[the cover of A consensus handbook by Seeds for Change, featuring the title in Orange lettering followed by an color drawing of 11 people working on the maintenance of a house]

I'm going to share this as a separate post for those that missed the ask: A consensus handbook by Seeds for Change https://seedsforchange.org.uk/handbook is a free and very handy guide to how to take decisions as a group without leaders or hierarchies. I'm going to drop the chapters here to show off just how much useful stuff it has. If you work with consensus, there's almost certainly a problem in here that you recognize and wish you had some answers to!

1: Making decisions by consensus What’s wrong with the democracy we’ve got? - Why use consensus? How does consensus work? - The consensus process - Key skills and values for consensus 2: Facilitating consensus The role of meetings in group work - What is facilitation? - Facilitating a meeting – Making meetings accessible - Taking minutes 3: Facilitating consensus in large groups Meeting the conditions for consensus in large groups - Processes for large groups 4: Facilitating consensus in virtual meetings Why have virtual meetings? - The tools for the job - Challenges of facilitating virtual meetings - A consensus process for virtual meetings 5: Quick consensus decision making Preparing for quick consensus - How it works 6: Facilitation techniques and activities Starting the meeting - Regulating the flow of the meeting - Encouraging involvement - Techniques for problem solving and tackling difficult issues - Prioritisation techniques - Activities for re-energising - Evaluating meetings 7: Troubleshooting in your meetings Our meetings take a long time - Time pressure - Our meetings lack focus - Our group is large and we don’t enjoy meetings - We’re stuck and can’t reach a decision - Too many ideas - ‘Steamroller’ proposals - How can we deal with disruptive behaviour? - What to do when someone blocks - Our group is biased towards the status quo 8: Bridging the gap between theory and practice Conflict and consensus - The life cycle of a conflict - Ways of dealing with conflict - Techniques for inviting collaboration Power dynamics - Step one: What are our feelings about power dynamics? - Step two: Diagnosis – what is actually going on - in your group? - Step three: Where do your power imbalances come from? - Step four: Work out some ways to change your power dynamics Other common issues - External pressures - Open groups with changing membership - What if you’re the only person who wants the group to change? 9: Consensus in wider society So how might it work? - Challenges, questions and tensions - How do we get there? - A final thought

ive always rly liked the idea of a member of a group of adventurers having what everyone assumes is very well trained hawk and then at the end of their journey its casually revealed that thats actually just his buddy whos a shapeshifter and just rly likes being a hawk

the guy also like thinks everyone knows bc he never tries to hide the fact that the hawk is a person but everyone assumes hes always just joking. like the others being like "damn its crazy how he knows exactly what you want him to do its like he knows english or something." and the guy is just like "well yeah thats his first language so ofc he's fluent??" and they all go "haha good one" and move on, leaving him confused

they just think hes a quirky guy that really loves his pet and says things like "the 9 of us" even tho there are clearly only 8 people! he just cares about the bird so much he counts it as a group member haha !

Narcissus taking a selfie is the ACTUAL best.

These are REALLY cool

These are art in themselves, in a some of them point out what lockdown was like for us, they’re expressed themselves in a really cool way. But I think these are going to be talked about in the future.

i have a lot of affection for ghosts because they basically want one of two things: attention, or for you to leave their house as soon as possible. both relatable and respectable goals. and they're already dead so what are you going to do about it.

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"OR WOMEN IN GENERAL"???? HELLO

Reblog to bully people who don't like female characters or women in general off the internet.

in 2026, resolve to spend less time arguing online with strangers about things that neither one of you has any power to change, and more time engraving your opinions on buried tablets so that future archaeologists will overestimate their importance

'Abyssal', comic in progress.

Might be a tad hypocritical considering I charge absurdly low rates for my music comms (mostly bc due to how the world economy works one USD is worth much more here in my country than it is in the US), but if you're wholeheartedly, unironically proposing "consider reaching out to hobbyist VAs who'd be more than happy to be paid what amounts to pennies per hour of work :)" as a more ethical alternative to using AI voices in a creative project I think your priorities are completely out of whack.

I have more thoughts on this because I think context matters here. It's not necessarily wrong if you like happen to know someone who's willing to do commission work for cheap because they're a hobbyist who does voice acting (or art, or music, or whatever) more for fun and for some extra pocket money than as their primary source of income (again, when it comes to music I've been this someone to a lot of people).

But if you're directly encouraging indie gamedevs (or other people with creative projects) to actively seek out these sorts of people specifically because they tend to massively undercharge for their work so they'll probably say yes when you walk up to them and say "I need voice acting for a game but I can only afford to pay you $5", specifically so they don't have to "cave in" to using AI voice acting, I think you're letting the framing of AI as the ultimate anti-art evil serve as a justification for acting in extremely predatory and exploitative ways.

Like I think a world where the default response from indie projects to "I want voice acting in my project but I can't afford voice actors" is "find a hobbyist who'd be willing to do it for pennies an hour" is a world much more directly predatory of artists than a world where the default response to the same situation is "use AI"

Last thing i'm gonna add here, sorry to reblog it again. I just don't think reinventing fiverr or even "i'm paying you in exposure" from first principles becomes a pro-art stance because you're framing it in a "fuck AI" way.

i shine only with the light you gave me / nomad and aux

SCREAMS, HEY, YOU WANT SOMETHING FUN TO WATCH? I just finished this video of a fan getting into Star Wars in 2026 and it's an absolute banger of a ride to listen to her talk about it, where:

It's such a joy to watch a new fan discover Star Wars, to get emotionally hooked on all these things I love, to pick up what the story was putting down, and just have a lot of fun.

here comes mononykus

internet politics and real-world politics have gotten so separated, and pretty soon all this internet weirdness is gonna come crashing into real life and politicians are gonna start throwing around words like “SJW” and “anime communist” and “dark enlightenment” and it’s just gonna be the most ridiculous fucking thing

date of origin: 13th of april, 2015.

happy 10 year anniversary!

This post.

This fucking post.

It is in some ways, the only piece of evidence I have that there was a time Before.

— Don’t Be So Literal About What Counts as a Military Occupation

Avelo Airlines cuts ties with ICE, ends deportation flights - al.com

Avelo Airlines, the only commercial carrier believed to have been operating full deportation flights on a regular basis for the Trump administration, is ending its relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and will no longer charter those deportations.

The budget carrier signed an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security in April 2025 to operate ICE flights out of Arizona, drawing immediate protests and calls to boycott.

At the time, the airline acknowledged the decision may be controversial but said it was expected to support company expansion and job protection. However, after less than a year since inking the deal, Avelo has admitted that the program became too costly and complex to continue.

CEO Andrew Levy acknowledged the backlash in an email to employees late Tuesday.

“We moved a portion of our fleet into a government program which promised more financial stability but placed us in the center of a political controversy,” Levy wrote in the email, obtained by CNBC.

“The program provided short-term benefits but ultimately did not deliver enough consistent and predictable revenue to overcome its operational complexity and costs.” (aph)

KEEP PROTESTING AND KEEP MOBILIZING. IT WORKS. IT IS NOT HOPELESS AND IT WORKS.

dont know how to say this without sounding like one of those "people are too soft these days" motherfuckers but some of you are incapable of interacting with anything that does not coddle you & makes you feel Good about your own Goodness. if you know what i mean

also i said it in the tags but i feel it needs reiterating: watching tv is not activism. fighting over fictional stories is not activism. attacking people for not interacting with fictional stories in a way you deem Acceptable is not activism. you are being annoying & i personally dont want to play toys with you anymore