#nastyfew — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nastyfew, aggregated by home.social.
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Bunker as a metaphor
There is something revealing about the way powerful people talk about our future, when they imagine crisis, they imagine their escape. A luxury bunker, fortress border, a private city, a rocket or an #AI cloud. A place for the self chosen few to survive while everyone else is left outside to die. This is the "logic" of the #deathcult we all worship, if the world is breaking, protect yourself rather than repair the world. It should be obverse to us that this is is not really any actual plan […] -
Bunker as a metaphor
There is something revealing about the way powerful people talk about our future, when they imagine crisis, they imagine their escape. A luxury bunker, fortress border, a private city, a rocket or an #AI cloud. A place for the self chosen few to survive while everyone else is left outside to die. This is the "logic" of the #deathcult we all worship, if the world is breaking, protect yourself rather than repair the world. It should be obverse to us that this is is not really any actual plan […] -
#nastyfew is a useful strong hashtag to talk and organize about the last group.
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Why “common sense” is a cage – we don’t have to worship this mess
The problem of #dotcons is attention capture, its why #digitaldetox is a part of the #OMN toolbox. So lets look at why we need to act on the digital drug problem. The everyday digital drug fix starts with a notification, you pick up your phone because you get a notification. You unlock it, check the notification. Then maybe you look at one thing, then another, then another and suddenly an hour have disappeared. You didn't decide to spend the next hour staring at short videos selected by a […]https://hamishcampbell.com/why-common-sense-is-a-cage-we-dont-have-to-worship-this-mess/
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Why “common sense” is a cage – we don’t have to worship this mess
The problem of #dotcons is attention capture, its why #digitaldetox is a part of the #OMN toolbox. So lets look at why we need to act on the digital drug problem. The everyday digital drug fix starts with a notification, you pick up your phone because you get a notification. You unlock it, check the notification. Then maybe you look at one thing, then another, then another and suddenly an hour have disappeared. You didn't decide to spend the next hour staring at short videos selected by a […]https://hamishcampbell.com/why-common-sense-is-a-cage-we-dont-have-to-worship-this-mess/
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Why “common sense” is a cage – we don’t have to worship this mess
The problem of #dotcons is attention capture, its why #digitaldetox is a part of the #OMN toolbox. So lets look at why we need to act on the digital drug problem. The everyday digital drug fix starts with a notification, you pick up your phone because you get a notification. You unlock it, check the notification. Then maybe you look at one thing, then another, then another and suddenly an hour have disappeared. You didn't decide to spend the next hour staring at short videos selected by a […]https://hamishcampbell.com/why-common-sense-is-a-cage-we-dont-have-to-worship-this-mess/
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Why “common sense” is a cage – we don’t have to worship this mess
The problem of #dotcons is attention capture, its why #digitaldetox is a part of the #OMN toolbox. So lets look at why we need to act on the digital drug problem. The everyday digital drug fix starts with a notification, you pick up your phone because you get a notification. You unlock it, check the notification. Then maybe you look at one thing, then another, then another and suddenly an hour have disappeared. You didn't decide to spend the next hour staring at short videos selected by a […]https://hamishcampbell.com/why-common-sense-is-a-cage-we-dont-have-to-worship-this-mess/
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#Nicenasty the hidden power of soft obstruction
People think in groups, that's normal. The mistake isn't group thinking itself, it's pretending we're all isolated individuals while still acting through tribes, identities, and social blocs. A lot of today's "common sense" comes from the #stupidindividualism group mindset. We are encouraged to see every problem through individual choices rather than collective realities. The real question isn't "how do we stop group thinking?" It's "what do we do with it?" This mess is something we need to […]https://hamishcampbell.com/nicenasty-the-hidden-power-of-soft-obstruction/
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Existing vocabulary:
#nastyfew - the overlords: tech, business, political power. Works well, already established.
#fluffy - comfortable, non-threatening, conflict-avoiding activism. Well understood in context.
#spiky - confrontational, direct, willing to cause friction.
The gap is something more specific: the person who performs niceness or fluffiness as a *weapon* - who uses social respectability, politeness norms, or community goodwill as a way to enforce conformity, block challenge, and protect their own position. Not the #nastyfew (they're openly powerful) and not simply #fluffy (that's just timid). This is the *vile* fluffy - nice on the surface, actively harmful underneath.
Options:
#nicenasty -. Has rhythm, easy to remember, does the job. The inversion is the point.
#velvetblock - soft surface, hard obstruction. More descriptive of the *mechanism*.
#fluffygate- implies gatekeeping behind a fluffy front. A bit clunky.
#pratocracy - the rule of prats. Funny but loses the specific nice/nasty dynamic.#softpower - already taken in international relations, would cause confusion.
#vilefluff - pairs well with #nicenasty tag, keep it in the vocabulary
#nicenasty is the strongest - it's immediately, has no baggage, and does what a hashtag should do: compress a complex dynamic into something people recognise and use to organise the moment they hear it.
The question is whether one tag or two. #nastyfew for power from above, #nicenasty for obstruction from within the community itself, #fluffy for the timid. A clean three-part vocabulary?
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Conversations on Compost, Bridges, and the Future
A few recent conversations remind me: we’ve already done the work of building alternatives. Twenty years of grassroots tech, radical process, and messy social organizing. The trouble is, that soil has been hollowed out, scattered, exhausted, and composted into the #dotconsOur current mission isn’t to “start from scratch,” but to rebuild bridges, spread compost, and replenish the soil. That’s why I keep coming back to this moment, the bridging of the #openweb back into #mainstream […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/conversations-on-compost-bridges-and-the-future/
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#makinghistory an example workflow
For the last 40 years, we’ve worshiped the #deathcult of #neoliberalism that still blinds us to the collapse unfolding around us. Every institution that promised to guide and protect us has failed. The ruling classes, in every hue of politics, have abandoned us. Our media and entertainment elitists distract and distort. #NGOs, once trusted, have betrayed the causes they claimed to champion. Academia and business alike have clutched at power, are now dithering while the world burns. We face […]https://hamishcampbell.com/makinghistory-an-example-workflow/