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⏳ Just one day until @fosdem !
The XWiki team is heading to Brussels from all across Europe. We’re excited to meet the open-source community, share ideas, and explore how XWiki supports flexible, open collaboration.
See you this weekend!
#FOSDEM2026 #OpenSource #XWiki #fosdem #oss #foss #news #community
⏳ Just one day until @fosdem !
The XWiki team is heading to Brussels from all across Europe. We’re excited to meet the open-source community, share ideas, and explore how XWiki supports flexible, open collaboration.
See you this weekend!
#FOSDEM2026 #OpenSource #XWiki #fosdem #oss #foss #news #community
People who like growing things tend to be the least "zero sum" people I've ever met. I meet activists who act like sharing their time will inevitably lead to their death, but gardeners are always sharing.
We give each other seed, baby plants, cuttings, vegetables, greens, eggs - sometimes even before we know each other. If I say to someone "I wish I could grow tomatoes better" they'll jump in and offer last generation's regionally adapted seed without hesitation.
Because perhaps there's something to the experience of planting a bean and watching it turn into hundreds of beans, all from one bean. Or a single squash seed and seeing it produce dozens of squash and thousands of seeds. Or watching an enormous tree grow from a tiny seed and then a little sprout, and bring owls back where there weren't any before. And realizing that sharing only spreads the abundance, and never takes it away. If my tomatoes grow better, and hers fail, she knows I'll probably offer her that even better performing seed right back, and some extra tomatoes.
One of our friends on the border said he realized capitalism is bullshit the first time he grew tepary beans and watched a single bean turn into pounds of food and plenty of seed to save for next time. Why would anyone control your access to food when it's just that simple?
And the homesteading folks seem to like to make it seem really difficult, but they'll plant 10 acres to grain instead of oak trees and lament having to rent a harvester combine instead of having food literally fall out of the trees (and have a forest of other food and habitat for game, to boot), which is a failure of planning rather than the reality of what growing food is actually like.
#Gardening #Food #Agriculture #Permaculture #FoodJustice #Community
People who like growing things tend to be the least "zero sum" people I've ever met. I meet activists who act like sharing their time will inevitably lead to their death, but gardeners are always sharing.
We give each other seed, baby plants, cuttings, vegetables, greens, eggs - sometimes even before we know each other. If I say to someone "I wish I could grow tomatoes better" they'll jump in and offer last generation's regionally adapted seed without hesitation.
Because perhaps there's something to the experience of planting a bean and watching it turn into hundreds of beans, all from one bean. Or a single squash seed and seeing it produce dozens of squash and thousands of seeds. Or watching an enormous tree grow from a tiny seed and then a little sprout, and bring owls back where there weren't any before. And realizing that sharing only spreads the abundance, and never takes it away. If my tomatoes grow better, and hers fail, she knows I'll probably offer her that even better performing seed right back, and some extra tomatoes.
One of our friends on the border said he realized capitalism is bullshit the first time he grew tepary beans and watched a single bean turn into pounds of food and plenty of seed to save for next time. Why would anyone control your access to food when it's just that simple?
And the homesteading folks seem to like to make it seem really difficult, but they'll plant 10 acres to grain instead of oak trees and lament having to rent a harvester combine instead of having food literally fall out of the trees (and have a forest of other food and habitat for game, to boot), which is a failure of planning rather than the reality of what growing food is actually like.
#Gardening #Food #Agriculture #Permaculture #FoodJustice #Community
If you're looking for something you *can* do these days, check in with your instance admin folks.
Do they need help?
IT support?
Help approving new registrations?
More moderators?
More cash to run servers?
You can help cultivate our safe online spaces, the places for solace and connection and support.
There's been 30k new users this week, btw. 🤯
https://mastodon.social/@usercounts/115957275462158462
#fedi #hopePunk #community #mastodon
In 1998 I started online #community, Brainstorms. Before #socialmedia sucked attention we had 400+ active members, meets in San Francisco, Memphis, Amsterdam, Melbourne. ~80 people now. For elders who prefer thoughtful discussion over performative posting, algorithms
brainstormscommunity.org
More than ever, we need tools for building diverse and resilient communities, away from Big Tech controlling our feeds, and investment companies hoping to get a big payout.
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-an-overview-for-community-organizers/
More than ever, we need tools for building diverse and resilient communities, away from Big Tech controlling our feeds, and investment companies hoping to get a big payout.
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-an-overview-for-community-organizers/
What exactly is #Mirlo, in a nutshell? 🥜🐦⬛
#Music #Coop #Musicians #OpenSource #SignUp #Coops #Bands #MusicCommunity #NewMusic #Cooperative #Community
You might think it is meaningless. For me, that's pure #hope, the demonstration that the human spirit cannot be crushed and always moves towards #creativity and #community.
#drummers against #ICE in #Minneapolis , by minus 25⁰c.
Via Jillian Ray (Music).
If you're looking for something you *can* do these days, check in with your instance admin folks.
Do they need help?
IT support?
Help approving new registrations?
More moderators?
More cash to run servers?
You can help cultivate our safe online spaces, the places for solace and connection and support.
There's been 30k new users this week, btw. 🤯
https://mastodon.social/@usercounts/115957275462158462
#fedi #hopePunk #community #mastodon
"Hi, my name is Jamie and I am doing my master's thesis on Covid conscious communities. I am a social anthropology student at Stockholm University. I myself am Covid conscious and chronically ill/disabled, and with my thesis I hope to highlight the importance of Covid conscious communities and the many things that can be learned from them."
"Feel free to scroll through and just answer the questions that you have the energy to answer."
Pass it on :-)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfu9qUK4bCzneASdSMZtpxmjEc3BPu4AiGTyu29lPpksGtYQ/viewform
#CovidConscious #CovidCareful #community #research #CovidIsntOver #disability #ChronicIllness
"Hi, my name is Jamie and I am doing my master's thesis on Covid conscious communities. I am a social anthropology student at Stockholm University. I myself am Covid conscious and chronically ill/disabled, and with my thesis I hope to highlight the importance of Covid conscious communities and the many things that can be learned from them."
"Feel free to scroll through and just answer the questions that you have the energy to answer."
Pass it on :-)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfu9qUK4bCzneASdSMZtpxmjEc3BPu4AiGTyu29lPpksGtYQ/viewform
#CovidConscious #CovidCareful #community #research #CovidIsntOver #disability #ChronicIllness
There are still things worth fighting for. There are still things worth holding onto. Find them. Fight for them. Hold onto them. We *will* see better days.
#fight #holdon #goodwillprevail #community #solidarity #hanginthere
There are still things worth fighting for. There are still things worth holding onto. Find them. Fight for them. Hold onto them. We *will* see better days.
#fight #holdon #goodwillprevail #community #solidarity #hanginthere
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