Notices by 🧟 Night of the Living Red Oak (redoak@social.coop)

Thinking again about the mind-boggling mass of wood that's being moved and disposed of across western NC after the storm. There's so much, and it's heavy, and unwieldy, and dangerous at times. Much of it resists easy stacking. It's obviously impractical to dispose of, in the modern solid waste sense. But the demands of our harsh God, The Economy, insist that it must be removed and discarded anyway, with all reasonable speed, to minimize disruptions to profit.

And I think about how much of the living energy of the mountains for a hundred years or more is bound up in that wood. If we had the time and the tools and the skills, we could put so much of it to so many uses. Or we could leave it be, rearrange paths and roads and plans to accommodate the needs of the soil.

But instead, the bulk of it will be (as far as I can tell) shredded, burned, or just dumped, far from where it grew.

It was the worst of times, it was the New York Times

american elections are like

Would you like to enable fascism?
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| Accept All | | Ask Again Later |
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Some things people mean when they say the world is ending:

- the literal ecological collapse unfolding
- the slow crumbling of the westphalian order
- my worldview has been inarguably refuted, but i must cling to it
- my (illusion of) safety is being threatened and i'm not used to this

Who called them magic mushrooms and not sporecery!?

great signal out here

Calling for a general shrike

@jackdaw_ruiz

OK. We fight the death cult by honoring life. I got some plants to tend and some people to care for. Rise and grind let's fight this dread

Solarfunk

Yeah. I want solarfunk

I think it's great that they are finally changing the default for new mastodon servers away from open registration, but I also know that people (mostly women, many of whom were harrassed out of these conversations or even clean off the fediverse) have been advocating for it for years.

I don't say this as a gotcha, but because people like Ginny and Marcia deserve credit, and because we could learn from this experience not to ignore voices like theirs for so long before getting it right.

@ntnsndr @robin @boris

Hard no from me. There are so many other things we could put time and energy behind that are open/cooperative. If I wanted Jack Dorsey to make money off my data, I already know how to do that.

@derek love that design!

Proud to announce the release of my free career guide for climate-conscious tech workers

https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManual/mode/1up

Share to help build an eco-friendly tech industry!

@ophiocephalic starting by adding fedi read-only is also a naked cooptation, making us more fuel for the ad machine without building any community or giving much back.

Free Palestine

#Merchtodon

Men will literally learn a complex set of rules and spend years constructing a shared setting and story, in order to talk about their feelings

society has men so fucked up we're out here buying special dice, for chrissake