Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Breaking: Secret Service logs show seven visits to White House by an arborist in the last six months. Our expert analyst concludes this means Biden likely has Dutch Elm Disease.

A magazine asked me for a quote on AI generated influencers. I read the articles they linked and said "Just a bunch of dudes bragging that they made a woman that doesn't talk back. Nothing fucked up about that."

The interviewees in the previous articles just quibbled over whether the images were fatphobic. Like, yes, sure, obviously, but did NO ONE ELSE see the guy saying he made a woman that doesn't talk back?

??!?!?!?!?? 💀 🙃 🧛‍♂️ Is this why people ask me for quotes?

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/09/nx-s1-4993998/the-miss-ai-beauty-pageant-ushers-in-a-new-type-of-influencer

Our #CommunitySpotlight presents: @readeck, a simple self-hosted web app that lets you manage bookmarks for articles you want to read. Use the UI to easily group and search your articles, and even transfer content to your #ebook reader for relaxed reading (if you have one).

Just get your browser extension ready, and save interesting content for later.

Find #Readeck on #Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/readeck/readeck

Let us know what you think!

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After blocking double-digit number of IP ranges, the amount of traffic is still ramping up.

Unfortunately, the amount of traffic is just too much for us to deal with. There is a much bigger player on the other end.

Codeberg is currently suffering from massive crawling traffic from some Huaweicloud machines. We are mass-blocking IP ranges again.

@GottaLaff @lin11c @AkaSci There are great #Project2025 online guides to share with family and friends who will never slog thru 900+ pages. Here are 4:

#Biden Campaign: https://joebiden.com/project2025/

Media Matters: https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration

Red, Wine & Blue: https://redwine.blue/project2025/

@crooksandliars: https://crooksandliars.com/2024/06/project-2025-resources

Greatest country in the world, amiright?

US workers in debt to buy groceries
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx002795738o

Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/09/devastation-as-worlds-biggest-wetland-burns-those-that-cannot-run-dont-stand-a-chance-brazil-pantanal "Blackened trees, dead animals and scorched earth – early wildfires have already devastated Brazil’s Pantanal and local people worry they may lose the battle to save them"

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Trump must have seen the polling because he's doing a full 180 on Project 2025—and sadly legacy media is letting him.

Don't let him get away with promoting fascism. Hang it around his neck and make him own it, and prevent him from coming into power again.
https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/trump-panics-over-project-2025-and

I envision, for example, several small and localized political groups coming together to pass ranked choice voting in their state: an outcome the democrats will fight but that ordinary people understand is necessary.

Most of all we just have to stop with one-off candidate focused organizing and be building people power around values and longer term visions & plans

Sometime in the past day or so, a post floated across my feed congratulating the French left, and saying that next we should do that here in the U.S.

It's an interesting thought, but I'm not sure what that would look like in real-world terms. We don't have a parliamentary system here, and most places in the U.S. don't have runoffs, so it certainly wouldn't be *the same*.

What do you think it would take to attain left wing electoral victory in the United States? Could it be done at all?

Taking the State out of the Body is a guidebook in deconstructing nationalism through trauma-informed praxis. Back the project here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/taking-the-state-out-of-the-body?ref=70owk4&token=86aebf74

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Has anyone out there ever grown a Three Sister garden?

I keep hearing about this gardening style but I'm not sure I know anyone who has actually done it.

As someone using a wheelchair for most of my life I absolutely don't get North Americans assuming cars are the only way for disabled people to have better mobility. You know where I felt I had the most mobility? In Japan where you can go to almost anywhere, even random villages in the middle of absolutely nowhere, on a level-boarding train that runs reasonably regularly and costs nowhere near the cost of a car.

2. Have you ever heard of "The Vale"? This is a video game with a blind protagonist, in which the game itself has no visual component. It's all sound. I've heard a talk by the director, this game is *really* thoughtfully designed, and was created in consultation with the existing "audiogames" community of games by/for blind gamers. I've been meaning to play this for a while.

I bring it up because it's half off on Steam this week: https://store.steampowered.com/app/989790/The_Vale_Shadow_of_the_Crown/

Small un-crapping the Internet:
want to view linked imgur images as images, rather than with a ton of JS?

Use the Header Editor extension to change your "accept" header to:

image/avif,image/jxl,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8

on the domain i.imgur.com

(also works on i.reddit.com)

Tangentially related to the question about age and job hunting, a friend of mine went back for a second Bachelor's degree somewhat late in life, and after a couple years of solid academic performance, was suddenly notified by the student load company that they were rejecting his request for additional loans unless he got a co-signer.

I know these companies can be predatory, but cutting someone off partway through a degree doesn't seem rational on their part. Is this a thing?

There's a thread on Charlie Stross's Mastodon about ageism and difficulties finding work after you've started to go gray.

I feel certain this is a real thing, but I also find myself wondering...