Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Yes, Mastodon has problems and problem people. That's because there's people on it. Have you met people?

I'm not sure how there would ever be a thing involving people that wouldn't have problems.

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/115910470198130888

Translated: All ATMs from all big dutch banks rely on Amazon AWS. So if there's a disruption with the US and you think to yourself "hey, I'm gonna pay with cash", you won't be able to get cash.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115909375706083994

Aside: this is a *major* reason why I quit Bluesky and deleted my account some months back.

I would block a baddie, and because that crap is PUBLIC on Bluesky (?!?), that basically creates a "hate list" that's easily exploitable. And of course folks were exploiting it!

If you're going to use Bluesky, strongly recommend not blocking folks unless they're specifically harassing you. And don't block big accounts, that crap can come back to haunt you.

I went the other way, and deleted my account.

Trump has killed over 100 people in the Caribbean to “stop drugs”.

He claimed to invade Venezuela for the same reason.

Yet he just pardoned another drug dealer.

This time it’s the son of Republican Rep Steve Womack who was sentenced to eight years for distributing methamphetamine .

Trump doesn’t care about stopping drugs.

The measles outbreak in South Carolina is the largest in the country and has spread to three other states.

It’s growing at an alarming speed.

Over 500 people in quarantine and 200 are actively infected.

This was completely preventable.

These people didn’t need to get sick.

Measles can kill. It can disable. It can leave you deaf and blind.

It’s a vaccine preventable illness.

Shame on everyone creating distrust in the vaccine and refusing to do their part for public health.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/south-carolina-measles-outbreak-cases-double-vaccines-quarantine-rcna253989

#uspol #measles #publichealth #disability #ableism

Zuck's nuts for wasting the GDP of most nations trying to come up with his first original idea that doesn't suck instead of buying another app people are addicted to. The gambling apps are right there.

Given the newly announced 10% Greenland extortion, can we please give @pluralistic suggestion of repealing anti-cricumvention (DMCA equivalents) across Europe and the world a go?

Latest comic on the broligarghs' extremist fantasies of colonizing #Greenland

#tech #authoritarianism #imperialism #autocracy

I used to have a vegan blog "Surviving as a vegan in Croatia" and I stopped posting when Croatia joined the EU and we got all the possible vegan products. I also stopped checking the mail account I linked there (masked, so that spam bots can't pick it up), and today Google threatened it would delete it, so I logged in. The mail I got in the meantime::
- a few people asking me why I stopped posting
- people asking "who deals with veganism" in a certain part of Croatia
- person asking me how to go vegan from an official email address of their business (kindergarten)
- someone offering me a guest post about dentistry and then getting angry when I didn't respond
- hate mail from a bodybuilder
- a graduate asking if I could write parts of their bachelor thesis about the "influence of the Internet on making athletes adopt veganism or vegetarianism"
- a phishing attempt in Esperanto from a domain registered without privacy, so I have the guy's name, phone number, and home address, in Zagreb

#vegan

Hey over on another social media site most of the people here hate that isn't X I saw a link that let you buy surveillance equipment on behalf of people in Minnesota who were monitoring ICE (body cams and dash cams mostly I think). I thought it was a good idea but irresponsibly didn't save the link. Anyone here know anything about that? Can you point me in the right direction?

#Forgejo 11.0.10, 13.0.5 and 14.0.1 were just released!

All of them use an upgraded Go version with security fixes. We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Additionally, 14.0.1 includes a fix for a regression discovered in 14.0.0

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

DHS lies.

They blame the victim.

They make peaceful protesters out to be “agitators”.

ICE threw a flashbang into a car full of children and sent a 6 month old to hospital unable to breathe.

What did DHS post?

“Stop endangering your children!”

They blamed the father.

They’ve now deleted the post after it came out the dad was driving his kids home from a sporting event and had nothing to do with the protest.

Believe nothing they say. Wait for the investigation.

One of the collectives we supported through DIY Solidarity last year was Ihitiko Ksespasma in Greece, helping them buy a PA for gigs at their squat. Next week, we’re starting another round of interviews with DIY Solidarity fund recipients, but this conversation with the Greek comrades is among my favorites so far. We talked about the legacy of squats like Villa Amalias, and the ideological rupture between playing squats versus bars and regular venues. Recommended read.

https://diyconspiracy.net/ihitiko-ksespasma-interview/

At least 15 vehicles allegedly belonging to ICE were painted with “ICE” to alert community members in Eagan, MN

CBS isn't the only so-called journalism outlet that routinely does stenography for the completely dishonest Trump regime, but it was particularly disgusting in its blatantly bogus report after an ICE thug's murder of Renee Good.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/15/cbs-news-ice-officer-injuries

As you would now expect from CBS "News" --

Lang’s rally will begin in downtown Minneapolis at city hall, starting with a rally followed by a march to the Cedar Riverside neighborhood, home to a large population of Somalis.

Read all about Lang's history and activity in Mpls in our latest article

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/jake-langs-campaign-of-terror/

I wish that more FOSS / ethically licensed projects would be more forthright about asking for donations of help *outside tech stuff*.

There are plenty of people who value FOSS who have skills to contribute, be it legal, accounting, comms, marketing, graphic design, project management, and loads of other things, and plenty of projects which could benefit from some volunteering time in those areas.

Finding a match can be difficult, so seeing people asking for help is excellent.

#FOSS #volunteering #ProBono

At least it's not a leap year. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on January 23. We stand with folks refusing to work in Minnesota, and everywhere else.

https://workdaymagazine.org/we-are-facing-a-tsunami-of-hate-amid-ice-crackdown-unions-and-community-groups-call-for-minnesota-shutdown-in-10-days/

@320x200 @Error417

some self promotion on governance models 😜
https://codeberg.org/Vojkruco/Cooperative_Development_Guidelines