#independent — Public Fediverse posts

“Fables” from Threnody, now available for Pre-Order on http://nihtgengapress.com, along with my two other volumes of poetry.

Thank you for supporting an independent poet! 🖤✨

#Poetry #Books #Independent

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NOW PLAYING == The Ralph Nader Show 8/29/26 Episode 653 - The People's Historian - Galvanizing #LaborDayhttps://youtu.be/S2kEDJg23ng?si=_S7i2KydQISiPWqx#news #uspol #politics #consumer #RalphNader #history #corporatecrime #SteveSkrovan #DavidFeldman #HannahFeldman #independent #activism #greenparty #education #LearnSomething #radio #vsn #progressive #left #publicradio https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/117220732775069039

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NOW PLAYING == The Ralph Nader Show 8/29/26 Episode 653 - The People's Historian - Galvanizing #LaborDayhttps://youtu.be/S2kEDJg23ng?si=_S7i2KydQISiPWqx#news #uspol #politics #consumer #RalphNader #history #corporatecrime #SteveSkrovan #DavidFeldman #HannahFeldman #independent #activism #greenparty #education #LearnSomething #radio #vsn #progressive #left #publicradio https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/117220732775069039

NOW PLAYING == The Ralph Nader Show 8/29/26 Episode 653 - The People's Historian - Galvanizing #LaborDay

https://youtu.be/S2kEDJg23ng?si=_S7i2KydQISiPWqx

#news #uspol #politics #consumer #RalphNader #history #corporatecrime #SteveSkrovan #DavidFeldman #HannahFeldman #independent #activism #greenparty #education #LearnSomething #radio #vsn #progressive #left #publicradio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist #SupportPublicMedia

NOW PLAYING == The Ralph Nader Show 8/29/26 Episode 653 - The People's Historian - Galvanizing #LaborDay

https://youtu.be/S2kEDJg23ng?si=_S7i2KydQISiPWqx

#news #uspol #politics #consumer #RalphNader #history #corporatecrime #SteveSkrovan #DavidFeldman #HannahFeldman #independent #activism #greenparty #education #LearnSomething #radio #vsn #progressive #left #publicradio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist #SupportPublicMedia

NOW PLAYING == The Ralph Nader Show 8/29/26 Episode 653 - The People's Historian - Galvanizing #LaborDay

https://youtu.be/S2kEDJg23ng?si=_S7i2KydQISiPWqx

#news #uspol #politics #consumer #RalphNader #history #corporatecrime #SteveSkrovan #DavidFeldman #HannahFeldman #independent #activism #greenparty #education #LearnSomething #radio #vsn #progressive #left #publicradio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist #SupportPublicMedia

NOW PLAYING == The Ralph Nader Show 8/29/26 Episode 653 - The People's Historian - Galvanizing #LaborDay

https://youtu.be/S2kEDJg23ng?si=_S7i2KydQISiPWqx

#news #uspol #politics #consumer #RalphNader #history #corporatecrime #SteveSkrovan #DavidFeldman #HannahFeldman #independent #activism #greenparty #education #LearnSomething #radio #vsn #progressive #left #publicradio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist #SupportPublicMedia

NOW PLAYING == The Ralph Nader Show 8/29/26 Episode 653 - The People's Historian - Galvanizing #LaborDay

https://youtu.be/S2kEDJg23ng?si=_S7i2KydQISiPWqx

#news #uspol #politics #consumer #RalphNader #history #corporatecrime #SteveSkrovan #DavidFeldman #HannahFeldman #independent #activism #greenparty #education #LearnSomething #radio #vsn #progressive #left #publicradio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist #SupportPublicMedia

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@JackTheCat/117218254151687579

And another one goes down:

And, btw @staff : why is the account of @JackTheCat hidden on mastodonsocial?

#TheCanary #fascism #left #censorhsip #journalism #independent #independentmedia

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1187831/ Burnham blames Brexit for ‘decade of low growth’ in UK #AndyBurnham #Brexit #Britain #Burnham #Commons #EU #Europe #European #EuropeanUnion #GreatBritain #independent #keir #KeirStarmer #Labour #MrBurnham #TheIndependent #UK #UnitedKingdom

"a hypnotic rhythmic pulse for the atmospheric layering to cling onto, creating a mesmerising, quietly suspenseful slice of ambient electronica that locks you in and won't let go."
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/contrasting-sounds-hayloft-ambient-electronic

Find Contrasting Sounds in the Slowtronic Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-world-playlist

#ambient #electronic #music #alternative #independent #artist  

Pennsylvania confirms second death of child with measles after RFK Jr. told CDC director to delete numbers

A Pennsylvania coroner has confirmed a second child measles death in the state. The measles deaths are the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Health #cdc #HealthandHumanServices #independent #Pennsylvania #pennsylvaniadepartmentofhealth #Reuters #TheIndependent
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/836359/

Pennsylvania confirms second death of child with measles after RFK Jr. told CDC director to delete numbers

A Pennsylvania coroner has confirmed a second child measles death in the state. The measles deaths are the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Health #cdc #HealthandHumanServices #independent #Pennsylvania #pennsylvaniadepartmentofhealth #Reuters #TheIndependent
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/836359/

SLAU - Here we are
NEW SLAU-SINGLE THIS FALL, short teaser
More Slau on Spotify. Video: EB © Slau 2026
#slau #denhaag #ICE #minneapolis #livemusic #Albumrelease #vinyl #Independent #indierockbands #indierockmusic #britpop #politics #usa #trump #Pretti #Good #antiice #noking
https://youtube.com/shorts/N6Jt2lxMCrs?si=_pi92gPTuE8WRaP2

SLAU - Here we are
NEW SLAU-SINGLE THIS FALL, short teaser
More Slau on Spotify. Video: EB © Slau 2026
#slau #denhaag #ICE #minneapolis #livemusic #Albumrelease #vinyl #Independent #indierockbands #indierockmusic #britpop #politics #usa #trump #Pretti #Good #antiice #noking
https://youtube.com/shorts/N6Jt2lxMCrs?si=_pi92gPTuE8WRaP2

SLAU - Here we are
NEW SLAU-SINGLE THIS FALL, short teaser
More Slau on Spotify. Video: EB © Slau 2026
#slau #denhaag #ICE #minneapolis #livemusic #Albumrelease #vinyl #Independent #indierockbands #indierockmusic #britpop #politics #usa #trump #Pretti #Good #antiice #noking
https://youtube.com/shorts/N6Jt2lxMCrs?si=_pi92gPTuE8WRaP2

SLAU - Here we are
NEW SLAU-SINGLE THIS FALL, short teaser
More Slau on Spotify. Video: EB © Slau 2026
#slau #denhaag #ICE #minneapolis #livemusic #Albumrelease #vinyl #Independent #indierockbands #indierockmusic #britpop #politics #usa #trump #Pretti #Good #antiice #noking
https://youtube.com/shorts/N6Jt2lxMCrs?si=_pi92gPTuE8WRaP2

SLAU - Here we are
NEW SLAU-SINGLE THIS FALL, short teaser
More Slau on Spotify. Video: EB © Slau 2026
#slau #denhaag #ICE #minneapolis #livemusic #Albumrelease #vinyl #Independent #indierockbands #indierockmusic #britpop #politics #usa #trump #Pretti #Good #antiice #noking
https://youtube.com/shorts/N6Jt2lxMCrs?si=_pi92gPTuE8WRaP2

Today is #BandCampFriday and it’s a great day to support your favorite #independent artists. Like and share their music and leave a review of their records perhaps on #Discogs - Some of these actions really costs nothing and makes a huge difference! https://mario-torre.bandcamp.com/album/stories-of-our-time

"star-bound ballads, weekend dance tracks and Afro-cosmic visions"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/odd-okoddo-palagoma-afrofuturism

Find Odd Okoddo in the Slow World Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-world-playlist

#afrofuturism #music #alternative #independent #artist #kenya  

"star-bound ballads, weekend dance tracks and Afro-cosmic visions"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/odd-okoddo-palagoma-afrofuturism

Find Odd Okoddo in the Slow World Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-world-playlist

#afrofuturism #music #alternative #independent #artist #kenya  

#MissKitty said she didn't have anything to say unless provoked until after #midterms. If you're in her district, it doesn't matter who you vote for cuz she is a #Republican so it doesn't matter. If the #Dem that's really a #Democrat but running as #Independent can't win, your rights are screwed.

Saint Paul’s Market celebrates first birthday

The food hall has welcomed over 300k visitors in its first year and celebrations will take place across…
#Birmingham #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #FoodHall #GreatBritain #independent #JewelleryQuarter #SaintPaulsMarket
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1184640/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1184640/ Saint Paul’s Market celebrates first birthday #Birmingham #Britain #England #FoodHall #GreatBritain #independent #JewelleryQuarter #SaintPaulsMarket #UK #UnitedKingdom

#Independent:
"
ChatGPT has gone offline in a major outage.

Visitors to OpenAI’s chatbot saw an array of strange behaviour – including the site attempting to download an unusual file.
"
"OpenAI said it was aware of the problem, had found a way to fix it and was currently looking to understand whether it had worked. Shortly after, however, it said that it was “still experiencing degraded performance”."

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-down-openai-not-working-b3044260.html

3.9.2026

#AI #ChatGPT #Codex #KI #OpenAI

#Independent:
"
ChatGPT has gone offline in a major outage.

Visitors to OpenAI’s chatbot saw an array of strange behaviour – including the site attempting to download an unusual file.
"
"OpenAI said it was aware of the problem, had found a way to fix it and was currently looking to understand whether it had worked. Shortly after, however, it said that it was “still experiencing degraded performance”."

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-down-openai-not-working-b3044260.html

3.9.2026

#AI #ChatGPT #Codex #KI #OpenAI

#Independent:
"
ChatGPT has gone offline in a major outage.

Visitors to OpenAI’s chatbot saw an array of strange behaviour – including the site attempting to download an unusual file.
"
"OpenAI said it was aware of the problem, had found a way to fix it and was currently looking to understand whether it had worked. Shortly after, however, it said that it was “still experiencing degraded performance”."

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-down-openai-not-working-b3044260.html

3.9.2026

#AI #ChatGPT #Codex #KI #OpenAI

#Independent:
"
ChatGPT has gone offline in a major outage.

Visitors to OpenAI’s chatbot saw an array of strange behaviour – including the site attempting to download an unusual file.
"
"OpenAI said it was aware of the problem, had found a way to fix it and was currently looking to understand whether it had worked. Shortly after, however, it said that it was “still experiencing degraded performance”."

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-down-openai-not-working-b3044260.html

3.9.2026

#AI #ChatGPT #Codex #KI #OpenAI

#Independent:
"
ChatGPT has gone offline in a major outage.

Visitors to OpenAI’s chatbot saw an array of strange behaviour – including the site attempting to download an unusual file.
"
"OpenAI said it was aware of the problem, had found a way to fix it and was currently looking to understand whether it had worked. Shortly after, however, it said that it was “still experiencing degraded performance”."

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-down-openai-not-working-b3044260.html

3.9.2026

#AI #ChatGPT #Codex #KI #OpenAI

Happy Birthday USerlandia 🎉🎂

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-206a-997e-cac6-267345556112

Happy Birthday USerlandia 🎉🎂

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-206a-997e-cac6-267345556112

Happy Birthday USerlandia 🎉🎂

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-206a-997e-cac6-267345556112

Happy Birthday USerlandia 🎉🎂

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-206a-997e-cac6-267345556112

Happy Birthday USerlandia 🎉🎂

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-206a-997e-cac6-267345556112

"all the tracks huddle together for the greater, quietly experimental good, and provide a really lovely start to finish listen"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/love-is-yes-ghosts-and-more-ghosts-experimental

Companion Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-oddities

#altpop #experimentl #music #alternative #independent #artist #thehague

time for more coffee... ☕ ☕ :flag_scotlandparrot: ☮️ :yes_scotland:

I believe that #Scotland and the people of Scotland can be better served as an #independent Nation...

#ScottishIndependence... is the best way of having a progressive country and not have a corrupt #westminster pulling any of our levers of power...

"the UK is a #VoluntaryUnion" #myar*e

All Good Bookshop in unfashionable part of North London. Community #bookshop GoFundme - many have rallied round, thank you. Many people who love real #books, #art, #community spaces, and all round no-corporateness can still help. Or buy a book, or a membership for a lifetime 10% off books.

#books #bookshops #indieshops #independent #community #artspace #art #meetings

citing £200pw recent shortfall and rent review possible

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-community-cooperative-bookshop-pay-the-rent-ydumx

I think I am a blogger now. An AI content creator. An affiliate. It's just like TikTok, where people post interesting content and build a community, except my approach is on self-hosted infrastructure and some ready-to-deploy platforms or software.

#blogger #content #creator #affiliate #selfhosted #infrastructure #writing #community #independent #technology #authenticity #referral #digital #autonomy #platform

ROGERS IS TRUMP'S LITTLE PUPPET! STOP THE CORRUPTION LIES AND CHAOS! KICK REPUBLICANSst OUT OF THE SENATE!
🇺🇸🗽⚖️🗳️💙
#michigan #Detroit #warren #sterlingheights #annarbor #trump #vote #maga #repunlicans #congress #senate #election #november #democrats #independent

i have added our 2024 offshoot album "A Haunting at Sea" to Subvert!

https://www.subvert.fm/afraid-to-wake/a-haunting-at-sea

If you are into progressive ambient psychedelia or something, it might just float your boat.

I will add more music when I get the chance - there are a further two albums in this vein to complete!

Take a listen and let me know what you think!

#music #ambient #progressiverock #subvert #independent #mellotron

#Movie #Recommendations: I picked up #DustBunny (2025) from our #SomervilleMA library - it was a romp!
American #Independent #fantasy/#Weird #horror film, #BryanFuller's directoral debut, hitman #MadsMikkelsen enlisted to eliminate the monster that live under the bed of the 10yo next door. Kind of a Monsters Inc meets Twin Peaks in a lush Wes Anderson setting.

Sumptuous visuals, Sigourney Weaver, never knew where the plot was going to go, hadn't seen anything about it before we hit play. Not for kids, extended fight scenes with lots of flashing, lots of kid-dream-logic, 84/82% 🍅 .
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dust_bunny #film #WatchThis #Hannibal #PushingDaisies #DeadLikeMe #Wonderfalls #movies

A warning from the people of Farrer

by #Independent candidate Michelle #Milthorpe

Saturday Paper 20 June 2026

#Auspol #Farrer

———-

1/x
Two years ago, frustrated with our local representation and the sense that politics wasn’t working the way it should, I did something unusual. I googled, “How do you become an independent?”
That simple search set off a chain of events I could never have predicted: more than 800 volunteers knocking on more than 17,000 doors, hundreds of thousands of conversations across one of the country’s largest electorates, in two federal election campaigns.
I did not win in Farrer. But if the major parties conclude from this latest campaign that independents, minor parties or political outsiders are the reason voters are abandoning them, they will have learnt entirely the wrong lesson. And Farrer was a warning.
For two years I travelled thousands of kilometres, from Albury to Wentworth, Griffith to Deniliquin, Hay to Corowa. I sat at kitchen tables, in community halls, sporting clubs, hospitals, businesses and farms. I spoke to lifelong Labor voters, lifelong Coalition voters, and people who had never voted.
The conversations were remarkably consistent. People were lavished with attention during election campaigns, and forgotten between them.
In March I visited Lankeys Creek – a small community of about 60 people, a camel farm and a bed and breakfast. Residents told me they were tired of being wheeled out every election cycle as an example of a community with poor mobile phone coverage. Their frustration was understandable. The infrastructure exists: the mobile tower that was supposed to solve the problem has been standing there for more than five years. Yet it remains switched off – the community is still waiting for reliable coverage.
For many, that tower has become a symbol of a broader problem.
Across the electorate, people spoke about hospitals that no longer meet community needs, water policy disconnected from the realities of farming, towns struggling to attract GPs. They told me about the trouble they had finding healthcare, childcare, aged care and housing.
Underlying all of this was a sense that decisions affecting regional communities were increasingly being made by people who neither understood, nor experienced, the consequences.
That is the source of disillusionment – not social media, independents or political divisions. It’s the feeling that your voice no longer matters. The rise of independents and minor parties is a symptom of that dissatisfaction.
Too often, the response from the major parties has been to ask why people are voting differently, rather than paying attention to what communities have been telling them for years.
The answer is there if they are prepared to listen. It is not complicated: return to your values, to policy shaped by genuine conversations with the people you are supposed to represent. Be present between elections, not just during them.

/2

Josaleigh Pollett and Crowd Shy - Like a River

"clanking, clunking household percussion, summer-primed guitar strumming, Brazilian vibes, celestial backing vocals,and an easy pop main vocal that belies the gently protesting lyrics"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/josaleigh-pollett-crowd-shy-like-a-river-alt-pop

Find them in the Slow Alt-pop Playlist: https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-pop-playlist

#altpop #folktronic #music #independent #artist #saltlakecity

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli:

What Russia can not claim, it destroys.
Desperate cruelty revealed in targeting civilian cathedrals and theatres. Since Russia can not rule Ukraine, they are trying to erase the culture and history of Ukraine.

Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and help the world learn better: https://medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali/burning-cathedrals-losing-ground-russia-trades-territory-for-terror-aa9da7b01522?sk=0051cb532ef8e7d1767685e629d8868d

#ukraine #journalism #heroes #independent #news #press #war #russia #russiaisATerroristState #warcrimes #complicit #USA #trump #maga #cruelty #greed #billionaires #sociopaths #shame #fiends #evidence

#MissKittyPolitics Under the influence of #coffee and #mania All caught up! 😹😹😹 Let's talk #independent #media & the need for you to see how that represents #decentralization. It is probably my favorite word right now. Decentralization means #distributed #control! And all the people say Booyah! 🔦🎤💃

#purge #diday I discovered the App Jan.
Free and open source for local LLMs / AI . Functionality more like LM Studio than Open LlaMa. Choose between dozens of free models.

https://www.jan.ai #unplugbigtech #ai #ki #independent

🚀💰 So, you dropped $48K on a GPU server to quit your #FAANG job and be *independent*? Clearly, spelling "grumbl" wasn't the only thing you missed. But hey, at least the server's name is as confused as your career decisions! 😂🔧
https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/13/was-my-48k-gpu-worth-it/ #GPUserver #Independent #CareerChange #Humor #TechInvestment #HackerNews #ngated