Barry Solow

Aging, pensive schlub; dyspeptic alter kacker (Yiddish; do a search); crackpot Upper Manhattanite.

My Mastodon timeline is, currently, largely a reflection of my self-hosted Friendica timeline which, in turn, is part of a larger project to combine self-hosted open source online facilities into a community-building and -maintaining suite. 

I have a hashtag that I use a lot (alone, as far as I can tell): 

# SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity hashtag_lookup:#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity This is meant to index scattered reflections on the history of human community as a uniquely adaptive invention, its impoverishment over the last few centuries by various hegemonic forces (chiefly economic), and the appropriation (and sometimes enclosure) of many of the most useful and adaptive aspects of human community by institutions and organizations.