Peter Clayborne

This is so good! I remember the fediverse creating alternatives to traditional streaming platforms, but the limitations of the tech kept them pretty small. These ventures seem poised to make major waves here and now!

This is deeply inspiring and hopeful for me; thank you for sharing these real life examples of better living in action. We need more breaks from the doom-scroll of the news cycle like this.

Fascinating! This isn't the response to Musk's hostile takeover I imagined, but it would certainly be an effective one if implemented. I hope the unraveling is halted before we lose the capacity to try things on this scale. I also hope that state governments that have traditionally conspired against their constituents will be properly accountable to them instead.

There are too many parts of this to quote that I loved! I appreciate your habit of getting outside the perspective you're analyzing, summarizing it nicely, and offering your measured response.

I definitely want to read these novels now, and maybe they'll inspire me to write my own in response... Altho I think I need something closer to home to have the same sense of reparte.

Fascinating! Cool to worker ownership gain popularity in a variety of ways

Oh man, it might be time for me to revisit my work series next! This is so right up my alley, as you know. Turning work into play is the goal. How I see it, that means money's gotta go. But what that actually looks like is another question. It's fun to imagine the possibilities!

I love this on so many levels — dance has been a big part of my life and for the past several years I've missed it terribly, and also one of my favorite writers, Bob Black, emphasizes play in the same way you use fun, as a revolutionary return to our childlike rhythms. It turns out "revolutionary" action doesn't have to be protests and picket lines; it can just as easily be rest, rejoicing, rejuvenation (which means "being young again," another of my fav words!)

This is so important, especially for those of us interested in making obsolete a world built by and for corporations and their profits over people and their wellbeing. I'd love to live in a world where artists of all mediums can support themselves through their art while maintaining full creative control over it. Building alternatives that aren't dependent on industry giants is absolutely a first step.

Idk how I missed this! It's very beautiful and I'm behind you all the way. Here's to keeping the dreams of childhood alive and well! Peter Pan was always one of my fav Disney stories.

Fascinating! I think the kind of global society I try to imagine like this, a multi-layered arrangement where individuals and local communities have full autonomy over their lives, while larger organizing bodies help with administrative and coordinating efforts. Obvi I'd prefer we don't have any weapons or militaries to speak of, and I don't think they're necessary, but this idea of layered governance is definitely interesting

Oof I have so many thoughts on this... I’ll put some in my own Barbie post, but there’s a lot on masculinity that I will need to tease out over a much longer time. Basically I just saw this thread about decoupling masculinity from patriarchy. As in, can we create new ways of being and becoming men that aren’t based on domination? I think so, especially since such masculinities have already existed.