Richard D. Bartlett @richdecibels@social.coop

I've been overwhelmed with email from interesting strangers for ~3 yrs.

Testing new strategy today: removed my address from all public sites. Updated my website so you can call me free if you'll publish the convo, otherwise you pay.

What you think?

http://richdecibels.com/

Government minister and conservative anarchist @audreyt@twitter.com writes for the NY Times this week about digital democracy in Taiwan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/opinion/taiwan-digital-democracy.html

Just published my thoughts on today's #ExtinctionRebellion disaster.

Maybe the climate emergency doesn't need your approval, it just needs your attention.

https://medium.com/@richdecibels/does-it-matter-if-extinction-rebellion-sucks-a8d64715eb15

If you liked #microsolidarity then this long read on #microattunement by @taptiklis@twitter.com is well worth your time: a learning program to develop the art of belonging

https://medium.com/between-us/a-unity-of-unmerged-voices-a-proposal-to-synchronise-our-efforts-through-microattunement-870922e7082f

wow we just handed out US$10k to ppl in the @enspiral@twitter.com network in our latest round of participatory funding. woo hoo mutual aid is cool!

we funded a bunch of f2f gatherings, an impact report, grantwriting, paid old debt, and helped push @betterworkBWT@twitter.com

#microsolidarity in action

I marched with tens of thousands of ppl led by #ExtinctionRebellion for a "grief march" on the weekend. Reminded me there is a light at the end of the tunnel, even when things look dire.

https://medium.com/@richdecibels/existential-risk-holds-a-hidden-gift-972499ed7392

The plural of mindfulness is intimacy.

Sovereignty is to kinship as presence is to connection.

I used to think the British "sorry" was an apology for a small error like bumping someone on the train, so I replied "no problem don't worry about it". Then I learned it actually means "sorry we had to interact" and I've been making it worse by offering warmth and forgiveness.

#ExtinctionRebellion ppl in London please join #riseup4rojava protest at the BBC at 1pm today. Indigenous horizontal socialist Kurds have been self governing with citizens assemblies for years. #Turkey is now invading on a massacre mission.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2607334165980151/

Super inspired by the possibilities, what can happen when money and values are aligned. /thread

Popped in on #ExtinctionRebellion London on my way to work in Sheffield. Had a yarn with Ian from a global mining firm. He loves his job cuz mining creates wealth creates community. He says divesting from coal just means selling mines to less scrupulous companies.

In a conversation of n people, fairness dictates you're entitled to talk up to 1/n of the time.

If you (like me) frequently take up more space than that, honestly truly, do you believe, deep down, you actually deserve a bigger share because of the quality of what you're saying?

UK rebels from #ExtinctionRebellion successfully holding 8 occupied sites across London.

Updates: http://t.me/rebellionbroadcast

There's a roughly even distribution of tweets in English, French, Dutch and German today at the launch of the #ExtinctionRebellion October Rebellion. No longer a UK centred movement.

It's exceedingly rare to find good hospitality where you find good punctuality.

While Italy has many inefficiencies to irritate the northern and western Europeans, they also have a superior system for queuing: instead of lining up in order, you can mill around sociably. New arrivals just ask 'who got here last?' to manage the sequence.

Political communicators from #ExtinctionRebellion have some advice about how to keep the environmental emergency discourse beyond the limitations of polarised ideological tribes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGNkd7MtpDw #brexit #GeneralElection

I just published a short new story: On Leaving the Church of Social Justice

Considers the orthodoxy/evangelism/heresy dynamics in social justice activism, and suggests an alternate path.

https://link.medium.com/7mAl8DZ5h0

.@dthorson@twitter.com I have a wish: with yr podcast yr gaining wisdom and knowledge and integrating perspectives and helping the field advance. I want you to stop every 6 mo and interview yourself, get on a soapbox and encapsulate what's shifted for you in the past period.