I am not an expert on bees, but I’ve had long discussions on the topic with friends who are beekeepers. The more we talked the more I understood I knew nothing on the topic.

I can’t say I remember too many details from these conversations. Still, there is one thing that stuck with me: the fact that we say they have a Queen, tells more about us observing them and our frame of reference, than about the way they actually organise. In a way, it’s more about projecting a belief system, on what we see, instead of just observing and trying to describe it. Something like that.

Thanks for this, it’s the first time I hear about this and it certainly sounds very interesting. I’m gonna look more into this as soon as I find the time. In the meantime, if you know more about them and feel like sharing about your experience using them, or anything actually, I’ll be glad to have your input.

May I also suggest something? Perhaps add in the post title something like anti-marketplace or anything like that, so that it is a bit clearer what they are for those of us who don’t know. (English is not my first language and just woke up, but still silly me, by reading the title I thought they were currency exchange apps. And now my coffee is ready!)

It looks like we see this differently. I would share this blame if we shared the profits, not because I’d rather live under a roof. Apart from that, the consumers in this case are often other companies that demolish houses to make malls and other commercial stuff.

This pie chart was retrieved from eurostat.

It looks like it’s the latest one, and that the next one is planned for October 2026 (more here). In this link they clearly state that:

Several of the EU countries with particularly high levels of waste generated per inhabitant reported very high shares of waste from mining and quarrying, while elsewhere construction and demolition often contributed to the high shares.

So 100% of the waste regardless of the source, divided by the total number of people = tonnes of waste generated per EU inhabitant. So the blame of polluting the environment is statistically transposed from the relevant industries to all the people.

Of course cultural appropriation of spiritual indigenous narratives from westerners is something that has been happening for decades. And I totally see the point of your analysis.

In a way, what I was trying to say is that even tho this kinds of appropriations need to be fought so they don’t take over the political discourse about ecology, by itself this doesn’t seem enough imo. In order to fight the power imbalance that colonisers have created throughout the centuries, I believe there is also a need to consciously take into consideration, as well as incorporate the suggestions and approaches of indigenous people in the relevant discourses in western politics, ecology, and their intersections. Certainly, without the element of appropriation, but as as equals.

I tend to agree with this article, but it is also a very slippery slope.

We must be careful not to erase once more indigenous/local narratives because we don’t like the vocabulary used. We risk to contribute into reproducing the colonisers’ power imbalance by disregarding local knowledge, just because it is presented in non-western way (i.e. cultural burnings).

It sounds very valuable that the article suggests using an annoucement-only Signal loop through a burner phone.

Do you think that these burners should get checked through a Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) for spyware? I ask this because, at least in europe in some cases, these burners are used for extended periods of time.

I really liked this documentary when I saw it, but it has nothing to do with veganism.

I wouldn’t recomend lasers. Cats get a pleasure not only from chasing but also from catching things. Lasers can never be caught so the end feeling that is accumulated is of devastation for never fulfiling their end goal.

There are plenty of great ideas here for making them toys. I will add a couple more that my cats have loved much bettter than any toy that was bought.

• Carton roll of toilet paper
• Carton roll from electrical adhesive tapes
• Get a stick and attach an elastic string to it. At the end of the string attach something else - like a cork, a rolled sock etc. Personally I don’t use plastics for toys, but I also don’t stop them from playing with one that accidentaly fell on the floor. When they are done playing with it, I just make it desapear.

Remember that:

• they don’t have the same color palette we do. I don’t know the official terms but we see with 3 colors, they have 2, so bright colors are not of importance to them
• the time you spend playing with them, is bonding time.
• don’t be rough or attack them (in the sense to take them by surprise sudenly). We are a giant to them size-wise. Even tho they see us as equals, we need to ackgnledge that they are much smaller creatures. If you don’t respect them they will start attacking you out of the blue, and a vicious circle will be established.

However, this uprising was not fully prepared for what happens next. Until now, our efforts have focused mainly on education and protests, without envisioning post-collapse structures. Our advice to comrades worldwide is to prepare not only for revolt but for non-hierarchical structures and societal rebuilding once regimes fall.

I take this advice to heart

I’m not an expert on blogging, but NoBlogs.org seems like a great alternative to patreon.

Connecting radical people. Non commercial, antifascist, antisexist, privacy-oriented blog platform.

Let’s clarify that you call _ blog_ is patreon, a monetizing platform.

In relation to your link, I corrected my previous comment to reflect what I meant.

The way I see things, it’s not about old drama. I am trying to have a talk about a community that you own and actively promote.

So, doesn’t it make you wonder that in almost a decade you didn’t manage to decentralise the platform project you created, while in the same time you have been writing so many theoretical texts about anarchy?

Don’t you see the gap between theory and practice? How do you intend to bridge this gap?

Edit: correction - the strikethrough, added the word project

Ziq, are you the admin at raddle again? I am only aware of what you wrote here:

I’m stepping down as admin because of some shit I did - emma will be returning as webmaster and leftous will take a temp admin position until Tequila can find someone else

Edit: At the administrators page [https://raddle.me/wiki/administrators], there is only your name. For some reason, I don’t see a list of admins. Am I on the wrong page, perhaps?

I only know that it is both casually used as a park and that they are also regularly doing stuff there.

I have the impression you are mixing up topics. This video is talking about the myth of barter as the predecessor of money.

This link is not a transcript but it’s on this topic and is referenced in the video description:

Graeber 2011 The Myth of Barter

What an impressive and useful site this is!

Can you link this?

I don’t know if you are ziq and self-promoting your material, or if you are just huge fan. From your profile, it looks like you post only stuff related to ziq.

Now it’s not only about promoting raddle and its sockpupet accounts echoying ziq, to say the least. It was also related to concentration of power. Supposedly this was handdled? Because ziq said so? Anyways, now, it’s for patreon, for money. Please, enough.