#spiky — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #spiky, aggregated by home.social.
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One of our spiky friends paid us another visit. He was making a horrendous mess of things 😅
Also, he got startled when I moved, so he sat still to assess the danger level. I reflexively said "sorry" which caused him to actually run away. Whoops. 🫣
#hedgehog #egel #messyeaters #hoggie #spiky #crunch #cute #gardenwildlife #wildlife #nature #adorable #egeltje #nomnomnom
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Crown of Thorns Seastar, aka Kōkō’olau, at an #Oahu #Hawaii #reef . Your #sealife #photooftheday
Prints available - DM me. #spiky #star #Saturday #creature #ocean #pacificocean #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #outdoors #explore #environment #earth #photo #photography #scuba #discover #underwater #art #critter #AIFreePhoto
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I was cleaning up the garden hose when this little gangster just strolled past me and started eating. Like I wasn't even there.
What is it with the fearless animals in this garden? 😂
#hedgehog #egel #wildlife #gardenwildlife #spiky #munch #fearless #animals #dontmindme
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We are living through a dangerous moment
The nasty side Let's look at a #fluffy positive view of the path we need to be on. We are living through a dangerous moment, the systems around us are failing, but the dominant response is still denial at worst or to try to repair the existing structures that created the crisis at best. But, the problem is not one bad policy, one bad company, or one bad government. The problem is a whole way of organising society around extraction, scale, speed and distance. A system that measures success […]https://hamishcampbell.com/we-are-living-through-a-dangerous-moment/
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The Fluffy Trap is when Activism forgets the spiky path
There is a recurring problem in modern activism and alternative movements, the attempt to remove the uncomfortable parts, everything has to be friendly, to be safe, to be acceptable. The difficult questions, the conflicts, the power arguments, the risks and the sharper edges get pushed aside because they are seen as “too political”, “too negative” or “too confrontational”. This mess is where the #dotcons culture creeps in. The same platforms that turned social interaction into […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-fluffy-trap-is-when-activism-forgets-the-spiky-path/
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The Transition Mess
This is a conversation that more people need to have to make change and challenge real. Every time there is a shift in technology and culture, there is a messy transition period. We are in one now, as there is real movement away from the #dotcons and back towards the #openweb. People are questioning platforms that extract value, manipulate attention, and turn communities into products. The cracks are visible everywhere. The growing frustration with places like X shows that people are […] -
#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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Who controls the story of harm? Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and institutional anti-racism
A reaction to this post - From an #OMN perspective, the current conflict around #antisemitism, anti-racism, and protest politics is not a simple moral disagreement. It is a systems failure in how truth, trust, and harm are processed across society. We are not dealing with one issue, we are dealing with a layered collapse where institutions, media, and platforms struggle to maintain a shared reality that different communities can recognise as valid. The result is not just disagreement, it is […] -
The Fediverse’s growing signal-to-noise problem – and who’s causing it
People nowadays are soaked in #stupidindividualism, and the important word on this is hopeless. Not hopeless because people are bad, but because we've spent decades dismantling the social structures that gave us the ability to act together. We know how to consume, react, and perform as individuals, but increasingly struggle to cooperate, organise, and build collective power. A society of isolated individuals is easy to manage and hard to change. There have been a lot of institutional prat […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-real-debate-isnt-institutions-versus-communities/
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#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)
#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/
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In the #OMN hashtag story, #spiky is the confrontational, direct, and uncompromising tendency within radical movements - the willingness to push back hard against power, name uncomfortable truths, and refuse to sand down political edges for the sake of mainstream respectability and blinded common sense.
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Spiny, spiky seed balls in the long grass. Possibly acaena species
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When we build networks this way, we decentralize power, not just servers. The #OMN Path: Openness as Revolution https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-path-openness-as-revolution/ Balancing the #fluffy (care, empathy, collaboration) and the #spiky (truth, resistance, boundaries).
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I dug out some invasive/unwanted #thistles.
They have strong taproot that become bigger & stronger if left to grow/spread.#InvasivePlants #spiky #foliage #weeding #textures #plants #botanical #green #Saanich #VancouverIsland #TextureTuesday
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We need to keep asking direct #spiky questions about what percentage of publicly funded tech projects remain usable five years later? Public Money, Private Hype: From Blockchain to AI – and the #FOSS Path Less Taken https://hamishcampbell.com/public-money-private-hype-from-blockchain-to-ai-and-the-foss-path-less-taken/
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Public Money, Private Hype: From Blockchain to AI – and the #FOSS Path Less Taken
In tech funding, over the last decade, the #EU poured hundreds of millions of euros into the #blockchain mess. The promise has proven to be illusion, we built no working transformation: trustless systems, frictionless governance or new economic layers for Europe. The reality? By any honest social metric, 99.9% of that public funding was poured straight down the drain. Now we are lining up to do the same with AI. Another wave of hundreds of millions, based on another cycle of hype, feeding […] -
#FOSS needs to take a social lead
This matters for #FOSS because as if it remains culturally trapped inside the #geekproblem, it becomes socially irrelevant at the exact historical moment it is most needed. Right now, most #FOSS energy still assumes that if you build complex tools, argue narrowly, and keep everything technically “open,” people will come. But only a tiny minority actually want to live the full-stack geek life: self-hosting, compiling, debating licenses, maintaining infra. That path selects for a […] -
LIVE at c-base a #fluffy Fediverse conference
It's been going on for the last few years, let's look at a current example. Live at c-base is a #Fediverse event that highlights the need for composting the dogmatic #fluffy mess making to keep balance in our shared #openweb reboot. With our #fluffy crew talking about the shared reboot, on the surface it looks positive - friendly conversations, smiles, the right hashtags - but underneath it reveals a deeper problem: there is zero balance at these events. This is the third event I’ve seen […]https://hamishcampbell.com/live-at-c-base-a-fluffy-fediverse-conference/
