Hello, Lovely Peeps! 👋
I have a fun, gentle project for you! 😊
For anyone interested, below is the link to "One Minute Park" where you can see one minute of a park from various places in the world & can contribute your own.
THIS IS NOT A WEBCAM - this is a one-minute video, shot by someone there & uploaded.
Eventually they hope to have enough (1440) to fill an entire day. So far they have 219. 👍
#Japan, #UK, #Italy, #Brazil, #USA, #France, #China, #Slovenia, #Australia, #Finland, #Belgium, #Scotland, #Germany, #NewZealand, #Thailand & more are all represented.
(The location of the park is in small print in white in the lower right corner, sound, browse & info buttons are in white in the lower left corner. (They can be hard to see.))
(from website)
How to make a One Minute Park
Walk around a park until you find a composition. Your scene should be filled with many layers of activity without any dominating elements.
Record in landscape mode on your phone. Keep your shot as steady as you can but don't use a tripod. You could even hold your breath. Check the timecode indicator while filming to make your video exactly 60 seconds. Tap record, let it count up to 60, and tap again. No editing needed!
Upload your One Minute Park to this Are.na channel. Videos should be in .mp4 format. Please include the date, time, park, location in the block's title.
I'm looking forward to this! 🤩
“This is not an apolitical project. There is no such thing as an apolitical project, only a project that does not acknowledge its politics.”
@phire’s ‘Manifesto for the Toronto That Could Be’, related to her new ’Show Up Toronto’ site, is so good ↓
The original seed of this project actually came from a question I asked on Fedi a few months ago, which is: where is leftist organizing happening in Canada? I've spent a lot of time talking to people since trying to answer that question, and while this isn't the answer to that question yet, I figured if I was having trouble finding things other people probably would be too and we should find out together.
Hi pals, I'm launching a new project today called Show Up Toronto!! It's a website and weekly newsletter that aggregates organizing/advocacy/direct action events in the city so you can find out how to get involved without having to be on Facebook/Instagram. First email goes out tomorrow, sign up and tell your friends https://showuptoronto.ca
subtoot, "you"
@joepie91 funny how people forget about plausible deniability, malicious compliance and active acts of resistance when things get difficult
Some of what he is experiencing is clearly racism. BIPOC people who mask clearly have a much worse experience here. Talking to him made me feel like we need a union of mask wearers, that advocates for our rights. Absolutely enraging.
I talked to an experienced Uber driver today (31k trips) who masks and he said he gets non-stop hassled by his peers, customers and other people who tell him to take it off. He gets negative reports and even got suspended for four days when some customers tried to allege he was inappropriate.
All because he wears a mask.
subtoot, "you"
What you say: "Well, during the nazi occupation, people were forced into cooperating with the nazis, so you can't really hold those people responsible, because you don't really have a choice when they're at your door."
What I hear: You cannot be trusted with my (and our) safety under adverse conditions.
As Autumn BlackDeer would say, white colonial logic works under the axiom: “the more distant, the more objective”. Hence we automate processes in the industry, in police and justice, in the military… Objectivity, as a moral distant, context detached narrative, has always been our white colonial (scientific) language to legitimate human cruelty towards the recipients of automation (enslaved, incarcerated and stigmatized peoples) and to compartmentalize and minimize our responsibility.
gisteren was ik bij de bossche dodenherdenking, bij het verzetsmonument. die was mediocre, uiteraard.
het blijft een mooi, indrukwekkend moment als alleen de merels nog te horen zijn omdat honderden mensen demonstratief zwijgen. maar de galmende stilte over palestina, terwijl oekraine wel in de officiele speeches benoemd wordt, was pijnlijk. poetin is de villain, maar over netanyahu hebben we het niet.
maar de laatste toespraak was van eric alink, 'stadscroniqueur van den bosch'. en die was raak. trok een duidelijke paralel tussen klein herkenbaar uitsluitgedrag en geopolitiek, benoemde gaza, en was de enige die de belangrijkste slogan op 4 mei uitsprak: nooit meer.
"'Nooit meer', zeiden we in 1945. We zijn tachtig jaar verder. 'Nooit meer' is geen geruststelling voor het slapen gaan. 'Nooit meer' is ook geen levenslange garantie. 'Nooit meer' is de tijdloze waarschuwing dat wij kort van memorie zijn. Dat zelfs twee woorden al in vergetelheid kunnen raken. 'Nooit meer' vertelt ons dat herinneren belangrijk is, maar dat het vooral op daden aankomt."
op het scherm is hij minder sterk dan live verteld, maar hier is hij toch:
http://www.bosschekroniek.nl/tussentijdse-teksten/2025/05/05/reservebank
brekelmans tegen anti-genocide activisten: "Ik zeg dat ook tegen de mensen die we hier zojuist zagen: laten we elkaar stevig vasthouden en ons niet uit elkaar laten spelen, dat is wat ons allen te doen staat."
maar het gaat er nou juist om wie jij kiest vast te houden.
- jouw extreemrechtse collega-ministers die iedereen die niet wit, cis-hetero, rijk en rechts is weg wil pesten.
- een autoritair regime dat actief een genocide pleegt, en vandaag nog eens aankondigt een versnelling door te schakelen.
- een asielsysteem dat door jouw partij tot het bot uitgeknepen is, waardoor mensen in onterende omstandigheden jarenlang tussen kast en muur opgesloten zitten, terwijl jouw collega's samen met de rest van de gevestigde orde het volk opzwepen tegen vluchtelingen.
degenen die jij vast houdt zijn degenen die ons uit elkaar spelen.
nooit meer is nu. en zonder solidariteit met machtelozen, van ter apel tot gaza, is het geen nooit meer maar verdomd snel.
De Aziatische hoornaar is een invasieve exoot die bijen en andere bestuiverse bedreigt. Als je een hoornaar ziet, maar een foto waarop je bij voorkeur het achterlijf en de poten goed ziet. Controleer of het een Europeaan of Aziaat is. Als het een Aziaat is meld hem dan met een nauwkeurige locatie en foto op waarneming.nl. Lees meer op https://www.nvwa.nl/onderwerpen/aziatische-hoornaar
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.