Let’s be honest about something we usually skate around. Many of our #fluffy activist friends are not fighting for change. They are fighting for equality of access to the existing system. That system is the #deathcult – growth, extraction, hierarchy, control – and most progressive mainstream activism is about making that ...
🦭 Celebrating the end of my first year as a marine mammal medic with British Divers Marine Life Rescue. Let's meet the seals 👇
🌶️ Spicy seal (don't trust that face, he was a menace!)
💙 The special one (the only common/harbour seal)
🌜 The night time pick up
🥰 The fluffy prince (certified "good little seal" on his paperwork!)
⛑️ The intensive care patient
😇 The literal angel!
⭐ The perfect princess, with the beautiful singing voice
In my life, what is real is people being beaten and shot, blood on the walls, evidence fabricated, mass arrests, torture in prisons, borders closing, and fear becoming an everyday condition. Fear isn’t imagined. Fear is rational. ...
A very fluffy orange and white cat is seen from directly overhead, he is lounging on his right side and facing the viewer his paws are clustered together with his tail and his fur is slightly bedraggled in appearance. The surface he is laying on has collected a fair bit of cat hair.
A fluffy white dog is adorned with faux antlers and blue baubles, set against a checkered blue background. Snowflakes enhance the festive atmosphere. Art by Lisa S Baker.
This is about revolution as regeneration, not only destruction. In an era built on tech dependency, revolution isn’t only about smashing the machines, it’s about liberating them. Turning tools back into commons, not commodities. It’s composting the toxic monoculture of the #dotcons into fertile ground for the #openweb to ...
https://hamishcampbell.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/deathcult-02.jpgLive at c-base is a #Fediverse event that highlights the need for composting the dogmatic #fluffy mess making to keep balance in our shared #openweb reboot. With our #fluffy crew talking about the shared reboot, on the surface it looks positive – friendly ...
A large, fluffy black and white Greenland sled dog gazes intently off to the side. Its bright eyes and slightly open mouth reveal a calm and observant demeanor. The soft focus in the background highlights the dog's detailed fur texture.
A large, fluffy black and white Greenland sled dog gazes intently off to the side. Its bright eyes and slightly open mouth reveal a calm and observant demeanor. The soft focus in the background highlights the dog's detailed fur texture.
This should be obvious to anyone who as some knolage of left politics. They are the people who always rise to the top when #mainstreaming takes hold. You see them on TV, in parliament, running #NGOs, managing #dotcons tech projects. ...
It turns out that what hackers yearn for is not raw power but security – not just the technical kind, but an emotional security that is harder to admit to, so it gets dressed up in the language and posture of technology. ...
We need to start saying this more often, and without apology: there is a moral difference between left and right. Not just a difference in opinion, or strategy, or culture, but a real difference in the kind of people and world each side fights for. Left-wing politics, reflects our better human instincts: generosity, compassion, ...
In our current mess of a world, one of capitalism’s illusions is the promise of #frictionlessness, that everything should just work, that all interactions should be smooth, efficient, and untroubled. In tech this is the logic of the #dotcons, keeping the “users” engaged, never give them time to think, and above all don’t ...
The essence of the #geekproblem is its narrow, self-referential logic. Here’s a #spiky, clear and pointed way to show this in a prody way. This is about the narrow track of thinking that defines the #geekproblem in the context of an #openweb reboot: ...
> #FediverseHouse this feels like an irrelevant echo chamber, I really miss the grassroots #DIY that built this space in the first place. This #maistreaming is too much noise vs signal... currently the grassroots #DIY space is a hollow shell
(two posts combined)
That immediately got me on edge as someone new to ActivityPub in 2024. Does this mean I'm "mainstream", and somehow "bad"?
Mainstream adoption is good and a step in the right direction. I personally think ActivityPub isn't ready for general mainstream consumption, but we as a group are rapidly closing the gap and I'd much rather continue building momentum instead of waiting for the opportune moment.
Here's the hot take that I was going to originally write, but thought came off as too combative:
> It sounds like you feel like ActivityPub development only counts when you're toiling away in obscurity.
As someone who's hacking away on a platform that hasn't been "mainstream" for over a decade (forum/BBS software), I bristle at the notion that what I do doesn't count as grassroots or DIY. You don't have to be the perpetual underdog to do good in the world.
I might be wrong, but it sounds like Hamish feels like big players are coming in and taking the ball away... that big players' clout and presence takes away from the attention that smaller DIY projects receive.
Maybe... but if the fediverse is 100x larger with a big player, and they take 99% of the eyeballs, have they really taken anything away from you?
yep, it's a bit more than that, you can find out why http;//hamishcampbell.com
The top post is apt "This is a #fluffy attempt at communicating to the #mainstreaming. In reality, this post is about #activertpub and the #Fediverse. I’ve already written extensively on this, but I don’t think those pieces break through to the #mainstreaming. So, I used other examples to illustrate the issue."
bookstodon group I started a light and fluffy read (think India Holton’s Wisteria Society level of fluff) and it opens with the FMC being tackled to the ground in a dark room and bodily held down by a strange man, and her reaction is all ooh muscles and sexy feelings (by which you know you’ve met the MMC) and I just could not get past that reaction. Sure, she’s competent and trained as a spy, so her reaction doesn’t HAVE to be fear, but it sure as hell shouldn’t be that.
It’s also immediately followed by the MMC being surprised he’s captured a woman and I’m like, excuse you this is set in the Victorian era, you would’ve had to get past her skirts to tackle her, you have to know you’re on top of a woman just from the volume of clothing under you, you TWAT.
So, anyway. I’m plainly not in the mode for this style of light and fluffy 😂
Change and challenge
Let’s be honest about something we usually skate around. Many of our #fluffy activist friends are not fighting for change. They are fighting for equality of access to the existing system. That system is the #deathcult – growth, extraction, hierarchy, control – and most progressive mainstream activism is about making that ...
What is not real is pretending that violence is secondary to discomfort over language
In my life, what is real is people being beaten and shot, blood on the walls, evidence fabricated, mass arrests, torture in prisons, borders closing, and fear becoming an everyday condition. Fear isn’t imagined. Fear is rational. ...
The #OMN Path: Openness as Revolution
This is about revolution as regeneration, not only destruction. In an era built on tech dependency, revolution isn’t only about smashing the machines, it’s about liberating them. Turning tools back into commons, not commodities. It’s composting the toxic monoculture of the #dotcons into fertile ground for the #openweb to ...
LIVE at c-base a #fluffy Fediverse conference
https://hamishcampbell.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/deathcult-02.jpgLive at c-base is a #Fediverse event that highlights the need for composting the dogmatic #fluffy mess making to keep balance in our shared #openweb reboot. With our #fluffy crew talking about the shared reboot, on the surface it looks positive – friendly ...
Who are the #nastyfew?
This should be obvious to anyone who as some knolage of left politics. They are the people who always rise to the top when #mainstreaming takes hold. You see them on TV, in parliament, running #NGOs, managing #dotcons tech projects. ...
Security comes from community rather than technological control
It turns out that what hackers yearn for is not raw power but security – not just the technical kind, but an emotional security that is harder to admit to, so it gets dressed up in the language and posture of technology. ...
We Don’t Need More Liberal Techno-Utopianism
We need to start saying this more often, and without apology: there is a moral difference between left and right. Not just a difference in opinion, or strategy, or culture, but a real difference in the kind of people and world each side fights for. Left-wing politics, reflects our better human instincts: generosity, compassion, ...
Frictionlessness is a Poisoned Fantasy – an #OMN Reflection
In our current mess of a world, one of capitalism’s illusions is the promise of #frictionlessness, that everything should just work, that all interactions should be smooth, efficient, and untroubled. In tech this is the logic of the #dotcons, keeping the “users” engaged, never give them time to think, and above all don’t ...
Composting the reboot funding ( hamishcampbell.com )
Dear Michiel, ...
A look at a narrow point of view ( hamishcampbell.com )
The essence of the #geekproblem is its narrow, self-referential logic. Here’s a #spiky, clear and pointed way to show this in a prody way. This is about the narrow track of thinking that defines the #geekproblem in the context of an #openweb reboot: ...