FreeSchool=Co-Op+Friendship🔁? @freeschool@qoto.org

#Trans #Rights #Events (May):

https://whatthetrans.com/compilation-of-protests-against-the-supreme-court/

Location Details

#Belfast – Sat. 17th May, 12:30PM, Writer’s Square

#Cheltenham – Sat.
17th. May

#Sheffield Sat 17th May, Winter Garden, 2:30pm
And
Sat 10th May, Sheffield Town Hall, 2pm

#London STRIVE protest march – Sun 25th May 2025, 10am

#Ipswich Sat 17th May, 1pm, Ipswich town hall

#Edinburgh Sat 17th May, #Scottish #Parliament Building, 1PM #Scotland

#Newport Sat 17th May, #Gilligan’s Island, 12pm

@470m #ALTTEXT about #Scottish #Parliament #Building, #Edinburgh, 17th May, 1PM #Scotland

says:

Stand up, fight back. #Protest against the supreme #court ruling and subsequent EHRC guidance attempting to segregate #trans people and strip them of their #rights.

#mycelium #networks defy neat categorizations --

they are at once #singular and #plural,

both #individual spores and #interconnected colony

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium

- lemon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇧🇷 #quote #quotes
@lemon

https://mastodon.scot/@lemon/109496044071392173

I think this could be useful for people coming together not just #anarchists #protestors #rebel #environmentalists #rebels #anti #colonial #Capitalism #AntiFascist #AntiFa #antifascism #protest people etc

but general #friendship / #Friends ... in any #biological #colony

#Money Alternative?

IF only we could gave each other something else than only money and then grow something else better between us meantime (mental and/or physical sense of the currency / it's #philosophy)...

The above is the main point and from that I'm searching for something else a bit more reliable and not saying "no money" though ideally #Banks and bad war-funding people OUT.

More than giving physical shells or coins or "respect" or jewels or "nature" and land to each other... just a bit more something else which grows another mentality (like #Payitforward or #DIY or #SmallisBeautiful #Recycling / anything else good at the same time as all that exists now... (I don't mean "scrap money").

So not #crypto in that extreme but some evolution that ticks a lot of boxes like that and actually proves itself utility like #monero / #bitcoin has even when States have tried to block it in early days and perhaps have had to try co-opt it instead as it's own compliment to #cryptography in some ways...

🔴 ENERGY ALWAYS COSTS US AND NATURE whichever way you go...

ALL attempts at keeping energy involve burning energy and more cost than just keeping it.
(I think that's right)

All this I think DEMANDS accepting wholeheartedly that you cannot try preserve what isn't on it own already doing it for you without processing / damaging / transforming things and that costs over time. Ideally just making people are fed (and not needing currency almost at all) but also in political situation WE NEED TO UNITE every time we spend ALSO.

Maybe only a volcano or natural acids can do their thing on their own but not sure much else can... or how things be used to promote a "currency for good" ?

This is part of this post (finding a currency AND THEN trying to grow better mentality from the exchanges, rather banks that devalue or are allowed use THEIR MONEY for wars etc).

Money changes make everyone poor. And poorly exchange your life for it constantly losing it's value and utility BY DESIGN increasingly with fees %'s back-room goal post changing #quantativeeasing etc...

ALL attempts at keeping energy involve burning energy costs:

electricity storage and transport are very wasteful, batteries more so and aren't great. Many things just cost life purely from existing and the want by mankind to exist in a longer ways costs more (it's always DISPLACED energy and cost).

Maybe pickled gherkins in vinegar are truly lasting longer without much more needed and reliable as food (can reuse the glass and even metal top to some degree) and even drinking the diluted acid after or for cleaning things etc.

Now we have a lot at massive #cost of #transport (#inefficiency is #embedded just to be able to get you #electricity per #mile...)

(though that has worked in it's own way if you can accept EVERYTHING is burning the planet,

My feelings about social on #Fediverse / #Mastodon - it's all positively said even if right now it's not as positive as this current outlook:

...Quality of People: Low ⬇️ 📉
...External Doubt / Paranoia: ⬆️ 📈

therefore:
...Personal Progress: Low ⬇️ 📉
...Observed Cowering in Corners: ⬆️ 📈

More 2-Way Comms / warmer people and even friendship-making needed.

#Fediverse is more than just a software-protocol, so it needs *people* to be social or trained others how to make friends more often.

Problem is that not everyone knows how to make #friends and always specifically why... but they do want to be in #meetup #events / #festivals / #clubs etc which is why they visit in person in the hope better things happen between people.

So with less in-person events or more regulations, I think online is perfect for this real social to happen, kind of like regular dating program to find someone but not being too desperate, just much more toned down to see who else is out there seeing the potential in two people really finding almost mutually-#random things to work on, or those that simply have #free #time to #help out.

If we just buy and sell each other for specific commercial #projects as the main required #relationships, then nothing much better happens from it.

#Summary:
Social is not very Social: 🚫 ⛔ but could be...

And from that better social grows and solves it's own things (my things and yours). @luna

@lemon

#ALTTEXT from #Mushroom #Fungi picture:

"Fungi challenge us to rethink neat categories around the individual, but they are not the only ones. Another boundary-defying organism is the Slime Mold. These unicellular eukaryotic organisms have the astonishing capacity to join and become a complex multicellular organism. Slime Molds will merge and move as a collective which allows them to better respond to their shifting environments, search for food, and have sex. In a world that feels increasingly precarious, there are lessons here. Devin Cohen, one of the Hanky Project artists, writes that for them, Slime Molds reflect the possibilities for queer communities to work collectively, dissemble the refuse of our human world -- capitalism, environmental waste, cis-hetero-patriarchy, racism -- and 'digest it into something life giving, healed, welcoming and weird.' In a country where toxic individualism has wreaked havoc, where mantras like 'pull yourself up by the bootstraps,' are presented as means for 'success,' organisms that choose to come together present a radical and refreshing alternative."

- #Quote from the book:
Exuberant Possibilities : Queer Ecology Hanky Project

Photo is of pages 18 and 19 of the book as displayed during the exhibit, Earth Archives. the page is typed in light purple text. the page is illustrated with a blue-green block print of a mushroom centaur holding a crystal staff .. many blue-green block print #honey mushrooms also decorate the page.

#Mold Molds #Alternative #eukaryotic #multicellular #centaur