre's King Sagas because I'm a history buff, it's more like an early work of history writing and has a very simple style, though it does focuses on changes in the Kingdom through time, but for an example of modern saga you have "Sagaen om Isfolket", transl. to English as "The Legend of the Ice People" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leโฆ, a friend of mine really likes that series.
@eruditelijah One might take inspiration from the historical style to make a history of the future, but one could also simply just write a series of texts, where in each text you follow some community members as their community changes from a young age until they're old, then in the next text, you shift focus to new young characters in the community while the previous ones are old people and background characters. This way there's a slight bit of chronological overlap of texts.
@eruditelijah I'm not a solarpunk novel writer because I'm already committed to my own fantasy book series, so anyone please take this idea and try to realize it, otherwise it might just be forgotten
@eruditelijah @amici actually, the mosaic novel (linked story collection) that I'm pitching works something like this as it spirals through about 200 years to the future I've dreamed.
@amici Yes I think that activism piece is a huge and important part! Sad I didn't mention that explicitly, but I felt it was implied via the ideas of punk itself.
However it's becoming more apparent to me that some people don't realize the inherent activist stance of punk as a genre across art forms.
That's so interesting to read. Thanks for posting!
From where i am sitting in Europe/Denmark it feels like a lot of the critical confusion is very US culture centric. #Solarpunk began in South America and southern Europe, and I think that matters to its valence.
In Europe, I experience renewable energy, inc. community green energy, as normal and large scale, getting community benefits from corporate renewable energy is normal (although massively problematic) etc.
I just wrote a definition of #solarpunk for an academic glossary of terms, but I refused to define it, instead wrote a solarounk short story... because, for me, solarpunk is something you _do_. It's more verb than noun...
@laurawatts This jibes with a solarpunk narrative arc I've been offering. Each point on the spiral (not linear) is purposely a verb. "How to solarpunk." Susan, that's also how you titled one of your mini zines, yes?
@laurawatts Your writing and contribution to solarpunk is wonderful! Quoting you: "...solarpunk is known for its age-of-sail aesthetic, for its science-fiction-as-activism, for its sunlit exuberance, and for kicking over the anthills (Flynn 2019). Solarpunk is not for defining. Writing a theoretical definition of solarpunk in a typical passive, academic writing style would not be solarpunk. You have to do it. Solarpunk is more verb than noun."
I hope Elijah comes to Fediverse, it's "very punk": Strangers making and sharing tech to communicate, with no expected ROI, just human connection. (yeah there's misery profiteers in the wider Fedi, but nowhere near the level of the silo corporate platforms like Bluesky, Tiktok, Meta, etc). Just the idea that there's all these independent admins pro bono running instances for total strangers is hella Solarpunk to me.
I sometimes wonder if ppl misunderstand Solarpunk because people think that the only way to rebel against oppression is fugly physical combat? Totally missing the innumerous times other strategies have succeeded too. The idea that rebellion can ONLY be direct violence seems like a fairy tale oppressive people tell to keep folks from trying other perfectly effective methods. Cuz violent oppressors already intuit how to deal with violent resistence. They don't know how to perceive of the impacts of concepts like malicious compliance, weaponized hope, undaunted kindness, or contageous self respect.
@growfediverse Totally agree. The write-up was a great read, and it made me realize something: people donโt understand why depicting a better future is itself an act of resistance. The reason is because the capitalistsโ most effective method of self-preservation, the whole reason they are winning, is by convincing people that no other desirable system is possible.
One of capitalismโs greatest victories of the 20th century was the use of the Cold War to thoroughly entrench the idea in the West that there are only two possible modern political-economic systems: 1) capitalism and 2) authoritarian single-party centrally-planned โcommunismโ (in quotes since I think itโs not what most communists think the word means, but itโs the only thing that most non-communists think it means).
Capitalists argue that if you donโt want the latter, you have to accept the former, there is no other way.
@growfediverse Iโve never thought of truly hopeful futures as utopian (though cynical bate-and-switch utopias appear all the time in dystopias). The point of hopeful future stories, to me, is to depict something radically different from what we have today that actually works, at least as well as our current system seems to work for many still-comfortable people in it, and most likely at least a little better for the many who are not ok today.
The point is not to just make us feel good about the future, whatever that might bring. And the point is also not to tell a story about some characters who are resisting, like the characters are inspiration for our own resistance (though those stories can be useful too). When stories show specific models of non-capitalist, non-authoritarian political/economic/social systems, the telling of that story is itself the real-world act of resistance.
@growfediverse Those in power weaponized doomerism to convince people that, even if our reality sucks, itโs the only thing possible. They argue that getting rid of any elements of capitalism means no functioning economy whatsoever. Criticize all you want, you still have to live with it.
Showing feasible alternatives is the counter-tactic. Showing what it means for workers to own businesses, for local communities to use other methods of public safety and justice, for representation by e.g. sortition beyond the control of money and influence, for collective decision-making by positive-sum consensus-building, etc.
Get people interested enough to look up the ideas, then they can see these things are already being done, that can be done now. Teaching people how to make the transition is important too. But they have to believe there are alternatives that can actually work. That breaks the stranglehold of the capitalist narrative. Then, people will build them.
"I sometimes wonder if ppl misunderstand #Solarpunk because people think that the only way to rebel against oppression is fugly physical combat? Totally missing the innumerous times other strategies have succeeded too. The idea that rebellion can ONLY be direct violence seems like a fairy tale oppressive people tell to keep folks from trying other perfectly effective methods. Cuz violent oppressors already intuit how to deal with violent resistence. They don't know how to perceive of the impacts of concepts like malicious compliance, weaponized hope, undaunted kindness, or contageous self respect." Exactly, @bluespruce!
*sniffs, tugs at shirt* You know, the true perversity of Evangelion is not the obvious Freudian symbology -- the mother in the robot, the father who abandons, and so on and so on -- but rather how it stages the fundamental deadlock of the otaku subject under late capitalism.
*gestures wildly* Here you have Shinji, the perfect neoliberal subject: he doesn't want to pilot the Eva, he hates it, but he does it anyway! Why? Because of some abstract duty? No! Because he has already internalized the superego injunction to enjoy his own exploitation. "I mustn't run away" - this is not courage, this is the purest ideology!
*touches nose* But the real obscenity -- and here Anno is a true genius, whether he knows it or not -- is how the series presents instrumentalisation itself as traumatic. NERV literally dissolves the boundary between human and machine, mother and weapon, and what do we get? Not liberation but pure anxiety! The EVA units are the perfect metaphor for our digital predicament: we are told these technologies will extend our capabilities, make us posthuman, but instead we discover *laughs darkly* that we were always already instruments!
Gendo's Human Instrumentality Project is just making explicit what capitalism already does: reducing humans to pure exchangeable substance, orange goo, the ultimate liquidity!
*sniff* And the masterstroke is the ending - not the false happy ending of End of Evangelion, but the original episodes 25 and 26, where the budget runs out and we get pure interiority. *waves hands* "Congratulations!" they all say to Shinji. But for what? For accepting his place in the symbolic order? This is the ultimate perversity: the show literally cannot afford to show the apocalypse, so instead it stages the real catastrophe - the subject accepting his own subjection as liberation! The production committee pulls the funding, and Anno turns this material limitation into the perfect metaphor for ideological closure!
*adjusts shirt violently* You know what nobody wants to admit? Evangelion is not about robots or aliens or whatever -- it's about the impossibility of authentic action under capitalism. Every character is trapped in their own repetition compulsion: Misato drinks, Asuka performs superiority, Rei submits to erasure; and the Angels? The Angels are just the return of the repressed, the stupid insistence of the Real that says: your little techno-military complex cannot contain the trauma of existence!
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"The 'free lunch' in the saying refers to the formerly common practice in American bars of offering a 'free lunch' in order to entice drinking customers." and by drinking we of course mean alcohol, e.g. drug dealing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_โฆ
Thisย Human Factors International presentationย (ppt) references something called a Columbia Obstruction Device:
I couldnโt find any actual references to the Columbia University science experiment theyโre referring to, but it certainly seems plausibleโฆ
It's hilariously wild to me how much more reach my Pixelfed posts have over Instagram.
I just started a new Instagram (for work, I have Meta, but you need it to reach out to influencers and stuff), and there are three likes on about 40 photos.
I just uploaded two new photos to my Pixelfed, and BAM, likes are FLOODING IN because I use the proper hashtags.
IG is straight-up garbage for creatives and photographers.
Weโve just crossed 100 posts on !videogames@piefed.social.
After a week of building and curating, the community already has 58 subscribersโand itโs only getting started.
Iโve been thinking hard about the kind of place I want this to be. The vision comes down to three things:
Real conversations about games
Minimal memes
Zero outrage culture
I want this community to be about joyโa space for people who actually play video games to share what excites them. Not a dumping ground for culture wars. Not another echo chamber for Gamergate-era nonsense.
Games are for everyone. And everyone should feel comfortable digging deep here. Talk about an obscure Japanese console. Explore weird European PCs. Or break down the craft behind how a game actually got made. Thatโs the stuff I want to see flourish.
Hereโs to the next 100 postsโand beyond. Come join in:
Oรน on apprend que Stรฉrin continue d'รฉtendre son emprise dรฉgueulasse et travaille ร rendre impossible d'รฉchapper ร son idรฉologie fasciste et chrรฉtienne intรฉgriste.
Oรน on apprend รฉgalement que le volet technique a รฉtรฉ en partie rรฉalisรฉ par l'รฉquipe de Nota Bene qui va devoir s'expliquer parce qu'il รฉtait plutรดt rรฉglo jusque lร .
(D'ailleurs si des gens ont Bluesky et se sentent d'interpeller le "camarade" vidรฉaste, je suis curieux de sa rรฉponse...)
Un nouveau lieu culturel ouvre ses portes ร Parisย : la Citรฉ immersive des Fables, dรฉdiรฉe ร l'ลuvre de La Fontaine. Un lieu ร la scรฉnographie et ร la mรฉdiation rรฉussies.
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"Evidement que j'emmerde le front national" (FR: Franรงais)
"Obviously I don't give a damn about the National Front" (EN: English)
Source: instagram:@le_felin.noir
Original: https://gateway.ipfs.anarchiststickersarchive.
Woops. I found my Christian parent's "marriage enhancers" in my teens on accident, so I know they are cool with it if I ever sent something to the wife/parent group chat on accident.
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๐ค Anthropic recently release a threat report that shows how threat actors are using their model Claude. Here are some of the highlights:
ใป Vibe hacking: Criminals are using Claude Code to perform real intrusions, doing reconnaissance, extortion, at a scale that one human alone could not reach
ใป Remote worker fraud: North Korean IT workers are simulating professional competence through AI at Fortune 500 companies
ใป No-code malware: Threat actors with little technical skill are generating ransomware-as-a-service packages with evasion techniques and selling them for about $400
ใป Fraud at scale: Carding stores, romance scams and synthetic identities, AI is embedded across the fraud supply chain and make it even more easy for them
I think it is interesting to see how threat actors are leveraging AI as those patterns are the ones you may want to detect in your future AI systems.
I'm trying something new! A video mini-series of me reliving how I deconstructed my life and came to terms with what it meant to be Autistic, and what it's like to live and travel in a van.
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Anyone who thinks that the Right wing press targeted Angela Rayner because they were outraged & representing their readers mores/values, has missed the point.
Rayner was targeted because she was dangerous - her back story made her appealing to the very voters the Right press wants to steer towards ReformUK.
There is no such thing as a disinterested political hatchet job... ask yourself who benefits from Rayner's departure?
@spanghero Just a question really. The Telegraph journalists who broke this story must have had some initial clues provided to get them to start digging. Who tipped them off, and why?
Well, as I sort of implied earlier, I would be hardly surprised if the initial suggestion of a potential story came from within the Labour Party's Right wing
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