#collectiveaction — Public Fediverse posts

I forgot to mention: if you're in the #YQR / Regina area, tomorrow (Saturday 8 August 2026) is the #Regina Repair Cafe for this month. It's at the Victoria Square Mall, so lots of parking. It runs 10am - 4pm.

If you have stuff that is not working or broken, there's a good chance one of us volunteers can fix it for you. And it's free! We help keep stuff from ending up in the landfill before its time, and save you the expense of having to replace it.

And yes, we fix stuff you can't get fixed "professionally" because no one fixes small appliances and whatnot any more, because everyone says "Just buy a new one, it's cheaper". Not everyone can afford to "just" replace stuff, and there's the whole environment thing.

I guess we're adding a fourth "R" to the circle of life: reduce, re-use, repair, recycle.

I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer or official publicist or anything like that. But come down and say "Hi".

#RepairCafe #repair #environment #CollectiveAction #conservation #SK #fix #broken

I forgot to mention: if you're in the #YQR / Regina area, tomorrow (Saturday 8 August 2026) is the #Regina Repair Cafe for this month. It's at the Victoria Square Mall, so lots of parking. It runs 10am - 4pm.

If you have stuff that is not working or broken, there's a good chance one of us volunteers can fix it for you. And it's free! We help keep stuff from ending up in the landfill before its time, and save you the expense of having to replace it.

And yes, we fix stuff you can't get fixed "professionally" because no one fixes small appliances and whatnot any more, because everyone says "Just buy a new one, it's cheaper". Not everyone can afford to "just" replace stuff, and there's the whole environment thing.

I guess we're adding a fourth "R" to the circle of life: reduce, re-use, repair, recycle.

I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer or official publicist or anything like that. But come down and say "Hi".

#RepairCafe #repair #environment #CollectiveAction #conservation #SK #fix #broken

#HamiltonON - #GreenVenture

"Green Venture inspires and equips Hamilton residents to take individual and #CollectiveAction to preserve our natural #environment, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and build a community resilient to #ClimateChange."

Events include #RepairCafes, #UrbanGardenClub, #BeachCleanups, #WetlandTours, #HomeEfficiency Workshops, #RainGarden grants, and more!

FMI:
https://www.greenventure.ca/

#SolarPunkSunday #Ontario #BuildingCommunity #BuildingResiliency #PreserveNature #ClimateChangeResilience

#HamiltonON - #GreenVenture

"Green Venture inspires and equips Hamilton residents to take individual and #CollectiveAction to preserve our natural #environment, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and build a community resilient to #ClimateChange."

Events include #RepairCafes, #UrbanGardenClub, #BeachCleanups, #WetlandTours, #HomeEfficiency Workshops, #RainGarden grants, and more!

FMI:
https://www.greenventure.ca/

#SolarPunkSunday #Ontario #BuildingCommunity #BuildingResiliency #PreserveNature #ClimateChangeResilience

‼️New blog post by me‼️
"Against Pessimism"

> I know that it feels wrong to celebrate a small victory when so much else wrong is going on, but I promise you we won't be able to make it to the end if this is our outlook on life. If everything is terrible and nothing good ever happens or is talked about, then why should we even fight for the next victory?

...

> Nearly every single time I see one of their blog posts shared around on social media where they celebrated a victory they've made, there's always somebody in the comments complaining about how it didn't go far enough, that we still haven't done enough. And they're right in a sense — we do still need to keep going, keep fighting. This victory alone is only a step along the path! But why do you feel it is important to share that right now? Why must we pollute every victory with some sense of additional fear and worry?

Read the full post on my blog:
https://riverseeber.net/blog/post/against-pessimism/

#writing #collectiveAction #progress #privacy #usPol #leftism

‼️New blog post by me‼️
"Against Pessimism"

> I know that it feels wrong to celebrate a small victory when so much else wrong is going on, but I promise you we won't be able to make it to the end if this is our outlook on life. If everything is terrible and nothing good ever happens or is talked about, then why should we even fight for the next victory?

...

> Nearly every single time I see one of their blog posts shared around on social media where they celebrated a victory they've made, there's always somebody in the comments complaining about how it didn't go far enough, that we still haven't done enough. And they're right in a sense — we do still need to keep going, keep fighting. This victory alone is only a step along the path! But why do you feel it is important to share that right now? Why must we pollute every victory with some sense of additional fear and worry?

Read the full post on my blog:
https://riverseeber.net/blog/post/against-pessimism/

#writing #collectiveAction #progress #privacy #usPol #leftism

There have been 5 major global extinctions, let’s not make it 6 very soon.

Don’t know what else do, but sign link below?

Unless a large mass of people can agree to take collective action against petrochemicals, an insane arms race, pointless wars and the nonrenewable expropriation of capital, we all die at 60 °C which is 140 °F!

#EarthIsBurning #Entropy #Flooding #Hurricanes #Typhoons #Tornados #CollectiveAction #SustainableEthics #GlobalWarming #ClimateChaos #60CelsiusWeAllDie #140FarenheitWeAllDie #GlobalExtinctions #SaveEarth #StopBanksFinancingEcocide https://action.eko.org/a/banks-don-t-fund-kepco-s-coal-plans?source=clipboard

There have been 5 major global extinctions, let’s not make it 6 very soon.

Don’t know what else do, but sign link below?

Unless a large mass of people can agree to take collective action against petrochemicals, an insane arms race, pointless wars and the nonrenewable expropriation of capital, we all die at 60 °C which is 140 °F!

#EarthIsBurning #Entropy #Flooding #Hurricanes #Typhoons #Tornados #CollectiveAction #SustainableEthics #GlobalWarming #ClimateChaos #60CelsiusWeAllDie #140FarenheitWeAllDie #GlobalExtinctions #SaveEarth #StopBanksFinancingEcocide https://action.eko.org/a/banks-don-t-fund-kepco-s-coal-plans?source=clipboard

📰 Debunking the workplace power deficit myth

Think your boss holds all the cards?

https://workerorganizing.org/power-deficit-myth-18759/

#Workers #CollectiveAction #EWOC

📰 Debunking the workplace power deficit myth

Think your boss holds all the cards?

https://workerorganizing.org/power-deficit-myth-18759/

#Workers #CollectiveAction #EWOC

Australian #softwareengineers join the union Professionals Australia https://www.professionalsaustralia.org.au/
early days for #unionisation in Australian tech, but successes from the South Korean game industry and Swedish payment company Klarna to the Alphabet Workers Union in the US show the potential for #collectiveaction to make a difference to our lives.

https://overland.org.au/2026/07/the-general-intellect-on-the-picket-line-after-the-first-strike-in-the-australian-software-industry/

#Ai #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #STEM

Australian #softwareengineers join the union Professionals Australia https://www.professionalsaustralia.org.au/
early days for #unionisation in Australian tech, but successes from the South Korean game industry and Swedish payment company Klarna to the Alphabet Workers Union in the US show the potential for #collectiveaction to make a difference to our lives.

https://overland.org.au/2026/07/the-general-intellect-on-the-picket-line-after-the-first-strike-in-the-australian-software-industry/

#Ai #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #STEM

trumpsauthoritarianassault.blogspot.com/2026/05/one-... #CivicEmpowerment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #CollectiveAction #CostOfLivingCrisis #DemocraticReform #DemocraticRenewal #EthicalGovernance #PublicAccountability #Transparency

One Crisis, Two Faces: How Dem...

www.tumblr.com/climatejusti... A-Z of Hope: People-Powered Civic Empowerment for our Cost of Living & Climate Crisis #SustainableFuture #HumanRights #RightsOfNature #CollectiveAction #SocialJustice #Resilience

Post by @climatejustice1 · 2 l...

The #Fediverse - traditional structures are dead ends for this community.

If money is involved, you do get people - but usually the wrong incentives, the wrong dynamics, and the wrong outcomes.

Without money, in an era of #stupidindividualism, cooperation and voluntarism look like “nothing to gain”, so participation drops off or fragments.

That’s the mess we’re in: money distorts, but absence of money doesn’t produce collective action anymore.

So the real question for the #openweb and #OMN is how we rebuild meaningful reasons to cooperate that aren’t based on cash, but also aren’t captured by institutional or #dotcons logic.

#KISS #Fediverse #collectiveaction

The #Fediverse - traditional structures are dead ends for this community.

If money is involved, you do get people - but usually the wrong incentives, the wrong dynamics, and the wrong outcomes.

Without money, in an era of #stupidindividualism, cooperation and voluntarism look like “nothing to gain”, so participation drops off or fragments.

That’s the mess we’re in: money distorts, but absence of money doesn’t produce collective action anymore.

So the real question for the #openweb and #OMN is how we rebuild meaningful reasons to cooperate that aren’t based on cash, but also aren’t captured by institutional or #dotcons logic.

#KISS #Fediverse #collectiveaction

The non-action bloc: resignation, cynicism, and the culture that keeps people powerless

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-non-action-bloc-resignation-cynicism-and-the-culture-that-keeps-people-powerless/

The non-action bloc: resignation, cynicism, and the culture that keeps people powerless

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-non-action-bloc-resignation-cynicism-and-the-culture-that-keeps-people-powerless/

trumpsauthoritarianassault.blogspot.com/2026/05/one-... One Crisis, Two Faces: How Democratic Failure Fuels Climate Breakdown and Economic Injustice #CivicEmpowerment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #CollectiveAction

One Crisis, Two Faces: How Dem...

121 editors have signed a petition affirming they would participate in a strike, if necessary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#Signatures

This includes 24 administrators, 3 arbitrators, and many frequent contributors. Along with a couple people, like me, who are none of those things but signed on anyway.

#Wikipedia #Wikimedia #CollectiveAction

121 editors have signed a petition affirming they would participate in a strike, if necessary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#Signatures

This includes 24 administrators, 3 arbitrators, and many frequent contributors. Along with a couple people, like me, who are none of those things but signed on anyway.

#Wikipedia #Wikimedia #CollectiveAction

@ericjames

Yesssssss, that was a grand example of a #collectiveaction

Like the #beachbody campaign destruction in, #London , I think it was?

We are cuddling the machines that track and destroy us… But sometimes some of us stop

@ericjames

Yesssssss, that was a grand example of a #collectiveaction

Like the #beachbody campaign destruction in, #London , I think it was?

We are cuddling the machines that track and destroy us… But sometimes some of us stop

Last Sunday, I had the privilege to see Attenborough's "Our Story" in the Artis Planetarium. The experience nudged me on an intertwined train of thought.

The short film is a quick overview of the rise of our species - how we grew from an animal trying to survive to a powerful collective that exerts vast influence over the planet that birthed us. It was a lovely way to celebrate Attenborough's 100th birthday, as one of the treasured people of mankind. His message of hope drew a parallel between how we saved the great whales from almost certain extinction through shared global effort, and our power to make a difference as long as we work together. We, he says, are living in one of the most important historical times. And indeed, our times will be regarded as some of the most important in history books hundreds of years from now... Assuming we'll have the liberty of open science.

A day before the screening, I witnessed something that rhymed with Attenborough's message. The inauguration of Hungary's new democratic government, led by Péter Magyar, took place in Budapest, the first after years of Viktor Orbán's authoritarian rule, which had systematically dismantled judicial independence, press freedom, civil society and committed countless other crimes.

A few very powerful moments happened in Parliament last Saturday. Hungary's new sovereignty was established through the uncompromising affirmation of democracy. The building of transparent and independent accountability mechanisms was explained, and the perpetrators of the sunsetting kleptocratic regime were literally looked in the eye and brutally shamed before an entire nation and the world. (You should watch the various ceremonies and discussions online if you have the time.) Most importantly though, the new prime minister called on Hungarian citizens to watch their political servants, work towards common goals despite the polarising scars that divide and conquer tactics left on the social fibre, and to look for the best in each other. This triangle of active ethics is essential, and I will come back to it.

Attenborough's call for collective care for our Mother Earth is the most important message of our lifetime. Hungary's citizens demonstrated the truth of this message and what collective will can do.

But the real work begins now.

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#DavidAttenborough #ClimateAction #Hungary #Democracy #CollectiveAction

Last Sunday, I had the privilege to see Attenborough's "Our Story" in the Artis Planetarium. The experience nudged me on an intertwined train of thought.

The short film is a quick overview of the rise of our species - how we grew from an animal trying to survive to a powerful collective that exerts vast influence over the planet that birthed us. It was a lovely way to celebrate Attenborough's 100th birthday, as one of the treasured people of mankind. His message of hope drew a parallel between how we saved the great whales from almost certain extinction through shared global effort, and our power to make a difference as long as we work together. We, he says, are living in one of the most important historical times. And indeed, our times will be regarded as some of the most important in history books hundreds of years from now... Assuming we'll have the liberty of open science.

A day before the screening, I witnessed something that rhymed with Attenborough's message. The inauguration of Hungary's new democratic government, led by Péter Magyar, took place in Budapest, the first after years of Viktor Orbán's authoritarian rule, which had systematically dismantled judicial independence, press freedom, civil society and committed countless other crimes.

A few very powerful moments happened in Parliament last Saturday. Hungary's new sovereignty was established through the uncompromising affirmation of democracy. The building of transparent and independent accountability mechanisms was explained, and the perpetrators of the sunsetting kleptocratic regime were literally looked in the eye and brutally shamed before an entire nation and the world. (You should watch the various ceremonies and discussions online if you have the time.) Most importantly though, the new prime minister called on Hungarian citizens to watch their political servants, work towards common goals despite the polarising scars that divide and conquer tactics left on the social fibre, and to look for the best in each other. This triangle of active ethics is essential, and I will come back to it.

Attenborough's call for collective care for our Mother Earth is the most important message of our lifetime. Hungary's citizens demonstrated the truth of this message and what collective will can do.

But the real work begins now.

1/2

#DavidAttenborough #ClimateAction #Hungary #Democracy #CollectiveAction

#italy #israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #culture #art #biennale #protest #collectiveaction

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… the participation of countries that commit war crimes and illegal wars and genocide, and we cannot stand by that,” he said.«

#italy #israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #culture #art #biennale #protest #collectiveaction

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… the participation of countries that commit war crimes and illegal wars and genocide, and we cannot stand by that,” he said.«

#italy #israel #palestine : #gaza / #genocide / #culture / #art / #biennale / #protest / #collectiveaction

»“The sound of drones is so heavy and present on a daily basis in Gaza,” artist C. Caycedo told ARTnews after the action. The song and the humming were meant “to bring to the Biennale a little bit of the reality that people in Gaza suffer every day, and resist every day.”

Another artist-participant (…) told (…) “The Biennale is normalizing …

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https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/venice-biennale-main-show-artists-protest-israel-pavilion-1234783975/

#italy #israel #palestine : #gaza / #genocide / #culture / #art / #biennale / #protest / #collectiveaction

»“The sound of drones is so heavy and present on a daily basis in Gaza,” artist C. Caycedo told ARTnews after the action. The song and the humming were meant “to bring to the Biennale a little bit of the reality that people in Gaza suffer every day, and resist every day.”

Another artist-participant (…) told (…) “The Biennale is normalizing …

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https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/venice-biennale-main-show-artists-protest-israel-pavilion-1234783975/

RE: https://aus.social/@maudenificent/116497054975696244

'Hundreds of workers walked off the job together.
The movement would swell to 800 at its height, and they would not return for three years. It remains the longest strike in Australian history'

#ausPol #history #collectiveAction #union #strike

RE: https://aus.social/@maudenificent/116497054975696244

'Hundreds of workers walked off the job together.
The movement would swell to 800 at its height, and they would not return for three years. It remains the longest strike in Australian history'

#ausPol #history #collectiveAction #union #strike

Time for the next #DIday the first Sunday of every month. See the German events here: https://events.diday.org/ (Mobilizon)

Meanwhile you can check the switch recipes: https://di.day/en/digital-switch-recipes and find yourself a decent challenge for the coming month.

If you help people to join the fedi, here's Everything to join the #Fediverse nicely listed and linked, https://linksta.cc/@jointhefediverse

#DigitalAutonomy #VamonosJuntas #CollectiveAction

Time for the next #DIday the first Sunday of every month. See the German events here: https://events.diday.org/ (Mobilizon)

Meanwhile you can check the switch recipes: https://di.day/en/digital-switch-recipes and find yourself a decent challenge for the coming month.

If you help people to join the fedi, here's Everything to join the #Fediverse nicely listed and linked, https://linksta.cc/@jointhefediverse

#DigitalAutonomy #VamonosJuntas #CollectiveAction

New Nature paper documents punctuated cooperative decline in a field social dilemma: motivation/effort decay, not learning or strategic defection, drives the sawtooth pattern. Restart effects grow in magnitude but decay in duration. #humancooperation #collectiveaction #behavioraleconomics https://www.anthropology.net/p/tired-of-paying-why-human-cooperation

New Nature paper documents punctuated cooperative decline in a field social dilemma: motivation/effort decay, not learning or strategic defection, drives the sawtooth pattern. Restart effects grow in magnitude but decay in duration. #humancooperation #collectiveaction #behavioraleconomics https://www.anthropology.net/p/tired-of-paying-why-human-cooperation

Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/17/for-youze/

Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/17/for-youze/