#indie-media — Public Fediverse posts

Six pieces of one Friday: Beijing, a bar, Karachi, a sternum, a cardinal, a roll call. Thistle & Moss runs because readers choose us over the algorithm's louder children. If today landed — click an ad, throw a few dollars at the cauldron. The roots only reach as far as the soil holds them. Please. This is how we keep swearing at fascists without permission.
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#IndieMedia #SupportIndependentMedia #QueerMedia #Substack #MutualAid #Trans #LGBTQIA #Druidry #Resistance

Today's Gathering held three fires: a Supreme Court meltdown from a man who thought he'd bought the bench. A FEMA report 74 pages long that names climate once. 63% of LGBTQ+ Christians out of pews. Click an ad — it's what keeps us writing tomorrow.
https://twp.ai/4hr6vt
#News #Politics #LGBTQ #Climate #SCOTUS #IndieMedia #Newsletter #Queer #Resistance #Support

The Doomsday Book is real. Buttigieg said 'save me a seat.' Matlovich's tombstone still stands. Manford's eight words still move. Today's Gathering carries every live wire. This work runs on reader support — click our partners, keep queer journalism funded.
https://twp.ai/4hrC80
#ThistleAndMoss #DailyGathering #QueerNews #LGBTQ #QueerJournalism #IndieMedia #SupportUs #TransRights #QueerMedia #Subscribe #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

What May Day cost: a 197-page DOJ broadside, Cuba on the chopping block, Amsterdam saying no to fossil capital. Three fronts. One day. Today's Gathering reads them together. https://twp.ai/4hpe0F #MayDay #Newsletter #LGBTQ #Climate #Resistance #IndieMedia

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#DerDunkleParabelritter gründet nach der Beendigung der Zusammenarbeit mit #Funk eine eigene "Zeitung", die #ParabelPost

https://steady.page/de/parabel-post/

Hintergründe u.a. auch dazu in gewohnt angenehmer und sichtlich freierer Redensart im Video zum Resümee nach zwei Jahren Funk: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=IPaBPK1Scuk / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPaBPK1Scuk

#medien #unabhängigeMedien #indiemedia #journalismus #örr #parabelritter #AlexanderPrinz

It’s #InternationalWomensDay, so today’s CHIRP Radio show is dedicated to women artists I love.
Tune in 4–6pm:
📻 107.1 FM
💻 chirpradio.org

I’ve been volunteering 15 years - since day 1 - and listener support is what keeps us on the air. Donate
https://chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/fundraiser/jennylizakspring26

#indieradio #lpfmradio #communityradio #indiemedia

Interregnum interviews Dr Jacob Engelberg on his new book, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression. The book argues that the way we look at queer film centres the gay/straight binary and considers what happens when bisexuality breaks the rules.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/the-dangerous-thrill-of-destabilisation-interview-with-dr-jacob-engelberg-on-cinemas-of-bisexual-transgression/

#bisexual #queer #bi #film #bisexualrepresentation #birepresentation #cinema #transgression #kino #filmstudies #queerfilm #queerfilms #LGBT #womeninfilm #representation #interview #academic #media #indiemedia #indiefilm #avantgarde

Your Website Could Be Your Social Media Account

#SocialWeb #APnative #IndieMedia #punk

Amazing new indie video games games site by former Polygon folks.

https://www.mothership.blog/

#Ghost #IndieMedia #Outpost #VideoGames

FYI - on YouTube- #BGOnTheScene #IndieMedia was the only #IndependentJournalist in #Minneapolis #Minnesota who livestreamed over 12 hrs. He was still going past 5am CST. He filmed the large protest from shortly after the execution of Alex Pretti, to activists putting up street barricades on 4 sides, to public works & MPD taking apart barricades & getting memorial for Alex Pretti moved further off the road(volunteers guarding it, moved things).

*Edit - He also filmed the one fire truck that came to put out 3 small campfires that were on middle of previously barricaded area near Alex Pretti's memorial. It was pretty ridiculous as the fires were small & could've been easily doused with 2-3 buckets of water.
There was also 2 helicopters monitoring overhead.

Interregnum has a new funding goal. We are funded entirely by our audience. Please help us to get to a financial position where we can pay contributors who otherwise wouldn't be able to write for us (marginalised voices; working class people).

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#fundraiser #crowdfunding #indiemedia

There's an #IndieMedia #FrontlineNews streamer who isn't as well known as many others. He doesn't talk much - just streams what's going on, live, as it happens. He captured some footage that I hadn't seen on bigger & more popular indie media streams.
His account on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@bgonthescene

#BGOnTheScene #IndieNews #Minneapolis #Minnesota #IndependentMedia

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#fundraiser #indiemedia

This Christmas, we ask you to help us build our dreams. Please become a paying subscriber or change your subscription to a paying one. We also urge you to reach out to us, so we can explore ways of working together. Interregnum is what you make it.

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#christmas #fundraiser #appeal #media #indiemedia #independent #RadicalMedia #supportlocaljournalism

Lighthouse Lore 🌙
Some nights the keeper just lets the signal run.
No shouting, no algorithms, no obligation to comment — just a steady broadcast across the water.
Not everything needs interaction. Some things just need to be seen.
The light stays on. 📡🗼

#LighthouseLore #Fediverse #SelfHosting #IndieMedia #DigitalCommons

Hi there 👋

We’re The Bohemian Star — a little corner for essays, music, art, & ideas that don’t always follow the crowd.

We post writing, cultural commentary, & creative discoveries. If that sounds like your kind of thing, welcome aboard.

🌐 https://thebohemianstar.com

🪩 #WritingCommunity #IndieMedia #MusicCulture #Essays #Culture #CurrentEvents #Art #Creative #philosophy #magick #thelema #ComparativeMythology #ComparativeReligion #Psychedelic

“We have a huge community of people who want to see us succeed, and they’re actively contributing to help that happen.”

It’s official: The Tyee is welcoming its first-ever COO! 🥳🌟🗞

#CdnMedia #IndieMedia

https://thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/2025/09/09/Carla-Pellegrini-Tyee-Chief-Operating-Officer/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

Arlington’s embarrassing waste of a low-power FM license

For the first time in many months, I tuned the radio in our car to 96.7 FM Thursday evening and realized I hadn’t missed anything: WERA, Arlington County’s sole low-power FM station, was once again playing a canned loop of instrumentals, without a live human voice to be heard.

That this rated as an improvement over the dead air previously on that frequency shows how far WERA has fallen from the promise of “LPFM” after years of funding problems compounded by what seems to have been rampant mismanagement bordering on fraud. All of this ineptitude, as ArlNow reminded me in a report Wednesday afternoon about the station’s unexpected but unstaffed return to the airwaves, has left the station in a zombified state.

In other words, WERA has become the sort of lifeless broadcaster that it was created to counter.

When this station went on the air on December 6, 2015, dozens of guests packed Arlington Independent Media’s studio in Clarendon and toasted its debut with sparkling wine in plastic cups. Advocates of LPFM had spent a decade lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to ignore the opposition of incumbent broadcasters and authorize a class of nonprofit, hyperlocal stations; almost five years after President Obama signed the Local Community Radio Act into law, listeners next door to Washington finally had their own indie LPFM listening option.

WERA almost immediately earned a preset on our car’s radio for its delightfully eclectic mix of music and talk programming, which the limited reach of its 21-watt signal meant I could only hear within a few miles of the station’s transmitter. As I wrote at Yahoo Finance in late December of 2015:

The station has since served up a free-form mashup of music that you almost never hear on commercial FM. One DJ with his medium on his mind followed R.E.M.’s “Radio Free Europe” with Donna Summer’s disco hit “On the Radio” and Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio,” but the selection has also extended to French chanteuse Edith Piaf and 1950s mambo king Pérez Prado.

But over subsequent years, the ongoing decline of cable TV left less of a subsidy for Arlington Independent Media from taxes paid by Comcast on that revenue. Arlington’s government chipped in, but the real problem was not income but expenses. In March of 2024, ArlNow reported that the county had suspended further payments until it could complete an audit of AIM, while AIM staffers alleged “reckless” management of the station’s funds.

(The irony of one small, independent local-media organization doing such a good job of covering another small, independent local-media organization while the Washington Post has ignored this story is duly noted.)

Days later, AIM sacked its entire staff and took WERA off the air. The county’s audit, finally published in February of this year, revealed seriously sloppy financial management under former CEO Whytni Kernodle that included inadequate documentation of more than $1 million in expenses over two-plus years. The County Board referred the matter to a special prosecutor who then declined to file charges against Kernodle.

(My wife works for the county government’s IT department but thankfully has had no role in any of this.)

Things could be worse: The lack of paid employees somehow did not stop WERA from getting back on the air in time to prevent the FCC from revoking its license. But as ArlNow’s Dan Egitto wrote Wednesday, the entire operation seems otherwise dead on the inside. Would-be AIM turnaround president Amanda MacKaye told him that she’s no longer on AIM’s board or otherwise involved with the organization, nobody still on the board answered his questions, and the County Board seems set to wash its hands of this whole ugly affair.

You shouldn’t read this an indictment of LPFM, which was and remains a good idea and a useful antidote to soundalike corporate FM. The D.C. area’s other LPFM station, Takoma Radio, has been on the air since 2016 at 94.3 FM, and the chance to listen to WOWD on the way to and from D.C.’s Costco makes the traffic a little more pleasant. I’m listening to its stream as I type this.

But you absolutely should read WERA’s miserable saga as a stupid squandering of cultural potential. And everybody in media-policy circles who worked so hard to make LPFM a reality should be angry about it.

#943 #967 #ArlingtonIndependentMedia #ArlNow #broadcast #freeFormRadio #hyperlocal #indieMedia #lowPowerFM #LPFM #mediaReform #radio #RadioArlington #TakomaRadio #WERA #WERALP #WOWD

🗞️ :mastodon: ** Présence des médias indépendants canadiens sur #Mastodon **

Sur près de 70 médias dont le site internet est ouvert et actif :

- j'ai repéré les (8) comptes Mastodon **officiels** suivants :
@rabbleca
@kukukwes @thetyee @thenarwhal @HalifaxExaminer
@sprawlcalgary @livewirecalgary @TheBreach

- ainsi que les (3) comptes suivants, répliquant le flux RSS ou compte d'un autre réseau social : @pivot @NatObserver @CanadianAffairs

Beaucoup plus ont un compte #bluesky_social.

Il reste du travail pour faire connaître le #fediverse au #Canada en général, au #quebec en particulier...

👇 Si vous avez repéré d'autres comptes sur :mastodon: , n'hésitez pas à me le signaler en commentaire.

#indiemedia #media #independentmedia

Source: sites répertoriés sur https://www.unfettered.ca/ et https://www.ehnewspaper.ca/journalism-blog/list-of-independent-news-media-in-canad , en ajoutant certains médias non cités (Pivot...).

The other day someone posted an article about this documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21443008/

I have never lived in San Francisco, but Aquarius Records seems like the kind of indie record store we all wish was in our neighborhood. But what really caught my eye was that the store put out a "New Arrivals" list that was "the length of a college essay."

So, I set out to find an example and found one on Internet Archive through the WayBack Machine. Basically it is a music review blog by a knowledgeable and opinionated music sherpa. I downloaded the list and edited it slightly (basically adding a current website for each album discussed) and posting in a more accessible form.

So, without further ado here is New Arrivals 119 from August 2001.

Let me know if I should keep going!

https://archive.org/details/aquarius-119

#music #MusicReviews #AquariusRecords #SanFrancisco #IndieRecords #IndieMedia #RecordCollecting

The Flytrap: New feminist media collective launching on US election day https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/feminist-media-collective-flytrap-us-election/

...it was Velasquez who came up with our nascent outlet’s name, The Flytrap, precisely because Venus flytraps adapted to survive in nitrogen-poor soil by evolving the ability to eat bugs.

#Media #IndieMedia

Currently reading, Money Talks - #USMilitary funds #Canadian #mines article from the summer edition of #WatershedSentinel #EnvironmentalNews #magazine.

https://watershedsentinel.ca/

Published out of #Comox in #BritishColumbia #Canada.

#IndieMedia #BCindieMedia #SupportIndieMedia #IndependentMedia #MadeInBC #SupportIndieJournalism #IndieNews #CDNpoli #IndigenousNews #environmental #PNW #VancouverIsland

Summer edition of #WatershedSentinel #EnvironmentalNews #magazine - some great articles in this issue.

https://watershedsentinel.ca/

Published out of #Comox in #BritishColumbia #Canada.

#IndieMedia #BCindieMedia #SupportIndieMedia #IndependentMedia #MadeInBC #SupportIndieJournalism #IndieNews #BCpoli #IndigenousNews #environmental #PNW #VancouverIsland

My Summer edition of #WatershedSentinel #EnvironmentalNews #magazine has arrived.
Reading it, tonight.

https://watershedsentinel.ca/

Published out of #Comox in #BritishColumbia #Canada.

#IndieMedia #BCindieMedia #SupportIndieMedia #IndependentMedia #MadeInBC #SupportIndieJournalism #IndieNews

Escapist Collapse and Aftermath
"Hey, remember me?"

Just saw on Metafilter that The Escapist has fired Nick Calandra, who helped revive the site after they threw their lot in on the side of Gamergate during that whole fiasco. In summary, it took a huge amount of effort and good will on their part to recover, and that they did was largely becau
https://setsideb.com/escapist-collapse-and-aftermath/
#indies #news #aftermath #defector #escapist #indie #indiemedia #kotaku #news #secondwind