@fgraver@hcommons.socialI stopped buying books (or anything, really) from Amazon years ago, when it became apparent the working conditions at their many processing centres are appalling and they were actively busting unions. I have never regretted that stance, and I have always been able to find the books, etc. I need from other sources.
I hope more authors — and big name ones too — will follow this lead.
#BoycottAmazon
@mrwedders@social.linux.pizzaMeteor shower outside is cool, saw 8 in ~5m just looking out the end of my garden.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotRight! After, frankly, way too much work, I once again have a garden gate which opens properly and easily both ways, and which closes and latches properly and easily. I don't love the galvanised steel gatepost, but it should not need to be replaced again in my lifetime.
#TheJoyOfCrofting
#Crofting
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI’m will get sister’s Kindle too, they don’t use theirs, and it’s a newer model with a better e-ink display than mine. I read a lot of anarchist theory on my jailbroken Kindle.
Technically, a jailbroken Kindle can even run Linux, but for me, it is more just so I can free it from Amazon’s walled garden than anything else.
#Kindle
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgThis year my plan is not just to write more but also to write a bit out of my usual wheelhouse. Do something that's not just sociotechnological critique.
Not sure how to get the ball rolling there but I really love what Mike Monteiro is doing with his Newsletter ( https://buttondown.com/monteiro ). Bu…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialA year in a digital garden - Breaking free from walled gardens and rediscovering purpose on the open web
[…] I've read a number of posts about personal websites lately from different perspectives, all highlighting their value. This is my attempt to reflect on reclaiming my creative space and what it means to me. […]
— by @…
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@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyDiarycast - Conscious Uncouping (2020-07-12) - Brief diary update from my sunny Sunday suburban garden... #podcast #coronacast #lockdown2020 -
@mia@hcommons.social'writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a way that (hopefully) gets my point across. ... i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.'
@hippyjo@c.imRebellion isn't what you think it is.
A simple and vital message more people need to consider, in my opinion.
Someone posted the image below without including any alt text to make this message clearer.
Dick move.
The rebellion will be made accessible, because it is a rebellion against selfish ignorance and laziness - and because I will not stop doing what I can to help the cause.
I am extra irritated because I strongly believe in what the image is depicting…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyProud of my sister Gera, who developed a wonderful butterfly garden in the center of Tiel, the Netherlands, together with gardener Edwin Barendrecht and dozens of volunteers. On BBC2 tonight, 20:00 CET.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002px60
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI am visiting my mum. We are in a posh garden centre. They are playing Christmas songs. I suspect I'll have lost #Whamageddon before lunch time.
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toMy Girl Wants To Garden All The Time
#PlantASeedASong #HashTagGames
@lindawoodrow@mastodon.socialMy phone camera doesn't do justice to this tiny wing I found on the ground under a flowering fennel in the garden. It's about 2 cm length. #fairieslivehere
@hex@kolektiva.socialAny sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaToday is horseradish (raifort) day on the French Republican Calendar, and I said to my wife this morning that it was making me crave Arby's, which she took on as a mission
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzJust took a wee walk around the garden and saw at least 7 (native grass) skinks out and about, doing their thing. Warms my heart each time.
@playinprogress@assemblag.esI think maybe I want to have begonias in my garden again this year...
#photography #bloomScrolling #begonia #orange
@UP8@mastodon.socialThe front of the new Computing and Information Science building looked like a garden center when they were installing the landscaping
#photo #photography #cornell
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caamongst the various start-of-semester things to do today, I started a new backup 800gb of a Time Machine backup onto a HFS formatted disk image.
and also planted my "vegehome" with a fresh batch of little plant plugs. Look at their little plastic domes. 🥰
Once these lettuces and stuff run their course, I want to try something a little bigger... like maybe starting a little fruit tree.
#office #worklife #viu #garden #growing #backup #tech
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
John Rutter, Catrin Finch, The Cambridge Singers & John Rutter:
🎵 Dancing Tree (In My Garden; Dandelion)
#JohnRutter #CatrinFinch #TheCambridgeSingers
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post
#Spotify
