Get out on the streets this #saturday. We need your presence at a #NoKings rally.

#resist

Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

@guyjantic same here my friend! I wish more #Burningman affiliated groups and ppl would join mastodon, it’s the perfect chill platform!

#Request for fediverse #recommendations -

I go to regional burns (#BurningMan - type events) in my USA region and the principal way of organizing and connecting people is #facebook. I do not love this. I have suggested my local burner groups create a parallel group or two here on #mastodon. I'm looking for

(a) Recommendations for a server to point people to (probably #mastodon but that's because Mastodon is all I know; I'm open to other ideas), and

(b) Pointers to how groups get done now that gup.pe is offline.

Notes:

• Local (above) means within a 2- to 5-state radius in the USA. Many people are hundreds of km (and miles) apart. Most people have no real chance of in-person meeting between burns.
• If it is possible to have both public and private forums (like on FB), that would be great; burners discuss things that happened at burns and, for a variety of reasons, many don't want those discussions visible to the wider universe (this need might be partly met with anonymous usernames, without truly private groups).
• Server recommendations: people with no #fediverse experience will be much more likely to make fediverse accounts and use them if I point them to a non-toxic, probably-functional-for-a-while server that would be a good fit, rather than just saying "Go find a server."
• Burners are pretty good fedizens already: they tend to be silly, friendly, and strongly social justice-oriented. Many are anarchists and burns are frequently described as temporary anarchist communities. Of course I immediately thought of beige.party, but I don't know a ton of servers. I have had good experiences with c.im, as well. I've heard some reasons not to send people to mastodon.social. Aaaaand I'm out of ideas.
• I'm not interested in running my own server. Years fighting with self-hosted services like nextcloud, limesurvey, and moodle have shown me I do not have the skills or time to maintain something like this. It's possible that, if enough burners come to the fediverse, someone with more skills and time might set up a server, but that is not on the horizon right now.
• The social aspect of social media is important here. I don't want to recommend lemmy; I think something that facilitates immediate interaction more smoothly would be better. If there's a recommendation to use services besides Mastodon, I think something with a lot of active users would be best, to make the newcomers understand at a gut level that they are in an active larger community. For that reason, I'm not as interested right now in a newer service that has few people and doesn't federate seamlessly with other services.
• I'm trying to avoid bluesky (for probably-obvious reasons). That's where I'm pretty sure some people will start recommending if the fediverse transition is too complicated or not "social-feeling" enough. All recommendations to leave corporate social media seem to gravitate toward bluesky recommendations, so I suspect those are going to happen, and I'd like for people to not feel a need to go anywhere but the fediverse.

Right now, probably because of my limited experience, I'm thinking #mastodon instead of #friendica (which seems less trafficked than mastodon... but IDK) or other fediverse platforms. I'm very open to other suggestions, recognizing my limited perspective.

Send me your suggestions for any of the following, if you have them:

• Mastodon servers to recommend for people who don't want or know how to search for one that fits them
• Different platforms besides Mastodon (if you think others would be better for this)
• Explainers for how groups work now (realizing I didn't really understand how they worked before gup.pe went down)
• Changing this entire plan if it seems misguided

#help #RegionalBurn #organize

I remember coming home from school and telling my mom Columbus "discovered" America. She told me it was a load of crap, and set me straight. Mom was a hippie who challenged the status quo. At the time, it embarrassed me, I'd get frustrated and just wanted her to be like the other parents.
I realized later how lucky I was, and do the same with my daughter.
#indigenous #fuckcolumbus #indigenouspeoplesday

Heaven 17! Dead Kennedys! Woody! Great list.

The 15 Best Anti-Fascist Songs https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/anti-fascism/the-15-best-anti-fascist-songs?mc_cid=d38fe804bc&utm_source=PMNTNL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=251011&md5=

I continue to be flabbergasted by just how boring billionaires are with their money.

Like... where's the paying your favorite band to record a new album entirely without commercial pressure? Commissioning some artist to make a massive mural of a bee/cheeseburger creature?

Where's the contract to fill an entire swimming pool with cream and let everyone in the city jump in?

Where's the "giving 100 homeless people houses just to see them smile friday"?

You have enough money to explode god, but you'll buy things that make more money, yachts you barely use and houses that are much too big for anyone to sensibly live in.

How fucking empty a person do you have to be for that?

This is dope.

#indigenous #native #turtleisland

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/indigenous-nations-plan-tariff-free-trade-corridor-across-us-canada-border/

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

@pluralistic

“It’s something I’d done many times before … and ended up kind of stopping and looking at these, you know, hundreds of mugs that probably had all been gifted at potlatches.”

#Indigenous #FirstNations #culture #tradition #art #BC #Vancouver

https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/gallery-exhibit-shows-tradition-giving-it-all-away-makes-truer-wealth

How the largest #ArtCar at #2025BurningManPlaya came to #life https://zorz.it/SdCPV | #SaraBarnes #BurningMan #BlackRockDesert #LongFeng #ArtInstallations #performances #NorthwesternNevada

October 4, 2025
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Raising awareness of missing, murdered, and exploited Indigenous people.
This year's vigil was smaller and focussed on discussing the roots of the movement and current work.
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#yeg #yegdt #Indigenous #reconciliation #mmiwg #missingandmurderedindigenouswomen #photojournalism #yegphotographer

The antifascist frog, alongside Freedom Chicken, regularly protests outside the #ICE facility in #Portland #Oregon. Obviously, nobody wears a costume like that to do any violence; it's to ridicule the Nazis and amuse your own side, as I've learned.

A few days ago I saw a video in which a Nazi #DHS agent sprayed pepper spray into the air hole of the frog costume, in an effort to cause serious harm to an obviously nonviolent protester.

The frog is back at the facility like nothing happened.

Haremos antes de que llueva un paseo en la bicicleta....👍

I quit my job back in February. Been working the streets full time wherever the action is in the Midwest. Been to every major protest this year and many smaller ones.

My plan is to collect pics, video, and firsthand accounts of Trump's terror regime and turn it into fuel for the revolution.

Done acting like the world will just get better by itself. We got two major wars going on and a fascist in the White House who will start another to stay in power. It's time to quit fuckin.

Watching Hegseth and Trump today, I'm struck by their superficial concept of masculinity. It's so obvious they are terrified of being perceived as weak, so they convey a cartoonish version of masculinity that emphasizes anger, violence, and intimidation. But in your life, the most masculine men you know are confident, courageous, and independent. Men who put others down and strut around like puffed-up peacocks only project their fear and frailty. They are the least masculine men on the planet.