Tiny co-living spaces are popping up across New York. Local communities see them as ‘harbingers of gentrification’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/21/co-living-spaces-nyc-gentrification #Communities #NewYork #Housing #Society #USnews
The wound, #fear, flaw, and #desire are basic elements of #narrative structure for both meatspace and game design. This is how #communities and #ecosystems are formed.
Submarine agency lobbies Fremantle locals amid protest over defence hub
By Cason Ho
The agency in charge of arming the nation with nuclear submarines takes its self-described first steps towards earning the public's trust with a community meeting in WA, as protesters voice their opposition outside.
I toured UK council estates and learned this: all our lives are poems just waiting to be written | Rowan McCabe https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/17/toured-uk-council-estates-poems-poetry #Creativewriting #Socialhousing #Communities #Newcastle #Education #Culture #Society #Poetry #UKnews #Books
https://www.alojapan.com/1370854/hokkaido-bullet-train-extension-delayed-8-years-rattling-local-communities-2/ Hokkaido bullet train extension delayed 8 years, rattling local communities #8 #bullet #communities #delayed #extension #Hokkaido #HokkaidoTopics #local #rattling #train #year's #北海道 Transportation Shinkansen link key to redevelopment projects on northern Japanese island The Hokkaido Shinkansen now serves only the southern part of the island. (Photo by Masatoshi Ida) SAPPORO, Japan — With the extension of shinkansen bullet train service to Sa
Sept 28-Oct 1 is California Chapter of American Planning Association conference, in Monterey County. https://www.apacalifornia.org/ Conference theme is "WAVES OF CHANGE: Reconnecting #Communities.” Two of 13 mobile workshops are promoted as being via bicycle, and there's a bike in conference banner, and @ 1:00 in “APA California 2025 Conference Hype Video.” In Feb we were invited by a Santa Cruz County based planner to serve on a proposed bike-related panel at the conference; we urged him to instead invite #CalBike’s executive director or policy director (and he did). He later reported that his panel submission was rejected by conference organizers. :(
For gen'l overviews on three #MontereyCounty cities from local planners—#Monterey Community Development Director Kim Cole, #Marina Planning Manager Alyson Hunter, #Salinas Planning Division Manager Grant Leonard—see "Monterey-Area #Planners Welcome APA Conference" by California Planning & Development Report’s Contributing Editor Josh Stephens https://cp-dr.com/articles/montereyarea-planners-welcome-apa-conference
New #job Learning Manager: Progression Routes @ltmuseumfriends.bsky.social #London
Apply by Tue 30 Sep 2025. More details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/learnin...
#GEMJobs #MuseumJobs #Heritage #Transport #Museums #Learning #Engagement #Communities #GEM
Learning Manager: Progression ...
Queenslanders reflect on PNG's 50th anniversary of independence
By Sarah Richards and Anna Hartley
Thousands of people from Queensland's Papua New Guinean community celebrate half a century of the country's independence with traditional music, dancing, art, and food.
Community groups warn against push to ‘rip up’ UK nuclear industry rules https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/12/nuclear-regulatory-taskforce-consultation-new-power-stations-uk #Nuclearpower #Environment #Communities #Regulators #Politics #Business #Energy #UKnews
Hello world!
We're the Mozilla Data Collective - and we want to rebuild the #AI #data #ecosystem - with #communities at the centre.
We can do better than giving communities a false choice between exposing their content to unconsented web scraping, with no say in how that data is used - or being pressured into signing exclusive licensing deals with a megacorp - stifling innovation.
We see another way.
The Mozilla Data Collective.
Launching Wednesday! 
Radically Relational #Farming Reclaims #Local #Food
#Community #organizer and #foodjustice leader, Germaine Jenkins, is working hard to end what she dubbed “food apartheid,” or the lack of access to #healthy food in #lowwealth #communities.
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/radically-relational-farming-reclaims-local-food/
With a vote expected this week, take action today. Send a message to #Congress to reject the #NDAA, which would further #Trump’s #war on our #communities.
https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.qUXRBnqZ7T8nxbpAcIVwoUsWLkUMWlo_0JmZttSlm3_-6ezreVUDKM4uYMpG61B3FNoHTPIODU_8XyLgNbnFJUQaoO8iNmgDizUDzTlsTYrtoBUBC-fLH5RUAMb0ZtlIEKqq9spukoULV1TKA0aSJ3zjjcNIkj-6sHX4UU7Pe91ylggLdfl1HleOspKhK1mxECMt2dpy-T0XD7X0mH6lGBegAbmMJcGp4cUddbZ7rAolOKkaqlxXFbEuqsh8xjyhHvHFg172t10FZzOM5I1-o2uGqdSJ2GFmhQ8zGgsVA6Q6ltB94bX7uZv7ejPFJUZ6hKtD3LvkM7-Ni8h8jmwpgc50LUFm8t3B_B01kZVGrsrGGrfVXb6NlIWV7y8VRT5OwfPCCD_Tqwbq5c4JiK1PjM2_oWjB-xtTcTdGugbk7Sai3pM2LL5UjL26GrOFikb93lgAkOh1DDcpPFLwV6qV1WEFBNQ6ZBjlvPxaa5W8lE5SDhi7sO5u_zzw_5u5VmbeMbrHbqJmiXu2848Tj1GbHDB6TCBEhYTmHB9FGruWdrI/4jq/UyaHduzQRiKkwXptBM3ZJg/h3/h001.wUlUyR7pQK1JlRHVEaIAXy2DPkdRp9WYfyS1K-zJTPQ
The Trump administration says its #Chicago #immigration crackdown has begun. https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.XaF8mXqsA6b2dSPmhsleMdUS12fSrk6MMZIR1Ut2K6cPkR7wwv6ogz64-Dbl8l4v7Tz2zsigudJmhwumxHSaRuT-jeGR_ovvyhFGf2TKUhPt-ZRC2wqenN0BsLgDgv4Sz0mMSRkiLlfRUWW4eEdkombHtSq3_ZxdfsBt9y0gZncctrpyU-Ef9CAyxQ7S1eMkY3r7wkxyyQ0WyiMjGvpGcanEhSdVHGtsUFl_IpHmvw32KCsA03FZdRUDwRzVhZO-WmhNYqzQ0LIJTVhEz4Sb-dTqPPqSEfkVFfrcN9RPkS6xv-4eEn_C7McVZU9mrme9QP2vfstQDafR0KziGA8l2TN7xccjJBH65GCMFvbVfnPi7POfPVQtK1RQN-RZykUTEM4QmsCoBuZFVsy-yOf5JVnGspvDzEZz_ydJCooyF7MG1j9MymvwD_XQYeMp35BB/4jq/UyaHduzQRiKkwXptBM3ZJg/h8/h001.oxOU3ltwvtcUDM8CQVTxytvy9oIsXJTEY6jDg6wYGJA
Had a really good time in #Birmingham today, shooting the #JSCN #Jewish small #Communities #network conference.
Met #Labour peer #LordKatz and heard some really interesting stories, speakers, etc..
Are there many #Jews on here?
When local #PublicRadio is taken away, it undermines our #trust in each other and our ability to engage in discussions shaping our #communities.
It impacts our #capacity to make decisions as a #democracy on a local level, influencing how we allocate our tax dollars and the #OperatingEnvironment in which we want to raise our families.
“Those of us who still want to live and think as humans can step aside and create #subaltern #communities that value and reward and inculcate productive effort.”
“#LLMs are a #technology suited to a decadent #culture, one that chases easy profits rather than tackles the real challenges we face. It’s easier to make money rearranging words according to various probabilities than it is to make a living improving the #health of our topsoil, #communities, and souls.”
“Six months into enforcement, #Britain’s techno-solutionist fantasy has crashed into reality with predictable results. Beneficial #online #communities have been obliterated, #VPN adoption has surged 1,400%, and the UK has created a perfect case study for why governments can’t regulate away complex social problems with #algorithmic band-aids and #surveillance theater.”
Well done #Strayan techo Gov. This is what we look forward to 
#OSA / #Australia <https://tarakiyee.com/the-uks-online-safety-act-a-lesson-in-technosolutionism/>
"Anger is one such emotion that is frequently locked away and denied. The result is a struggle to communicate anger in healthy ways and difficulty distinguishing between anger that serves and toxic anger.
Anger that serves is like a flame. It is forward-moving and it is bright. When it is acknowledged, it dissipates quite quickly.
* Healthy anger is a call out for connection and it's not out to hurt anybody. *
Toxic anger, on the other hand, lives in our bodies like a poison. It swims in circles with no place to go. No amount of expression diminishes its virulence or its hold. I have often heard it said that movement spaces are filled with people who carry this quality of anger - this bitter, consuming, toxic fury at the White House, white people, whatever.
Toxic anger is not anger.
It is, in truth, a graveyard of grief.
A mass gathering of unexpressed feelings and unmet needs, both intergenerational and individual.
Systemic conditions disallow impacted folx from expressing grief or heartache. Our movement spaces are filled with this toxicity, not because anyone wants to carry it, but because we have not been allowed sufficient time and space to grief. As individuals and as a collective, our health and well-being depends upon our willingness to find space to do it anyways."
-- Meenadchi: Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication
https://co-conspirator.press/Decolonizing-Non-Violent-Communication
Friday, August 29, 2025
Moscow's true answer to peace efforts: Russian mass attack on Kyiv kills 23, including children --Ukraine hits Russian cruise missile carrier near occupied Crimea -- It is also a strike by Russia against Trump: Missile, drone attack on Kyiv undermines peace efforts -- Russia reportedly flying drones over US arms routes in Germany ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/friday-august-29-2025/
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