Slogans

Slogans for Counter Cloud Action

Slogans gleaned, borrowed and iterated from various sources and situations: Lumbung Glossary, REC, Batool Desouky, TITiPI, Other Weapons, Cristina Cochior, Varia, Miranda Moss, Counter Cloud Workshop NEoN, Maria Dada, Malé Luján Escalante, Tobias Fiebig, Groundings, Charlotte Eifler, Peter Westenberg, Dick Reckard, flo*souad benaddi, The Underground Division, Lauren Berlant, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ren Britton, Mary Nardini Gang, The Translocal Pipas Club ...

Please re-use and extend for your personal and collective Counter Cloud Actions while taking the implications of your (re-)use into account: https://constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html (copyleft with a difference, CC4r 2024)

Published as posters, Signal stickers, stickers and t-shirts. For more usage/how to use, see below.

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• stop business as usual
• no autoplay
• what's the worth of infinite growth
• To have form, we have to organize
• Building the future from the present / Building another presence from what's present
• another presence from what's present
• abolition is life in rehearsal
• life in rehearsal
• Tech Kills
• No Tech for Genocide
• solidarity with oppressed people everywhere
• does your blood not move? - dhiiga kuma dhaqaaqo - author warsan shire
• No Tech for Apartheid
• The Grounds of humanity are inhumanely far off
• Water Theft
• AWSlessness
• Amazon Web Services? Apartheid War System!
• resist=exist
• Cyberintifada
• Block Gxxgle, Free Palestine
• From every river to every sea
• Globalize the cyberintifada against the cloud
• Divest AWS
• Divest Google
• beat the algorithm, quit google
• love cats, bring down meta
• love cats, hate meta
• love pigs, hate cops
• #notechforapartheid
• Clouds Kill
• the infrastructure is already in your pocket
• how personal is your phone
• cloud abolition is everything
• if abolition is a place, it is not AWS
• if abolition is a place, it is not a gap
• net zero = not bruto
• more life-affirming / less kamikaze
• abolition is life-affirming
• Too posh to scroll
• don't feed the hungry cloud
• be trans*feminist, do crime
• trans*feminist? do crime!
• trans*feminist breaking the system
• trans*feminist breaking the ci$-tem
• no natural disasters
• pay up for loss and damage
• show us the money
• abolish removal
• abundantly operating within limits
• Alles in the cloud, alles nur geklaut
• almost infinitely scalable
• Always ready to print
• antifa infra
• A queue is a queue
• I'm pretty souped up when it comes to taking the elites privileges
• Are you being served?
• Be gay do crime
• big tech takes care, of itself
• carbon compost pretenders
• climate tech mob
• cloud abolition
• Clouds are not an option
• Comes a day we will have nothing to eat but the rich
• Counter Cloud Action
• counter-clouds on a shocking purple sky
• Cushions and stargazing
• Dance Party Picket Line
• Dancing in the ruins of Big Tech
• Dancing on the ruins of Big Tech
• (dancing on the ruins) الرقص في الأنقاض
• De cloud verkloot alles
• desperation capitalism
• Digital depletion strike
• drab death strike +1
• Dreaming in the ruins of Big Tech
• elastic solidarities
• everything here at collective effort
• Extr(a)ction
• feral computing
• From cloud to crowd
• frontiers of appropriation
• Geegloplox vs the Denduu Kiellir Center
• habits to keep to the poetics
• Hey hey ho ho these hungry clouds have got to go +1hahahah
• Hope is weird
• hope is wicked
• How fragile is agile!?
• hubris on steroids
• I don't buy nestle but I use google. Can you help?
• I'll be post-digital in a post-colonial world
• Imagination is free habibi
• imagination slipping into everyday business
• Imagine all the software is made by people who love you
• infinite growth is not our oath
• infinite growth under oath / lies under infinite gr(oath)
• infra-mutuality, not infra-servitude
• infrastructure re-generation
• infrastructure riots and radicals
• institutional disobedience
• interconnective intuition
• Is your phone personal?
• leaving your end times behind
• Less ethics, more politics
• local clout, not global south
• loopholes and wormholes
• Love theorists of network computing
• messages from the cloud into the crowd
• Minimum viable computing
• mission, not mission creep
• M.I.T. (Maintain It Together)
• more commons, not more factories
• NO BIG TECH SUCK UP
• No community without norms
• NO MORE SUCKING IT UP
• NO SUCKERS
• NO CLOUDS NO MASTERS
• oi google get out of my hoose
• Paris is burning
• No excuses for the interruption
• No apologies for the inconvenience
• Precarious Deviance
• Turbulence Trans*Féministe
• aucune excuse pour la perturbation
• Piss on Jeff Bezos' yacht
• Pocketpower!
• Power and energy have resistance in common
• Resist the hostile environment
• rioting economies of the weird trades
• Scaling through and trough
• solidarities of removal
• Sometimes the dreams are nightmares, but they can be shared over a barbecue.
• sudo-lidarity
• sweat out your digital conscience
• take care
• take care, not land
• take care, not data
• take care, not cloud
• taking over jeff bezos' yacht
• tech offenders, learn consent
• tech where you stand
• tender revolt
• the (dream)state of infrastructure
• the empire called Google
• the end of the worlds has never been more profitable
• the poetry of operating within limits
• This is not mission creep; this ís the mission!
• throwing bombs at jeff bezos' yacht
• throwing things at jeff bezos' yacht
• time to fix time to feel
• time to unfix time to feel
• undergrounding with my comrades
• virtual background actual empowerment
• We are institutions
• webcams terrify me
• We don't need life to access control
• We don't need no digital transformation
• weird trades
• weird trading of time and resources
• what's the worth of infinite growth
• writing recipes for the dark kitchens of the future

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Animated GIFs and slideshows

https://cloud.constantvzw.org/s/q2qom3Fgg2Wjgyp

Posters

https://neondigitalarts.com/from-cloud-to-crowd-poster-campaign/ https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Digital_Depletion_Posters

Making Signal stickers

• https://signalstickers.com/
• https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360031836512-Stickers
• https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360031836512-Stickers#sticker_creator_steps

Non-animated stickers: PNG or WebP
Animated stickers: APNG
Max size: 300kb, 3 seconds max
512 x 512 px (square)

Making animated gifs

• https://cooltext.com/ multiline, text
• https://en.bloggif.com/text multiline, transparency
• https://ezgif.com no text, conversions
• https://textanim.com/ single line
• https://supertool.org/make-an-animated-gif-from-text/ multiline, no transparency
• https://ntmaker.gfto.ru/gifen//indexi.php single line
• https://www.flexclip.com/editor/app?ratio=landscape
• https://loading.io/animation/text/ single line, apng, transparency
• https://www.textstudio.co/logo/pink-and-yellow-3d-text-127 animated, transparency, multiline, gif
• https://eu1.flamingtext.com/