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nico beastie boyce

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nico beastie boyce
2 mesi fa • •

love seeing my little guy enjoying exercise. at 8 you couldn't have made me play with a ball for all the pogs in woolies

small boy bouncing a ball sticking his tongue out

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to nico beastie boyce • 2 mesi fa • •

@nico beastie boyce This picture is both wholesome and incredibly dynamic, I can’t fathom how you got it just right.

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Alfonso

2 mesi fa • •

54 scatti straordinari che raccontano la bellezza del nostro pianeta

Daniel Kordan esplora il mondo alla ricerca dei luoghi più remoti da fotografare, paesaggi che incantano per la loro bellezza e unicità.Un profondo amore

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Bloomberg

2 mesi fa • •

Bloomberg
2 mesi fa • •

US Acts Against Foreign Ownership of Farmland Amid China Tension
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/us-acts-against-foreign-ownership-of-farmland-amid-china-tension?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Il jihadismo ha radici antiche Intervista con Domenico Quirico

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articolo21.org/2025/07/il-jiha…
Da Napoleone Bonaparte ad Hamas, il tema del jihadismo è all’ordine del giorno da ormai tre secoli. Partendo da questo presupposto, Domenico Quirico, giornalista e inviato di guerra

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saraaaaargh

2 mesi fa • •

saraaaaargh
2 mesi fa • •

From local Freecycle ... This feels like a trap

OFFER: Tower PC ([location redacted]) New listing
Good condition, complete with keyboard, mouse, webcam & wifi adapter. A reasonably recent machine, no longer coping with Windows. Instead, it has a user-friendly, secure linux operating system, with vast amounts of free software available for it. If you have not used linux before, it is very easy to use - just come in for 15mins to see the simple method for using and maintaining the system.

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Heroku's Basilisk

in reply to saraaaaargh • 2 mesi fa • •

it's just a guy yelling "JUST INSTALL LINUX" at you for 15 minutes

witchescauldron

2 mesi fa • •

witchescauldron
2 mesi fa • •

Activism is inherently messy, and that’s its strength. The magic happens in the balancing act. The Beautiful Insanity of Activism: How Movements Rot or Blossom hamishcampbell.com/the-beautif…

#OMN (Open Media Network)

2025-02-27 20:49:28

The Beautiful Insanity of Activism: How Movements Rot or Blossom

Let’s face it — activism and counter-culture are packed with “insane” people. And thank the gods for that. It’s what makes movements exciting, dynamic, and, most importantly, effective. But like compost, too much of the wrong stuff makes the pile stink. Balance is everything. So, let’s look at this: what causes a movement to stagnate, fail, or bloom into a riotous field of wildflowers?
The Rot (or: Why Your Movement Smells Bad)

NGO’ists: These bureaucratic barnacles latch onto everything, molding it into whatever’s fundable and fashionably bland. They hoard resources, fill minds with paperwork, and slowly suffocate radical energy. They’re like termites with business cards.
Encryptionists: Paranoid fuckists who turn usability into a sin and sell fantasies of invulnerability. They preach security like a cult, but the reality is half-baked systems no one can use and a movement too scared to talk to itself.
Traditional Media Panderers: Useful in small doses, but quickly start reshaping the movement to fit mainstream narratives. Before you know it, your radical campaign against fossil fuels is being sold as a quirky “green lifestyle choice.”
Horizontal Dotcom’ists: Desperate to ride the movement into start-up glory. If they build with the #4opens, great. If not, they’re a distraction at best and a flaming wreck at worst when people actually try to use their half-built platforms.
Insecure and Nasty Lifestylists: Attracted to successful grassroots projects like flies to rot. They thrive on internal drama and are fed by the media panderers. Enough of them and your movement eats itself alive.
Hidden Careerists: Often competent and useful — until they start networking with the NGO’ists and media grifters to build personal brands instead of movements.
Paranoid Fuckwits: The paranoid glue of grassroots campaigns. In small doses, they help keep things tight. But let them accumulate in leadership, and the infighting becomes an art form.
Dogmatic Liberals: Lovely people, but the human equivalent of wet blankets. They block anything genuinely disruptive because it makes them uncomfortable, ensuring nothing truly radical gets off the ground.

The Bloom (or: Why the Garden Still Grows)

Hands-off NGO’s: The quiet good ones. They funnel resources without sucking the life out of movements. A rare species, but precious.
User-Focused KISS Peer2Peer’ists: The heroes fighting uphill to (re)boot the #openweb with simple, human-centered tools. They understand that people need tech they can actually use, not just theorize about.
Traditional Media Outreaches: The rare media people who amplify grassroots work without distorting it to fit mainstream appetites. They build bridges, not cages.
Horizontal Dotcoms (Done Right): Working on open, federated sustainability instead of chasing VC cash. They build tools for the movement, not to sell the movement.
Healthy Lifestylists: Learning to balance intense campaigning with actual human joy. Letting go of burnout culture and building connected, grounded lives.
Open Careerists: Using the movement to bootstrap themselves — but carrying open values like a Trojan horse into the belly of institutions. Someone has to infiltrate the beast.
Secure Organising Crews: Understanding that collective security is a shared responsibility. Keeping things calm, focused, and handling offline realities without spiraling into paranoia.
Liberal Liberals: The ones who bring just enough common sense to stop things from exploding, but not so much that they kill the spark.

The Chaotic Harmony

Activism is inherently messy, and that’s its strength. The magic happens in the balancing act. A movement with too many paranoid fuckwits or NGO’ists collapses under its own weight. But a movement with a little bit of everything — the wild-eyed dreamers, the practical builders, the media-savvy storytellers, and the steady hands keeping it all together — can actually change the world.
Because, at the end of the day, movements grow like compost. You need some rot. You need some shit. But you also need people willing to shovel through it, plant seeds, and tend the garden. And maybe, just maybe, you need to be a little bit mad to stick around long enough to see it bloom.

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Özgür Kesim

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Özgür Kesim
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Update 20250708:

The fediverse added a delay of over a month for this to propagate. I had posted the toot on 20250602 in preparation of a talk¹ on this topic at the #ngiforum25 in Brussels two weeks later, and only got a handful of answers. Now, more than a month later, answers are rushing in!
Thanks everyone!!
¹) If you are interested in my talk "Digital Freedom meets Digital Payments", here it is: webcast.ec.europa.eu/ngi-forum…

To all developers of #FOSS:

I'm interested in your experiences and opinions of funding #FOSS. How to maintain freedom and secure financial stability.

Which strategies work, which don't? Like: grants from public institutions, donations from companies, donations from users, subscription models, ad revenue, sponsors, etc. etc.
What are your experiences with those strategies?

And: Do you think an anonymous payment system like #GNUTaler, along with its anonymous subscription service capabilities, could be helpful and to what degree?

What other ideas do you have?

I'm looking forward to answers, comments and shares!

List of sessions - Streaming Service of the European Commission

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#foss #gnutaler #ngiforum25

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midzer

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From my perspective, voluntary donations like the #GitHub sponsor functionality do not work.

It's been introduced before M$ took over and few people use it. When it was released, I was really excited and tried it out. Miserably, times changed now.

Maybe it's because devs don't want to support other devs or decision-making power of companies don't care (or know) what software they use.

The general, sad opinion is: "Software has to be free (as in beer), so why pay someone who develops it?"

#github

The Washington Post

2 mesi fa • •

The Washington Post
2 mesi fa • •

Column | Croutons add a coveted crunch to these ranch chicken salad wraps
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/07/08/ranch-chicken-wrap-croutons/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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TechCrunch

2 mesi fa • •

TechCrunch
2 mesi fa • •

7 days until doors open at TechCrunch All Stage — and up to $475 in ticket savings vanish
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TechCrunch All Stage kicks off in Boston in less than 7 days, and your chance to save up to $475 disappears when it does. Save now.

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vimac76

2 mesi fa • •

vimac76
2 mesi fa • •

Venezia non si vende: denunciamo la svendita della città al matrimonio di Bezos - Firma la petizione! chng.it/DzVfHfvZk4 via @ChangeItalia

Venezia non si vende: denunciamo la svendita della città al matrimonio di Bezos

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vimac76

Unknown parent • 2 mesi fa • •

@Otttoz ma magari! A cominciare dalla BauBauMontaruli, dalla Santanché fino giù giù a tutti gli amministratori pubblici colpevoli

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