Aight so me and two other good folks are starting a tech workers' cooperative. We've got plenty of stuff against us.
None of us have worked in a workers' cooperative or other kind of democratic workplace before.
There are barely a handful workers' coops in Norway. The national umbrella org for coops in Norway is basically dead and doesn't care about workers' coops at all.
Our coop is geographically distributed evenly along Norway, which means our northernmost worker-member would have to drive 24 hours by car or 44 hours by public transport to reach our southernmost worker-member.

We've put in effort to reduce our weaknesses, and we've got things going for us too.
We've met and continue to meet with other workers' coops to learn from them and collaborate. We've got potential clients and pilot projects. We've got hardware. We've got tech and business know-how. We're working on the formal stuff, bylaws and agreements.

It's going great.

Just wanted to let y'all know it can be done.

If you want to do it too, I recommend joining https://matrix.to/#/%23techcoop:autonomic.zone

#cooperative #coop #workersCooperative #democracy #socialism #anarchism #anarchy #communism #work #workersmovement #freedom #solidarity #egalitarian

Aight so me and two other good folks are starting a tech workers' cooperative. We've got plenty of stuff against us.
None of us have worked in a workers' cooperative or other kind of democratic workplace before.
There are barely a handful workers' coops in Norway. The national umbrella org for coops in Norway is basically dead and doesn't care about workers' coops at all.
Our coop is geographically distributed evenly along Norway, which means our northernmost worker-member would have to drive 24 hours by car or 44 hours by public transport to reach our southernmost worker-member.

We've put in effort to reduce our weaknesses, and we've got things going for us too.
We've met and continue to meet with other workers' coops to learn from them and collaborate. We've got potential clients and pilot projects. We've got hardware. We've got tech and business know-how. We're working on the formal stuff, bylaws and agreements.

It's going great.

Just wanted to let y'all know it can be done.

If you want to do it too, I recommend joining https://matrix.to/#/%23techcoop:autonomic.zone

#cooperative #coop #workersCooperative #democracy #socialism #anarchism #anarchy #communism #work #workersmovement #freedom #solidarity #egalitarian

I literally broke into rage tears when I read this morning that #trump declared Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth will no longer be free admission days for national parks and monuments. The replacement day is DaddyDiaperPants’s birthday instead.

I’m aware that profanity suggests a lack of vocabulary, but also I am a member of GenX, and thus:
Fucking fuck ALL of this fucking nonsense. Fuck him, fuck the regime, fuck them all sideways with their own executive orders.

Ahem.

I am old enough to remember segregation. My parents were in the crowd that heard MLK’s dream. I rode one of the first busses, when they finally rolled in the Deep South, decades after legislation demanded it. I remember being a student being given a ride home by a football player, and we both ended up with cop inflicted bruises, because they assumed a “white” girl was messing with a black boy.

We fought then, we fight now. Fuck compliance.

#MLK #Freedom #equality #rights #FightThePower

I literally broke into rage tears when I read this morning that #trump declared Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth will no longer be free admission days for national parks and monuments. The replacement day is DaddyDiaperPants’s birthday instead.

I’m aware that profanity suggests a lack of vocabulary, but also I am a member of GenX, and thus:
Fucking fuck ALL of this fucking nonsense. Fuck him, fuck the regime, fuck them all sideways with their own executive orders.

Ahem.

I am old enough to remember segregation. My parents were in the crowd that heard MLK’s dream. I rode one of the first busses, when they finally rolled in the Deep South, decades after legislation demanded it. I remember being a student being given a ride home by a football player, and we both ended up with cop inflicted bruises, because they assumed a “white” girl was messing with a black boy.

We fought then, we fight now. Fuck compliance.

#MLK #Freedom #equality #rights #FightThePower

This week on Fireside Fedi!

21/01/2026 10:00 UTC-5

Special Guest: @ellyxir@humanwords.cc

bio.site/ellyxir Programming languages enthusiast, choir, classical singing, video game creation, retro computers, languages

23/01/2026 10:00 UTC-5

Special Guest: @limebar@mastodon.social

Making electronic music:https://mastodon.social/tags/limebar He/Him/His and 100% OK with you being you. Hello new users best advice:write a short intro post, pin it to your profile and update your profile follow every interesting account you see you can and should follow interesting hashtags and use hashtags when posting home shows what you follow and what they boost follow @FediFollows & @FediTips

#Owncast ( #Livestream ): stream.firesidefedi.live

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree/@firesidefedi

Or, even on #YouTube: youtube.com/@btfree_org

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

🧵1/ #MLKDay and Economic Justice 🇺🇸

🗣️“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and #freedom for their spirits.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1964 Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

🚨Dr. King understood the direct connection between systemic inequities—including #racism —and food insecurity.

👉🏽We see this reality today as funding cuts disproportionately harm Black, Brown, and

This week on Fireside Fedi!

21/01/2026 10:00 UTC-5

Special Guest: @ellyxir@humanwords.cc

bio.site/ellyxir Programming languages enthusiast, choir, classical singing, video game creation, retro computers, languages

23/01/2026 10:00 UTC-5

Special Guest: @limebar@mastodon.social

Making electronic music:https://mastodon.social/tags/limebar He/Him/His and 100% OK with you being you. Hello new users best advice:write a short intro post, pin it to your profile and update your profile follow every interesting account you see you can and should follow interesting hashtags and use hashtags when posting home shows what you follow and what they boost follow @FediFollows & @FediTips

#Owncast ( #Livestream ): stream.firesidefedi.live

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree/@firesidefedi

Or, even on #YouTube: youtube.com/@btfree_org

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

🗣️Today we honor the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Born January 15, 1929)

🇺🇸Please take one minute to watch this excerpt from Dr. King’s speech, “The Other America,” delivered at Stanford University in 1967.

🇺🇸 Let’s honor his legacy not just in memory—but by using our most powerful peaceful tool for change: the #vote.

🗳️ Register to vote.
🗳️ Vote in local and national elections.
🇺🇸 Be the change.

#MLK #civilrights #Boston #Equality #racism #equity #quotes #freedom #history #unity #America

Politics is not a good option for me, but if I were ever involved, my priority would be equality among people. In #Uganda, there is growing fear as people who support the National Unity Platform are reportedly being #kidnapped and killed. With the presidential election taking place today on 15th, I pray for peace and fairness for all Ugandans.

#PeaceForUganda #HumanRights #EqualityForAll #StopPoliticalViolence #UgandaElections #Justice #Freedom #OneUganda

100% this. Especially the bits about the Democrats that mostly serve to vent energy away from change.

Enough. Enough.

The old normal is done and won't return. Shouldn't return.

The only way this ends is with a new world for us. For all of US.

#Strike #GeneralStrike #Labor #Union #Disruption #Resistance #AntiCapitalism #Freedom #HealthCare #Socialism #Anarchism #Organize #MutualAid #Revolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XMMDgtb87o&pp=ygUTdGhlIGh1bWFuaXN0IHJlcG9ydA%3D%3D

Politics is not a good option for me, but if I were ever involved, my priority would be equality among people. In #Uganda, there is growing fear as people who support the National Unity Platform are reportedly being #kidnapped and killed. With the presidential election taking place today on 15th, I pray for peace and fairness for all Ugandans.

#PeaceForUganda #HumanRights #EqualityForAll #StopPoliticalViolence #UgandaElections #Justice #Freedom #OneUganda

#Trump #Fascism #USPolitics #Democracy #Freedom

🚨 “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell

🇺🇸 As a first-generation adult child of immigrants, I love this country and believe in embracing diversity, honoring our histories, and celebrating our differences. Our #humanity is not negotiable.

🗳️ Register to #vote.
🗳️ Vote in local and national elections.
🇺🇸 Be the change.

📣 Speaking up takes courage. And courage is contagious. That is #patriotism.

#quotes #mlk #democracy #freedom #Boston #racism #immigrants