Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 69

@jdaviescoates Yes! I stumbled upon it recently and in fact picked up the new one today. Superb stuff.

@syndikalista Not an expert but I enjoyed the various posts on this site: https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2016/05/27/what-is-solarpunk/ . Reading between the lines it seems very inspired by Murray Bookchin's ideas of social ecology and libertarian municipalism. (Although of course it's just one person's thoughts on it.) I don't think there's any radically new ideas or tech that give reason for optimism a priori, I believe the point is to deliberately be optimistic rather than dystopian in an attempt to prefigure something better.

Community Toolbox for getting active in your local community and local economy.

https://www.stirtoaction.com/toolbox

I don't have much experience in this area but it seems like a nice intro for ideas to get started with.

#event: Race & The New Economy: STIR Magazine Winter Launch

#london
2018-02-19

Marginalised workers and particularly those within Black, Asian and Latino communities, are most likely to fall into precarious work and the first to be left behind by the rise of automation and the gig-economy. We’ll be asking: “Can current projects that aim to work as alternatives to neoliberalism also work for racial justice?”

https://www.stirtoaction.com/blog/race-the-new-economy-stir-magazine-winter-launch

"Italian workers occupy the factory where they used to work and run it as a cooperative recycling electronic components."

It’s from 2013, but it is a positive story of workers taking over the factory and turning it into something with positive environmental and social impact. And while I can’t read Italian from what I can understand they are still active, despite some attempts to shut them down.

http://www.workerscontrol.net/authors/when-workers-takeover-redundancy-ri-maflow

http://rimaflow.it/

Been experiencing pretty poor mental health recently. Due to a number of things colliding, but I think mostly triggered by lack of decent sleep. What are people's go-to techniques for getting out of a rut? #mentalhealth

@muninn Similar tactic, for some things I also find the 'just floss one tooth' trick sometimes useful. Trite example, but if you're trying to build up a habit of flossing but's it not going anywhere, just say, alright, just floss one tooth. Break it down into really tiny versions of the bigger habit. The pressure's off, and then quite often you find you end up doing the whole thing anyway once you've started.

@cstanhope Ah that's great, thanks.

@muninn 3) At least I usually find out something interesting when it happens, maybe it's not so bad... I'd like to more intentional though.

@muninn Totally agree on that. Quite a few times I have gotten sidetracked from what I intended to do. Few random thoughts on that: 1) it's the nature of the medium itself - a constant stream, updates and notifications - and that I might be better on a slower medium, e.g. forums. 2) maybe I'm easily sidetracked and could try and work on improving my focus and allotted time on things.

@cstanhope Check :) That one works. Still on the fence though, maybe it's best just to wait for some of this ActivityPub events stuff to kick off.