The technofascists were never going to sit idly by and let the biggest collective repository of information just run around un-enshittified.

For almost two decades, I have been amazed at how well Wikipedia has been doing, and dreading the inevitable attacks.

We've seen this pattern playing out many, many many times now. Reddit's board was colonized around 2015, for one example. Everyone can see Mozilla going down the tubes with leadership actively trying to destroy anything that could make it a good and open alternative to the megacorps browsers. The people with backgrounds in venture capital or Microsoft or Amazon etc etc moving in on good sites and services, changing the priorities, letting the poison in. Evil, making offers people can't refuse, throwing around endless money and let's face it threats too, put NOTHING past them. It's an attack-- this is war. And they're out to eat EVERYTHING.

All of our access to information, news, history, communication, they want ALL of it swallowed down an endless abyss of propaganda and surveillance.

We've got to fight like hell, or they'll take all the light and breath and light in the whole world and future generations won't even get to remember.

@JakeOrlowitz https://mastodon.social/@JakeOrlowitz/116649352150125501

This sounds familiar.

I wish Aaron Bushnell was still here. We need more people who can envision worlds past this bullshit.

I post some heavy shit. But there's a very good reason I have so little patience with the horrible crap going on all around us:

Solutions exist.

All of the energy and resources being poured into endless war right now, need to be aimed instead towards projects like this.

It is possible to rehabilitate large-scale ecosystems. Enough carbon could be sequestered this way, to actually return us to pre-Industrial levels.

I grew up with my father, an engineer, constantly explaining in detail the short-sighted flaws in how many things are done all around us, and how it could be fixed by people willing to do things the right way.

This is why I'm so fired up. We can do so much better than the pathetic fate we're expected to resign ourselves to. The Paris Accords don't come close. The oh-so-greenwashed infrastructure act and inflation reduction act are laughable next to the scale of what needs to be done. People who promote net zero scams and blather about tech miracles are dodging the issue and wasting our time. They think 3C increase is acceptable. They will let us burn. They are liars who want you to believe I'm trying to discourage you by pointing out the flaws in what's happening. The opposite is true.

Solutions exist. There is hope.

Corporate toadies of the fossil fuel industry don't want us to realize it-- nothing else is so dangerous to the tyranny of the status quo, as the realization that solutions exist. It's an enormous job, but we CAN do it if enough resources are directed the right way.

And every little bit counts.

Your yard, your neighbor's yard, the median, the ditch, empty lots-- anywhere. Everywhere. Build topsoil. Like our lives depend on it. They do.

Build connections, trust, friendships. Repair things. Find people with good hearts, people who are building something real. People who talk about work like this:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bLdNhZ6kAzo

My protest sign for the 2016 DNC in Philadelphia.

Okay, so: Peer Support is a thing.

It's not widely known, and it's IMPORTANT.

A Peer Support Specialist reaches across, not down. Non-hierarchical-- that's literally a requirement spelled out in the job description.

We close the liminal space between "patient" and "well person". We bridge the gap between the person receiving care and their therapist/doctor etc. We're the people you want knocking on the door when you're having a major personal crisis-- you know, instead of the people with guns. We've lived through our own crises/trauma/illness/addiction/etc, and we know how it actually feels.

This isn't just some cute hand-holding role. It's a crucial part of a larger movement to integrate and humanize-- frankly, to TRANSFORM-- healthcare. That's the agenda, straight up. And I even get to fucking SAY THAT out loud.

And how do we enact this subversive scheme? By using empathy to relate to people, while helping empower them to determine and work on their OWN damn recovery goals, without judging.

Trying to "fix" people leads to burnout. Coercion and punishment have diminishing returns-- you can't force anybody to get better by kicking them when they're already down. Stigma has done massive damage. So we slow down, give an actual shit, and walk WITH people while they learn to fish, instead of beating fish over their heads, get it?

How's that for revolutionary.

#praxis
#mentalhealth
#mentalillness
#trauma
#traumainformed
#peersupport
#peergroups
#recovery
#resilience
#supportgroups
#peersupportspecialist

#Introduction

Looking for community and hope, way off the ill-fated beaten path.

Used to work in a video store. Never was on the birdsite. Tired of bots, trolls, ads, and games of musical deck chairs.

May be a giant broke-ass loser who fails at most everything, but at least I'm not a jerk.

#Agender
#Asexual
#Aromantic
#Agnostic
#AnarchoCommunist
#Lunarpunk

Interested in world-saving solutions:
#Permaculture
#DirectAction
#MutualAid
#RightToRepair
#OpenSource
#RestorativeJustice
#Antifascist
#PeerSupport

Working through some personal issues:
#MentalHealth
#Depression
#Anxiety
#CPTSD
#AuHD

Studying some useful hobbies:
#Aquaponics
#GreyWater
#CompostingToilet
#BlackSoldierFlyLarvae
#RocketStoveMassHeater
#NativePlants
#GuerillaGardening
#3dAnimation
#DataVisualization

Into some more cool stuff of this sort:
#SciFi
#Fantasy
#Horror
#Anime
#IndustrialMusic
#Psybient
#BellyDance
#MartialArts
#Motorcycle
#Doodling