Backstory on growing famine in Gaza:
Food aid now comes through one (1) US evangelical Christian nonprofit. It didn't even exist until March.
They have only 4 dropoff points. And people who come to pick up food get shot at.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/gaza-famine-united-states-donald-trump/
The merger between CBS/Paramount and fascism is going great! https://www.patreon.com/c/BrianMcFadden
Happy Black August for all those who celebrate!
We're starting things off this month with the video essay 'On the Black Leadership and Other White Myths' by the We Still Outside Collective, released during the height of the George Floyd uprising in 2020.
Black anarchist movement veterans are on tour!
Help em out:
@blackrosebayarea Help Bring Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin to Speak in California 🏴
Our communities and the movements to defend them are under attack. Now, more than ever, we must learn from veterans how to organize under dire circumstances.
Together, @blacklanterncoop , @blackrosebayarea of @blackrose_rosanegra , @norcal_resist , & @sacramentoanarchistbookfair are raising funds to transport, room, board, and support Lorenzo and JoNina for a speaking tour in California:
* Saturday, October 4: Black Lantern Books (6533 West Blvd, Inglewood)
* Tuesday, October 7: West Oakland Library (1801 Adeline St, Oakland)
* Thursday, October 9: Black Panther Party Museum (1427 Broadway, Oakland)
* Saturday, October 11: Sacramento Anarchist Book Fair (1819 E St, Sacramento)
Thank you for donating what you can. Only our collective efforts can make this possible. Link in bio to donate. 🔗
We look forward to forging new connections, unpacking lessons, and building stronger movements with you this October ✊
Today I learned about spiral ratchet #screwdrivers .
You push, screw turns.
The ones I've seen on sale in #Germany take some unusual bits.
Does anyone know where to get one accepting regular hex bits? (Germany)
I went to a tabletop game store to look at their board games. Asked the guy for recommendations for 2 player games.
"I don't know anything we have stocked anymore. The tariffs have killed the board game business, so all our popular games are gone. One of the big manufacturers went bankrupt already.
"If you want to know how bad it is, take [some popular game]. We used to stock it for $70-75. Everything ships in through the US, and since it's all made in China, after all the tariffs, we're looking at $220-250 for the same game.
"The industry is dead. We're not stocking any new board games until the market comes back to life. Who knows? Maybe Canada will start manufacturing our own games again! I guess we'll have to see."
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use #RSS.
RSS offers readers and writers a path away from unreliable, manipulative, and hostile platforms and intermediaries.
@openstreetmap I noticed osm.org now uses #WebGL for the slippy map.
Having worked with #GPU drivers I keep that crap off on the web browser (which is as much an an untrusted context as it gets) for paranoia reasons :P
Is there a fallback that folks like me could activate?
Ghost Town by Toxic Reasons has come around in the playlist again. When you consider the band formed in Dayton, Ohio, USA in 1979, Ghost Town is a haunting anthem for the death of all of the factory towns in the USA. NAFTA is a popular scapegoat for loss of factory jobs in the USA, but corporate greed was killing them long before NAFTA.
#CapitalismSucks
#PunkRock
#ToxicReasons
Made a dumb little video bc the farm sector's been hopin' and prayin' that Trump "has a plan" to make tariffs go away before harvest so they don't go broke.
Yeah... look at him flailing around on Epstein. This dude doesn't have a plan for himSELF.
New blog post: Q2/2025 Progress: Over 30 apps added, JSON API
https://linuxphoneapps.org/blog/additions-of-q2-2025/
Hello here's a writeup of what's really happening with the new secure boot certificates and how your computer is going to carry on working just fine: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/72892.html
The reason Substack pushed a Nazi blog onto people's phones is because—as founder Hamish McKenzie said in his response to Substackers Against Nazis 2 yrs ago—he believes it is valuable and important to platform Nazi voices.
This sort of thing is not a one-off. https://www.the-reframe.com/questions-for-substack/
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa