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Der skulle laves et billede til vores hjemmeside. Nederste halvdel af denne tegning er mit forslag.

#folkeføderation

https://chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/26/black-resistance-imperfect-utopias-and-the-american-novel-searching-for-meaning-in-terry-bissons-fire-on-the-mountain-in-an-era-of-political-despair/

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 52,934:

https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-political-donations-income-dark-money-dhs-ethics

Probably worth mentioning that when more people are uninsured, the cost of health insurance for people with coverage goes up. So, when you pass a bill that punts 10 million plus off Medicaid you're also spiking premiums for yourself and/or others.

Collective action actually takes things like benefiting everyone as a whole into consideration, so a lot of pragmatist progressive voters will have a very difficult time trusting people who encouraged voters to ignore what was very well known.

Before transitioning into academia, Velazquez organized low-wage workers for over fifteen years —an experience he says left him with a great deal of despair. It also led him to conclude the following:

"I take no joy in saying that I could think of no better way to reform labor law than through the destruction of the NLRA."

[ via https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/can-unions-really-lead-the-resistance-to-authoritarianism.html ]

I've just published version 2.79 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Added a server-wide Webmention hook; this way, if somebody out there (that supports Webmention) links to a user or post in this instance, a notification is sent (this is the complementary of what was implemented in version 2.76).

Fixed regression while sending email via pipe on OpenBSD.

Fixed Markdown parsing when the URL has parenthesis.

Always show the 'pending follow confirmations' section if there are any (even if the toggle is off).

If a metadata value is an account handler, it's also tried to be validated (rel="me" links).

Another search by URL tweak (this time for Pixelfed links).

Mastodon API: fixed a bug that made some boosts disappear after being shown in apps like Tusky, added followed hashtags maintenance, other minor changes.

Renamed command-line actions create_list to list_create and delete_list to list_remove.

The default favicon URL can be changed from the server configuration.

New command-line option export_posts, to export all posts by a user in a JSON format compatible with the one generated by Mastodon.

The command-line options to send notes also allow an optional -r argument, to set the URL of a Fediverse post this note is a reply to.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

You can now support #Phosh, the desktop for #MobileLinux with donations, because there is a formal organization:

https://ev.phosh.mobi/

#linux #phone #FOSS #opensource #DigitalSovereignty #BanBigTech

#PalestineAction is part of Britain’s proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/29/palestine-action-protest-proscribing-assault-democracy and a threat to the rights of all of us

I'm not against electoral politics (I'm a 'full diversity of tactics' guy), but how can people wonder why people on the left feel so disenfranchised that they don't show up at the polls?
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The left is told to vote Democrat in general elections so as not to waste our vote. Instead, we should focus on primaries to get the candidates we want. Then when we try to push for a left candidate in the primaries and are told not to vote for them because they are not electable.
Then a left candidate *does* win a primary (Mamdani) and the Democratic establishment indicates they are clearly willing to put any amount of money toward an independent candidate to beat him.
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Let that sink in:

“Parts of the Mediterranean are now running more than 5-6°C above their long-term average as well, or around eight standard deviations from the average. In statistics anything more than two standard deviations from the average is usually considered an extreme departure from normal.”

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

https://www.intellinews.com/europe-swelters-in-historic-heatwave-388341/

How corrupt is the Roberts court? It is inconceivable that the spate of more-power-for-Trump decisions from the Roberts court would have gone the same way if Harris was president.

We all know what's going on. The extreme right owns the government. It is dismantling democracy and the rule of law.

✨ New blog post: “Back to the Old Internet: A Personal Reboot”
Switching to Linux. Self-hosting. Fossifying my phone.
I thought the old internet was gone — turns out, it just needed a reboot.
https://laurahargreaves.com/the-old-internet/

#OldInternet #OpenWeb #FOSS #Linux #DigitalReboot

DRM ruins efforts at historical preservation. If all of our media is locked up in digital streaming platforms -- which will go under eventually -- how will it be preserved for future generations? Live DRM-free instead: https://u.fsf.org/1aj #EndDRM #DRM

A recent comic on the US giving international tourists the Big Brother treatment

#comic #cartoon #uspol #travel #firstamendment #privacy

Sorry for the radio silence — we’ve been at our annual meeting conducting high-level strategy sessions (see attached).

At least 60 killed across Gaza in Israeli strikes - health workers - https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/28/iran-israel-gaza-war-donald-trump-hamas-middle-east-latest-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-685fe2668f08ac61dea2fbea#block-685fe2668f08ac61dea2fbea just another day in hell... #gazagenocide

The Conservatives On The Supreme Court Are So Scared Of Nudity, They’ll Throw Out The First Amendment - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/27/the-conservatives-on-the-supreme-court-are-so-scared-of-nudity-theyll-throw-out-the-first-amendment/ "The internet that emerges from this decision will look much more like the one authoritarian governments prefer: where every click requires identification, where any viewpoint can be age-gated, and where anonymity becomes a luxury only the powerful can afford. "