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Welcome to #CheckIn for SUNDAY 2026-10-18


Muse here,

I'm currently reading a small book entitled The Milk Tea Alliance by Jeffrey Wasserstrom. This is about the various youth uprisings in countries around China who are either rising up against its authoritarian manipulation of their country, or standing up to internal authoritarianism. Most of the time they choose non-violent methods. The young people in these countries started supporting one another through expressions of solidarity, such as joining the Milk Tea Alliance to writing and sharing how-to manuals for successful protest. I find it inspiring.

I'm also fascinated by how many of these young people were inspired by the Hunger Games movies. So much so, that they adopted the three-finger salute. I read the Hunger Games novels, and would not choose those works as something to inspire me. They seemed more like a warning that the road of violent revolution is hard and takes a tremendous toll on people's lives.
Nevertheless, a number of young people are also inspired by figures of peace, such as Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh.

Personally, I am inspired by people like Desmond Tutu from South Africa and John Lewis in the US. What tremendous strength these people had for facing down bullies and tyrants in a peaceful manner.

Are there any people or stories that have inspired you to become a better version of yourself? These people can be friends, family members, school teachers, or characters in books, movies, or tv shows. You may have always admired certain characteristics of people you have seen in the media or who were of historic interest. Big or small doesn't matter, it's how they helped you to grow as a human being.

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My grandad is a real inspiration. To get healthy, he started running a mile a day when he was 65....
Now he is 70, we have no idea where he is. (I should try that!)

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Happy Milk Tea Alliance day, and Milk Tea for everyone who can stomach it! Let me add the drink gets better if you add tapioca pearls to it.

(Also, this darn Fedilab client deleted my half-written post when taking this photo. So you get half of what I wrote.)

I loved when the Berlin Hong Kongers association did an exhibition about their colourful and sensationally image-heavy movement on universal suffrage of 2019. So many people to talk to at the event, and they served small cups of milk tea too.

Ein gelber Lampion von der Größe einer Hand, wird gegen eine Lichtquelle gehalten. In Kalligraphie-ähnlicher dicker Handschrift steht Kämpfen für Freiheit darauf. Die Schrift in schwarz zeichnet sich klar gegen den gelben dünnen Karton ab, der etwas durchscheinend ist.
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I found inspiration in a neighbourhood cafe and pub that.. felt out of place somewhat and was run on smol-ish price tags. Around 2014 I learned from the owner proprietor he's a trained architect, had earned shiploads of cash from when construction was growing a ton following reunification (order volume wise, build everywhere, close the gaps, etc), and actually he had always wanted to do something else. Well, he had, and the cafe was his happy place for many years (I think, about a decade after I took notice).

I gathered confidence from the encounter, the concept of doing one thing well, and from it kinda earning the freedom to switch wherever. Makes you think, whatever you do, there's something else next to a straightforward career thing.

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I'm not really part of a group that "does" anything. I protest by minimizing my economic activity, essentially going on general strike. I'm not perfect or even close, but if lots of people did as I am doing, corporate power would drop substantially. However, most people in my direct experience seem to be "I can't single-handedly fix everything, so I'll continue participating in the corporate world as usual and maybe stand and hold a sign for a while somewhere occasionally, if somebody organizes that on Facebook. Plus, I'm used to Chrome so stop telling me to switch, it's too much effort. I'm old."
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I'm pretty happy with the positive leadership has been displaying internally as there are rallies against separation of Alberta. It's been about building things together instead of creating fear of economic disruption. Helps that the stay movement isn't run by people motivated by enriching themselves.
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I fell in love with the oral history books written by Studs Terkel . The many people of Working; People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do , American Dreams: Lost and Found, and The Good War helped me gain an understanding of how others see life.
There are others focusing or the US Depression, racial, and economic differences, but the three above had the greatest impact.

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I continue to be inspired by the example of Catholics who have worked for justice and stood up to tyranny in their time, sometimes to the point of sacrifice, such as Dorothy Day of the Catholic Workers Movement, Blessed Miguel Pro who was executed during the Cristeros War in Mexico, St. Maximilian Kolbe and the many Catholic martyrs of World War II, and more recently Daniel and Philip Barrigan, who protested against the atomic bomb and the war in Vietnam. Deep down there has always been a social justice warrior in me... though probably not to the extent of martyrdom.
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Inspirations? Hmmm. I know that I was strongly influenced by Wallace Stegner's book Crossing To Safety and by the Robin Williams film Dead Poets Society - works that carried a message of doing things, living ones life, and not waiting.

I've tended to admire anti-authority figures. That why my adopted motto is this:

"Locus ab auctoritate est infirmissimus"
("The argument from authority is the weakest.") -- Thomas Aquinas

Perhaps the people I admire most - a class of people not an individual - are those who emigrate from their homes to somewhere unknown. That moment of inflection, or desperation, when someone decides that they can no longer reside where they have been and move into the unknown has long been a moment (or span of moments) that intrigue me - I've asked some artists how they might try to express them. (I am pretty sure that much of my family back in the mid to late 1800's experienced pogroms and went through something akin to Fiddler on the Roof but without songs or humor.)

I am also in awe of people who do the right thing because it is the right thing - I think that is the most important message that comes out of our western religions - Mosaic, Christian, Islam - that we are an inter-dependent community and we survive, and sometimes even prosper, by sharing and helping.

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Lisa Stranger

The French though…they seem to come together to stand up to their government.


arrests and rhetoric there are starting to sound like the shit on our side of the pond 😒

I protest by minimizing my economic activity, essentially going on general strike. I’m not perfect or even close


same, but full disclosure, it's not entirely by choice

I’m used to Chrome so stop telling me to switch, it’s too much effort. I’m old.”


y'all have seen me freaking out about various tech stuff—I'm the poster child for don't-get-it—and I ditched Chrome close to a decade ago

(Brave is also on the ditch list)

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Over there in a German speaking fedi corner, a very similar discussion just popped up, for further reading.

ruhr.social/@sonjalemke/117462…

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Sonntagsfrage: Welche Sachbücher haben eure Weltsicht verändert, euch etwas neues gelehrt oder waren einfach nur spannend zu lesen?

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I've been using Libre Wolf, a fork of Mozilla. uBlock origin built in, defaults set mainly to paranoid. Many websites don't work or need tweaking, but that just tells me I'm dodging a few million bullets.

Not loyal to it, though. If I paid more attention I'd likely know why I should change to better platforms and what they are.

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