Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@sam first told me just how REI has been benefitting from being co-op washed while not being a true co-op.
This article gives a great overview: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/rei-workers-look-to-shake-up-co-ops-board-amid-push-for-a-first-contract/?utm_campaign=EO%20News%20Sharing%20ICA&utm_content=323220061&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-2989070

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By the way, Wikipedia is here!
And is doing all the good Fediverse organizations things!

Hosting their own instance 🏠

Verifying themselves ✅

Adding alt-text to their pictures 📝

They have nowhere near the follower count they should have! Add your support by following them here: @wikipedia

#Wikipedia #Mastodon #Fediverse

In 2016, Kanien’kehá:ka filmmaker Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas traveled to Palestine, witnessing firsthand the struggles of Palestinians resisting occupation. A Red Road to the West Bank is a documentary about the deep parallels between Indigenous struggles in North America and Palestine—two peoples fighting against settler colonialism, displacement, and erasure.

This film is currently in development, and we need your support to create the materials necessary to secure further funding. Our goal for this development phase is $10,000, which will allow us to build key pitch materials, begin early-stage editing, and prepare for full-scale production.
Your contribution will directly fund research, filming, editing, and outreach—ensuring that this urgent story is told.

https://kolektiva.media/w/jfgC46zAZXm83fS7jnisJh

#palestine #indigenous #decolonize #Gaza #WestBank #Kanehsatake

Help Us Bring This Story to Life - https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad

It is no surprise that Google searches for VPNs in Florida have skyrocketed. But as more states and countries pass age verification laws, it is crucial to recognize the broader implications these measures have on privacy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/vpns-are-not-solution-age-verification-laws

You don't have to be a fighter to fight fascists. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1/31/2300356/-Cartoon-The-pacifists-playbook-for-frustrating-fascists

Are you aware of digital public goods? The TOR browser is now a DPG as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_public_goods

#fosdem #fosdem2025 #torBrowser #DPG #DigitalPublicGoods

My hair has grown pretty long, down between my shoulder blades unless I tie it up. At first, it was just my "pandemic hair," but I literally haven't been to the barber since the end of 2019. Every 6-9 months I lop some off with scissors.

Anyway, I've been sensing some hostility when I go walking through my neighborhood, particularly in the wealthy area. Once, people yelled at me from a passing car.

Apparently, my hippie hair has become a statement, and I'm okay with that.

Most Democratic office-holders are are so incompetent and cowardly at this point that they can't even reach the hand-wringing stage.

Fascists are taking over and the Democrats are almost completely AWOL.

Meanwhile, the New York Times -- America's most important (god help us) news organization, reflects its usual business-as-usual calm, normalizing everything.

"On Friday morning, the staffers at a half dozen U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had a choice to make: Defy President Donald Trump’s order to immediately stop their operations or let up to 100 babies and toddlers die." They chose the children. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-state-department-usaid-humanitarian-aid-freeze-ukraine-gaza-sudan

Dear California farmers and Congressional representatives:
Trump has just literally thrown millions of gallons of #water away that farmers were counting on this summer, purely to brag that he could.
That #cawater cannot be captured or used now by anyone: not farms, not cities, not firefighting.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-31/trump-california-dams-opened-up

Elon Musk and his fascist friends now have control over government payment systems and databases that, if misused, could destroy countless lives.

To call this a clear and present danger to the nation understates the case.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/

🚨 Are you a West Coast journalist with a passion for press freedom?

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Learn more and apply here:

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Today's Help Desk considers the real customer.

https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2025/01/understanding-your-customer-base/

Hey #FOSS enthusiasts! 🍻
Join us for a beer this Saturday at 19:30 at Wolf Bar in Brussels!
If you're around and want to meet cool people and talk about GNOME, come on by!
📍 Rue du Fossé aux Loups 50, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
https://wolf.be/en/bxl/contact-fqa/
#FOSDEM2025

White House style for the corporate media. https://www.patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

It seems like lawmakers have learned nothing because new site-blocking laws for copyright were once again written in secret by a handful of industry representatives. That was unacceptable in 2012, and it’s even more unacceptable in 2025. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/dont-make-copyright-law-smoke-filled-rooms

Massachusetts action item: Call your state legislators to ask them to support single payer healthcare for Massachusetts.
https://masscare.org/legislation/

The House bill is HD 1228 (https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/HD1228). The Senate bill is SD 2341 (https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/SD2341).

If your representative is a cosponsor of the bill, don't forget to thank them!

The #Fluconf schedule pages are live, which means you can now check out the full abstract for "Grow Your Own International Democratic Tech Federation"

Coming up TOMORROW, Saturday 1st February at 18-19 UTC, on https://cast.coopcloud.tech

https://fluconf.online/sessions/co-op-cloud-grow-your-own-international-democratic-tech-federation/

CC @fluconf