Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Build local networks with decentralised solutions that are #OpenSource #FreeSoftware and based on #OpenStandrds not because you want to fight BigCorp, but because you want to help your neighbours. Focus on solutions, not on problems you can't really solve. Build bridges, not walls. Deal?

Und wenn wir schon mal dabei sind, bzw. zusammenraufen und eigene Angebote schaffen.

5) Lokale #Linux User Groups sind eine gute Möglichkeit sich auszutauschen und gegenseitig zu helfen. Man kann kleine Workshops und Vorträge organisieren. Meiner Meinung nach sollte es mehr davon geben. Gerade am Anfang brauchen einige dann noch mal etwas Hilfe. Wenn jemand Interesse an #Debian #GNU #Linux im #MTK (#Hofheim) hat, gerne Bescheid sagen! Ich bin vor über 20 Jahren von #Windows auf #GNU / #Linux umgestiegen. Eine lokale Linux User Group (#LUG) war immer ein Ort wo mir bei meinen Problemen geholfen wurde.

6) Wir brauchen auch Angebote für unsere Kleinen. Am besten noch bevor sie in der 2. / 3. Klassen diese iPads in die Hand gedrückt bekommen. #Kinder lernen extrem schnell und sie sind auch hoffen Dinge zu lernen (so meiner Erfahrung als Papa). Die Geschichte mit #Ada und #Zangemann von @kirschner@mastodon.social und Team ist ein guter Start. Immer wenn es um Software geht, spreche ich mit meinen Kindern drüber und sag,.. "Das ist wie bei Ada und Zangemann".

Meine Tochter sagt immer: "Wir spielen kein minecraft, wir spielen Minetest, weil wir Freie Software verwenden!" 😀 Wir sollten als #Eltern mit guten Beispiel voran gehen und ihnen dabei helfen. Es gibt auch Projekte wie @Teckids@bildung.social - dort bekommt man auch viele Information auf der Homepage.

Viele sagen es schon länger,... man hat aber nie gehört. Vielleicht öffnet die aktuelle Situation dann doch noch mal ein paar mehr Menschen die Augen.

CC: @amorgner@frankfurt.social @tizmic@mastodon.social

The opposite of DEI is NOT "color-blind, hire-the-best-qualified." It's "continue to hire the incompetent white male just because he's a white male." And the entire Trump administration proves that point.

Well #FediHire, I'm on the market again! 25 year #Ruby / #Rails (and more!) powerhouse looking for employment. Reached 3rd highest contributor at my last gig despite 200k+ commits, 15+ years, and hundreds of developers. Have ~100 gems w/ ~2 billion downloads. You know me.

Loves: languages / runtimes, profiling & optimization, debugging, testing, OSS, etc.

https://www.zenspider.com/ryan/Resume.html

please #boost ❤️

I started an open source project in response to the current US administration and their erasure of women from their websites: https://github.com/MelSumner/womeninstem

There’s a lot I still have to figure out but getting a repo up, issue templates in and a landing page ready (DNS stuff should be worked out by tomorrow?) seemed like a good step to start.

#womenInStem

If you find yourself thinking about posting something telling someone *not* to take some action they're taking to try to fight tyranny... maybe stop, think, and consider not do that.

I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in SEATTLE TONIGHT (Feb 19) with Dan Savage:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-with-dan-savage-picks-and-shovels-a-martin-hench-novel-tickets-1106741957989

And in TORONTO on SUNDAY (Feb 23) at Another Story Books:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/picks-shovels-cory-doctorow-tickets-1219803217259

More tour dates here:

http://martinhench.com

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TONIGHT! Mutual Aid 101: Intro to Mutual Aid (free online course from Shareable)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mutual-aid-101-intro-to-mutual-aid-tickets-1203535961459

It's ok to take some time to build yourself & rest.

It took 70+ years to get rid of Jim Crow. Then it took reactionaries 60+ years to get back to where we are now.

It's extremely unlikely this is gonna get fixed overnight. You can skip the news for a day. Really.

Attending a protest? Check out EFF's protest safety tips. https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest

Real education should educate us out of servitude and into independence and revolt. - Emma Goldman

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New post: An interview between @integloerich and I on Economic Live Action Role Playing Games, crushing neoliberalism through art and more.

" Neoliberalism was always already a game, although it is one that we did not consent to, with rules that are enforced through dispossession, violence, enclosure, and resource extraction. Let’s play a different game."

https://stacco.works/2025/02/19/neoliberalism-is-a-game-we-didnt-consent-to-lets-play-a-different-game/

Kinda seems like folks need a reminder that Executive Orders aren't laws. They are policy directives for the Executive branch. Resistance to them is not only possible, it is necessary for overturning them.

@dangillmor
I think Furman is a pretty good proxy for how the Dem leadership is thinking, though, or at least what their narrative will be. As always, they are going to try to cozy up even more to the rich while throwing the working class under the bus -- because, as Tom Ferguson put it, parties compete for donors, not for voters.

Useful thoughts from @Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis  on "parallel channels" of political work:
#^https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1869655.html

"Yes, we have to move a mountain. Just pick up the biggest nearby rock you can carry. Don't worry about whether it's the optimal rock, or angst over whether it's enough rock. Trust that other people will be picking up and moving other rocks."

In today’s “terminology matters”:

❌ Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.

✅ Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.

We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.