Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

How a £1.5bn ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/05/cambridgeshire-a14-road-wildlife-environmental-disaster?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other what an utter, infuriating disaster; and more will come, doubtless

@_elena and Amsterdam! They're involved with our gov's Mijn Bureau (My Desk) initiative, building an opensource workspace together with Germany's OpenDesk and France's LaSuite:

https://github.com/MinBZK/mijn-bureau

https://www.opendesk.eu/de

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/

The French city of #Lyon will also be replacing Microsoft for #opensource solutions. Really curious what #Linux distro they will choose 👀

Also featured; #Jitsi for video conferencing, #Nextcloud paired with #OnlyOffice for document sharing and co-editing, #Zimbra for email, #Chamilo for online training, and #Matrix for instant messaging. 🔥

https://news.itsfoss.com/french-city-replaces-microsoft/

If you're in California, here's all the rapid response orgs to push back against ICE tearing apart your community.

You'll need these numbers. Share them.

#USpol #immigration #RapidResponse

https://www.ccijustice.org/carrn

You can legally watch "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" on Zeteo (Mehdi Hassan).

The BBC didn't want you to see it.

https://zeteo.com/p/watch-now-gaza-doctors-under-attack

(it is also available on the usual p2p networks as backup against being taken down)

#gaza #genocide #warcrimes #ukpol #uspol #journalism

Google's Hotseat Hypocrisy 🫤 On iOS to comply with the Digital Markets Act, Apple puts the user’s chosen browser in the hotseat/dock. Google refuses to do the same on Android, leaving Chrome in the hotseat and undermining user choice.

That’s not DMA compliance!

Read our detailed analysis and see us ask Google directly at the EU DMA Workshop for Google.
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/googles-hotseat-hypocrisy/

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So if you're looking at the US & thinking "This isn't the country I know," you're 100% right. It's not.

We're actually fighting back in real time for once.

That's why the right keeps sniveling about how they're under attack. Even while they're successfully pulling off another purge.

They're not used to getting yelled at when they blow taxpayer dollars on witch hunts, they're used to getting high-fives at the country club.

The US & its preceding colonies were at war with tribes ~each year from 1610 - 1920s- 300 years.

There was more opposition from white folks than you'd think; but it wasn't broad-based, organized, or effective. We're still breaking treaties with tribes today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars

Slavery & Jim Crow: millions of Americans held in captive labor.

Enslaved & sharecropping farm workers knew things were bad! They did what they could to push back the whole time.

But that wasn't enough. Both slavery & Jim Crow finally ended when a critical mass of white Americans decided they should. Not even the majority of white Americans. Just a critical mass. And it took us ~250 and close to 100 years to get there, respectively.

Operation Wetback, 1954: a federal program to hunt down & deport undocumented immigrants from Mexico.

Somewhere between 1.1 and 1.5 million were rounded up & deported.

And yet again, many were documented migrants or US citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback#Operation_Wetback_(1954)

WW2: the US jails 120,000 people, who hadn't been charged of any crime, as a "precaution." 2/3 were US citizens. Many were farmers. White folks wanted their land, & got it.

The loss of so many skilled farmers dented the US food system & made it harder to fight the war.

https://qz.com/1201502/japanese-internment-camps-during-world-war-ii-are-a-lesson-in-the-scary-economics-of-racial-resentment

1929-1939: the US "repatriated" somewhere between 300K and 2M Mexican Americans. No due process. The federal government removed them from the US to "stop them from competing with Americans for jobs."

About half of the deported people were US citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation

If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior.

You know what's NOT normal US behavior?

This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#207 Replacing Shortcuts
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/07/twig-207

#GNOME #TWIG

Can someone help me troubleshoot #BasiliskII running on #Debian12?

A friend of mine set up a #MacOS7 environment for me to use on my Ubuntu computer a few years ago, and it still works fine, but when I try to open the same environment on my Debian computer Basilisk II seems to just quit.

No idea how to get started troubleshooting this.

#Basilisk2

America's unimpeachably "noble" crusade for democracy impoverished its people and destroyed the natural world. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

40% off select titles through Sunday with coupon code "BURN"

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=246&sortby=num_sold:desc

From PM Author, Kevin Young: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/what-we-can-t-say-about-iran

https://kolektiva.media/w/tm3PgHeiodEpMzHuGE9sMw

The orange one is back in charge and thinking of ways to strip people of their citizenship. In the past he'd suggested burning an American flag. We put together this step by step guide on just how to get that done~!

#Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy - https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/wikidata_foss_democracy/ "There's more to the #Wikimedia organization than the famous encyclopedia"