Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Good. Surveillance and bogus legal attacks against Stop Cop City protesters endanger activists and journalists alike.

https://projectsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Press-Release.pdf

Crop disease just isn't on Americans' radar as a career path. We depend on international researchers in a big way.

If we're serious about "protecting American agriculture"?

Making a huge saber-rattling show of force by jailing scientists for doing ~normal scientist stuff is not the move!

It's pretty clear from all the evidence available that this couple brought F. gramineum samples to the US... to study them in a lab!

A University of Michigan lab for stopping the spread of plant disease!

If they really wanted to do bioterrorism by spreading new strains of Fusarium gramineum around the US, they would have just done that.

Instead of going through all the hassle of trying to courier them to a lab for FIGURING OUT HOW TO STOP CROP DISEASES.

So if you've seen headlines panicking bc "the cHiNeSe smuggled in bioweapons to kill our crops!!"

The Michigan Farm Bureau would like to remind everyone "Yeah they're junior scientists who are working to STOP CROP DISEASES. It looks like they just didn't do the paperwork for bringing in samples."

A quick #forgejo timeline at #flocktofedora

🔥 Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate has landed!

Curious about what the fediverse could look like with real community control?

Try out features like custom feeds, nested discussions, shared profiles, circles, and boundary-based permissions — then let us know what breaks or needs improvement.

More details and video demos: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire_social_1_0_rc/

#BonfireSocial #FediForum #FOSS #ActivityPub #DigitalAutonomy

The Trump admin’s cuts to HIV research and prevention are a direct attack on queer communities, POC, and other vulnerable groups disproportionately impacted by the virus. Past funding led to major progress—now that progress is at risk.

Want to learn more about the fight for health justice in marginalized communities? Check out Bodies and Barriers and Crisis and Care by Adrian Shanker. All e-books are $1.99 thru 7/1 w/ code READ at checkout. (Pre-orders excluded.)

This week's comic is now up on Daily Kos
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"A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport"
after Richard Scarry
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/5/2325998/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-looks-at-a-Busy-Busy-Day-at-the-Airport

Donald #Trump Declares He Should Have Faced Trial - https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/05/donald-trump-declares-he-should-have-faced-trial/ "The entire premise of this #EO is that things Trump and his White Houses have done — from lying about his weight and height to his theft of classified documents — must be prosecuted."

Purism is leading the charge with Quantum- PQC Security including the following:

Finalized NIST PQC standards

Liberty Phones with Made in USA electronics

Full control over your encryption keys

Verifiable open-source software

A secure, trusted supply chain

Learn more at Purism:
https://puri.sm/posts/rip-rsa-aes-the-immediate-need-of-quantum-resistant-cryptography/

I’m not too strong on history, but on reading an “on this day” I realise I have a fixed point (of about 100 years) that European history is divided by in my head.
It’s the “before/after potatoes” divide.
That old guy that did a thing? He lived without eating potatoes.

Skirrets were the winter storage starch before potatoes and it took 50-100 years before potatoes gradually ousted skirrets after their introduction.

No potatoes- can you imagine?
#skirrets #potatoes

#NewZealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given record suspensions - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/new-zealand-mps-who-performed-haka-in-parliament-given-record-suspensions this is racist bullying: this country belongs to the Maori people..

Embryo ‘adoption’ answered these families’ prayers. The Christian right is using them to attack IVF - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/05/embryo-adoption-ivf-christian-right christian nutters don't give a damn about people's suffering, just their twisted dogma

#Trump’s #tariffs have become his Vietnam – and the right is breaking ranks - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/05/trump-tariffs-republicans break some more, please

Please move along, nothing to see here 🙈

But yes I just uploaded my Fediverse promo video to my self-hosted #PeerTube in case tomorrow I encounter technical glitches and need to share a link. The video is set to private (for now!), I will change its status to public on Monday. Sooo excited, it's finally happeniiiiiing.

Thank you @samaaberg @TheLifeofTarzan for your help with this!

#EleFediVideos

I need to make a site map for a client. After a few minutes pottering around in LibreOffice Draw, Dia and Inkscape I feel dissatisfied and dreading the massive task ahead (this site is huge)

I need something mind-map-ish. I type "mind" into the start menu of KDE. Damn, I have no mind map software, but oh look it says "Get Minder" with a suitable-looking icon.

2 mins later it's installed.

30 mins later I'm done. The software was excellent.

#FOSS really is a gift to humanity.

Breakthrough in search for #HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’ - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/05/breakthrough-in-search-for-hiv-cure-leaves-researchers-overwhelmed "Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body"

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced - https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-irs-tax-filing-software-turbotax-is-trying-to-kil/ good move: you can't kill #opensource...

I think this is a more or less up-to-date map of the businesses, LLCs, and people associated with the Trump family crypto projects.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics