@cdarwin@c.im"They have to turn back to God and we are;
We're gonna ask all Americans to pray for an end to political violence, to pray for our president, to pray for a Christian agenda in Washington. It's long overdue. We need it. And we think it's an important step."
"We need God's help if we're gonna get through what we're going through now,
-- the push toward actually acceptance of communism by a growing number of Americans."
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioPresumably because states rights or freedom or something
@benb@osintua.euFreedom of speech in 2026: Between Brussels' demands and the realities of war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/28/freedom-of-speech-in-between.html
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Kassa Overall:
🎵 Freedom Jazz Dance
#KassaOverall
https://kassaoverall.bandcamp.com/track/freedom-jazz-dance
https://open.spotify.com/track/57WNlCxlDldnl8LWw6f0Rs
@hynek@mastodon.socialOMG my The Bear opinion isn't fringe 🥲
I LOVE S1. I've made SO many ppl watch it.
I also liked S2.
I absolutely HATED S3. It felt like the writers got too much artistic freedom after their (well-deserved!) success & I had to watch them artistically jerking-off on TV.
https://
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialCalling all artists, musicians, comedians, performers...
FALL OF FREEDOM - November 21 & 22, 2025
#activism
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialIf Affinity really cares about the creatives, they (& all other design companies, hopefully Adobe too?) should have form a group to create a file format standard. As long as the design format is proprietary, there's not much "freedom" here, even if the software is free, paid-once or subscription-based.
Sketch is actually almost there, at least for UI/vector designs (
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGeert Wilders's Party for Freedom Loses Seats in Dutch Election (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/world/europe/netherlands-elections-geert-wilders.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p10#a251030p10
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIf you support, stand with, and unapologetically defend the Palestinian struggle for liberation, justice, and self-determination, if you believe in freedom from occupation and solidarity with all resisting oppression, then I recommend reading "Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle" by Uri Gordon and Ohal Grietzer. Available on The Anarchist Library, as well from AK Press.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialFreedom House's Freedom on the Net 2025 report: for the 15th straight year, global internet freedom is in decline; of the 72 countries surveyed, Kenya fell most (Tech Policy Press)
https://www.techpolicy.press/global-internet-freedom-declines-for-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social64 Turkish bar associations condemn the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, who was sentenced to more than four years in prison for "threatening" Erdogan (SCF/Stockholm Center for Freedom)
https://stockholmcf.org/64-bar-associa
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pharrell Williams:
🎵 Freedom
#NowPlaying #PharrellWilliams
https://alexbohemien.bandcamp.com/track/pharrell-williams-freedom-alex-bohemien-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6RB9YvNyP0RZfCUcMtZELH
@scott@carfree.cityFreedom Ship by Marcus Rediker is so good. Thank you @… for the tip
https://bookshop.o…
@hex@kolektiva.socialI feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.
@Carwil@mastodon.onlineThe Trump administration is not attacking the "excesses" of "woke" scholarship. They're at war with the very idea of power analysis, with the feeling of deep empathy with the oppressed, with ethical commitment to make a just world.
@adresscomptoir@mastodon.socialMuntermacher-Tipp: Adeni Chai. https://jacobin.com/2025/10/mamdani-nyc-mayor-election-speech
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaFreedom can only be the whole of freedom; a piece of freedom is not freedom.
---- - Max Stirner - ----
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialTop court rules EU nations must mutually recognize same-sex marriages
The Court of Justice of the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday that any refusal to do this 'is contrary to EU law' and 'infringes not only the freedom to move and reside, but also the fundamental right to respect for private and family life.'
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaI really wish these people had a single original thought in their heads rather than looking around the Anglosphere for whatever anti-freedom policies have recently been implemented and saying "we need that, but stricter, and somehow providing tax dodges for several private corporations in the process" https://
@ncoca@social.coopVery surprised to learn that the
#farright wanna dictator of the VVD party, leading in the #Netherlands polls but, thankfully, unlikely to be a part of the next government, is part-#Indonesian via his…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialThe ocean conservation world has lost a giant. Kristina Gjerde, known as the "mother of the high seas," spent two decades building the coalitions that led to the historic 2023 UN High Seas Treaty—protecting biodiversity in international waters for the first time.
Her work became urgent as industrial activities threatened deep-sea ecosystems. She was 68.
@benb@osintua.eu“Freedom always comes at a cost — I’ve seen that cost up close” – Matthew Sampson | WrapUp Analytics: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/26/freedom-always-comes-at-a.html
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kassa Overall:
🎵 FREEDOM JAZZ DANCE
#KassaOverall
https://kassaoverall.bandcamp.com/track/freedom-jazz-dance
https://open.spotify.com/track/57WNlCxlDldnl8LWw6f0Rs
@cdarwin@c.im
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Unlike Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Turkey, Britain declined to offer any protection to those of its nationals who took part in the humanitarian mission, and made no comment when Israel arrested its citizens."
New freedom flotilla to sail for Gaza in the spring | Morning Star
https://
@hex@kolektiva.socialI feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzhttps://newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/07/anne-salmond-academic-freedom-and-its-enemies/ I can't help but wonder why Salmon doesn't explicitly name the Atlas Network as ACT's inspiration, nor compare what's going to the American Heritage Foundati…
@threeofus@mstdn.socialFor today’s #tunetuesday I’m wilfully misinterpreting the tag #steppingstonesongs as I want to use it to share the song which accompanied me as I left my abusive ex-wife of 20 years. I rediscovered freedom, joy, and my own identity and this was a key part of the soundtrack. Imagine me win…
@tarah@infosec.exchangeI wrote a book review of "Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core" by Fiona Alexander, Laura DeNardis, Ph.D., Nanette Levinson, and Francesca Musiani. It initially seems to be a dense technical history of Internet Protocol—that constellation of technical specifications and social agreements that makes the internet work. But this would be a profound misreading.
What Alexander, DeNardis, Levinson, and Musiani have actually written is something far more elegiac: a cenotaph for a bygo…
@poppastring@dotnet.socialI learned freedom riding the Midlands cuts by bike. I still explore cities by bike, on foot, and by car, always chasing that same feeling of discovery just around the corner.
#midlands #blackcountry #england
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAdvancing American Freedom Hires Former Heritage Foundation Legal, Economic and Data Directors (Julia Jensen/Advancing American Freedom)
https://advancingamericanfreedom.com/advancing-american-freedom-hires-former-heritage-foundation-legal-economic-and-data-directors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p93#a251222p93
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca“my letter wasn’t about that malicious contrarian’s record of racist utterances.
The writers of the original article resigned in protest in September and today there was a mass walkout of journalists at the Pentagon, protesting new “rules” imposed by the Trump Administration….
Press Freedom is not negotiable.
Canadians need to seriously consider whether it is time for Canadian ownership to be a requirement for the canadian press.”
#charliekirk #pressfreedom #cdnpoli
https://chrisalemany.ca/2025/10/16/press-freedom-is-not-negotiable-a-rewrite-under-protest/
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: Don't overreact. Remember, this is for your beloved leader.
JENNA: Well, I hope Blake appreciates this.
BLAKE: Renounce. Renounce.
ORAC: Renounce what? Tell us what.
BLAKE: Freedom. Freedom Party.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/127
@rberger@hachyderm.io"As Joy-Ann Reid put it in an Instagram video: “Dear retailers who’ve decided you don’t like diversity, equity, and inclusion, or you really love ICE and you have no problem with them busting into your establishments to drag people away: Here’s the thing. We ain’t buying it. I mean, for real, for real, we ain’t buyin’ it.”
She explained: “We’re gonna spend our money with businesses who actually respect our dollars, respect our communities, and respect our diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are going to buy from people who respect immigrants, who respect immigrants’ rights, and respect freedom and liberty. We are going to buy from establishments that respect our right to vote and our right to live in a free society. And if you ain’t that, we ain’t buying it.”
“Let’s show them our power,” she told listeners. “Let’s show them what we can do together.”"
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-25-2025
@mela@zusammenkunft.net
@petaqui@masto.esLamentable... Menos mal que hay quienes guardan todo esto para que nadie pueda eliminarlo
@… https://social.freedom.press/@freedomo
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialWelcome To Gilead—The Creeping Threat Of Christian Nationalism
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/christian-nationalism-threat-democracy-freedom
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al🚨 Help Evacuate Joy to Milan 🚨
Folks, I need your help once again. This time, it’s for our very own @…
As you know, Joy has been suffering through genocide and famine in Gaza and still helping others through her work with Gaza Verified. Now she has a chance at freedom as she’s been accepted for a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Milan and w…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialMoody Urbanity - Metro Consistency 📌
情绪化城市 - 都市质地 📌
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialSay NO to Trump's political control over UCLA's academic freedom.
Rally begins Nov 18, 12–2pm, 445 Charles E Young Dr, LA, CA
☑️ Academic Freedom Rally hosted by the UCLA Faculty Asdoc & UCLA-AFT · NELA Alliance for Democracy
https://www.mobilize.us/nelaalliancefordem
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… do not pretend that there's no reason.
That's troublemaking, shit-stirring, disrespectful.
Equal to your freedom to speak and spread disinformation, there's the freedom for anyone – not a moderator – to block you in Reddit and Mastodon. This is not the first time.
@stf@chaos.socialinteresting thoughts by @… on the legalization of reverse-engineering due to trump and eurostack: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-o…
@edintone@mastodon.greenDon't trust your family history to the cloud or an online software company. #Ancestris version 13 is out. https://www.ancestris.org/index.html It's free and has some unique tools and reports not foun…
@pre@boing.worldNot sure what the difference between a panel and a"fireside chat" is. There is no fire.
But here's a fireside chat on what nostr is.
Nostr is freedom for Identity. Accounts without hosts. Publishing without publidhers. Censorship resistance without platforms deciding who gets to say what.
It's not a silo in which you can be tapped as the service enshitifies, since it's a protocol with accounts you control, you can't switch clients or relays without loosing social graph or contacts.
Nostr is notes and Other Stuff, what other stuff? the panel is working on an audiobook publishing system with perhaps a required payment and affiliate revenue share. E-commerce, video publishing, zap stream for live video with zap payments.
Onboarding can be tricky with private key management needing to be understood and such a range of options of clients and what relays are. Can we make it easier?
Perhaps by abstracting away the fact it's nostr at all. Devine users don't even know they are using nostr. But this robs users of the understanding they may need to move clients or use the same account for video and notes, say.
Perhaps by making a private messagnger, the panel thinks people are used to using multiple messenger apps. Though I find they hate that, and that's why they refuse to install signal. They feel they don't need it since they already have WhatsApp with a bigger network.
In the end it's education. We have to teach literacy so people can read and write, we have to teach public keys encryption so people can do so securely.
#bitfest #nostr
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIsraeli authorities release 14 journalists and others who had been detained, most of them for four days, after sailing aboard a Gaza-bound flotilla (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/10/israel-frees-14-journalists-detained-f…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump followed through on his threats to sue the BBC over its editing of his remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, for a documentary.
The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“If any ordinary person filed as many frivolous multibillion-dollar lawsuits as Donald Trump, they’d be sanctioned and placed on a restricted filers list.
By my count, Trump has demanded at least $65 billion in damages from media outlets i…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialFreedom for Animals has delved into the dark world of the bird of prey industry for a second time, to carry out a major new investigation as part of our Tether and Torment campaign.
This comes seven years after our landmark 2018 report first brought national attention to the hidden suffering behind the industry, and exposed the continuing welfare failures in UK bird of prey centres.
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe Spin Out
Join The Laundry Lady CEO Susan Toft as she chats with inspiring entrepreneurs, busy parents, and game-changers who’ve created freedom on their own terms...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-spin-out/
…
@ukraine_live_tagesschau@mastodon.socialUkrainischer Sender: Zwei ukrainische Journalisten bei Drohnenangriff getötet
Aus der Ukraine wird gemeldet, dass im Osten des Landes zwei ukrainische Journalisten bei einem russischen Drohnenangriff getötet worden sind. Wie der ukrainische Sender Freedom TV mitteilte, befanden sich ihre Reporter in der ostukrainischen Stadt Kramatorsk an einer Tankstelle, als ihr Auto von einer russischen Drohne des Typs Lancet getroffen wur…
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@hex@kolektiva.socialThere are 3 fundamental freedoms outlined in Dawn of Everything:
(1) the freedom to move away or relocate from one’s surroundings;
(2) the freedom to ignore or disobey commands issued by others; and
(3) the freedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones.
I think these can all be captured in one statement when reframed as a system constraint: for a system to be free, participation must be optional for all members.
People must be part of *some* system. Even individualistic survivalism is itself a system (if not a very good one). Then there is a corollary as well: any system that is not free, that is not optional, can turn optional systems into mandatory ones, and thus (adopted from the MLK quote) un-freedom anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.
Edit:
I'm gonna drop the #Philosophy tag on here because apparently that's where I went with it. Challenges and push-back welcome.
Edit:
Aaaaand Its a blog post
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/an-algorithm-for-liberation
As usual, comments, typos, and questions are always welcome.
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaQ: How does the Polish Constitution differ from the American?
A: Under the Polish Constitution citizens are guaranteed freedom of
speech, but under the United States constitution they are
guaranteed freedom after speech.
-- being told in Poland, 1987
@kctipton@mas.to @kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Obsessed:
🎵 Freedom
#TheObsessed
https://blessed2.bandcamp.com/album/freedom-writers
https://open.spotify.com/track/6RM7D3Hq8lt56PujNsCGYV
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialTonight (November 21) Carpe Diem Arts has a Fall of Freedom event from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM at Seekers Church, Takoma Park across the street from the Takoma Metro (Red Line). More details in comments.
#DC #WashingtonDC
![[POSTER] Statue of Liberty torch drawing with red and yellow beams of light.
[CAPTION] Art matters. Courage is contagious. Take Part. Nov. 21.
"Fall of Freedom" is an urgent call to the arts community to unite and activate a nationwid wave of creative resistance (https://falloffreedom.com/)
"Carpe Diem Arts" has long celebrated the experiences, cultures, and identities that shape the fabric of our nation.
Join us FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 6-9 PM, as we lean into the use of "Arts for Social Chang…](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/588/450/933/250/187/original/6f59d0df54deb1d5.jpg)
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzYes, https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/#data-dieselgate Cory Doctorow (who coined the term 'enshittification') dropping some serious truth bombs about how the US Trump administration and US BigTech are rorting/scamming the global digi…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaLet Me Tell You About My Strange Fascination
Simone de Beauvoir was polyamorous (kinda epic), and embraced an open relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre. She is best known for her writings on feminist existentialism, especially The Second Sex, which explores how society shapes and limits women’s freedom.
Wikipedia: https://
@cdarwin@c.imPhotojournalist Dave Decker was arrested in November while documenting a protest in Miami, Florida.
A coalition of 23 press organizations spoke out against the charges
— and this week the prosecutor agreed❗️
The following statement can be attributed to Adam Rose, deputy director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“I hope law enforcement officers take this to heart: Swearing an oath to protect the community means protecting everyone — including pre…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaI enjoy encountering these little sentences that sound utterly dystopian without context
![Area of freedom, security and justice
edit
Denmark and Ireland have opt-outs from the area of freedom, security and justice in general[...]](https://cdn.social.linux.pizza/system/media_attachments/files/115/417/025/248/877/527/original/581e16d1ad326433.png)
@cdarwin@c.imNorthwestern about to cave???
Writing about Cornell caving to the Trump Administration,
I told Northwestern that if it planned to cave to please do so by December 31
so I can save money.
Unfortunately, I may have gotten my wish.
The supposed pricetag is
$75 million
(more than Cornell, less than Columbia, much more than Virginia).
And it will include the usual surrender of academic freedom tempered by a bullshit assurance
(and press rele…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe implications are interesting enough when we apply this to systems like capitalism or national governments, but there are other very interesting implications when applied to systems like race or gender.
Like, as a cis man the only way I can be free to express and explore my own masculinity is if the masculinity I participate in is one which allows anyone the freedom to leave. Then I have an obligation to recognize the validity of nom-masculine trans identity as a necessary component of my own. If I fail to do this, then I trap myself in masculinity and allow the system to control me rather than me to be a free participant in the system.
But if it's OK to escape but not enter, that's it's own restriction that constrains the freedom to leave. It creates a barrier that keeps people in by the fear that they cannot return. So in order for me to be free in my cis masculine identity, I must accept non-masculine trans identities as they are and accept detransitioning as also valid.
But I also need to accept trans-masc identities because restricting entry to my masculinity means non-consensually constraining other identities. If every group imposes an exclusion against others coming in, that, by default, makes it impossible to leave every other group. This is just a description of how national borders work to trap people within systems, even if a nation itself allows people to "freely" leave.
So then, a free masculinity is one which recognizes all configurations of trans identities as valid and welcomes, if not celebrates, people who transition as affirmations of the freedom of their own identity (even for those who never feel a reason to exercise that same freedom).
The most irritating type of white person may look at this and say, "oh, so then why can't I be <not white>?" Except that the critique of transratial identities has never been "that's not allowed" and has always been "this person didn't do the work." If that person did the work, they would understand that the question doesn't make sense based on how race is constructed. That person might understand that race, especially whiteness, is more fluid than they at first understood. They might realize that whiteness is often chosen at the exclusion of other racialized identities. They would, perhaps, realize that to actually align with any racialized identity, they would first have to understand the boot of whiteness on their neck, have to recognize the need to destroy this oppressive identity for their own future liberation. The best, perhaps only, way to do this would be to use the privilege afforded by that identity to destroy it, and in doing so would either destroy their own privilege or destroy the system of privilege. The must either become themselves completely ratialized or destroy the system of race itself such being "transracial" wouldn't really make sense anymore.
But that most annoying of white person would, of course, not do any such work. Nevertheless, one hopes that they may recognize the paradox that they are trapped by their white identity, forced forever by it to do the work of maintaining it. And such is true for all privileged identities, where privilege is only maintained through restrictions where these restrictions ultimately become walls that imprison both the privileged and the marginalized in a mutually reinforcing hell that can only be escaped by destroying the system of privilege itself.
@pre@boing.worldFinally, Martin from BTC Prague wonders how to empower bitcoiners in the UK.
He's inspired by many UK scientists and artists and creators.
But he thinks it's declining. Socialism and regulation reducing freedom.
His home country had a peaceful velvet revolution, ending communism in the 80s.
And it now has a law that there is no capital gains tax on long term held bitcoin!
The UK, he thinks, needs to build new strong bitcoin based money to have it's own peaceful revolution.
#bitfest #bitcoin #uk
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
George Michael:
🎵 Freedom 90
#GeorgeMichael
https://djiam1.bandcamp.com/track/george-michael-freedom-90-djiam-regroove
https://open.spotify.com/track/1wZ7o1mZysv1l26ZWawVfW
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“They stood in a silence so heavy it seemed to bend the light around them.
Their smiles were hesitant — like doors that had forgotten how to open. And in that moment, I realized: freedom itself can be fragile.
We who survived war thought we had endured the worst — the bombs, the hunger, the endless waiting. But their stories shattered that belief.”
– @…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialJelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, and Max Tani discuss why trust in media has hit a record low, press freedom, AI, journalists on social media, and more (Harper's)
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/wh
@cdarwin@c.imWall Street Journal crows:
With nearly 92% of votes counted, Milei’s Freedom Advances party won almost 41% of the national vote, putting it on track to more than
double its representation in the Argentine congress
https://www.wsj.com/world/americ…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaHow does state centralization affect freedom? | B.2.4 | An Anarchist FAQ
#Anarchism
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Katie McBride:
🎵 Freedom Dances
#KatieMcBride
https://katiemcbride.bandcamp.com/track/freedom-dances
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OArCzmIF3H5e2ttldZjEl
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIn Chicago, clergy and faith-based protesters say ICE is threatening their religious freedom (Jack Jenkins/RNS)
https://religionnews.com/2025/10/07/in-chicago-clergy-and-religious-protesters-say-ice-is-threatening-their-religious-freedom/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p135#a251007p135
@fortune@social.linux.pizza... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those
who wish to tyrranize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent,
and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious
and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
-- Voltarine de Cleyre
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialHere’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press
#activism
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFreedom of the Press Foundation and 404 Media file a FOIA lawsuit against the US DHS and CMS, seeking documents about Medicaid patient data sharing with ICE (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/404-media-and-freedom-of-the-press-foundation-sue-dhs/
@cdarwin@c.imHere’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press
https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/sharing-sensitive-leaks-press/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialJournalists Olena Hramova and Yevhen Karmazin of Ukraine's Freedom TV were killed in a Russian drone strike Thursday in Donetsk; Oleksandr Kolychev was injured (Tania Myronyshena/The Kyiv Independent)
https://kyivindependent.com/two-ukrain
@cdarwin@c.imThree women become choked up as they deliver news in a video posted to social media.
“We did it, everybody,”
says Leslie Manookian,
the woman in the middle.
She is a driving force in a campaign that has chipped away at the foundations of modern public health in Idaho.
Her group had just gotten lawmakers to pass what she called the first true “medical freedom” bill in the nation.
With Manookian in the video are
two of her allies, the leaders of H…
@hex@kolektiva.socialI think we can actually prove that this constraint is the *only* constraint that can preserve freedom:
1. There will exist actors in a system who will wish to take advantage of others. Evolution drives survival and one strategy for increasing survival in an altruistic society is to become a parasite.
2. Expecting exploitative dynamics, a system needs to have a set of rules to manage exploitation.
3. If the set of rules is static it will lack the requisite variety necessary to manage the infinite possible behavior of humans so the system will fail.
4. If the system is dynamic then it must have a rule set about how it's own rules are updated. This would make the system recursive, which makes the system at least as complex as mathematics. Any system at least as complex as mathematics is necessarily either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem). If the system is incomplete, then constraints can be evaded which then allow a malicious agent to seize control of the system and update the rules for their own benefit. If constraints are incomplete, then a malicious agent can take advantage of others within the system.
5. Therefore, no social system can possibly protect freedom unless there exists a single metasystemic constraint (that the system must be optional) allowing for the system to be abandoned when compromised.
Oh, you might say, but this just means you have to infinitely abandon systems. Sure, but there's an evolutionary advantage to cooperation so there's evolutionary pressure to *not* be a malicious actor. So a malicious actor being able to compromise the whole system is likely to be a much more rare event. Compromising a system is a lot of work, so the first thing a malicious actor would want to do is preserve that work. They would want to lock you in. The most important objective to a malicious actor compromising a system would be to violate that metasystemic constraint, or all of their work goes out the window when everyone leaves.
And now you understand why borders exist, why fascists are obsessed with maintaining categories like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This is why even Democrats like Newsom are on board with putting houseless people in concentration camps. And this is why the most important thing anarchists promote is the ability to choose not to be part of any of that.
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Dead Pioneers:
🎵 Freedom Means Something
#DeadPioneers
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://deadpioneers.bandcamp.com/track/freedom-means-something
https://open.spotify.com/track/2G0CoMhydSCIE20eSYBUEO
@cdarwin@c.imPlease join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
-- Timothy Snyder
https://www.hel…
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Bowery Electric:
🎵 Freedom Fighter
#BoweryElectric
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@cdarwin@c.imEstimates suggest that hundreds of ⭐️psychedelic churches operate illegally in the US.
As court interpretations evolve, religious freedom claims expand and more Americans drift away from traditional religion,
these groups are increasingly emerging from the underground to push boundaries over which substances – and beliefs – deserve protection.
The Church of Gaia recently became the first psychedelic church to win government recognition by petition rather than suing.
C…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at the erosion of press freedom and independent reporting in Israel, where journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship (Yael Krifcher/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/12/under-the-rada
@cdarwin@c.im @kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kassa Overall:
🎵 FREEDOM JAZZ DANCE
#KassaOverall
https://kassaoverall.bandcamp.com/track/freedom-jazz-dance
https://open.spotify.com/track/57WNlCxlDldnl8LWw6f0Rs
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s Baseless Claims:
President Trump said he had made flag burning a crime punishable by a year in prison.
But such a claim contradicts both Supreme Court precedent and the text of an executive order he signed.
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialProtecting press freedom is a responsibility journalists must shoulder themselves, as history shows courts, philanthropy, and policy won't save journalism (Richard Gingras/On the Evolution of Media)
https://richardgingras.substack.com/p/its-on-us
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lupe Fiasco:
🎵 Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)
#LupeFiasco
https://emanuelvinson.bandcamp.com/track/ii-lupe-fiasco-freedom-aint-free-around-my-way
https://open.spotify.com/track/2aFM8RCTeVK5OuYlpeedr9
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imWhat the movement sorely needs is a bipartisan imprimatur.
There must be Republicans who still believe in the democratic values that Bush voiced in his second Inaugural, 20 years ago.
“Did our generation advance the cause of freedom? And did our character bring credit to that cause?”
Their continued silence puts sand in the movement’s gears
@cdarwin@c.imAmbassador Bridget Brink here.
After Trump presented Zelenskyy with a “peace plan” that was just Putin’s wish list,
Trump is trying it again.
Here’s the problem,
Putin has zero interest in peace.
His goal is to take Ukraine, divide Europe, and weaken the United States.
And worse, we now know that Trump’s objective is not freedom and security for Ukraine
but personal gain for those in and around the Trump Administration.
There’s no other wa…
@cdarwin@c.imThirteen years ago, a Brooklyn man’s child molestation conviction pierced a veil of silence in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community,
where many people who dared to report sexual abuse were shunned, expelled from schools and had businesses ruined.
Now the man, Nechemya Weberman, an unlicensed therapist who was sentenced to 103 years in prison, could be on a path to freedom.
Mr. Weberman, 67, is scheduled to appear in court next month, with a judge set to decide whether to comm…
@cdarwin@c.imU.S. President Donald Trump has a long and well-documented history of launching
incendiary rhetorical attacks against the press and his political opponents.
But rights groups warn that the president’s anti-free speech crusade reached an alarming and dangerous new level this week,
raising grave concerns about the potentially rippling consequences for reporters and freedom of expression more generally.
Ongoing reports and analysis
Since last Friday alone, Donald Tr…
@cdarwin@c.imThe first Reconstruction
rebuilt freedom and citizenship after the Civil War
—imperfectly, to be sure.
The commitment faded
and with it large parts of the country descended into another century of tyranny.
But the embers of Reconstruction did not fully die out.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
—eradicating slavery,
promising due process and equal protection under the law
while also enshrining guaranteed citizenship,
and expandin…
