Hey @fairphone.com I sent a support request ten days ago - because the app lounge on my @murena-com.bsky.social Fairphone isn't working and my apps aren't updating - and haven't heard anything. Disappointed to be honest!

I’m over the moon to share that I’m starting a new contract as Freelance Researcher at Onion Collective, on a piece of work exploring the potential for a further phase of Hope for Alternative Futures work. The incredible blogs from the first part of this work are here: medium.com/onioncollect...

@jonatack.bsky.social just getting around to listening to your two parter on Indoctrination. I would like to draw your attention to a UK education movement that is in line with your ideas - challenging Steiner nonsense, supporting relationships and critical thinking: www.thegardenbristol.org

I used to post this every year on Facebook but I've been away for almost a year now. It took me longer than I'd care to admit to give up searching the web so I had to log in again to get it. I don't miss it. Anyway, hope you enjoy my seasonal offering ... 🎄

If you want to help us make this game, or you just think what we're doing is cool and want to support us, you can now do that through Liberapay, an open source, non-profit platform that lets us receive regular, transparent donations. BE GAY DO ANARCHY! liberapay.com/circleastudi...

I’m sharing a stall with Circle-A on Sat, I’ll have books and information about a more relational and liberatory approach to education ✨

My first ever lino print ✨

Real learning is personally meaningful, contextualised and relational.

“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.” Ivan Illich in Deschooling Society

There’s nothing feminist about prioritising capitalism over your children ✨

Can’t wait! ✨

Children’s rights are a system change issue! I was commissioned by the Transformational Governance Collective to write this piece about What Adult’s Can Learn from Young People About Transformational Governance: medium.com/transformati...

Open letter by Israeli academics. “This is a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing. … It is human societies, not governments alone, that commit crimes against humanity. … We cannot claim that we did not know. We have been silent for too long.”

“School co-opts and corrupts the idea of learning - actually limiting the opportunities elsewhere for real learning in young people’s lives.” School is a Crime Scene by The R.Y.S.E. 🔥

Just started running again but to make it more fun I’m going to make the title of each completed Strava activity a political message ✨ Follow me: strava.app.link/ygZtu1qqGTb

New book haul from Page of Swords radical book cafe at the Mazi Project in Bedminster this afternoon ✨

Don’t believe the teachers - there’s nothing wrong with your child but school trauma! #abolishschools

Standardised testing plus removal of social safety nets is a eugenics project. School is driving authoritarianism and making people think it is both necessary and inevitable.

“The education caregivers are convinced is necessary for a child to succeed is only necessary to perpetuate the trade economy.” @heathermarsh.bsky.social in Binding Chaos Schooling is the backbone of global capitalism ✨

The last year and a half in Gaza is a strong enough reason to dismantle the entire US-led western empire. The Gaza holocaust could end tomorrow and it would still be reason enough. All the empire's other worldwide abuses could have never happened and it'd still be reason enough.

“We must conceive of new relational structures which are deliberately set up to facilitate access to these resources for the use of anybody who is motivated to see them for [their] education.” Ivan Illich in Deschooling Society

Fed up with the world being run by the worst people? Divest from their nonsense use cooperative and community owned alternatives like Fairbnb: fairbnb.coop

Schooling is a governance issue because that’s where we come to understand our culture. For most of us that’s where we learn that authoritarianism is the only possible “natural” way of organising and that people must be controlled for anything worthwhile to happen.

What a great starter pack to be included in - thanks @charliealiceraya.bsky.social ✨ go.bsky.app/AfKAiwn

My partner makes video games and they just launched a Steam page for their new game Creatures Like Us, about squatting. You should wish list it because it’s going to be very good! ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/3471580/...

How will young people learn about the things they don’t find easy or interesting? Ha! They ask for it. This group of 10-14 year olds asked me to plan a geometry session for them BECAUSE they don’t like it. They do algebra, for example, on their own for fun. Self-directed education FTW!

Today my teenager got up when she was rested, tidied her room, independently studied what she felt was necessary for her chosen path, cooked when she was hungry, went to the loo as needed, hung out with friend, read a book with me in a shady hammock. Life without school is infinitely better.

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

Just a reminder that no state - not Israel, not the United States, not Russia, not China, not ANY state - has a right to exist. People have rights to exist. But states and governments are legal fictions. As such, their "right" to exist persists only insofar as they serve the people.

The Green Party’s Mary Page will be the next mayor of the West of England according to the first poll carried out in the run-up to next week's election

I'm doing this. bsky.app/profile/bern...

Same! I’ve just set up a small monthly donation. This is the commons, which belongs to us all. Don’t let the rich and powerful take more than they already have.

The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration. We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.

New age spirituality is this grotesque thing that happens when people can’t quite escape their Christian indoctrination into colonial hierarchical thinking but they really desperately want to believe that they have.

Atmospheric CO2 has passed 430 parts per million. The last time atmospheric CO2 was at 430 ppm was during the ancient Pliocene Era, three to five million years ago, and humans didn’t exist.

T.H.I.S 👇👇👇👇👇

I’m grateful for the prescience of @pennyred.bsky.social if only for making me feel less mad. We desperately need to grow our islands of coherence.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

Last night I met a high level civil servant at a punk gig who literally couldn’t understand what I meant by ground up, participatory decision making, where nobody is in charge. He just had no frame of reference for it and could not wrap his head around it, even when explained in very simple terms. 🫠

Your regular reminder that ADHD meds absolutely would have cognitive benefits for everyone (not just those with ADHD) and that what goes up must come down. It’s always borrowing from your future, not a free lunch.

Caught in a springtrap , right next to the pairs two unhatched eggs – this is the true story of a hen harrier attempting to breed on the infamous Leadhills Estate in Scotland . We must ban driven grouse shooting , add your name now govpetition.uk/700036

Bodies of water become stagnant without movement. The only way to prevent concentration of power in systems is to constantly evolve them. Evolution is more important that what systems we use. Life is change. Change or die.

Our current systems of governance are modelled on cult dynamics, despite their insistence on being seen as democratic. We will never find equitable ways of being when power is distributed by personality.

Autogenocide is in the news every single day. People can’t recognize it if they don’t have a word for it. If we don’t call it autogenocide, which it is, we allow the perpetrators to name the crime and assign the guilt. #3E #EndAutogenocide #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy

*spins kitchen chair around and sits backward on it* so you realize they probably intend to cull a significant portion of the population ahead of climate collapse and the accompanying reduction in the planet's ability to support life right?

Fed up of hearing about well established organisations with social / environmental benefit being destroyed by bringing in business types. Turns out they aren’t very good at anything that has actual value.

As promised here’s Pink Pony Club but it’s about encryption

Loser in chief Posie Parker only drew circa 50 people in Bristol yesterday for her hatemongering and they were shut down and chased off by 200ish counter demonstrators showing them that Bristol cares about trans rights! ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️

I want to talk about how we hospice our school systems. Any ideas?

Looking at people debating the merits and perils of AI/mobile phones/social media/GM food/any tech, as if that’s the right conversation to be having. It’s always a smokescreen hiding the real conversations about power and who has control over and access to the tech. Always 🫠