Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hundreds out in the streets of #Atlanta marching to #StopCopCity and against repression of forest defenders.

In recent days, police and law enforcement have attempted to paint those opposed to Cop City as "outside agitators."

People in #Montreal rallied and blocked the port in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en Indigenous water protectors under attack by Coastal GasLink.

"After successfully blocking the port of Montreal and part of Notre-Dame Est, despite a huge and violent police presence the group of activists walked towards downtown to meet the protest in front of RBC called by Sleydo and other Wet’suwet’en land defenders."

Read report here:
https://itsgoingdown.org/wetsuweten-solidarity-action-to-block-the-port-of-montreal/

Hi everyone! A brief #introduction from our #NonProfit #WorkerCoop of #PublicSchool #educators:

We created Get It Right in the fall of 2020, to staff a new secondary school that needed a democratic collective to run it (check out milestonedemocratic.org). We are in our third school year, showing up every day to demonstrate that #TeacherPowered schools, where educators make decisions by consensus and share governance with students and families, can create equity and justice.

Let's connect!

Can you help a brilliant #hacker out of a jam? She's a very old friend of mine, as far back as #defcon 9, pioneered botnet takedowns, invented polymorphic files, and is an all around awesome person. She even took most of the pictures at my wedding.

If you have a few dollars to spare, could you please help her?

https://www.gofundme.com/f/DWORD-0x72656e74

Here's my latest long read. It's about what has happened to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia since VDARE moved in: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/12/15/berkeley-springs-hate-group-who-stole-christmas

On Tuesday, people in #Atlanta held a noise demonstration outside of the DeKalb County Jail in solidarity with forest defenders who are violently arrested while protesting to #StopCopCity. Report here: https://itsgoingdown.org/noise-demo-atlanta-forest-2022/

Take action now to advocate for equitable co-op financing 

"We ask you to submit comment and tell the Small Business Administration and Treasury Department to ensure co-ops can access two important finance options: The Small Business Administration’s loan programs, and the Treasury Department’s CDFI Fund. "

https://www.usworker.coop/blog/take-action-now-to-advocate-for-equitable-co-op-financing/

Watch 80 Free Documentaries from Kino Lorber: Includes Films on M. C. Escher, Stanley Kubrick, Hannah Arendt, Hilma af Kint & More

https://www.openculture.com/2022/12/watch-80-free-documentaries-from-kino-lorber.html

When even the *BBC* start putting up articles about Twitter blocking Mastodon - you know the birdman has screwed up big time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63999452

The bird site has suspended Mastodon’s official account.

Someone’s getting twitchy…

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! My official Myrna Tellingheusen Digital Trading Card collection is here! These limited edition cards feature amazing ART of my life & career as executive secretary to Stanley Bogenshoots at Hughes Aircraft, as well as Chairwoman of the Funeral Luncheon Committee! Only $99 each! Would make a Christmas gift.

The "$285.8m to integrate IT systems" required according to https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/130773783/te-pkenga-needs-almost-500m-in-extra-funding-amid-calls--to-end-out-of-control-spending is the cost of a generation of flawed IT decision making and bad procurement in the NZ public & education sectors. This needs to be addressed urgently and decisively by better leadership from the Gov't. Of course, the Gov't is making the very same IT errors, so its endemic. We're in a downward spiral. I know how to reverse it, but nobody's going to want to hear it. The implications are too damning.

Libadwaita keeps getting better! With Libadwaita, it easier to build great-looking apps, this has also meant that most new apps are adaptive from the start. Here is a list of some great apps

https://puri.sm/posts/libadwaita-in-the-wild/?mtm_campaign=promo&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-libadwaita-in-the-wild

We're excited to announce the official launch of the #Forgejo project, a community-driven fork of #Gitea under the stewardship of @Codeberg.

Check out https://forgejo.org/2022-12-15-hello-forgejo/ to learn more, including the motivation for the fork, as well as Codeberg's announcement at https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html

Come and get involved at https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo or in our Matrix room https://matrix.to/#/#forgejo-chat:matrix.org . We aim to be a fully inclusive community and everyone's participation is welcomed.

Hi all, sadly, we have to admit that we lost about 1 day of emails.

Yesterday, about this time, changed unix permissions on a config file broke email delivery for the user Gitea runs with.

Today we investigated reports of missing emails from Gitea, and noticed that all emails since then were completely dropped. We are sorry!

Please check your internal notifications, or re-register if you are still waiting for your activation code.

In today's New York Times a Homeowner Association tried to force a Maryland couple with a native garden to change to a tidy lawn. The complaint was that their garden was "attracting rodents, deer, snakes and bats, and that they were planting shrubs and bushes in no particular order." Yes, in no particular order!

Legal proceedings ensued and there's now a state law forbidding homeowner associations from banning eco-friendly gardens.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/climate/native-plants-lawns-homeowners.html

#biodiversity #gardens #urban #nature

For the last several years, there have been unionizing efforts going on at many food co-ops, but I think this is the first I've heard of #CreditUnion employees unionizing. I hope they are successful, and that this is just the first of many.

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2022/12/workers-at-one-lake-michigan-credit-union-branch-are-unionizing.html

Here is an excellent guide to buying (truly) handmade gifts. Including but not limited to members of @coopartisans

“We used to trust Etsy as our go-to shopping place for handmade. But with the sheer number of dropshippers and inauthentic resellers on the site, the Etsy platform no longer earns our automatic trust….We need a genuinely handmade shopping alternative. “

https://artisans.coop/blog/3-easy-ways-to-shop-actually-handmade/

Those "#OSS-loving" corporations *hate* software that uses a Copyleft license (e.g. the GPL, AGPL and other licenses with inheritance clauses) because they can't treat it like gratis R&D they can exploit. I believe proprietary software is ethically tainted (https://davelane.nz/proprietary) and so I have zero respect for those corporations. As a result, I have a substantially lower impression of institutions/orgs that identify with OSS rather than #FOSS.