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It's great to burn the effigy of a tech billionaire at #EMFCamp in protest of the exploitation of people, labour and natural resources in the pursuit of endless growth. It's great to highlight that many EMF attendees are bright, curious, creative, and hardworking. But we're not unique in this. There are people out there fighting against fascism, fighting against exploitation, fighting against racism. People who can't afford a ticket to EMF. People who aren't (by and large) middle class, white, cis, predominately male. The invitation to join a cliquey bureaucratic trade union is all well and good. But go find the people out there who are already fighting the fight. Find the anarchists, the antifascists. Get involved with what they're doing. And listen to them and learn from them. There's places for us nerds to get involved in this fight. But let's not reinvent the wheels that have been turning since the Luddites and Cable Street - let's reinforce them and improve them!

Yesterday I made dinner on my camp stove with no problems. Today, a small Rule Zero violation. Watch your stoves, get them off the ground if possible #EMFCamp

@SarraceniaWilds@sunny.garden @penguinrebellion@tldr.nettime.org @mullvadnet@mastodon.online Yeah, we collectively decided that fascism is bad, there was a whole World War 2 about it, but some assholes want to revisit it.

@wcbdata Fair enough, I'm vaguely tempted to try and organise a mini geek camp near #Manchester UK for a year when #EMFCamp isn't on. Would be a lot smaller scale, but more accessible than indoor events like #OggCamp because #CovidIsNotOver

@Pionir@masto.bike @patrislav@chaos.social @HighlandLawyer@mastodon.social @seabass@social.seabass.systems @dpnash@c.im @loren@flipping.rocks Have you purchased fire, only to find it's getting out of hand? You may be entitled to conflagration.

And wow, #BruceSpringsteen covering #Prince in #Minneapolis just over a week ago on the opening night of his new tour, with #TomMorello on guitar solo duties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwY_P8kQOeU #Springsteen #Minnesota

@404mediaco@mastodon.social "I'm not going to apologise for pissing in the public swimming pool" "I'm not going to apologise for starting forest fires because I think they look pretty" "I'm not going to apologise for receiving stolen goods and profiting off them."

@Infrogmation Even more so when I'm not actually using an ad blocker.

@Anomnomnomaly@beige.party @Neat_hot@beige.party Maybe they're actually singing about their next door neighbour and they're just taking a very roundabout way there!

@guyjantic@infosec.exchange @mcc@mastodon.social What happens in practice is that's the exact point the coalition of support breaks down and the whole thing fails. See the Alternative Vote referendum in the UK for an example.

@fesshole Shame about Private Eye's long history of transphobia.

@FrazzledBrynn@glitterkitten.co.uk "We are born naked, everything else is censorship"

@th I could tell you but it's a se

@CCCSbg "I am a robot but not in the way you mean"

@mewsleah@meow.social @azzie@void.rehab @ifixcoinops@retro.social Removing a boy scout from a horse's hooves.

@entichahoosh @cmconseils There's no way a QR code can do that. It's just a pictorial representation of a URL. Decent QR scanner software will show you exactly what that URL is before you open it.

@Anomnomnomaly@beige.party @Neat_hot@beige.party The easy option in terms of existing signage would be to do the North Coast 500 then do it backwards.

@jwildeboer 2018 on mastodon.social, then I moved to tech.lgbt in 2020.

@wcbdata Boston, MA or Boston, Lincs?

@bright_helpings@mspsocial.net @joccay@mastodonapp.uk Yep. Bring back weird indie student bars. And that Chinese restaurant that used to be on the Precinct Centre bridge, that was great.

@purple That's basically been Stonewall's job for the last 30 years, except maybe for a brief period under Ruth Hunt.

@djm62@beige.party Shocking finding, most Internet users are 17 year old girls from California.

@kim If you spend enough time there, do you live in a Society?

@kim Ah cool, I spotted it when I was at Hulme Garden Centre over the weekend.

@orci Happy for both sides to lose.

@teamonkey@mastodon.social @guyjantic@infosec.exchange @mcc@mastodon.social Nah, AV is simple. You just list candidates in order of preference. Just like going out for a meal - "I'd like the lasagne" "Sorry, we're out of that" "Oh OK, I'll have the salad". It was a pragmatic compromise in theory, because if was in Labour's manifesto. But they preferred to give the Lib Dems a bloody nose than eliminate the tactical voting they so often rely on.

@kim Is the former what used to be Kim By The Sea?

The Indelicates - "Waiting for Pete Doherty to Die" Not actually a wish for death, but a reflection on celebrity death culture (see Cobain, Whitehouse, Phoenix, Joplin and many more). #JukeboxFridayNight #Waiting https://youtu.be/u6JnJGMDe0I

Fun to see #JukeboxFridayNight doing #Royalty as a theme today, after #Doof spent an hour last night picking banging tunes on the theme of #RoyalRumble Check out the playlist at http://wasp-factory.com/sites/doof/?p=1994 And if you like the idea of picking themed tunes in real time, join us every Thursday from 7-11pm UK time at https://twitch.tv/lee_chaos with our glamorous hosts @lee_chaos@mastodon.social and Duracell Bunny!

@eddedmondson@mastodonapp.uk Gay skeletons!

@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social I put pronouns in my email signature at work. A coworker, a cis woman with a gender-ambiguous name, thought it was an amazing idea because it reduced the chances of her getting misgendered. So it benefits other people too!

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange DnD Beyond?

Coming up after a week off after #Infest2026, it's the weekly crowd sourced club night from @lee_chaos@mastodon.social and Duracell Bunny! Chaos Emergency Doof Broadcast Network #338: High Rise Toasted Merchant Strike And so, much to our surprise, we crunch through the leaves into our first show of September, ready to embrace the fall season with our usual blend of camaraderie, wit, and nonsensical sleep deprived witterings, all held together with the magical musical glue of the Doof! Live on air, 7pm BST, Thursday 3rd September http://doof.org.uk/ https://www.twitch.tv/lee_chaos https://discord.gg/xJvdDvwgEf https://www.facebook.com/events/1382535283209283/ #Doof #LiveStream #Music #Alternative #ClubStream #CrowdSource #Twitch

My #BandcampFriday recommendation is the new #ParisPaloma album "The Fatal Flaw" which releases today: https://parispaloma.bandcamp.com/album/the-fatal-flaw Amazing feminist bops spearing Generative AI ("Miyazaki"), the alt-right / manosphere ("Good Boy") and more.

@teamonkey@mastodon.social @guyjantic@infosec.exchange @mcc@mastodon.social Yes, the pro-AV campaign, like the pro-EU campaign, was run by (mostly the same bunch of) wonks with no experience of grassroots campaigning or messaging sadly.

Coming up tonight from @lee_chaos@mastodon.social and Duracell Bunny, the weekly crowd sourced musical shenanigans! Chaos Emergency Doof Broadcast Network #336: Fizzy Southpaw Donates Meats The second show of August sees us desperately trying to maintain a schedule as the panic of the encroaching Infest intensifies just our of shot and sometimes on air. Join us as we get excited about Industrial Summer Camp and try to keep all the platters spinning... Live on air, 7pm BST, Thursday 13th August http://doof.org.uk https://www.twitch.tv/lee_chaos https://discord.gg/xJvdDvwgEf https://www.facebook.com/events/2076351329918869/ #LiveStream #Music #ClubStream #CrowdSourced #Alternative #Twitch

Coming up from @lee_chaos@mastodon.social and Duracell Bunny, the weekly musical shenanigans! Chaos Emergency Doof Broadcast Network 334: Friendly Dog Whistles at Paperback We revert to Thursday to wrap up July's offerings, which have been uniformly wonky regardless of what day of the week they've been on. Join us as we see off the hottest month on record with more dubiously-selected music and conversation that makes you question your sanity. Live on air, 7pm BST, Thursday 30th July http://doof.org.uk/ https://www.twitch.tv/lee_chaos https://discord.gg/xJvdDvwgEf https://www.facebook.com/events/1026692260068924/ #Livestream #Alternative #CrowdSourced #Music #Doof

@evacide@hachyderm.io The sea is already full of car batteries.

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net These models are still largely rooted in mass scale copyright and consent violations. I don't think it's possible to have a "good" use from such a poisoned root.

Coming up tonight from @lee_chaos and Duracell Bunny, the weekly crowd sourced musical shenanigans! Chaos Emergency Doof Broadcast Network #337: Infest Wonky Warmup Wednesdoof Industrial Summer Camp Eve is here and the presenters, based on previous experience, will in no way be ready for that. Join us for online overexcitement, suitcase jeopardy, Doof Wagon IRL excitement and more gossamer-connected musical treasures. Live on Air, 7pm BST, Wednesday 19th August http://doof.org.uk/ https://www.twitch.tv/lee_chaos https://discord.gg/xJvdDvwgEf https://www.facebook.com/events/1644949940969234/ #LiveStream #Music #ClubStream #CrowdSourced #Alternative #Twitch #Infest2026 #InfestUK #Infest

@MostlyHarmless "Yes"

@CCCSbg https://youtu.be/S_oMD6-6q5Y

@syn@basilisk.gallery My understanding is that you can pay for access to curated binaries newsgroups, but I don't have any details.

@FediGarden @BrianTransplant I must admit I misread the logo as Saskstodon, an instance for people from #Saskatchewan

Tonight, more themed crowdsourcing of banging and random tunes from @lee_chaos@mastodon.social and Duracell Bunny! Will appeal to fans of #JukeBoxFridayNight - check the website for previous playlists and show recordings! Chaos Emergency Doof Broadcast Network #339: Better Ideas for TV Dinners As we re-establish our schedule and try to create a little pocket of ridiculous distracting normalcy in a world that has gone severely off script, join us for more merriment and musical mayhem connecting together the loveliest little online community you can hope to spend time with on a Thursday. Live on air 7pm BST, Thursday 10th September http://doof.org.uk/ https://www.twitch.tv/lee_chaos https://discord.gg/xJvdDvwgEf https://www.facebook.com/events/28286609477627209/ #LiveStream #ClubStream #Music #Alternative #CrowdSourced #Doof