Next up in my book pile -- "#NoSpiritualSurrender - Indigenous #Anarchy" by #KleeBenally, (2023) "#PrairieFire - The Politics of Revolutionary #AntiImperialism" by #TheWeatherUnderground (1974), and "#Antifa - The #AntiFascist Handbook" by #MarkBray (2017).

I've posted excerpts from Klee's book in the past (which I will re-boost). Both Klee and Mark Bray are in agreement as to who the real enemy is -- the forces of #Colonialism and #WhiteSupremacy.

Bray writes, "The only long-term solution to the fascist menace is to undermine its pillar of strength in society grounded not only in white supremacy, but also in #ableism, #heteronormativity, #patriarchy, #nationalism, #transphobia, #ClassRule, and many others," (Antifa, page 209), and offers up #Socialism, which is #Antiauthoritarian and #NonHierarchical as a solution.

And indeed, 1974's Prairie Fire, paints a similar picture, offering up a map of North America before and after #Colonization. (And yes, I would love to scan in all the illustrations and tables, but unfortunately, the 1974 copy is well-read and very delicate. It belonged to a coven-mate and fellow activist friend, who left it to me when they passed away -- along with a slew of other radical and pagan books). I did find some archived versions, sans illustrations, online.

#AmReading #Bookstodon #RadicalBooks #PowerStructures

@_elena I whole heartily agree. And I’m an Old here. I originally joined the Fediverse in 2917 on an Instance that wasn’t very active so I rarely interacted and posted.

But just prior to the first wave of massive Twitter migration I checked back in to find out I had 24 hours left to move to a new instance. Boy oh boy, my new home was actually not a place I wanted to hang out locally. So I quickly learned to build my Home stream by following interesting people and interacting with them by comments, shares (boosts) and then I saw interesting people there who also,like me, had commented. My Home stream became my first read of the day when I checked in.

Now, where did I find those people? Why that would be the open source Wild West of the Fediverse. The numbers of people posting made a fast moving stream and I could pop over to any interesting post and there were my People! My Tribe is on open source social media and I found them! What a joy.

After a few months I refined my streams to appear in column view, 3 columns across: Home, Local, Fediverse. After a year I found out about Lists and by golly, I could put a List as another stream in a column! My “rock people” are in one, my personal friends in another, my “news people” another. Wowie, I’m making my own algorithm for me, me alone, and it works well. I no longer miss current posts from people I care most about. Yes Antifa Lisa, I’m here for the #Anarchy and #PunkAsFunk. Go Fediverse! Go Mastodon! Go beige.party which is my Instance and #NotACult

here it goes:

what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.

so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?

people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.

the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.

Elena Rossini 🌈

2026-04-08 09:29:12

Dear Fedi friends,

Next week I have the honor of doing a presentation advocating for the Fediverse in a really prestigious venue (I can't share more now, but I will after it takes place).

I'm currently working on slides and I would love to hear testimonies from YOU. Why the Fediverse is so special to you in contrast to Big Tech platforms (bonus points if you speak French & can reply en français).

I'll share a selection of your testimonies in my slideshow presentation.

Merci beaucoup ❤️