#grassroots — Public Fediverse posts

Oracle Helped Kneecap Section 230, Then Bought 15% Of A Company That Needs It.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/27/oracle-helped-kneecap-section-230-then-bought-15-of-a-company-that-needs-it/

Colorado drought changes how you need to water, fertilize your lawn https://www.allforgardening.com/1934915/colorado-drought-changes-how-you-need-to-water-fertilize-your-lawn/ #colorado #ColoradoStateUniversity #FertilizingYourLawn #GardeningColorado #GrassRoots #LawnCare #O'Connor #SpringApplication #water #WaterHog #WaterWaste

One of my community building/education/sharing goals for next year is to teach more non-Asian locals a lot more about South East Asian food/herb/medicine crops, how to grow them here & how to cook/process/preserve & use them more for feeding your families, increasing your global culinary skills at home, learning how to use cultural food/medicine crops from Global South areas for Global North needs, right where we live, now.

#Grassroots #Decolonization

#StupidIndividualism is excessive individualism disconnected from community - and it sits at the root of many social problems.

This is a part of the mess of liberalism and capitalism, where the balance between individual rights and community responsibilities has been lost.

The #KISS composting is simple: we need to move beyond extreme individualism and rebuild a balance between individual freedom, community and collective action.

We are social beings. Strong communities don't take freedom away - they give people the relationships and support needed to actually use it.

#OMN #Commons #Grassroots #4opens

Making #mainstreaming thinking dirty is part of the work. Metaphors like #deathcult and #stupidindividualism make the failures of mainstream thinking visible, and, hopefully, less attractive.

But the metaphors only work if people use them together. We need affinity groups that turn shared language into shared action, building alternatives rather than just complaining about the mess.

Culture changes when people organise, repeat the ideas, and build something different. Make the old thinking unattractive.

#OMN #OpenWeb #Commons #4opens #Grassroots

There’s a strong need to stop complaining about the situation and start building alternatives.

Metaphors and critiques should be rallying cries for action, not just more content. We need to move beyond criticism and do the hard, messy work of creating something better.

That’s what #OMN is turning critique into constructive, community-based action.

Stop complaining. Start building.

#OMN #OpenWeb #Commons #DIY #Grassroots #4opens

Build affinity groups, communities that share critical views and are committed to building alternatives. #Hashtags help rally and connect people, but the real work is the relationships and actions we build together.

The #OMN needs tangible projects — constructive, community-based alternatives that move beyond the failures of the past.

Use shared metaphors and hashtags to galvanise people, but don't stop at posting. Turn critique into compost: something that can nourish new growth.

The goal is simple: build real community, build alternatives, and grow something better together.

#OMN #OpenWeb #Commons #DIY #Grassroots #4opens

My talk
"WikiCite and Open Science in the context of grassroots creative computing" sits at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22051158 .
#openscience #wikimedia #wikicite #grassroots

I started this new women & free power tools beginner workshop after talking to several women in my neighbourhood who expressed a lot of interest in becoming more self sufficient. I don't like waiting for anyone else to take initiatives to get more community building work started. I spark many different grassroots initiatives & run with them.

#SinsAgainstCapitalism #Grassroots #PeopleHelpingPeople #TakeInititive #CommunityBuilding

Next month, I'm also doing a small neighbourhood workshop to help more women gain confidence with using power tools by themselves. I have 8 women signed up so far. My workshop limit is 12.

#FreeSchool #WomensPowerToolsWorkshop #HandsOnLearning #Grassroots #FreeEducation #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #CommunityEducation #BeginnersWorkshop #SheCanDoIt #SinsAgainstCapitalism #AntiCapitalist #WomensEmpowerment #DIY #BeTheChange #TakeInitiative

I'm contacting Shoreline, Colquitz & Esquimalt Middle schools in September, to ask if I can use their fields for free, to teach free mushrooms growing workshops & other free beneficial community resiliency/useful life-skills workshops. I need to acquire one popup event tent & one fold out table to run portable community educational workshops.

#BeTheChange #StartAnInitiative #Grassroots #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #CommunityEducation #FreeSchool #SolarPunk #PeopleHelpingPeople #SinsAgainstCapitalism #AntiCapitalist #CommunityWork

A very big bin full of oregano flower & seed heads. I'm tapping them indoors, on a tarp. Collecting the seeds to pack up. Saving some for us to sow. Donating thousands to local seed libraries 💚✌️👩‍🌾

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity #SeedSavers #SaveSeeds #CollectSeeds #FreeTheSeeds #SeedTapping #FreeSeedsForThePeople #SolarPunk #ZeroWaste #DonateYourSeeds

New volunteering goal: Sort more of my saved seeds + seed donations & get at least 100 new seed packets filled by end of August to stock into our #SevenOaksSeedLibrary 💚

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity #Volunteering #CommunityWork

The first public sneak peek at our brand new #SevenOaksSeedLibrary on Whiteside at Kamloops Ave! It's just the seed packets that I've filled in there right now, with some info papers.

I'm looking forward to continuing to stock it up, with fellow volunteers!

If you're in #Saanich / #VictoriaBC area - please spread the word 😃

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity #SolarPunk #SinsAgainstCapitalism #FreeSeeds

Collecting #PoppySeeds.
I'll be saving a bunch to sow next year. I'm packing thousands of mixed poppy seeds to stock in 3 different local seed libraries 😃✌️💚

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #SeedsSovereignty

The Night Owl says plans to expand the Bordesley Viaduct would 'put us at risk for closure' as it asks for public support. A beloved #Birmingham live music venue says it 'will not survive' if proposals to expand Bordesley Viaduct go ahead as planned in Digbeth. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/birmingham-city-centre-music-venue-34399993 #music #musicians #grassroots #music #venue

I also sorted & packed up another 65 seed envelopes to stock up our Seven Oaks Seed Library, over the weekend 💚✌️👩‍🌾🌻

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity #SeedSavers #SevenOaksSeedLibrary #FreeSeeds #ShareSeeds

Belgian-Activist-Festi Camp

https://groups.animalrebellion.nl/events/ffbf7217-a714-4673-8033-10395bbf333f

Koppelting - the great gathering of the commons

https://groups.animalrebellion.nl/events/6fcaba63-de8e-4fa9-b17a-dc71f4087236

The Night Owl says plans to expand the Bordesley Viaduct would 'put us at risk for closure' as it asks for public support. Digbeth music venue 'immensely shocked and stressed' as 'imminent danger' looms https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/birmingham-city-centre-music-venue-34399993.amp #grassroots #music #venue #music #musicians

One of the damaging habits in our broken social lives is constantly putting other people down as part of status games.

That's #stupidindividualism at work, a culture trained by decades of #neoliberalism to compete rather than cooperate. In doing this, we reinforce and worshipping the #deathcult without even noticing.

It's a basic form of #block that we need to recognise and talk about.

#OMN #commons #grassroots

As Aric Sleeper reported in his July 30 - Aug 5 cover story in the Monterey County Weekly,
The Bicycling Monterey URL "has served as an information hub for all things bicycle-related in the county since 2009 and runs entirely on donations and elbow grease.” https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/cover/can-advocates-make-local-streets-safer-for-pedestrians-cyclists-and-drivers/article_5b81d56e-a2c0-4a96-beac-62ee7f601013.html

Our gratitude to faithful Pedal Pusher @Weather_Rock_Wx for her Aug 5 donation in support of Bicycling Monterey’s general operating expenses. So appreciated!

How to donate: https://bikemonterey.org/about/financial-donations

#BikeAdvocacy #cycling #biking #grassroots #BikeMonterey #BicyclingMonterey

Last year, we were invited by the good folks of GRADE - #Grassroots of Digital Europe to several of their conferences. Now we're happy to repay the favour! Together with the #CookieCollective we are organising a small conference in Paris building bridges between #digitalarts, activism, #openknowledge and the sciences. We have a limited number of spaces left, get in contact with @shana if you like to join!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:GRADE-Paris2026

Donated seeds to sort & package for our new, neighbourhood community sharing project - Seven Oaks Seed Library. Located on Whiteside St. at the crossroad with Kamloops Ave. We are still preparing it for public usage in about 2 weeks.

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity

Are you interested in starting up a community free seeds library for your local area?

If yes - I highly recommend starting with this website. It will help guide you through how to get started.

https://www.seedlibrarynetwork.org/

#SeedLibraryNetwork #SeedLibrary #ShareSeeds #SeedSavers #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #SeedsForTheCommunity #grassroots #PeopleHelpingPeople #SolarPunk #SinsAgainstCapitalism

Koppelting 2026

De WAR, Amersfoort, maandag 17 augustus om 10:00 CEST

Annual DIY-festival focusing on open knowledge and bottom-up solutions for society, from citizen science, journalism and technology to clothing, food, democracy and more.

https://koppelting.org/

#duurzaamheid
#festival
#grassroots
#hacking
#koppelting
#opensource
#sustainability
#Tech
#fablab