MediaActivist

@MediaActivist@kolektiva.social

Long-time guerrilla journalist and documentarian (ex-#IndyMedia) – powered largely by #Linux (and coffee!) in the UK’s Steel City.

#Freelancer and unpaid carer for partner with #LongCovid. Hire me you cowards!

Part tech geek. Part pop culture nerd. 100% punk.

Avatar: Me smiling awkwardly at the camera. Banner: Me again, documenting a protest with a video camera.

Searchable via https://tootfinder.ch/ #tfr #fedi22 #queer #punk #straightEdge #vegan #anarchist #IWW

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radiofreefedi, to random
@radiofreefedi@musician.social avatar

We don't want music lovers' power to discovery, listen and support artists to be diminished or fragmented.

And we don't want artists to burnout on platform testing and jumping rather than be creating.

Just a call for calm and love as we all approach the latest buyout episode.

Artists, please DM if you need an ear or a shoulder due to any of the feed traffic around this topic.

Be excellent to each other.

https://blog.radiofreefedi.net/urging-calm-and-support-for-the-artists-we-love-in-the-face-of-the-latest

StephanieOrtoleva, to random

I Begged My Doctors To Figure Out What Was Wrong With Me. Instead, I Was Medically Gaslit. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor-gaslighting-long-covid_n_64bda0fbe4b0229eb5652977
Patients with described encountering medical professionals who dismissed their experience, leading to lengthy diagnostic odysseys and lack of treatment options.

MediaActivist, to LGBTQ

Hey folx in England! Interested in utilising film to vocalise issues important to trans and non-binary people? I'm on the board for E.D.E.N. Film Productions, and they're running another Transforming Cinema project - there's just under a week left to apply to take part! More info on the website: https://www.edenfilm.co.uk/2023/09/transforming-cinema-film-project/

Wuzzy, to google
@Wuzzy@cyberplace.social avatar

is trying again to convince you, YES YOU, to contribute for free to Google Maps.
Please don't.
It is 100% , Google has full control over the data you added and people can only access Google Maps over proprietary channels where Google dictates the rules. This gives them too much power.

Contribute to instead, it's a project by the community, for the community.

https://www.openstreetmap.org

AshleyMarineP, to bristol

Anyone here from #Bristol or #London with a 3D printer, who would be wiling to help me create a couple of small props for an upcoming film? Paid of course.

Further away is fine, too, I just need the finished project in a few weeks time.

#3DPrinting #Filmmaking

MediaActivist, to linux

I sometimes fantasise about being part of a workers cooperative dedicated to the development - and effective promotion - of a distribution. Of course, I'm the drizzling shits at coding so there's a slight obstacle there. But hey, my heart would be in it! (I've got a background of relatively successful fundraising, so there's that, at least)

Mer__edith, to random
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world avatar

So many shady orgs cynically presenting child abuse as an "online problem" & peddling expanded surveillance as the solution while counting on the unpleasant emotional weight of the topic to distract us frm demanding evidence re claims that surveillance helps kids (there's none).

Mer__edith,
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world avatar

I'd LOVE more serious journalists digging into the recent proliferation/funding of these advocacy orgs, who use stirring tales of harm to push for surveillance, w/o engaging with ppl/orgs who do front line service work for victims (and generally reject these narratives)

MediaActivist, to prowrestling

In case you didn't know, I run @theleftfist which covers pro wrestling from a leftist perspective (free content, and member benefits from about a dollar a month). For its podcast, I just finally conducted an interview with @Authenticdmckee, author of Anarchist Atheist Punk Rock Teacher, and I'm sure you'll find it as interesting, informative, and enlightening as I did: https://www.patreon.com/posts/interview-with-89669253?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

MediaActivist,

@theleftfist We talked about so much stuff - from how pro wrestling might operate in an anarchist society, to the parallels between wrestling and teaching, and loads more. And members can access the extended cut next week so please consider signing up and supporting this content as it would mean so much to me! Thanks!

MediaActivist,

@theleftfist I should also say, as part of a busy week, I myself was also interviewed for the Struggle Session podcast, to discuss the pro wrestling media "dirtsheet" coverage of pro-union, pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ+ wrestler CM Punk and his termination from AEW and their Warner Bros Discovery programming, amongst other things. Struggle Session is a political pop culture podcast by Leslie Lee III, who is battling Long Covid: https://www.patreon.com/strugglesession

MediaActivist, to random

I want to join the Open Rights Group. But I know what I'm like: If I join, I'll also try and help start a chapter in my city, and then I'll be busy doing that on top of everything else. And I'll still be wondering why in recent years my annual income has barely reached past, like, ten grand, and the wolves are at the door. So I've promised myself I'm not going to slap down dues and becoming a paying member of ORG. Nope. I've asked for it as a birthday present. Oh, wait! Well, shiiiit...

MediaActivist, to random

Okay, it's now clear. Elon Musk is a Bond Villain. And given that in actuality, Bond himself is villainous, that's saying something.

MediaActivist, to KindActions

I should mention I've also just written an anarchist critique of the current UK media landscape for @Freedom_Press, including how information needs to be exchanged in the spirit of mutual aid via a network of local autonomous media similar to the French Mutu model - so stay tuned for that!

nando161, to KindActions

“join in your ! mutual aid is the exchange of and for . your today, so they can help you tomorrow. :antifa_100:

darth, to random
@darth@silversword.online avatar

I am inclined to agree. :kekw2:

RadicalGraffiti, to random
@RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu avatar

"Anarchy means mutual care and respect"
Spotted in Wuppertal, Germany

Gargron, to random
@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar

If you'd like your (public) posts to appear in search results on Mastodon, remember that you need to opt-in. Edit Profile → Privacy and Reach → Include public posts in search results. 14K people have opted-in so far!

sezduck, to random
@sezduck@twit.social avatar

Streaming platform executives:
“I don’t think enough people are pirating. Let’s see what we can do about that.”

Top: A Paramount Plus ad showing characters from every Star Trek series. “Every series. Every episode. Paramount Plus.” Bottom: How to Watch Star Trek: Prodigy Now That It's Been Removed From Paramount Plus. The swift erasure of the Star Trek animated series by Paramount now means your options are very limited.
Netflix, Disney+, Hulu price hike: With cost of streaming services going up, how to save.

Mordantivore, to random
pb, to random
@pb@xoxo.zone avatar

The best thing to come out of our long, ridiculous NFT nightmare is this meme that makes me laugh every time. Nothing else.

openrightsgroup, (edited ) to privacy
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar

Age verification is coming with the Online Safety Bill. It’ll force the choice of blocking content to ensure platforms are suitable for children or make all users verify their age.

This is “a huge boon to age verification companies, for little practical benefit for child safety, and much harm to people’s privacy.”

🗣 @jim - ORG Exec Director.

https://www.verdict.co.uk/news/uk-online-safety-bill-how-can-sites-verify-users-ages/

davidrevoy, to random
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org avatar

In the Press right now:

"All Those NFTs Are Officially Worthless" → https://kotaku.com/nft-meaning-scam-crypto-marketplace-price-bored-ape-1850860661

"Your NFTs Are Actually — Finally — Totally Worthless" → https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/nfts-worthless-researchers-find-1234828767/

Me:

queue, to anarchism
@queue@todon.eu avatar

Reminder that 's website maintainer Ziq used sock puppets to make raddle seem more popular, as they did on Reddit to avoid bans from the moderators of /r/anarchism and /r/anarchy101.

The post has been removed by Ziq because they have gone back on their word, including banning people who have called them out on removing the evidence. Here it is archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20180405002453/https://raddle.me/f/lobby/28422/i-m-stepping-down-as-admin-because-of-some-shit-i-did-emma

theleftfist, to prowrestling

How might pro wrestling be organised within authentic democracy? What parallels exist between wrestling and the education system? You might find some answers this weekend! A podcast (and video!) first: interview with the anarchist, atheist, punk rock teacher, philosopher, writer, and wrestling fan, @Authenticdmckee! You are promised a fascinating, enlightening, even inspiring interview that you just won't want to miss - and paying patrons get the extended cut!

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