@mina I hope you ate the pumpkins after !! ?? 🎃 🍽️
Such a work of art comes as a high cost I know (I've grown a lot too but don't dare leave them out to go bad!)...
Actually how long before you have to shovel the art in a wheelbarrow and onto the compost? (At least the bugs had it!)
Big cheers to our friends in the US doing their #NoKings protests!
@eWalthert @mastodonmigration @djrrb @SrRochardBunson @typearture 833 Followers as of this post - let me know when it skyrockets even more! And I'd like to check back also (easy to forget but this helps ping me THANKS for the colour !)
Defenders Of Democracy Artwork
NEW! Check out this wonderful hilarious Defenders Of Democracy AI free original artwork from artist Edgar Walthert @eWalthert!
Free to use. Pass it on! Promote here and on other social media.
Link to PDF: https://ewalthert.com/*/DefendersOfDemocracy.pdf
#Fascist? Difference between the word "fascist" used for normal modern people that don't care enough and really bad "Fascist" (there is a BIG difference)...
@xankarn I like your post at the top a lot -
I saw after something I think we have to be careful with as there is a fine line between many people who do care on low / high spectrum (even to comment otherwise wouldn't care enough to ask why) so it's good to not really quickly exclude these people or even write them off so easily as all or nothing support us or fuck off.
I don't mean those that have a profile full of bad stuff more professionally - but really at protest people have asked me similar things (which in person is more clear) and they have been mom and dad people too full of weird concern / old or new ways and yes some fascistic things they will take to their death. But it's good not to condemn them so quick, even online.
I'll give you an example but from the 'best of us' types of people here on #Fediverse - some of hero level (Teachers, Privacy advocates, whole range) and they have said some actually wild or vile stuff (like seconds from the message of me saying I'm a fan or appreciate them) - and THAT got me angry. "Lesson I learned" was "from nothing" people can actually create more antagonism or enemies from someone actually over-genuine or over-writing (as you do to your hero's or wanted to help overly).
It was like totally unexpected - I totally was not sending those vibes and they literally created it double back to me (I don't know how guessing so clearly wrong or not asking more or not reading more into my message or all my posts allows people made them make such big mistakes - so it shows even the best have these things. Almost opposite and this 'fine' line of fascism (I could say they are... and actually I'm reconsidering this post but I'm sure in person they are better or their history says so, so I have to forgive and not chase them as a fan or co-creator, or anything - which is a human shame and part of all this problem when you can't even join the good people even a bit)
So seriously careful with PUTTING people into labeling them and blocking quickly and therefore not even allowing much room to work with them slowly (or indirectly from your good posts) - the long-burn convincing or even let them realise on their own,,, is golden - and it may even be low % but usually the people who care also speak so again have to be careful and see from profiles or not have to guess and condemn people so wildly to lose even 20% of those asking what's the point...
Again I know there is a % nativity and plenty of bad - but responding in unhelpful way also isn't great - even in my nativity saying MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT THAT FASCIST or as extreme as we feel asking questions we find hard to answer.
It's true they don't care but I've been writing about #fascism as a word being used for people that don't care enough (and there is a BIG difference).
So don't be too quick, check their profile and honestly even from the left that block the left - It does create *more* anger rather than allowing people to speak a bit - as there is a natural sparring or sword fighting that happens to get our minds in better shape... nothing that wrong with saying "what's the point?" and letting people practice answers if they are not a professional fascist.
Remember fascism come frmo authoritarian hierarchical government (or governing) like #state and #banks (which many people are under IF NOT ALL and some thing negative maths or numbers are neutral - even Left / Liberal people so needs a whole re-format of people brain since they were born into money thinKING is ok), Obviously money and that hierarchy is the problem (but not everyone is there yet or willing to do everything without money more often)
LONG STORY SHORT:
It is going to take a long time for all the specrum and points - and sometimes it's not as clear getting rid of Trump either - and getting the next one to jump in the financial hot-seat. It's all the rich-isms and even comfy people with it too (sorry a lot have it after spending time in studying / wondering why good people have similar isms)... ⏲️ Time.
Thanks for reading, even reading once more to get the points...
Much love to the #NoKings people and #Animal dressers out there (#Frogs and #unicorns etc),
⚠️ Admittedly lots of hashtags to really sort this #Fascist thing a bit more - as people unversed use for everyone imperfect much like those being a #Terrorist incorrectly used by the other sides. Too easy to call people fascist and terrorists. Could say people don't care or have relativity (it's not the same but often more true)
#Portland #Antifa #Frog #Frogs #AntiFascistFrog #Trump FrogBrigade
P,S For those that can talk 'long' -
I'd like to know how we can continue this good work with the lesser / smaller #bigboss baddies ❓ ...because after this I feel like they go under the radar because it's so integrated and born-in as a system.
(just an after-thought).
Thanks again for reading / considering / adjusting / staying true and passionate.
We went to #NoKings with my mother-in-law. Her father was in a Nazi prison camp as a resister, & survived. She & her husband escaped Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, traveled by ship from Germany to NY as refugees. Arrived in NY harbor in the morning fog, which lifted to reveal, the Statue of Liberty. 🇺🇸
@GeriAQuin I think adding "AI" on to the pic and text would be fine...
Protest works.
Keep it up, Frogs and unicorns.
🐸 🦄
@sjar I'm sure some people don't want #citizenship...
- they want human respect, care and real safety - so paying for wars via #taxes (one the first things to citizenship) and paying bad people structures does you not achieve you that even with citizenship.
Life today is like offering 2 bad choices...
Am I far wrong?
#FrancescaAlbanese account - to link and involve more people and extend ourselves out...
@FranceskAlbs Hello,
I was writing about a #FrancescaAlbanese and then came across this account via someone else's feed @FranceskAlbs
so I hope eventually the real person gets on Mastodon and checks the hashtag #FrancescaAlbanese for my post 1 day ago (https://qoto.org/@freeschool/115395189237601657)
I understand people might not have time but MUST be a way to link good people in... and even converse with their busy time (to involve more people and extend out)
Good coincidence and shows #FreeSchool <--- linking good people well
Report: Greta Thunberg detailed the torture & abuse she & other Flotilla participants suffered in Israeli detention.
Thunberg says she was repeatedly kicked by guards, forced to undress, & deprived of food & water.
"If Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors.”
#Thunberg #IsraeliCrimes #GazaFlotilla #palestine #USPol #Europol .
#Mastodon #Rewards
Some incentive and respect #system towards #more-social / pro-#social #movements in healthy way - because without it you have quiet empty software / shallow posts and no real trust and relationship #building.
So promoting, accepting, using all types of people with a #reward helps increment #trust slowly in the #Fediverse. Let me know what you think of the picture - #FreeSchool
#AltText
An edited picture (from other rewards system) - not real but re-edited towards #respect / #reward given n social for Mastodon #ecosystem etc by sending reward of some kind (doesn't have to be #crypto).
Important parts of Text say "How do I contribute to websites and creators?"
and "puts your privacy over #BigTech's profit... With rewards, you can directly #support websites and #creators"
So creators and people can all get together more and not be so #scared online...
Source re-edited from Brave Rewards:
https://brave.com/brave-rewards/
⚠️ I replied to the #consent email but with a #question (so not "yes" or "allow") and it accepted that as consent :)
🎈 So maybe that needs checking better... as I didn't really consent and more wanted to know more!
So I wanted to ask before the consent something - the question was:
❓ "What do you use for automating the #alttext?"
❓ "How does it work as a automated process?"
This could go in the auto-email same to with the #privacy link & while asking for #consent.
Maybe it's not in #github or as clearly either so feels like it is important enough to be said how it's done and the process magic... as I have no idea!...
Thanks a lot for #answers...
I'm blind and for me alt text is the Big Special Thing about Mastodon. If someone posts a meme, I'm in on the joke. Someone shares beautifiul moss, or their cat, I'm in on the beauty or fun or whatever. I'm now 62, and this is the first time I entered a community and a culture where people grant me this kind of access and community. So grateful for people who do alt text.
@anantagd @coffee4danz That's so much more wholesome than chiding people for not doing alt text. Thank you.
"Free School" is a movement and hashtag continuing the 60's & 70's practice of educational living and learning life together towards #DIY & #Caring (at the same time).
#FreeSchool or https://qoto.org/web/tags/freeschool = #Fediverse #Notes #Quotes #Books #Videos #Talks #Websites towards #Freedom
#FreeSchool is my continuation as living personal collection of post gems and quotes that offer people's one-line summary with short CW titles and then longer forms of writing optionally with "show more" button
Hashtags +#AltText when I remember) and now I'm using a Bot in 2025 which reminds me when I haven't added AltText.
If you want a great film documentary which I like almost 100%, then below is a story towards humanity by showing Capitalism and personal experience of it's effect locally.
Capitalism - A Love Story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_A_Love_Story
Download here (411mb torrent link)
https://thepiratebay10.info/torrent/5380184/Capitalism.A.Love.Story.2009.DVDRip_H264 (Have uBlock installed to block popups)
I think we can solve most of it ourselves (we don't need to wait forever for leaders and rich people to change because they won't and they already decided!)... IF ONLY we start talking together then we can do it and snowball good things on Fedi!
Getting higher in our own personal understanding and more together is 'the better way'.
FreeSchool is an #Art of #Life of sorts in whatever way that suits and directs the individual towards more community and freedoms.
More in this post here...
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/112186767286933459
I welcome audio chats. Simple chat can be done using browser only - 3 clicks an in - just using just browser - no install, no account, no google - instant! #Jitsi chat is better than #Matrix for it's speed (opensource, community used for many years.) Just ask me for a link.
I'm someone who #Cares for people and planet, but wise enough to know tricks of the trade.
The real work now is about better humans, so when you give them hammers they don't damage the place .... we have to accept mistakes and not be too scared of people either.
Enough of the material work, time to work on the mind, care at the same time as ALL work...
#FreeSchool ➡ Try to Work Together 🔁
➡ Increment Peace, Trust "slowly but surely"...
Doesn't have to be all-in... ☮