Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events, and to act as town square for the community.

🌟 Community Highlights 🌟

2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Solarpunks!

We were so close, we nearly announced this last month, but since the instance’s founding in March 2022, 2000 accounts have been created on this server. That number doesn’t mean much beside being big and round, but it’s still fun to celebrate.

The most important numerical statistic is active users, where we’re coming up on 400/month. More important than all of that is the kind and quality of your activity on this server and across the Fediverse. We’re extremely proud of the quality of posts and level of discourse members of this server are contributing to our shared and distributed social media experiment. Thanks so much for joining us on this adventure.

🧙‍♀️ Meta Post Image Breakdown: W.I.T.C.H. ✊

On October 29, 1969, officers of the court bound Black Panther leader Bobby Seale in rope, chained him to his defendant’s chair, filled his mouth with gauze, and wrapped it tightly around his mouth and jaw. He had demanded his constitutional rights to speech and to be defended by a lawyer. The bigoted, racist, and fascist judge’s order shocked the world, inspiring outrage and protest. That Halloween, women dressed as witches organized an impromptu act of guerilla theatre:

Slowly, solemnly, the Witches filed around the Federal Building in Chicago’s Loop, faces painted white, staring straight ahead, flowing black capes swirling around them. “Our sister justice lies chained and tied,” they chanted. “We curse the ground on which she died.”

This was one of the many hexes for which the ephemeral organization known as W.I.T.C.H. is famous. The post image is a frame from the Documentary She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (2014), of a coven in Washington D.C. performing a hex on U.S. president Richard Nixon’s inauguration on the steps of the United States Capitol building.

W.I.T.C.H. most often stands for “Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell,” but could just as easily mean “Women Inspired to Tell their Collective History,” or “Women Interested in Toppling Consumer Holidays.” This seasonal political theatre has seen a recent resurgence, adding “Welcoming Immigrants & Their Children Here” to the auspicious name.

While white facepaint and black masks were integral to the theatre in the 60’s and 70’s, a thick black veil has become popular during recent events.

The Wikipedia page for Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell is a good jumping off point if you’d like to know more.

🗃️ Into the Meta Archives 📰

Our Monthly Meta posts are sometimes home to more in-depth sections written by our admins. Many of our newer members may not be familiar with some of the past guides, so for those interested, we’ve compiled a list below.

  • December 2024 - How to Prepare for a Fascist Regime
  • February 2025 - How to avoid Big Tech and maximize your digital security & privacy
  • June 2025 - A brief guide on Security Culture & Adopting FOSS as prefiguration
  • July 2025 - How to build community with fun projects!

💬 Open Discussion 💬

Now it’s your turn to share whatever you’d like down below; your thoughts, ideas, concerns, hopes, or anything related to the server. If you have a new community you’d like to shine a spotlight, shine away! If you’re a new user wanting to say hi, feel free to post an introduction :)

SLRPNK Community Resources:

  • Community Wiki - Moderators, you can create your own Wiki here for your communities!
  • Movim Chat - Open to all members (use your SLRPNK login credentials)
  • Etherpad - Collaborative document editor
⬛ Union Resources 🟥

These are unions from around the world who can train you to become an effective organizer to form a grassroots union with your co-workers!

  • nocturne@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    25 days ago

    For reference, I am using Mlem TestFlight on iOS. When I use your link with my slrpnk.net account I get a something went wrong page. Same link with my Sopuli.xyz or piefed.social accounts and it works. Which is odd, because this account is local to the community. I even am subscribed now, and I still get the error.

      • nocturne@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        25 days ago

        Yes it does. And the link generated by Lemmy is how I got the link I added to my comment too.

        • Five@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
          3·
          25 days ago

          It sounds like an Mlem issue. RiotPorn is not the only com link in the post body that uses bang auto-linking from Markdown. The issue probably has something to do with the title including the strings ‘riot’ or ‘porn’ and your app’s NSFW settings. @ericbandrews@lemmy.ml

          • Eric@lemmy.mlEnglish
            4·
            25 days ago

            Thanks for bringing this to my attention! We’re looking into it.

            • Mose13@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              25 days ago

              Blorp dev here. There is no shared code, but I think the issue might be caused by communities that use upper case letters in their name. It seems like Lemmy considers riotporn@slrpnk.net to be the same as RiotPorn@slrpnk.net , so I’ll just lowercase it moving forward. That fixes the issue for me. It will take me a little time to get this fix into prod.