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💬 " To be queer is to understand that many of the social rules are fake, but that the dominant culture will not free you from them. "

:fediverse: Alexandra Magin / @recursive

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To be queer is to understand that many of the social rules are fake, but that the dominant culture will not free you from them.

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I launched a Kickstarter for @pixelfed and @loops to take on the world's biggest players in social media.

Help us put control back into the hands of the people!

kickstarter.com/projects/pixel

I'm gradually extricating myself from Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (the first two of which I have not been active on for a long while anyway). This link is great for explaining to people why I am leaving Meta. Thanks to @kappazeta for telling me about it. freefediverse.org/index.php/Ni
#Meta

Deleted my X, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Amazon accounts. These had been dormant for a long while with statements posted on them saying why I was no longer using them and redirects to my Fediverse accounts urging friends to join me (with some success). But now they are deleted. For those who have not yet done this, I recommend the good feeling you get!
#X #Meta #facebook #fediverse

Users are the biggest weakness of any network / Improving user trust is the #1 solution to larger systems of people who fail to share their future AND are not building trust at all... more than just Modern Capitalism right? 

Lately I've had a few good posts about why are failing and missing out the humans themselves. A few post titles are below and short points first.

TLDR:
➡️ User-to-User interaction and progress needed on any network else people stay weak
➡️ personal contact / match-making of some kind needed by individuals and dedicated ppl
➡️ encouraging closer relativity / mutuality and from that projects naturally...
➡️ mutual growing people is essential for wider society, skills and mindset
➡️ not just growing machines!
(that is the way to Matrix!)

Titles and links below:

1 ➡️ systems / fails when the themselves are not regularly doing the work and constructively themselves not building that - just consuming media or just on the hashtag while leaders steal our .

Having "system" is not enough We need people or events to get together others together much like online seminars, circles or conferences help 'push' people together or at least see mutuality more clearly.

📋 Post: qoto.org/@freeschool/113823713

2 ➡️ Real work is done ON the users and admin themselves (people change).

It's also NOT about expanding on everything or using to expand without much mindset change - we need more non- stuff knowing later that US space is a big / .

The people-to-people work is doing better stuff than just 'machines' as the main work, coding re-coding the same shit while people stay behind.

Communication daily rather than ... :amazon: :aws: :google:

📋 Post: qoto.org/@freeschool/113823094

3 ➡️ Up to us not waiting for leaders or others forever...
Who's ready to build and build with trust? We need to work with those that can actually start and increase, and respond to reason better. Not waiting for history to repeat itself.

📋 Post: qoto.org/@freeschool/113822893

4 ➡️ Audio conversations help build trust and are wonderful interaction

📋 Post: qoto.org/@freeschool/113891146

These post are so deliciously close to the Holy Grail of togetherness or solving things... saying what needs doing and growing people is the way forward.
Others growing others mean:
apprenticeship /
of each other etc.

But also practically giving ourselves more hints what to do each day or with each other (2 main branches) rather than default "job" and statesmen and middle-people in between who ultimately ruin / misuse it all.

My experience is that even fans or mutual appreciators don't seem to be able to get past a certain level and currently paranoia or "I'm busy" excuses happens (until people see how they can use others) but overall it's about how we all work for each other by building each other up and eventually doing more, especially as all the while communication improves (#1 solution to many things I think).

It's about motivation and enjoyment to from that and then suddenly people are not as busy because they make it part of their life. :thumbsup_hmn_h2:

As usual I write more which I believe Freemo helps shorten for people.

I see the potential from other admins (who generally are more clever / multi-talented / able to multi-task) and users (who can
rrbe better or are clever in-the-waiting) to not miss the obvious point of social improvement but being / living in more of a two-way action and more 'manually' and deliberately doing it each day - it's not any system

Beyond messaging, Automatic things systems cannot do what human need after ability to contact and see each other's profile and work.

So even if it's looking a 1 profile a week more closely and trying to work with them / help or having a broader spectrum of open-access with other... Then slowly but surely real work (people change) happens.

From to to all people are already doing something we might want to be part of or integrate / bridge together - and as a mix of people we're superior to just floating individual having mostly non-dedicated parts of life and one-way / one-message interaction as a way to get away from outside life that I think all this post helps get better inside and out.

"Improving user-to-user interaction" is the main work.

We can do as a main part of 'working' socially which traditionally isn't what today's "jobs" do..

(because "jobs" are more narrow fields / definitions / contracts of work towards profit mainly and at the cost of everything else almost along the way - including emptying the human they use like a battery at the end).

Deliberately-social messaging has benefits which I think people themselves/admins are not doing because, simply others are not doing it.
Once people do it I believe nire will do it (not all).

I believe people love to see progress in themselves and others and doing it gives others the power / potential to help fix things instead of stay of (which is what you see a lot of posts about, powerless).

Everything in their life can be fixed but has to come from this slowly but surely approach while improving friendship or respect (even from afar, lower level to high and vice-versa).

The people work is social change and like human resources we have it largely unused online as I see it. So while it's not for everyone here
THERE IS PLENTY OF PEOPLE

and from those 'peer-to-peer- type post titles mentioned at the start I'd like to ask about this more as I see him as a potential Captain of the football team because basically he's solid enough already which we all need as leader or moderator and so often on the mark.

He has a sense of morality when even if you wouldn't agree you'd thank him for being far clearer, less emotionally capsizing, and more transparent than the other 'leaders' we see currently everywhere.

So does seem to do this work often anyway even if it's a small way and I feel people leave better from conversation and do come back again too (supply and demand!...) so why not this as a part-time thing or helping me to do it with his advice?

Points welcome even if it seems too dreamy... it seems totally doable even if slow-burn...

Cheers and here's to you in general! :wine:

And I know you have - this is not ignoring that, but a I think you also need a non-company version as "Ask Freemo" / "Free School" ( / ) as not everyone likes to play that games of first jumping into a company but can contribute or get there eventually from other safer or less embedded ways...

Better than us spending too much time on hashtags watching etc getting sucked into their attention and spreading their shit words instead of good ones...

Ok that's it - just sending for now, with your help will re-edit / shorten if you can guide a bit / re-say it / cut it down (even if not totally doing it now - just helps me find more meaning and people who obvious see other people as the main 'problem' to solve / improve from fault of bad people but also the good not working on making something for good in *this* people-to-people way...

Users are the biggest weakness of a network / Improving user trust is the #1 solution to large systems of people who fail to share their futures AND are not building trust at all... to really do more than Modern Capitalism 

Lately I've had a few good posts about why are failing and missing out the humans themselves. A few post titles are below and short points first.

TLDR:
➡️ User-to-User interaction and progress needed on any network else people stay weak
➡️ personal contact / match-making of some kind needed by individuals and dedicated ppl
➡️ encouraging closer relativity / mutuality and from that projects naturally...
➡️ mutual growing people is essential for wider society, skills and mindset
➡️ not just growing machines!
(that is the way to Matrix!)

Titles and links below:

1 ➡️ systems / fails when the themselves are not regularly doing the work and constructively themselves not building that - just consuming media or just on the hashtag while leaders steal our .

Having "system" is not enough We need people or events to get together others together much like online seminars, circles or conferences help 'push' people together or at least see mutuality more clearly.

📋 Post: qoto.org/@freeschool/113823713

2 ➡️ Real work is done ON the users and admin themselves (people change).

It's also NOT about expanding on everything or using to expand without much mindset change - we need more non- stuff knowing later that US space is a big / .

The people-to-people work is doing better stuff than just 'machines' as the main work, coding re-coding the same shit while people stay behind.

Communication daily rather than ... :amazon: :aws: :google:

📋 Post: qoto.org/@freeschool/113823094

3 ➡️ Up to us not waiting for leaders or others forever...
Who's ready to build and build with trust? We need to work with those that can actually start and increase, and respond to reason better. Not waiting for history to repeat itself.

📋 Post: qoto.org/@freeschool/113822893

These post are so deliciously close to the Holy Grail of togetherness or solving things... saying what needs doing and growing people is the way forward.
Others growing others mean:
apprenticeship /
of each other etc.

But also practically giving ourselves more hints what to do each day or with each other (2 main branches) rather than default "job" and statesmen and middle-people in between who ultimately ruin / misuse it all.

My experience is that even fans or mutual appreciators don't seem to be able to get past a certain level and currently paranoia or "I'm busy" excuses happens (until people see how they can use others) but overall it's about how we all work for each other by building each other up and eventually doing more, especially as all the while communication improves (#1 solution to many things I think).

It's about motivation and enjoyment to from that and then suddenly people are not as busy because they make it part of their life. :thumbsup_hmn_h2:

As usual I write more which I believe Freemo helps shorten for people.

I see the potential from other admins (who generally are more clever / multi-talented / able to multi-task) and users (who can
rrbe better or are clever in-the-waiting) to not miss the obvious point of social improvement but being / living in more of a two-way action and more 'manually' and deliberately doing it each day - it's not any system

Beyond messaging, Automatic things systems cannot do what human need after ability to contact and see each other's profile and work.

So even if it's looking a 1 profile a week more closely and trying to work with them / help or having a broader spectrum of open-access with other... Then slowly but surely real work (people change) happens.

From to to all people are already doing something we might want to be part of or integrate / bridge together - and as a mix of people we're superior to just floating individual having mostly non-dedicated parts of life and one-way / one-message interaction as a way to get away from outside life that I think all this post helps get better inside and out.

"Improving user-to-user interaction" is the main work.

We can do as a main part of 'working' socially which traditionally isn't what today's "jobs" do..

(because "jobs" are more narrow fields / definitions / contracts of work towards profit mainly and at the cost of everything else almost along the way - including emptying the human they use like a battery at the end).

Deliberately-socially messaging has benefits which I think people themselves/admins are not doing because others are not doing it (and once people do it I believe they will or can be tested!). I believe people love to see progress in themselves and others and doing it gives others the power / potential to help fix things instead of stay victim (which is what you see a lot of posts about, powerless).

Everything in their life can be fixed but has to come from this slowly but surely approach while improving friendship or respect (even from afar, lower level to high and vice-versa).

The people work is social change and like human resources we have it largely unused online as I see it. So while it's not for everyone here
THERE IS PLENTY OF PEOPLE

and from those 'peer-to-peer- type post titles mentioned at the start I'd like to ask about this more as I see him as a potential Captain of the football team because basically he's solid enough already which we all need as leader or moderator and so often on the mark.

He has a sense of morality when even if you wouldn't agree you'd thank him for being far clearer, less emotionally capsizing, and more transparent than the other 'leaders' we see currently everywhere.

So does seem to do this work often anyway even if it's a small way and I feel people leave better from conversation and do come back again too (supply and demand!...) so why not this as a part-time thing or helping me to do it with his advice?

Points welcome even if it seems too dreamy... it seems totally doable even if slow-burn...

Cheers and here's to you in general! :wine:

And I know you have - this is not ignoring that, but a I think you also need a non-company version as "Ask Freemo" / "Free School" ( / ) as not everyone likes to play that games of first jumping into a company but can contribute or get there eventually from other safer or less embedded ways...

Better than us spending too much time on hashtags watching etc getting sucked into their attention and spreading their shit words instead of good ones...

Ok that's it - just sending for now, with your help will re-edit / shorten if you can guide a bit / re-say it / cut it down (even if not totally doing it now - just helps me find more meaning and people who obvious see other people as the main 'problem' to solve / improve from fault of bad people but also the good not working on making something for good in *this* people-to-people way...

#Hashtag List / Introduction 

A personal list of my interests as hashtags + other sections after:
- Made one / can help you build one / send PDF)
playing (have a real board and microphone? Let's play!)
(Self-improvement and awareness)
(Onion skins of realisation / discovery)
food (Greenhouse and outside)
/ / / /
Living / Natural Life
Engineering (like fixing computers but with willing people instead)
/ Making Lists (Point Extraction, Analysis & ReUse)
/ / (can offer advice)
people / (Learning Lessons)
/ Care / Consideration (towards unity in human family and the 'how?')
(Harmonising and balance)
and
(fascinating developments / potentials)
/ (want to answer my questions?!)
editing / moderating (group meetings / personal conversations)

All genuine interest. I'm also responsive, so whatever you're thinking I don't mind.

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OTHER VERSION BELOW:
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Freedom and Justice is gained by Learning Together... (actually learning to respect each other too)
Less money 🏦 :cc_nc: :💱 📈 📉 🤑 💳
AND MORE RESPECT
AND MORE :red_heart: ✅ 🧠 🤔 🗯️ ❓

In short: Participation!... No other way around Justice and Freedom if you don't participate and this is what this profile is for.

No need star my toots, send a reply!
Boosting the toots is a real way in which stuff travels through Mastodon and can be tried (hoping for more participation and practice here). and

↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ Follow me & Get ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓

→ Info-graphics / Memes / Pictures
qoto.org/@freeschool/media

→ Audio Topics & Conversations
My Wisdom / Culture / Business Analysis

BONUS !!!
+ I actually reply (yes some people don't even reply!)!
+ not over-emotional in replying (a real benefit / less side-effects) but stickler to important details
+ Directly said (things usually people don't say / can't say / over-polite but helps in REAL LEARNING)
+ More available (like audio chat later down the line)
+ DIY example → Ask... Self-made house?

More info → click 'Media' or 'Toots' or Direct Message

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THE REST IS OPTIONAL OR EXTRA
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Words of wisdom (MY WORDS):

Everything is easier when you test it
Everything is easier when you know *how* to test it
Everything is clearer when you give it more time and respect.
Everything is easier when you know what it's for and what it means to others (both how to test / ask and how to respect)...

Everything is easier when you know how... yes so participation with me or others allows you to know things, then it's easier and clearer to make your decision(s).

Humans effect everything much more globally (now that money etc funnels things more than ever) and often it's a copy of people getting coralled into the same bad ways (the Gov template of catching it's fishes) - we need to know the bad / good and apply the right stuff daily so we don't get eaten alive.

I personally help whoever with almost anything mutual, it's your 'job' to enjoy what you like AND explore other things - I just ask and say what I like also.

I also edit other people's audio and video as basic cut and re-arrange them into different order for best bits or the wanted parts / highlights + name or transcribe them (audio to text).

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I might ask why you want to follow me so be ready to say (0 engagement I don't understand the point of)

I'm here to make change, yours, mine, others.
What are you here for / Find out here / explore yourself...

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Freedom is also about undoing what has tricked us (put in place before we were born and somewhat enslaved or bound by). Learning regularly helps get your more understanding and rewards morality to get back some sense of meaning since much has been extracted out almost completely as part of pure-profit programmes or generally re-iterating power and control techniques.

The rest to read is just extra. If you hate detail probably this is good for you.

Learning our geniune individuality and respecting it is some of the most essential parts of life!!!!!

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Right now in 2023 I've taken a back seat to the talking to people or giving feedback to everyone, and so given up while not totally given up.

I think education together is a major way.
Some of us speed up and have to wait for others to catch up or not try over-try too hard also to keep the peace often covered up or under the surface.

Free School has been proven over my lifetime as not needing to wait or only believe in others first. DIY = Do It Yourself or at least start... and then the advice or questions come anyway... Start snd Finish fast and people can see better there is progress... often the only thing stopping people in starting anything.

You can interact and ask. We 2 can make best together as free as possible to reach somewhere in thought where alone we might not so quickly.

I mostly create / edit community education audio podcast / music / videos / transcript text etc for good people or other podcasts.

Am offline more than on but still get msgs and still reply here- might take longer than I mention below

I do your audio / film work too for free if it's for the good. I can do it offline which is good.

Our place in the world is helped by others.

We enable it *for* others and some forge ahead alone also.

If you're interested in life this helps! get in touch if you are as

I like everything or to talk about it helps the world indirectly and directly!

They.

Anyone know where I can follow intelligent folks in these spaces?

- Mechanics of the #fediverse and how to help it grow

- #politics #activism #organizing actionable plans to meaningfully engage

- #songwriting #Music production, #musicindustry

- #psychology and #science of #cults incl strategies to help someone leave

- #publichealth & #epidemiology

- #machinelearning

- #comedians

All here. Please ⭐ this toot if you value people 💓 just a bit more than cats on !

It's not one or the other but you also value people highly? 🐱
⭐ 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 ⭐

Inflation - We're all fighting against inflation itself 💲 Inflation taxes and devalues all people for staying in the monetary system - a kind of trojan horse reducing value of our efforts during each year - compounding inflation!!... 💲📈 

"Inflation" also means:

➡️ "Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity"

Yeeeees! English sometimes does well to name what things like Inflation are really similar to as part of the same word! (Happens a lot)

We're all fighting against this artificially added tax and unfair pushing of people to their limits... 'maximising' people to death...

or

With we fight better against / / /

Fighting inflation -
We're all fighting against inflation 💲 itself

Inflation taxes and devalues all people for staying in the monetary system - a kind of Trojan horse reducing value of our efforts during each year -
compounding inflation! 💲📈

Good is never 100% good. Bad is never 100% bad... 

Good is never 100% good.
Bad is never 100% bad.

Written longer"
Good = mix of things
Bad = mix of things...

Written even longer:
Good = mix of things
(but higher % good for what good means to you)

Bad = mix of things
(but higher % bad for what bad means to you)

💬 #Quote 🇺🇸 Flying My Colors (#Patriotism #USPol) 

Flying My Colors

💬 "Never in my lifetime have I witnessed a politician (or campaign) so focused on demonizing others. So relentless in belittling fellow candidates, other politicians, and any American citizens whose views and values differ from his own. So fashioned around whetting the public appetite for division and violence. So openly courting our worst human impulses."

davidrweiss.com/2024/10/31/fly

David Weiss is a theologian, writer, poet and hymnist, “writing into the whirlwind” of contemporary challenges, joys, and sorrows around climate crisis, sexuality, justice, peace, and family. Reach him at drw59mn@gmail.com. Read more at www.davidrweiss.com where he blogs under the theme, “Full Frontal Faith: Erring on the Edge of Honest.” Support him in Writing into the Whirlwind at www.patreon.com/fullfrontalfaith.

TABLE OF CONTENTS & CHAPTERS
(Interesting list)

Chapter 1: Beyond Alarm, Toward Action
Chapter 2: Refusing to Abandon
Chapter 3: Care is Fundamental
Chapter 4: Think Like a Geographer
Chapter 5: Rejecting
Chapter 6: ‘Violence’ in Social Movements
Chapter 7: Don’t Pedestal Organizers
Chapter 8: Hope and Grief Can Co-exist
Chapter 9: Organizing Isn’t Matchmaking
Chapter 10: Avoiding

Conclusion: , , and

Conclusion: Beyond , Toward Action

Afterword: Make Life

Closing

Reflecting on

Self-Reflection for Organizers

Movement

Resources

Direct Actions

Activist/Organizer Wisdom

Other Useful Resources

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Source:
Let This Radicalize You - Organizing and the Revolution of

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➡️ Download Page
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👤 Bertrand Russell TOPIC NOTES... 

Topics are a headed version of Wikipedia, more clearly chosen so you can taking what you want by quickly checking each arrow ➡️ below

👤 Bertrand Russell TOPIC NOTES...

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertra

1 ➡️ and the
His series of six , titled Authority and the Individual, explored themes such as the role of in the of a and the role of in a .

2 ➡️ / People's home
In 1943, Russell expressed support for : "I have come gradually to see that, in a dangerous and largely hostile world, it is essential to to have some country which is theirs, some region where they are not suspected , some which embodies what is distinctive in their "

3 ➡️
Russell wrote Principia Mathematica, a milestone in the development of classical and a major attempt to reduce the whole of to (see )

4 ➡️ Russell was a who championed anti-imperialism and chaired the League.

He went to prison for his during World War I and initially supported appeasement against Adolf Hitler's , before changing his view in #1943, describing war as a necessary "lesser of two evils".

5 ➡️ Nobel Peace Prices
1950, Russell was awarded the in "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions ideals and of ".

6 ➡️ Supporting himself
Russell supported his family during this time by writing popular books explaining matters of , , and to the .

7 ➡️ Experimental Education School
Russell founded the Beacon Hill School in 1927. The school was run from a succession of different locations, including its original premises at the Russells' residence, Telegraph House, near , West .

Russells divided their time between and , spending summers in

8 ➡️
A History of Western Philosophy (1945) became a best-seller and provided Russell with a steady income for the remainder of his life.

9 ➡️ Political causes
Bertrand Russell was opposed to war from a young age; his opposition to World War I was used as grounds for his dismissal from Trinity College at Cambridge. This incident fused two of his controversial causes, as he had failed to be granted fellow status which would have protected him from firing, because he was not willing to either pretend to be a devout Christian, or at least avoid admitting he was agnostic.

He later described the resolution of these issues as essential to freedom of thought and expression, citing the incident in Free Thought and Official , where he explained that the expression of any idea, even the most obviously "bad", must be protected not only from direct intervention but also and other means of being ...

10 ➡️ Society - Political and social activism
Much of Russell's time was politically active, almost to the end of his life, writing to and exhorting world leaders and lending his name to various causes. He was a prominent campaigner against Western intervention into the Vietnam War in the 1960s, writing essays and books, attending demonstrations, and even organising the Russell Tribunal in 1966 alongside other prominent philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, which fed into his 1967 book War Crimes in Vietnam.

11 ➡️
Russell was an active supporter of the Homosexual Law Reform Society, being one of the signatories of A. E. Dyson's 1958 letter to The Times calling for a change in the law regarding male homosexual practices, which were partly legalised in 1967, when Russell was still alive.

12 ➡️
Russell expressed sympathy and support for the Palestinian people and was critical of Israel's actions. He wrote in 1960 that, "I think it was a mistake to establish a Jewish State in Palestine, but it would be a still greater mistake to try to get rid of it now that it exists.

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wrote about .

18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970

, , , and

@MichaelKlamerus I fell in love with RSS because it eliminated the need to constantly reload pages in order to follow news/videos - but sites probably hated that because it meant less ad views.

I still use a self hosted FreshRSS instance to follow all my YouTube channels, because it's way better for keeping track of what I've watched and what's new.

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