Notices by Loukas Christodoulou (loukas@mastodon.nu), page 2

@aral Columnist Mike Winker, "what the anti-piss backlash gets wrong".

@aral @scottehzxor

I would go one step further and say that what we see as the market selecting the fittest is actually a system that desperately relies on community, sharing, mutual aid and kindness, but which does not include those things in its metrics. They are unmeasured and invisible but without them the whole system would collapse.

"I don't understand, it all seems pretty comfortable to me", I say sitting on top of the bloodstained rock.

"Explain to me this 'ribs crunching' sensation," I kindly ask. "What do you mean it's different to be under the rock?"

I don't understand why they won't help me understand.

I didn't really hear what they said in reply. Anyway. How about that weather we've been having.

@maegul @seachanger @Dangerous_beans yes I think it's been very interesting seeing how laboriously manual quote-tweets have been necessary over the past few days to do a good job of exposing racism.

@maegul @seachanger @Dangerous_beans

We need to have norms of solidarity and humanity that reduce cruel dogpiling. There's no technical work around to avoid just doing that hard work.

We need to dogpile racists, let's go.

@frankiesaxx @aral and I also see him making direct replies or comments to people being supportive. Stuff I only see because I follow both. Not in ways that get attention, but in ways that make me think he's trying to lift people up.

@aral @SuperDicq "have one fewer subsidiary". "Mount one less coup of a small resource rich country". Every little helps, even if you just reduce your footprint by one oil well.

🧵Sometimes friends of mine say they feel guilt they aren't recycling more, or swapping out their lightbulbs for more efficient ones.

But those aren't really very important things to do to lower your emissions.

I think it's important that we all have a basic mental map of what really are the effective consumer choices.

This chart from Kimberly Nicholas and Seth Wynes at Lund University (2017) deserves to be more widely known.

@aral I worry both candidates will pivot towards even more nationalism to try to pick up the Oğan votes. I see he demanded that KK shut the HDP out.

@Geri is there a map showing which streets have parties?

@aral Absolutely! All I care about is that a lot of us rally around a particular hashtag, make it visible for new users, and turn it into the welcoming helpdesk it needs to be.

Currently half of the (#)(feditips) posts I see during the last 24 hours are people talking about it on this thread.

So whatever tag we agree on, the important thing is that we use our social energy to give it life.

I read a good line in a story that's helped me with imposter syndrome.

It said, remember that people are as a species used to living in groups of about 200, grouped around several campfires.

🔥Every
🔥Single
🔥Campfire

needs its own storyteller, its own dancer, its own musician. More than one, really.

So don't compare yourself to those who perform for millions.

Are you the person who can make people happy around your closest campfire? That's what's needed.

Today is the national day of the Sámi people, who mostly live across what is now Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. This day commemorates the first cross-border congress of Norwegian and Swedish Sámi, in 1917.

In Sweden the language is spoken by about 20,000 people, but far more have Sámi heritage, as a result of racism and assimilation policies. #sami #indigenous https://www.su.se/department-of-swedish-language-and-multilingualism/news/s%C3%A1mi-national-day-on-6-february-s%C3%A1mi-is-one-of-sweden-s-five-national-minority-languages-1.595512

What is this, a #fantasy #caturday crossover episode?

An interesting debate happening between at least three Swedish Mastodon servers right now. An admin on mastodon.se wrote a blog saying they would tolerated Sweden Democrat supporters as long as they stick to the rules. One Swedish server, suedi.club, has defederated as a result and I think some non-Swedish ones have done so as well.

In many ways this 'new' debate parallels the ongoing debate over SD that we've seen since they were elected in 2010.

Another recent example is the debate over whether an active Sweden Democrat can be a member of a labour union.

The main industrial union, IF Metall, has just changed its rules to state it is a feminist union and so you can't hold office there and be active in SD at the same time. https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/if-metall-blir-feministiskt-fackforbund-sd-toppen-rasar-vill-halla-tusentals-manniskor-utanfor

One thing Twitter was useful for as a journalist was finding politicians and other people who weren't returning your calls and shaming them for tweeting yet not getting back to you.

Of course other social media works for this too. I think I even chased Philippa Reinfeldt all the way to her instagram comments once (when she was a powerful Stockholm politician).

@jon yes the only thing I post on Twitter now are links to Mastodon and things like this: