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benjamin melançon

@mlncn@social.coop
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Web dev in a worker coop: https://agaric.coop Fighting for greatest power possible for all people over our own lives-- soon. Meantime, i try to do no harm.

Most posts public and searchable.

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Joined May 23, 2017
Website:
https://agaric.coop/mlncn
Location:
Minneapolis (on Dakhóta and Anishinaabe land)
Pronouns:
he/him/ours (stole that from a comrade, appropriately)
Purpose:
To help people gain the most power possible over our own lives, because liberty and justice require equality, and everything needs coordination.

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benjamin melançon @mlncn@social.coop · Jul 31, 2026
benjamin melançon
@mlncn@social.coop

Web dev in a worker coop: https://agaric.coop Fighting for greatest power possible for all people over our own lives-- soon. Meantime, i try to do no harm. Most posts public and searchable.

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Israel is really running the playbook of the 1700s and 1800s US genocide of Native Americans, step by step, against Palestinians today— letting paramilitary settlers attack and occupy and then intervening militarily on the side of the settlers. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/settler-violence-state-violence-west-bank
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benjamin melançon @mlncn@social.coop · Jul 24, 2026
benjamin melançon
@mlncn@social.coop

Web dev in a worker coop: https://agaric.coop Fighting for greatest power possible for all people over our own lives-- soon. Meantime, i try to do no harm. Most posts public and searchable.

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Somehow the main online security practice that people in a couple spaces i'm in have picked up is to… not share links. Anybody else successfully, gently pushed back on this?
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benjamin melançon @mlncn@social.coop · May 06, 2026
benjamin melançon
@mlncn@social.coop

Web dev in a worker coop: https://agaric.coop Fighting for greatest power possible for all people over our own lives-- soon. Meantime, i try to do no harm. Most posts public and searchable.

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Replying to @mlncn@social.coop
Corrected address above to Minnehaha *Avenue*, at *East 26th Street* cross-street
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benjamin melançon @mlncn@social.coop · May 06, 2026
benjamin melançon
@mlncn@social.coop

Web dev in a worker coop: https://agaric.coop Fighting for greatest power possible for all people over our own lives-- soon. Meantime, i try to do no harm. Most posts public and searchable.

social.coop

Just got word that #Minneapolis is displacing #unhoused people again (it happens nearly daily but this is a massive displacement) along Minnehaha Avenue, at East 26th Street cross-street and beyond, even an arrest happening. Helpers/documenters called for.

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benjamin melançon @mlncn@social.coop · Apr 15, 2026
benjamin melançon
@mlncn@social.coop

Web dev in a worker coop: https://agaric.coop Fighting for greatest power possible for all people over our own lives-- soon. Meantime, i try to do no harm. Most posts public and searchable.

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Replying to @mlncn@social.coop
We still need to massively, regularly, and systematically redistribute wealth if we want to have a functioning economy that uses markets. And i do want to use markets to have a political economy that is as fair, free, and fruitful as possible. But i wish the people who are understandably anti-market would take the lead in describing how we should run the half or more of modern economies that classic markets have no viable theory of producing the best results— everything related to ideas, knowledge, digital information, software, that can be free for all once created, where on the face of it democratic socialism can be far more fair, free, and fruitful than any contrived and constrained market could.
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benjamin melançon @mlncn@social.coop · Apr 14, 2026
benjamin melançon
@mlncn@social.coop

Web dev in a worker coop: https://agaric.coop Fighting for greatest power possible for all people over our own lives-- soon. Meantime, i try to do no harm. Most posts public and searchable.

social.coop
Replying to @mlncn@social.coop
Yes everything would be more expensive in this world where we pay for the true costs of what we need and want, but we would all be paid a lot more to make the world better, rather than earn less than our survival costs while making our world worse.
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benjamin melançon @mlncn@social.coop · Apr 14, 2026
benjamin melançon
@mlncn@social.coop

Web dev in a worker coop: https://agaric.coop Fighting for greatest power possible for all people over our own lives-- soon. Meantime, i try to do no harm. Most posts public and searchable.

social.coop

The radical idea that what people pay should reflect what things cost.

We would have moved off fossil fuels 50 years ago if a meaningful fraction of the cost of wars and global warming were included in the prices.

We would already have moved on to sodium salt batteries if the human and environmental cost of lithium mining were included in battery prices.

No such thing as cheap plastic if those prices included the near infinite cleanup costs.

Not many tires; we would be on mass transit.

And there would be no talk of LLM-powered generative "AI" shoved into everything if they paid their true energy and water costs.

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benjamin melançon @mlncn@social.coop · Feb 24, 2026
benjamin melançon
@mlncn@social.coop

Web dev in a worker coop: https://agaric.coop Fighting for greatest power possible for all people over our own lives-- soon. Meantime, i try to do no harm. Most posts public and searchable.

social.coop
Boosted by Greg Bell @ferrix@mastodon.online
RE: https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/116120793504340920 We need to stop this, and then we need to dismantle a whole bunch of prisons, too.
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Alexander Karn @xankarn@mastodon.online
America will have its own Gulag Archipelago. Twenty-three concentration camps will soon come online, unless, together, we can find and pull the political handbrake. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers
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benjamin melançon @mlncn@social.coop · Jul 18, 2023
benjamin melançon
@mlncn@social.coop

Web dev in a worker coop: https://agaric.coop Fighting for greatest power possible for all people over our own lives-- soon. Meantime, i try to do no harm. Most posts public and searchable.

social.coop
Replying to @Manigarm@mastodon.social
@Manigarm@mastodon.social Yes. We could fill an encyclopedia with how reactionary / liberal / neoliberal politicians in #Minneapolis weaponize so-called civility to deflect and distract from our desperate attempts to draw attention to, and stop, their "police-ification" of every almost every part of government to destroy #houseless people's lives https://kolektiva.social/@WorkersDefenseAlliance/110732761205966636
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benjamin melançon @mlncn@social.coop · Nov 18, 2022
benjamin melançon
@mlncn@social.coop

Web dev in a worker coop: https://agaric.coop Fighting for greatest power possible for all people over our own lives-- soon. Meantime, i try to do no harm. Most posts public and searchable.

social.coop
Replying to @atomicpoet@mastodon.social
@atomicpoet i don't know, how is there activitypub integration? 😄
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benjamin melançon @mlncn@social.coop · Jun 08, 2020
benjamin melançon
@mlncn@social.coop

Web dev in a worker coop: https://agaric.coop Fighting for greatest power possible for all people over our own lives-- soon. Meantime, i try to do no harm. Most posts public and searchable.

social.coop

Haven't seen much mention of it so i hope everyone knows we're making history in Minneapolis

https://theappeal.org/minneapolis-city-council-members-announce-intent-to-disband-the-police-department-invest-in-proven-community-led-public-safety/

#AbolishPolicing

We've got a lot of work ahead of us so please send all your ideas and examples of replacing policing with something approaching justice. Thank you!

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