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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

There is a new (ish) book I would like to read - but I can't find it for less than €30 - the cheapest is via Amazon UK (delivered to Spain). Finding books from Spain (especially if you are usually reading in English) can be tricky... and made harder if you want to […] [Original post on todon.nl]

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

A nice thing I started doing a while back was to begin carving things from wood - this was one of my first spoons. I wanted to consciously make an effort to get into things that involved using your hands... that didn't involve tapping screens or tapping plastic […] [Original post on todon.nl]

carved wooden spoon being held, with knife carving set behind

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

This looks like quite a nice opportunity - fellowship for a climate journalism training programme. Aimed at reporters and editors - with 100 spaces available, open to people around the world. informedstories.org/en/informed-ear…

Screenshot from website https://informedstories.org/en/informed-earth/opportunities/apply-informed-climate-journalism-network/

Apply to join the Informed Climate Journalism Network headline with a man tying up a vine plant visible.

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

This looks like a nice little job for someone in the tech space: "PTP is seeking a Movement Support and Systems Technologist to join our small, but committed staff to strengthen our technology infrastructure, manage and develop CiviCRM (Powerbase), maintain our […] [Original post on todon.nl]

Job description from ptp website, text reads:

Specifics
Job Title: Movement Support and Systems Technologist
Location: Fully remote position, seeking someone who lives and works between the US Pacific and Eastern Time Zones (UTC-4 to UTC-8), and is able to accept a salary paid to a US-based bank account.
Salary/Benefits:
Salary > $75,000
Benefits > medical, dental, vision (100% premiums covered for eligible employee +1 dependent), life Insurance, short and long-term disability, workers compensation
Retirement Benefits > PTP contributes 3% of gross salary to a fully vested 401K plan
Time off: PTP offers robust vacation, health & wellness time, parental leave, etc…
Who you report to: Technology Systems Director
Status: Full Time / Salaried
Schedule: Full time, business-hours, some flexibility, includes some travel
Main Job Responsibilities:
CiviCRM user support
Linux server management
CiviCRM development and debugging
Job Description:
PTP is seeking a Movement Support and Systems Technologist to join our small, but committed staff to strengthen our technology infrastructure, manage and develop CiviCRM (Powerbase), maintain our secure servers, help to build technology leadership and skills through providing CiviCRM (Powerbase) support, and engage in PTP’s coalition and movement building work .

Requirements (Professional Qualifications, Skills and Experiences):
Movement or activist experience
Ability to set up a development environment running CiviCRM
Able to debug and submit patches to CiviCRM (or any similarly complex PHP web application)
Comfort operating on the command line

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

A meme that might put the cat amongst the pigeons. I saw some posts here recently that climate change is *the* most important issue because nothing else matters if we have no planet to live on 🙄 (an argument which I think is a bit weak). There is an incredible […] [Original post on todon.nl]

Change my mind meme with man sat at a desk outside with a cup of something (tea?) with a sign that reads "Tackling inequality is more important than tackling climate change - CHANGE MY MIND".

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Went for a walk the other day and picked a lot of chestnuts (photo doesn't really do it justice!). I think it is a bumper year for chestnuts (at least here in Galicia anyway). For acorns I'm *sure* it's a mast year. I plan on boiling these, peeling and then […] [Original post on todon.nl]

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A good book I arrogantly recommend for any other fellow introverts out there who might struggle in a world that feels increasingly like it's designed for extroverts* - Quiet by Susan Cain. It is like a little pep-talk in book form, documenting some of the amazing […] [Original post on todon.nl]

Quiet book cover by Susan Cain - The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I'm quite proud of some of the articles I've published on my "work" site - these are the top 10 or so articles based on organic search data via Google. I know some are cringey sales stuff (and I regret any things I have done that mention Reddit) - but the majority […] [Original post on todon.nl]

Search Console report showing pages I've written and traffic they get - lots of anti capitalist themed articles, ones about Israel and complicity in Genocide, same for Google, Peter Thiel and Wise, etc.

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

In a bid to find fellow comrades at the local level, I will tomorrow be putting up a flyer looking like this, in targeted local buildings (the library, etc). I would like some feedback. If you saw this would you: - Be interested in learning more? - Worry about this […] [Original post on todon.nl]

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Kind of funny how bad AI is - here is Grokipedia's entry on Donald Maclurcan - where it has merged 2 entities into 1. According to Grokipedia (fact checked a few months ago) - Donald died in 1999. And yet... I know someone who works with him at the Post Growth […] [Original post on todon.nl]

Grokipedia entry on Donald Maclurcan - https://grokipedia.com/page/donald_maclurcan - highlighting the fact this page was fact checked 8 months ago

Grokipedia entry for Donald Maclurcan - highlighting the fact he died in 1999.

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

A really impressive organisation I've only just recently become aware of (thanks to recommendations from my network) is the @APC Here is one of their recent updates about what it takes to resist Big Tech: - Needs more collaboration between the existing resistance […] [Original post on todon.nl]

stickers and leaflets from an APC booth about resisting Big Tech, laid out on a table.

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

There's a new documentary out and I am trying to figure out how to arrange a screening (whether virtual/online or in person). More people should know of the work and life of Edward Said, I think arguably now more than ever, in the context of the West and it's […] [Original post on todon.nl]

Edward Said: Between Worlds - new documentary text. With a photo of Edward Said speaking in front of a microphone.

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Quite a personal open post - but what the heck!! What does any of us really have if we don't have honesty with ourselves? I have tried to apply a kind of Ivan Illich critique of my life as a remote worker living in Spain via the UK. I think it evolved into […] [Original post on todon.nl]

Starter pack style graphic depicting myself a remote worker and lots of my problems resulting of the job - needing a physio, a gym, a therapist, having to drive everywhere, seeking connection using tech, having to spend so much at the supermarket, finding values-aligned causes to compensate for a bullshit job, and so on.

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Todays frustration: the opening hours of my local library 🥲🥲🥲

screenshot of opening hours - showing only open during the week between 10am and 2pm, being closed on weekends.

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

A really interesting set (or range) of comments on the piece I wrote on Rutger Bregman - which was basically just a rehashed version of what others who have come before me have said - people far braver and smarter than myself. But what is interesting here is the […] [Original post on todon.nl]

4 comments on “The Problem with Rutger Bregman and the School for Moral Ambition”

A Shrotri
says:
July 29, 2026 at 11:45 am Edit
I find your piece quite puzzling. I can't understand the actual criticism here. So you are saying that if a white person is trying to do something good and trying to put forth ideas to bring about positive change then it is white supremacism and white saviourism? Does that mean that all good work and all new ideas should now come from non white people only? That is a ludicrous idea. Also, I can't understand your objection to getting the best minds in the world to focus on solving big problems that face us. If charities get even more brilliant individuals, who could augment what they already do, then how is it a bad thing? And why is it bad if capitalism benefits good organisations that think about the betterment of the whole society than lining pockets of the mega rich and the powerful?

Maramia
says:
August 5, 2026 at 2:20 pm Edit
Thank you so much for this. For a job I just had to translate an interview with Bregman into German - and he seemed to simplify so many things, well, actually everything. What he said about Europe needing to build tons of data centers ("of their own") was really disturbing. He seemed to have an almost child-like belief in technology. I didn't understand why people would be taking that guy so seriously - have to admit that I once liked his book "humankind".
Keep up the good work and thanks again - you made me feel less alone.

Dr. Rosa Muraguri- Mwololo
says:
September 10, 2026 at 3:44 pm Edit
I love the brilliant eloquence and moral bravery of your article.

A lot of times those who come up with social and environmental solutions are those are completely ignorant of contexts of such problems.

Thank you for looking underneath the veneer of philanthropy and exposing the underbelly of capitalism, white superiority and self elevating motives.
May we all be critical thinkers

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I would like to declare a public moratorium on the usage of the word "sustainable". The word has been corrupted to such an extent that it no longer holds any kind of true meaning. Case in point - see "GreenPT" - the "sustainable and privacy friendly AI". They even […] [Original post on todon.nl]

GreenPT homepage screenshot showing the words "EU Hosted, Sustainable, Privacy friendly, Language Models, Reasoning Models, API, Speech to Text, Insight in Impact"

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I have a new dream - to create a kind of coworking/cafe/workspace/communal space in my local neighbourhood (I would love it to one day become something like CIDOC - which Ivan Illich was involved with back in his day). This would be a kind of multi-function venue […] [Original post on todon.nl]

Black and white photo of Ivan Illich speaking to a crowd of people

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

A random ask - a connection of mine is going to setup a "Climate Friendly" Art Exhibition. The theme is around the use of materials (non-oil based), renewable and reusable materials, being CO2 neutral, and so forth. So - a "sustainable" art exhibition so to speak […] [Original post on todon.nl]

Screenshot of several pieces of CO2 neutral art from Maja Jojt - taken from her website here: https://majavojt.com/

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Mildly interesting - I see lots of cookies being fired when I visit reformfc.com - but no kind of cookie notification or ability to reject cookies... It would be terrible if someone reported them to the {insert relevant authorities here}. On another note - it is […] [Original post on todon.nl]

Reform FC website showing football shirts promoting Reform with Nigel Farage standing in a suit next to three women wearing the Reform FC shirts.

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

A friend of mine in the degrowth space is helping to get responses to a survey on Climate Change and Classism - to understand the impact on the climate movement in the UK & Ireland. This survey is carried out by the Working Class Climate Alliance. Open if you are […] [Original post on todon.nl]

Climate justice means working class power - text overlaid on a background of people at a rally. Image from https://wccalliance.org/

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Seems a nice time to remind people that - if you buy through the RNLI shop - you are directly supporting their important work saving any lives at sea - because all lives matter - not just white ones. shop.rnli.org #RNLI

Every time you buy something here you're helping the RNLI save more lives - text visible on top of a woman wearing a lifejacket.

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

How it feels after moving from mastodon.social to my new instance - todon.nl 😎 (thanks to everyone who helped me along the journey - it was actually a lot easier than I had thought)

Hackerman text on top of a man wearing glasses looking quite happy with himself

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Incredible post I was sent recently from Linkedin. I would love to write an analysis of every element of this - but (typically) - I ask myself, why bother? Every day I think more and more that these sorts are beyond logic and reasoning. They can't be […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I'm still fairly new to Mastodon but can someone explain - why do I have to approve follow requests from someone like this? Or from those from Gaza? With this account even after approving their follow request, when viewing their profile it was *all* hidden - […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Is always interesting to understand the views that the pin-up boy of the Rewilding and Environmentalist movement in the UK aligns with, when it comes to liberation movements like that of Palestine, or the fight back against Genocide. This is a very wealthy […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Tweet retweeted by Ben Goldsmith about Mackelmore and his apparent moral narcissism.

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Sometimes I take books that I am enjoying reading out for a bit of a day trip - I don't think it's fair or right that they spend most their time looking up the dark cavities that are my nostrils. Here's Daniel Quinn's Ishmael overlooking the Atlantic Ocean […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Ishmael book being held by a mans hand with the sea and cliffedge in the background

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

This is a crazy thing to say (hear me out) - but there are huge similarities between the far right, and people like myself (however I might label myself on the political spectrum... but it is definitely not far right!) - I am left but not your typical lefty […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Sovereignty article from https://www.absolute-justice.com/copy-of-the-vision

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Oh great - can you ask him when it will cure us of our obsession with growth, our crippling addiction to technology, and grant us the ability to understand the West's mechanisms of imperialism and colonialism, and the underpinning capitalist system - so that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

AI will cure cancer in our lifetime, claims boss of UK chip giant - BBC headline

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Exploring the idea of homeschooling - not saying I want to do it but am curious - why is it hard to do if you live in Spain. Found this thread on Reddit - this is largely the opinion of those who consider a home education. Like yes... everyone who considers […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Reddit comment on a thread in AskSpain about homeschooling: "Because we don’t want stupid parents to sabotage their kids life thru indoctrination."

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

There's a cool event taking place tomorrow - sharing a graphic in English and Spanish. You can watch online (I am assuming there will be a recording sent later if you can't make it live)... THE DELINKING FESTIVAL II IS HERE! Feminists and allies from across […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Photo of bird with Delinking Festival details in English.

📅 Friday, 4 September 2026

⏰ 10:00–15:00 (CDMX)

📍 Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de México + online

🎧 ES/EN interpretation

✨ Featuring Emilia Reyes, Ndongo Samba Sylla, Flora Partenio, Diyana Yahaya, & more

✅ Register (mandatory): https://bit.ly/DELINKING2

Photo of bird with Delinking Festival details in Spanish.

📅 Friday, 4 September 2026

⏰ 10:00–15:00 (CDMX)

📍 Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de México + online

🎧 ES/EN interpretation

✨ Featuring Emilia Reyes, Ndongo Samba Sylla, Flora Partenio, Diyana Yahaya, & more

✅ Register (mandatory): https://bit.ly/DELINKING2

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I used to love football but I hate what capitalism has done to the game. At the weekend I saw countless kids acting as billboards for fossil fuel companies that are killing the planet. How sick our society is, to allow this to happen! But anyway... when I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Air hostess holding fly emirates arsenal shirt with players visible next to her

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Another way of expressing the problem, in image form... (38 Degrees are fighting back against Big Tech data centers etc - whilst spending close to £800,000 in advertising on a Big Tech platform) 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Meta transparency report on 38 degrees advertising on Meta

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Real talk: Based on the fact that Meta (and BigTech) are harmful to society - why is it ok that charities are investing tens of thousands of pounds every month in advertising on these platforms? I say this as someone who has seen this first hand - I don't […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Meta to pay up to $18bn to settle claims its platforms harm children
- BBC news headline from https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd68q3wynnqo

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Mildly interesting - leave a sweet potato in a dark place for a while and it will send off shoots like this (nearly 1 metre long!) I'm trying to grow some, they're kind of weird. You remove the shoots, put in water and hope those send out roots, and then […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Sliced sweet potato with white long shoots

Sweet potato with several shoots laying on a table, approx 1 metre long.

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

There's a new term I would like to propose - called Refugee Washing. This is when a company (in this case, Bayer), hire a refugee via a 3rd party platform (in this case EqualReach) to do a project (in this case, utilising AI to make a video for internal […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Social lmpact
Behind every deliverable is a data point that matters beyond the dashboard. When you source through EqualReach, the numbers tell two stories at once.

A graphic shows a map of the world with Germany and Palestine highlighted with the emphasis on supporting refugees across the globe whilst achieving key business goals.

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

I had some good news recently - about a year ago I posted about some research I was carrying out, around how Reddit was suppressing or censoring content around Israel's genocide of Gaza. A few weeks ago I spoke to an anti-fascist outlet who would be happy to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Reddit's alien mascot standing on rubble in Palestine with the Palestine flag visible.

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

There's a nice quote from Aldo Leopold that I like a lot, and feel the same way, but with replacing ecology with the economy. I think once you understand the mechanisms of Capitalism and its impact on society, it is so hard to unsee it; you see it everywhere […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Don't understand why I get these emails referencing my Linkedin - if I deleted my profile a few months back. Are they just making it up / assuming everyone has a Linkedin profile?? Also never signed up to this mailing list... 😬

Matt,

Hope all is well with you?

We have not spoken, but from looking on LinkedIn i believe you have been involved in pro-bono work for Charities, so i thought my proposal might be relevant. For your reference I spend 50% of my time delivering short pro-bono advisory projects to charities. While I deliver c.50 projects a year myself, I frequently run into issues where a peer’s background would offer a much better perspective than my own.

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

6 days since I emailed a shop to tell them their captcha is broken - and hence I can't register an account to place an order - and no reply (or fix) yet... I also tried to ping them on social media. Am I being unreasonable? 🤔 (maybe - I think it is a small […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Spanish friends - can anyone help me with something that has been bugging me for too long. David Graeber's brilliant "Bullshit Jobs", in Spanish, is titled "Trabajos de mierda" which (I think) literally translates as "shit jobs". BUT - for me this isn't the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Is there a good Fediverse friendly place to post about growing plants, trees, food etc? A while ago I started an online avocado growing project (Using avocados to promote local climate resilience and to encourage people to start growing food locally) - and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Growing avocados as a form of resistance

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Trying to order something from the Ecologistas en Acción website - and I am forced to create an account. But there is a captcha and every time I enter this - it says I did it wrong. So I can't order anything. Then I write a detailed message for their contact […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Realising this thread could have also been summarised nicely by this (great) song title from The Fall!!! 😄

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

A slightly "unhinged" looking comment I might have left, when responding to someone who is (fairly, IMO) calling me out on my blog. I openly admit to hypocritical, paradoxical behaviours. I am a search marketer (!) and I am very openly anti-capitalist (!!) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

I think some people enjoy being contrarian (especially on social media!) - I can't say I do but I don't mind having an alternative opinion :) I wrote this recently - how AI movements hijack outrage and funnel it in the wrong direction, often for political […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

QuitGPT, Pause AI, Stop AI and Control AI logos

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

I recently learned about CLODO - Committee for the Liquidation and Subversion of Computers - a French anarchist group active in the 80's. They are worth reading up about: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mem…

CLODO communications via https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/memory-loss-collected-communiques-from-clodo - showing a kitten with a quote on our society and the reliance upon tech

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

A scam that has been going around for a while - someone reaches out imitating genuine employees of an existing company, pretending to be interested in hiring you. The email address looks legit but is based on a variant of the real website - so in this case […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Anybody know of book swap clubs or such on Mastodon or any other FOSS platforms? Bit niche but I'm looking to read more Spanish books (if possible) but also on topics like anarchy, the environment, perhaps tech as well. I *did* consider starting up a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Interesting observation about Ferran Torres - after scoring the winning goal in the WC final, he said: "Thanks to God, he always gives me the strength to continue, and in the end he grants things to those that most deserve them." This reminded me of Paulo […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Ferran Torres wearing make spain great again cap

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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Unpopular opinion? Cloudflare is part of the Big Tech machine and is used as a form of surveillance for imperialist actors across much of the web, hiding under the pretence of providing "security". Agree? Disagree? Don't know/don't care? 🤔

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