Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The Ninth Circuit just delivered good news for digital privacy: abandoning a phone doesn't abandon your Fourth Amendment rights in the phone's contents. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/appeals-court-abandoned-phones-dont-equal-abandoned-privacy-rights

Gall's Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/magical-systems-thinking/

📣 New episode!

Interview with northern BC anarchists about the growing struggle against the #PRGT pipeline.

Discussions includes history and overview of the project, the changing context of the Canada-US trade war, anarchist-indigenous solidarity, and taking some lessons from Shut Down Canada.

https://fromembers.libsyn.com/fighting-the-prgt-pipeline

As some of you were asking for donation methods apart from bank transfer: we now also support credit cards and paypal at https://ev.phosh.mobi/donate 🎉. From within the 🇪🇺 bank transfer should still be the most cost effective way leaking the least data.

🔴 BRAND NEW COMIC now up on Boing Boing
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📰 News of the Times: School Shooter Kills Conservative Child Pundit!
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https://boingboing.net/2025/09/17/tom-the-dancing-bug-school-shooter-kills-conservative-child-pundit.html

"Only the right wing gets to lie about their enemies." OK, man. You can be the hall monitor in the barracks. I'm going to continue saying JD Vance put a GI Joe up his urethra.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/

Here’s a brief story, with receipts about Trump administration corruption and crypto industry collusion that WILL be investigated once the majority of the House is filled with people who take ethics and the Constitution seriously:

There are now two tactical aerostat systems in New Mexico. These uncrewed, tethered airships can capture video up to 15 miles away. (4/9)

Southern New Mexico now has more than a dozen Autonomous Surveillance Towers made by Anduril Industries. These towers are controlled by an AI, which attempts to categorize and track objects of interest. (2/9)

One email to the German credit agency, and two weeks late, I have my own product ID to connect my janky payment script to banks.

That was surprisingly painless.

The library I use no longer provides a default one, and they recommend getting one, so I thought, why not.

https://github.com/raphaelm/python-fints/

#fints #hbci #banking #opensource #germany #government #invoices #finance #programming

Has anyone on here ever obtained an ASCAP license for a low-power community radio station (in the US)? Trying to figure out how much $ we're looking at and ASCAP themselves are refusing to answer my phone calls 😮‍💨 #AskFedi

i love the alt text culture on fedi, because once in a while i'll browse other platforms and i see an image that i can't quite parse, in which case normally i would just look for alt text to get what i'm looking at, and instead i get the disappointment of no alt text

Wow, this gives me hope for my homeland (the US) for the first time in years: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RP8Oxe6OxJc or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP8Oxe6OxJc Especially Max. Max for President!

Revealed: river pollution twice as bad inside national parks as outside them - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/16/sewage-overflow-national-parks-england-wales-rivers-lakes #watercompanies are the epitome of corporate evil #sewage

Dear Fedi friends,

I would love to start a #GratefulForYou hashtag, doing shout-outs to Fediverse people that one finds inspiring, enlightening, or just plain cool.

The online world can be a dark, overwhelming place and I just wanted to encourage others to shine a light on people who make a positive difference... to say, "I see you, I hear you and I value you."

Today my #GratefulForYou goes out to @sylvia, whose creativity & positivity always uplift & inspire me ❤️

Who are you grateful for?

On the latest discourse...

"Don't comply in advance" includes "don't freak out more than is useful."

The word "prestige" used to mean "illusion." Human power enforcement has always been largely about illusion. Make yourself look bigger than you are. Paint the naked warriors blue. Wear a huge powdered wig. Project wealth through conspicuous consumption. Make each oppressed individual and group believe they're alone.

My experience of moving to rural Idaho has taught me so much, when I was terrified of everyone because of the huge Trump sign coming into town and the big trucks with threatening bumper stickers. That kept me freaked out and terrified and shy and unwilling to OWN WHO I AM and connect with people authentically and confidently.

Now that I'm getting to know folks, I'm finding that those bullies are in the minority. While yes, there's an echo chamber here for sure, plenty of people are willing to jump to say things like, "I never really was a big fan of Trump." There is a thriving human rights group here, too, and the turnout at No Kings was surprisingly huge given that I didn't even think there would be one in this town.

The *illusion* that everyone here was going to shoot me if they could was doing the work that they *don't have the actual resources to do*. It's a huge country and there are *hundreds of millions* of people. Even with each bit of power they grab, even with the full force of US military and legal might, it's not enough to take everyone, all at once, totally.

And it never will be.

But their victims thinking that they've already got it sewn up? That actually might be enough to lock it all down.

So stop doing that work for them. Don't give up.

And see if you can find joy somehow. And confidence in yourself. It's energizing.

And it's defiant.

#USPol #antifa

@wdlindsy

In the wake of the Georgia battery plant project shutting down...

Wondering which Republican billionaire donor will pick up these assets for pennies on the dollar?

Someone's going to get a big payday doing some asset stripping for private equity looters.

ICE raids are economic warfare & theft, just like the forced sale of TikTok; intended to benefit Trump's billionaire donors.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-yass-tiktok-bytedance-warren-buffett-wealth-billionaires-rich-poker-2025-3

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All corruption, all the time in Trump world: Great NYT reporting uncovers crypto billions flowing into the pockets of Trump, his family, and his close associates.

It simply doesn't get more corrupt than this.

Will Big Journalism will consign this to the usual memory hole?

https://archive.is/xczs1

Texas outlawed talking on campuses after 10 p.m. Students are fighting back.

Check out this op-ed from FPF Senior Adviser Caitlin Vogus in the Houston Chronicle:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/texas-law-lawsuit-speech-talking-college-campus-21045316.php