Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Yearly reminder to not give money to the Salvation Army. It is not a charity, it's a fundamentalist Christian organization that supports anti-queer policies. Support mutual aid resources instead.

#SalvationArmy

Up until very recently, it was easier to imagine the end of the internet than it was to imagine the end of the tech giants. The problems of living under a system dominated by unaccountable, vast corporations seemed inescapable. But growth has stagnated for these centralized platforms, and Twitter is in the midst of an ugly meltdown. It won’t be the last service to disintegrate into a thrashing mess.

SOURCE: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/fediverse-could-be-awesome-if-we-dont-screw-it

I was traveling last week and it gave me a chance to play a game I haven't in awhile, the Chronicles of Stampadia (https://www.kesiev.com/stampadia/). It's a computer generated, #penandpaper, 0 knowledge #rougelike game. Think #Wordle, but for #roguelike games!

Every day, you get a new one. They can be printed out in advance, and shared!

I've added a screenshot of what today's adventure sheet looks like. It's an amazing project and I recommend you try it if you like #roguelikes!

With Twitter becoming an ardently pro-nazi platform, make the move and follow this excellent org on kolektiva
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RT @blacksocialists
You can now find us here as well:

https://kolektiva.social/@blacksocialists

Shouts out to @Antimdia1 and @subMedia.
https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1596584304548917249

An interesting read (and model) on hierarchy, power, and income inequality in the US:

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/11/19/firming-up-hierarchy/

How wonderful.England’s rivers wont meet standards for good chemical health until 2063 they will contain toxic substances for decades. To think in September 2000 overall health of rivers was at 92% yet in 2022 they are at 14%. It is an absolute disgrace.
#freshwaterfish #freshwater #rivers #environment #pollution

https://www.endsreport.com/article/1806177/why-englands-rivers-will-remain-polluted-toxic-chemicals-until-2063

So here's the plan. I'm going to write a Rust executable, as my first non-trivial Rust project, to delete my >160k tweets. With the rate limits of the API, it'll take about 34 days. The way you do this is by parsing your archive dump.

Every 16 hours, I'm going to post a new status update tweet showing my progress visually, using unicode art. Once a day, the bot will also pester Mr. Musk.

I will post the code with no license, public domain, and then encourage people to run it.

My hope is that a few dozen people will do it, and it'll be beautiful spectacle.

Almost 2,000 manatees have died in Florida in two years, largely because of starvation as huge areas of the seagrass vegetation they eat have been destroyed by pollution.

Environmental groups are demanding the species be declared officially endangered again.

A program to feed manatees with lettuce funded by public donation is being relaunched.

#Manatee #Seagrass #Florida #EndangeredSpecies

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/manatee-deaths-florida-endangered-status

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manatee_photo.jpg

On November 25, at the urging of a far-right troll, Elon Musk banned the @CrimethInc Twitter account.

Musk’s goal in acquiring Twitter had nothing to do with “free speech”—it was a partisan move to silence opposition, paving the way for fascist violence. https://crimethinc.com/2022/11/25/elon-musk-bans-crimethinc-from-twitter-on-request-from-far-right-troll

Bookmarking this for future reading:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-11-16/an-open-letter-to-bill-gates-on-food-farming-and-africa/

It's a n open letter critiquing the ways in which the Gates Foundation attempts to solve world hunger.

Looking for #co-op movement people, #DisabilityStudies people, #disabled people's movement people etc on here, but not sure where to start! Any tips welcome.

Well who knew!! There is a #Mastodon instance for #union members, organisations, friends and allies - and one of the largest federations of US unions, AFL-CIO is already on it - check out union.place and if you're in a union encourage them to join

@amber I read a helpful essay about this, sort of a both/and. https://blog.nativehope.org/what-does-thanksgiving-mean-to-native-americans

Solidarity needed for anarchist comrades in Mexico City seriously injured after being attacked while protesting against the State's appropriation of Ricardo Flores Magón.

From the flyer:

Solidarity - Neither dead nor defeated. As it's now known, on November 21st, 2022, a group of anarchists were attacked by a bodyguard and shock troops of the Mexican Regional Worker Confederation, at the order of their leader.

As a result of this unequal fight in which were were completely outnumbered, today we have two comrades who are seriously injured.

Without saying more, we are calling for solidarity to able to deal with the medical expenses this has brought about, and provide support to our comrades.

Info shared only via email: nimuertxsnivencidxs@riseup.net

@lightweight @downey A group of people (including former Gitea maintainers) who are also spooked by the creation of the secretive Gitea Ltd are creating the @forgejo community-driven soft fork, which will be launching soon!
Check out https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo as well as the open letter which led up to this fork at https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social.

Appliance buying tips!

SILVER APPLIANCES
* thousands of dollars
* go on the internet and spy on you
* fix every year to 18 months, part costs $400, somehow always have to take the whole thing apart
* 5 years lifetime if you're very lucky indeed

WHITE APPLIANCES
* $50 on craigslist
* free on trash night in silver-appliance neighbourhoods
* every fix is $50 in parts and takes an hour
* 20 years old already and good for another 20
* whole system understandable
* blank canvas for you to paint

Ahead of the Day of Mourning, and in response to colonial mythology about early Thanksgivings, we recommend learning about Metacomet’s War, an ambitious early effort to resist the colonial conquest of what came to be called North America.

https://crimethinc.com/Metacomet

#StolenLand

We are now an official 501c3 nonprofit and we have BIG PLANS for 2023, but we need your help!
Please consider donating

https://girlswhohack.com/donate

#Servicetoot:
- ✅ Codeberg.org (Git hosting available)
- ✅ Codeberg Pages (Websites accessible)
- 💚 https://join.codeberg.org (becoming active or supporting member of our non-profit association possible, thank you for considering this!)

Hi all, am looking for an early modern (broadly defined c.1400-1800) historian or art historian working on music and/or sound and religion in Ireland or continental Europe (and based in the UK or Europe). Would love your suggestions of great scholars working in this area whose research I might not be aware of!

#earlymodern #histodons #historian #historians #twitterstorians #medieval #medievodons