@harfeur@social.linux.pizzaLa pratique du vélo en forte hausse dans les grandes villes entre 2019 et 2022 🥳
https://www.liberation.fr/societe/ville/la-pratique-du-velo-en-forte-hausse-dans-les-grandes-villes-20260103_VDIUO2GLMRGUX…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Speaker Music ft. AceMo:
🎵 Techno is a Liberation Technology
#SpeakerMusicftAceMo
https://speakermusic.bandcamp.com/track/techno-is-a-liberation-technology-ft-acemo
https://open.spotify.com/track/5MfMnIQWfWReXef8HvXHat
@hex@kolektiva.socialIn all seriousness, there are a ton of possible scenarios. The Iranian regime is weaker than it has ever been. I deeply hope for the liberation of Iranian people, especially oppressed minorities. Meanwhile, the US is lead by the most incompetent leadership ever (which is really saying a lot).
The Kurds, who could be the keystone ground forces needed to collapse the regime have been betrayed by the US so many times that they may not rise up (correctly) predicting that the US will stab them in the back at the fist chance.
But they are also a highly oppressed group in Iran, and may well take this opportunity. I don't know enough about this region to make any kind of reasonable prediction.
There are a huge number of unknowns, which is really *not* what anyone wants when starting a conflict.
To Iranian people, I wish you freedom and self-determination against all actors. To the US military, I wish you the best of luck getting your whole behive-dick situation.
@salrandolph@zirk.usHappy New Year! May this coming year offer you liberation.
I’m thrilled to have two excerpts from a manuscript, You Must be an Image to Survive, You Must be a Text to Be Found,in the new issue of Works & Days from out now from Beautiful Days Press.
I’ll also be reading at the launch on January 15 in Brooklyn.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIt’s ridiculous that we still have to say #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️⚧️🔥. This world should already know that every trans person deserves freedom. But with so many people choosing ignorance, the fight for trans liberation isn’t over, it’s just getting louder. We’ll keep pushing, shouting, and building a world where trans lives aren’t debated but celebrated. 🏳️⚧️⚡
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@ErikUden@mastodon.deNeoliberalism is dead and there is an alternative. Not an alternative for Germany, not a reform nor restoration for the UK, not freedom for Austria, but an alternative, a way out for us all: socialism and liberation.
@rberger@hachyderm.io"That's it. That's why every government in the world allowed US Big Tech companies to declare open season on their people's private data and ready cash.
The alternative was tariffs. Well, I don't know if you've heard, but we've got tariffs now!
I mean, if someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep following their orders. So…Happy Liberation Day?" - @…
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
@memeorandum@universeodon.comInternal Montgomery County Public Schools curriculum guidance calls for an "intentional shifting of content" to examine "resistance to and liberation from white supremacy" (Defending Education)
https://defendinged.org/incidents/internal-montgomery-county-public-schools-curriculum-guidance-calls-for-an-intentional-shifting-of-content-to-examine-resistance-to-and-liberation-from-white-supremacy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p87#a260224p87
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Throughout our trip to Germany, most of the conversations I had with other survivors and their families reliably returned to fears and intergenerational traumas in the context of the Trump presidency; the rise of nationalism, authoritarianism and uncertainty in the U.S. and around the world. But although this was at the height of devastating reports of famine and genocide emerging from Gaza, everyone in our group, especially the Jews, seemed to make a concerted effort to avoid mention of Pa…
@rmdes@mstdn.socialDigital liberation: EU Parliament calls for detachment from US tech giants https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/01/24/digital-liberation-eu-parliament-calls
@zack@mamot.frDe Charles Alloncle et de la stupidité qui nous envahit.
https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/commission-sur-laudi…
@cdarwin@c.imFrom 1977 to 1979,
June Jordan and Toni Morrison were both a part of "The Sisterhood",
a group of Black women writers who met in a New York City apartment to eat and drink together while discussing liberation.
Whether addressing genocide, imperialism or the American literary establishment,
the writers in the group,
which included Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange,
saw their work as a means to make interventions against dominant narratives of colon…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialJewish Voice for Liberation warn targeting protesters opposing Israel is not protecting Jews | Morning Star
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/jewish-voice-liberation-warn-targeting-protesters-opposing-…
@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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@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump overturned decades of US trade policy in 2025. See the impact of his tariffs, in four charts (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-economy-liberation-day-d3458da225c1fdfade97ed494b23e868
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p12#a251226p12
@fractaleblog@masto.comversive.comLove ya, birdies 🐦
Aux Etats-Unis, des corneilles entraînées Š voler les casquettes des partisans de Trump – Libération
https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/aux-etats-u…
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaThe talk section on the Wikipedia article about the acronym "MILF" is quite interesting. There have been heated discussions about age range and if having a child is actually a prerequisite.
Of course the article itself has a disambiguation that helps people who were actually looking for information about Moro Islamic Liberation Front. That article in turn has this line:
> MILF announced that it would disarm its 30,000 fighters.
@zack@mamot.fr
@detondev@social.linux.pizzakeep thinking about how cool the symbionese liberation army logo is. they really said "fuck getting anyone but edgelord upper-middle class college students to like us, classic villain tropes maxxing looks hard so we're doing it, make it a multi-headed black snake with a silhouette that looks like some sorta deadly microscopic parasite, put it over a blood red background while we're at it, this will surely make black people agree with us when they learn who shot marcus foster&quo…
@zack@mamot.frA ne pas confondre avec un rhume de cerveau qui nécessite toi-même-tu-sais-hein.
https://www.liberation.fr/politique/francois-bayrou-hospitalise-pour-une-grippe-tres-severe-20251215_TIOGBCCP4JA55BPMXIZOJAJKAY/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Real Tariff Liberation Day Arrives at the Supreme Court (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-ieepa-supreme-court-john-roberts-opinion-e2610d81?st=G9aLUL
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p21#a260221p21
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI’ve lost a lot of respect for Andrewism after his recent upload. It feels disconnected from the reality of working-class life and from anarcho-syndicalism as it actually exists.
This response is a worthwhile read. It doesn’t romanticize work or the working class, but it doesn’t drift into abstract alternatives either. It sits with the fact that we don’t want to be working class, but we are, and that contradiction isn’t something you escape with theory.
I strongly relate to what’…
@hex@kolektiva.socialOne of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
@buercher@tooting.chJacques-Elie Favrot reconnaît «la commission de violences». Assistant parlementaire de Raphaël Arnault interpellé mardi, Jacques-Elie Favrot a reconnu «sa présence sur les lieux» et «la commission de violences» Š l’encontre de Quentin Deranque, a indiqué ce mercredi 18 février son avocat auprès du correspondant de Radio France Š Lyon. Il a également affirmé «qu’il n’était pas l’auteur des coups qui ont provoqué le décès de M. Deranque», a ajouté Me Bertrand Sayn
https://www.liberation.fr/societe/police-justice/en-direct-mort-de-quentin-deranque-la-porte-parole-du-gouvernement-appelle-lfi-a-exclure-temporairement-raphael-arnault-20260218_CS6DZBEYQVFRJNZSR46ETFKF3M/
@cdarwin@c.imProtests erupted nationwide as the U.S. attacks Venezuela and kidnaps President Maduro and his wife.
San Francisco was no exception.
As the recent days of rain let up for a grateful pause, activists of all ages from the Answer coalition, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Democratic Socialists of American, Revolutionary International Youth, Refuse Fascism, and just people with home made signs rallied at Powell and Market.
They then marched down Market Street to …
@zack@mamot.frNoël: une fabuleuse occasion pour enfin faire connaissance avec la fast-déco, prendre conscience de ces impacts,
ou pester qu'elle ait été exclue du récent débat public sur la fast-fashion.
Le cynisme débonnaire de ces grandes enseignes (françaises comme étrangères) me révulse: extractivisme, pollution plastique, dégâts sociaux...
La fast-déco n'a rien Š envier Š sa copine toxique la fast-fashion.
Ouais, parlons-en de la fast-déco.
Parlons-en beaucoup.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaWhen the working class organizes on the basis of solidarity and direct action, workers and communities can collectively manage and control the means of production, while federations of workers and local communities coordinate production and social life through mutual aid and federalist principles, without bosses or the state.
In an era marked by automation, precarity, and deepening inequality, the struggle for workers’ self-management, economic democracy, and social liberation remains …
