Notices by Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)

Everytime I read the word "anarchy" as an adjective for violence and chaos in something it gives me psychic damage

Okay, despite everything we supposedly learned since 2020, I'm still noticing far too many "hot takes" from anarchists revolving around ableist denigration of the tech and online spaces so many people rely on. Stop doing that. https://www.mediaactivist.com/whats-irl-really/

RE: https://flipboard.com/@independent/news-a3lhl24rz/-/a-rQmzFV7BRQe8B0_ya1cziA%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0

I know it sounds petty and irrelevant, but I’m absolutely disinterested in hearing how yet another person has been mistreated or silenced by X.

It’s owned by Musk. Literally what the fuck did you expect, buddy? Please show me one act of moral or ethical integrity ever performed by Musk?

At this point, all this grievance is just stupid performance. Get off X

Notes about resisting #ICE occupation, from various comrades...

👉 Enormous chats are fucked and extremely ineffective. Break down into smaller geographical and/or affinity chats with a spokescouncil type model

👉 Feds tend to have an easy time intimidating/ignoring polite peaceful observers in vests (altho these people do still sometimes slow them down). They do not like people going goblin mode at them. Go goblin mode.

👉 City police propaganda that they will not help ICE has been very successful, to the point that libs will sometimes literally call the cops when they see ICE activity and make things hella worse

👉 Learn and use SALUTE or similar to report accurate info. If you don't know what that is, learn now before you need it. If people are consistently not doing so, or otherwise spreading rumors/paranoia/other useless info, find them a different role.

👉 Two common modus operandi for fed squads are either hitting up every business/apartment building/etc on a street, and/or picking a chain and then spreading out to (e.g.) every Home Depot in the area

👉 Feds love the worst fast food chains like Chick-Fil-A and BWW, you'll always find them there with cars unattended at lunchtime

#Minneapolis #Minnesota

@ben What wonderful words - moving, funny, thought-provoking! - to receive through "47 lessons" in my inbox this morning. Thank you. But now I have to ask: How do you know most dinner plates can hold over a pint of water?

"What happened on January 3 was clearly an offensive, not a defensive, mission, and an act of aggression in violation of the U.N. charter and customary international law." Even former Pentagon officials can say what Trump's poodle Sir Keir Starmer won't: https://theintercept.com/2026/01/05/trump-venezuela-war/

It's great to actually have chance to spend some time on here and interact more with such interesting folks! Please believe me when I say I don't enjoy just quickly checking in and posting a few things, it's never for lack of interest; work and caring take up so very much of my time and what's leftover is spent recharging my batteries in other ways. But tonight I've had chance to spend a bit longer on here and I've learnt so much and bookmarked a bunch of stuff! Thanks, Fediverse!

@jeff You? I thought that was me. Shit! I'm doing it again! Haha but yes, likewise!

@jeff That's such a nice thing to say, and much appreciated! I dig your stuff too, and am glad we're mutuals, fellow "union thug"!

@jeff Haha well there is that!

@jeff Yeah, here in the UK, "the North Korea of Europe."

@jeff Oh, sorry! The so-called Online Safety Act requires hosts of online spaces with multiple users to comply with the legislation. It's all quite vague and open to interpretation, and not necessarily in a useful way. The Open Rights Group have continued excellent work on the issue, and I felt this was a great piece: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/online-safety-act-entrenches-big-tech-market-dominance-new-report-finds/

@jeff I relate to have tech normies as friends! Their complaints suggest they ought to be using the Fediverse, but alas the struggle continues! And on the bright side, at least as the only user of your instance you have an argument against the OSA nonsense!

@trendless Thanks, friend. I know at the end of November I had told you I'd follow up on the self-hosting topic anyway, and now I've looked into GTS the stars seem to have aligned! What's the best way to proceed in a way that allows for our own daily responsibilities? Would email be realistic? Or would that be too cumbersome a medium, in your opinion?

@jeff Thanks! I was considering that but think GTS would be much more "OSA-proof" as it would literally only be able to have one user: me!

@trendless Oh shit, yes! Things were so hectic at that time I favourited your post in place of saving it bookmarked, but had not yet caught up! It may (or may not) come as a surprise but I am pretty ignorant and clueless about self-hosting anything of any kind but am passionate about the concept and in recent days have become increasingly interested, especially after reading more about GoToSocial. And if I could be a guinea pig for you with regards to your November post there, I'd feel less bad about picking your brain and bombarding you with laughably silly questions!

This is likely one of the many useful options you have been willing to enlighten me on, I'm sure, @trendless!

So wait a minute: running this Mastodon account on my own server would possibly subject me to the absurd and unrealistic expectations of the UK's so-called "Online Safety Act" which is ushering swathes of unsuspecting people back towards Big Tech...but if I chose to #SelfHost by getting my head around, say, #GoToSocial - #GTS - that's obviously geared to one sole self-hosting user so would spare me the dutiful bureaucrats ever knocking on my door while putting me in control of my own account? Interesting.

@GlasWolf @2legged @tompearce49 That's very kind, and means a lot to me - thank you!

@collectifission Proud to use all these at one time or another!