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MediaActivist

@MediaActivist@todon.eu

Longtime #anticapitalist guerrilla journalist and documentarian (ex-#Indymedia) whose camera shot fascists from Britain to Turtle Island.

Now, in the “Roaring Twenties,” trying to help develop a Fediverse-driven radical media network inspired by the French Mutu model.

#WFH freelancer based in Sheffield, UK -- mostly working for https://floss.social/@freetechproject and https://tech.lgbt/@EDEN_F_P in addition to being a full-time carer for my partner who has #LongCovid.

Member of #MaskBloc #MitosisCollective #OpenRightsGroup #IWW #Acorn.

Enthusiastic about #Fediverse #FediPact #FOSS #Linux #Comics #ProWrestling (I'm the one behind @theleftfist).

Searchable via https://tootfinder.ch/ #tfr #fedi22 #Queer #Punk #StraightEdge #vegan #anarchist #FreePalestine

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afewbugs, to random
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"Just use Linux" is much like "just ride a bike" or "just shop at a refill store" - accessing the non default option can be time consuming, expensive or unavailable locally. We need to recognise you need a certain degree of privilege to have the capacity to complicate your life voluntarily. We need to be trying to make the better, harder thing more accessible, not blaming people for not using it.

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@Mux @hazelnot @afewbugs I teach tech, mostly to folks who tend to be older and less confident. The most common response to this proposal tends to be around the fact that, ironically, they trust big tech companies more, even if they hate them; if it's free - many assume - then it must also be worthless. They struggle on with a clunkier, more confusing Windows operating system because of this, when they could be using an OS more comparable to the one many of them use on their phone (essentially a free, open source OS with a simple software centre). I agree that we cannot underestimate the mass marketing of Microsoft that promotes their inferior product. I remember mentioning this challenge to folks who work on Linux, who told me "We don't have time or money to do publicity, we're busy working on creating a better OS." There's the rub!

MediaActivist, to LGBTQ
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Hey folx, can I ask a favour? For a while now I've been volunteering, and more recently working, for @EDEN_F_P and since 2013 they have done soo much incredible work for and with the #LGBTQ+ community, including E.D.E.N. Digital, and Transforming Cinema - film festival championing transgender, gender nonconforming, non-binary, and genderqueer voices, as well as loads more important work using the powerful medium of film. Will you welcome them into the Fediverse, and maybe give them a follow? Thanks! #TransRights @FediFollows

MediaActivist, to FF
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It's been a while since I did a so here goes! @radicalresilience @ophiocephalic @Loukas @noondlyt @beadsland @aral @jalcine @crowgirl @az @catnash and way too many more awesome folks I'm surely forgetting, but there's always next time!

MediaActivist, to random
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A great piece on Freedom News this morning, on the mix of centrist and fascist politics for a scared state in crisis: "In Europe, the established political parties have been double-dipping into the hot sauce of nationalism to spice up a bland political process that has been numbed by neoliberalism. The vote for centrist parties is collapsing so racism and authoritarianism have become the main meal for a culture war diet." https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/05/13/the-triumph-of-beige/

MediaActivist, to DeGoogle
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Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government https://www.404media.co/google-delists-sites-providing-diy-hormone-therapy-at-behest-of-uk-government/

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Trans children could be ‘forced to medically detransition’ under leaked NHS England plans: https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/06/nhs-trans-healthcare-detransition/ #NHS #TransRights #LGBTQ

MediaActivist, to disability
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"Given the past history of how this government hands out contracts to accredited providers, their friends down the boozer can start ordering their super yacht catalogues now — while the rest of us can continue with our suicide watch over friends and family, affected by previous austerity programmes under the guise of welfare reforms which have cost the lives of over a hundred and twenty thousand people. The government has a struggle on its hands (along with the blood) if it expects to enact these changes before it’s ran out of power. That doesn’t mean it can’t. Or that a potential incoming Labour government wouldn’t pick up this particularly poisonous chalice..." https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/05/10/disability-cuts-work-isnt-the-pull-sunak-thinks-it-is/

MediaActivist, to Israel
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"They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either." https://theintercept.com/2024/05/08/american-democracy-israel-us-arabs/ #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #StopGenocide

MediaActivist, to journalism
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Reporters Without Borders condemns Israel’s Al Jazeera shutdown: The French-based organisation said it “strongly condemns freedom-threatening legislation that censors a TV network for its coverage of the war in Gaza” https://aje.io/bzs7sx?update=2881381 #media #journalism #RSF #ReportersWithoutBorders #AlJazeera #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine

MediaActivist, to Israel
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"Americans who get their news primarily from cable are the only people who believe that Israel is not committing a genocide in Gaza, according to a new survey that examined the relationship between attitudes toward the war and news consumption habits." https://theintercept.com/2024/04/30/gaza-israel-palestine-cable-news-poll/ #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #StopGenocide #media #news

MediaActivist, to Palestine
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Six Things You Need to Know About the Growing Anti-War Movement https://itsgoingdown.org/six-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-growing-anti-war-movement/ #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine

MediaActivist, to Palestine
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“Tell the World What’s Happening Here,” Say Patients in Gaza https://theintercept.com/2024/04/26/deconstructed-gaza-doctor-medical-mission/ #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #StopGenocide

MediaActivist, to Palestine
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“It Is an Honor to Be Suspended for Palestine" : Dispatches from the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University https://crimethinc.com/2024/04/21/it-is-an-honor-to-be-suspended-for-palestine-dispatches-from-the-solidarity-encampment-at-columbia-university #Palestine #FreePalestine

MediaActivist, to ghost
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Ghost is considering joining the Fediverse! That's right. The nonprofit company is contemplating federating Ghost over ActivityPub. Here's Ghost's survey asking users about their usage of ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon and how they expect ActivityPub functionality to work in Ghost (many of my followers here will have better insight into this than myself, so please do submit your feedback; it's a very short form and the impact could be great!): https://tally.so/r/m67X4P

MediaActivist,
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Update: it's happening! Thanks to everyone who boosted and gave input! https://activitypub.ghost.org/ #Ghost #ActivityPub #Fediverse

MediaActivist, to random
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Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/cops-can-force-suspect-to-unlock-phone-with-thumbprint-us-court-rules/

MediaActivist, to random
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The Supreme Court abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states https://www.vox.com/scotus/24080080/supreme-court-mckesson-doe-first-amendment-protest-black-lives-matter

MediaActivist, to random
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"The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing; it’s utterly collapsing." Right-Wing Media Are in Trouble: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/conservative-digital-media-traffic/678055/

MediaActivist, to random
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Who the hell are these nasty little accounts coming on here to troll those of us in solidarity with the Palestinian cause? Fuck these asshole bootlicker apologists for genocide. I'll say it again: #FreePalestine

MediaActivist, to Palestine
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Walkouts, Blockades, and Student Occupations in Solidarity with Palestine Continue https://itsgoingdown.org/walkouts-blockades-occupations-palestine-spring/ #Palestine #FreePalestine #PalestineSolidarity

MediaActivist, to journalism
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"Israel is killing Palestinian journalists, banning foreign media from reporting on Gaza – and losing credibility." Watching the watchdogs: Israel’s attacks on journalists are backfiring https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/4/2/watching-the-watchdogs-israels-attacks-on-journalists-are

MediaActivist, to Podcast
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Hi #podcasters! What do you find the best service to be for podcast episode distribution, transcription, and hosting more than one podcast? Spreaker got rid of their lower tier and my budget can't stretch to much more than $10 a month. And Buzzsprout block my VPN so they're now out haha. If you're a #podcaster I'd love to know what you use (sorry, Castopod wasn't for me). #podcast #podcasts #podcasting #AskFedi

onepict, to random
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For those who think we need an org to like merely give mental health support and when burn out happens to not give them any money at all. Just so long as the project is maintained.

We live in a capitalistic society that does not value everyone being paid something even if they aren't contributing right now.

Here's a thread on what one maintainer would have liked.

https://cloudisland.nz/@ehashman/112181868961681879

Again the answer is Universal Basic Income. Not yet another "support org".

Oh and ban billionaires.

MediaActivist,
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@onepict Having posted an article where the author proposed support organisations, I think these are absolutely superb points!

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@onepict Wow. Excellent ideas!

MediaActivist, to random
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Something else I have changed over the years of media activism too: accessibility. And I'm still not there yet. Transcribing podcast episodes, subtitling videos...it's all way fucking easier than it's ever been to do -- and consider this me calling my own ass out publicly to do way better in the coming months.

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