Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Trump must have seen the polling because he's doing a full 180 on Project 2025—and sadly legacy media is letting him.

Don't let him get away with promoting fascism. Hang it around his neck and make him own it, and prevent him from coming into power again.
https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/trump-panics-over-project-2025-and

I envision, for example, several small and localized political groups coming together to pass ranked choice voting in their state: an outcome the democrats will fight but that ordinary people understand is necessary.

Most of all we just have to stop with one-off candidate focused organizing and be building people power around values and longer term visions & plans

Sometime in the past day or so, a post floated across my feed congratulating the French left, and saying that next we should do that here in the U.S.

It's an interesting thought, but I'm not sure what that would look like in real-world terms. We don't have a parliamentary system here, and most places in the U.S. don't have runoffs, so it certainly wouldn't be *the same*.

What do you think it would take to attain left wing electoral victory in the United States? Could it be done at all?

Taking the State out of the Body is a guidebook in deconstructing nationalism through trauma-informed praxis. Back the project here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/taking-the-state-out-of-the-body?ref=70owk4&token=86aebf74

#books #bookstodon

" When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money "
Native American saying

Our content is not focused only on composting because we live in those times.

Because we have to use external inputs we are affected by how we manage the environment and we have to take an active part in the protection of our ecosystem.

We owe to our planet to not vote for political movements that are destroying Mother Earth.

We can't stand fascists or those who prefer to deny the #climate.

Has anyone out there ever grown a Three Sister garden?

I keep hearing about this gardening style but I'm not sure I know anyone who has actually done it.

As someone using a wheelchair for most of my life I absolutely don't get North Americans assuming cars are the only way for disabled people to have better mobility. You know where I felt I had the most mobility? In Japan where you can go to almost anywhere, even random villages in the middle of absolutely nowhere, on a level-boarding train that runs reasonably regularly and costs nowhere near the cost of a car.

2. Have you ever heard of "The Vale"? This is a video game with a blind protagonist, in which the game itself has no visual component. It's all sound. I've heard a talk by the director, this game is *really* thoughtfully designed, and was created in consultation with the existing "audiogames" community of games by/for blind gamers. I've been meaning to play this for a while.

I bring it up because it's half off on Steam this week: https://store.steampowered.com/app/989790/The_Vale_Shadow_of_the_Crown/

Small un-crapping the Internet:
want to view linked imgur images as images, rather than with a ton of JS?

Use the Header Editor extension to change your "accept" header to:

image/avif,image/jxl,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8

on the domain i.imgur.com

(also works on i.reddit.com)

Tangentially related to the question about age and job hunting, a friend of mine went back for a second Bachelor's degree somewhat late in life, and after a couple years of solid academic performance, was suddenly notified by the student load company that they were rejecting his request for additional loans unless he got a co-signer.

I know these companies can be predatory, but cutting someone off partway through a degree doesn't seem rational on their part. Is this a thing?

There's a thread on Charlie Stross's Mastodon about ageism and difficulties finding work after you've started to go gray.

I feel certain this is a real thing, but I also find myself wondering...

Yes, #libre software has a record of approach (and sometime exceeding) the capability and performance of proprietary software with hundreds, or thousands of times more resource invested in them. I think that the libre development process is vastly more cost efficient at producing quality software than the proprietary model, often by several orders of magnitude. Something for government policy makers to think about.

What to read at the beach. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/7/5/2251033/-Cartoon-Summer-beach-reads

Saw a Facebook post, showing the 120F temperature in a desert city in the American west and saying, "All sensible people have already left town."

There are a lot of people who can't afford to leave town, because they have to work to feed their children and have nowhere else to go in any case.

We have a profound deficit of empathy in America.

I saw a thread earlier which started with a variation on the idea that, on the fediverse, anything that is possible is permissible, and that folks should focus their efforts on changing what is possible.

And then the author suggested that the best way to do that would be to get the "fedi devs" together for a "community engagement" town hall, to take feedback from the community on what should be possible, I guess?

All of this is wrong and bad.

I'm not going to engage in the original post, in spite of the fact that I disagree with it, because I don't actually feel like talking to the author of the original post. I am, however, interested in exploring the ways in which this is wrong and bad, because most of it sounds pretty compelling on the surface.