Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

They'll face no consequences, but it's soothing to imagine Clarence spending a day wrestling with one of Ginni's big thick ivermectin shits. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

The American Association of University Professors has sad advice for faculty members who want to speak their minds: Be afraid, and shut up.

This kind of weakness failed during the malignant era of Joe McCarthy. When bullies see bended knees, they escalate the abuse.

https://www.404media.co/union-warns-professors-about-posting-in-the-current-climate/

Even though it’s been against the law since 2016, the San Francisco Police Department has been caught sharing ALPR data with non-California agencies. Ignoring these laws exposes sensitive location information to misuse and puts entire communities at risk. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-aclu-sfpd-stop-illegally-sharing-data-ice-and-anti-abortion-states

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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School Shooter Kills Conservative Child Pundit, feat. CBS, the Captured Broadcasting System
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Brought to you by the Inner Hive, incl. long-time member Ms. Willow and new member Mark Anderson
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

Last call to back the Kickstarter for A Clean Hell!
Support the project here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/acleanhell

Don't.
Neg.
People.
Doing.
Mutual.
Aid.

FFS. Maybe you think someone should be doing something else. Cool. You go do it.

Goddamn it people.

Yes this is a subpost.

Three days and counting until #SoftwareFreedomDay2025.
Here are some links to lists of #FOSS remote communications software to help you better communicate during #SFD2025 and beyond:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/better-than-zoom-try-these-free-software-tools-for-staying-in-touch
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Remote_Communication
What's your favorite #FLOSS alternative to proprietary communications software?

I’m legit so proud of all the work that’s gone into the new @elementary Dock. Plank development had stagnated for years and now we have something drawn entirely with @GTK that’s even more beautifully animated and we’ve blown past it in terms of feature set and usability, all based on survey data. The kind of experiences we can deliver with our native toolkit these days is really mind blowing

This week’s comic now up on Daily Kos
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CBS - Captured Broadcasting System
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/18/2343995/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-reports-on-a-school-shooter-killing-a-conservative-child-pundit

When I was writing my latest book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges, I talked about the stakes: corporate social media is accruing incredible power and is increasingly tied to state power. We need noncommercial, non- centralized media.

Honestly, I thought I overstated it when I wrote the book. That I was being a bit too dour. (I think the editor felt that way)

Today? I want to go back and revise it and go even harder at big tech.

#MoveSlowlyAndBuildBridges

Tomorrow's front page 📰 in The National "Is sharing this image a crime?"

The Scottish press really don't mess around 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I just wrote a new blog post... "It's Aotearoa".... https://davelane.nz/its-aotearoa

A lot of people will start learning very fast about privacy on Discord.

Or rather, that there is no privacy on Discord.

> Five hours after Charlie Kirk was shot this week, an Atlanta man got a phone call from an Illinois police officer asking about a photo he shared with a couple of close friends on a private Discord chat.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-kirk-assassination-sparks-6da

If you run any kind of project or community and use Discord, this would be a very good time to reconsider your choice of a platform.

The 80-year-old owner of a Van Nuys carwash, an American citizen, suffered multiple injuries after he was run over and tackled by federal agents, who detained him and five of his employees.
https://youtu.be/j2gQBfP4Dhk?si=afMOAdHryb_Kc3d8

Time to find a new ice cream...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/greenfield-ben-jerrys-resignation-1.7635874

Speaking as someone who was a customer of Ben & Jerry's back when their empire was a defunct gas station in Burlington, Vermont...

It is essential for everyone to recognize that ABC didn't just fire Kimmel for daring to speak things that the Trump regime and its cult don't want spoken out loud.

It was DISNEY that fired Kimmel. Disney owns ABC.

The principal cowardice in this butchery of free speech belongs to Bob Iger, CEO.

Regarding the bogus notion that Charlie Kirk was doing politics "the right way," Mike Masnick nails it here: "When we praise bad-faith performers for “engaging” with their critics, we’re not celebrating democratic norms—we’re rewarding those who exploit them."

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/the-debate-me-bro-grift-how-trolls-weaponized-the-marketplace-of-ideas/