Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Bloomington! Come to combat prison isolation and stay for a screening of It's Revolution or Death Part 1 with @bloomingtonabc

Request for support from Belkis Terán, mother of martyr Tortuguita, killed by police in 2023 for work to Stop Cop City. She needs $ support for travel to Atlanta next month to meet with lawyers, etc.

Please contribute if share if you’re able! Venmo: Belkis-Teran Zelle: belkisteran@hotmail.com

@Old Fucking Punk Of course we will fight.  Fighting is not optional.

And also, there is a lot of inertia in the U.S. system, which is both beneficial (it resists totalitarian takeover) and harmful (when things move to the right---including through antidemocratic process---there can be a ratcheting effect, as we've seen with the federal courts).  It's also useful to keep in mind that our system of government was never intended to be democratic.

I don't think economic collapse is a reliable escape valve.  Desperation makes people hungry for people to blame and more susceptible to propaganda that scapegoats others.  And it's been noted that the current state of the U.S. economy is a walk in the park compared to Germany in the 1920s.

"Christopher Alexander and his group of architects, back in the ’70s, compiled the groundbreaking book A Pattern Language, which looks at the built environment from a city scale down to the décor on your house walls in terms of the human relations that structures and spaces elicit."

#Starhawk, 2016

https://www.ic.org/social-permaculture-what-is-it/

#PatternLanguage #ChristopherAlexander #architecture #Psychogeography

The core of the prepper fantasy: "What if the world ended in the *precise* way that made *me* the most important person?" The ultra-rich fantasize about emerging from luxury bunkers with an army of mercs and bitcoin thumbdrives to a world in ruins that they rule using their "leadership skills."

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/25/mall-ninja-prophecy/#mano-a-mano

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I presume what would really offend republican voters would be allegations that Gaetz fed the children after he raped them

Two writers I respect enormously -- @joshtpm and @pluralistic -- posted complementary pieces in recent days, on Democrats, democracy, and institutions.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-party-of-institutions-in-an-era-of-distrust/sharetoken/fdd3e27f-73f6-45dd-a706-ca111139f4ac

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/21/policy-based-evidence/#decisions-decisions

I added some thoughts in my latest newsletter (first item): https://cornerstone.ghost.io/essentials-november-23-24-2024/

@thomholwerda Next cloud hosted by @coopcloud

Why is the eBook market such shit? You can't buy directly from the publisher but have to go through Amazon or Google (let me count the ways I hate this) and always with DRM (I want to read my book on my device with my choice of software) … and that's not even touching audiobooks where the situation is even worse.

The ugly truth of US politics that a lot of people seem to be in denial about (if there's anything we USians are good at, it's sticking our heads in the sand).

Now this is funny.

i Newspaper.
'In a survey for Farmers Weekly last year, 83 per cent of famers polled said Brexit had been worse than expected; 52 per cent supported a referendum on rejoining the EU; and 70 per cent supported rejoining the single market.'

Byline Times tells us that 70% of Farmers voted for Brexit.

Be careful what you vote for you just might get it.

If you think of the problem with the shuttering of Reader being about structure and centralized authority rather than the tech, the objection becomes that Google was trusted by an ecosystem of freely-shared information as stewards of a centralizing resource, and then abandoned that responsibility and ultimately destroyed that provider ecosystem by chasing closed-model capture-profiteering

In that light, it’s clear that what Google did to Reader, they’re currently doing to search.

By the way, for anyone reading my feed, wondering why I'm so unabashedly bigoted against #proprietary software, (vastly preferring #libre software) I've written this explainer: https://davelane.nz/proprietary to explain my position.

There are enough articles about how to talk to MAGA relatives next week. Here's how to cook for them. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/11/22/2287924/-Cartoon-Recipes-for-revenge

Good grief, Elsevier's editorial proficiency is shit: here's one of their journals (International Journal of Surgery Case Reports) publishing a letter titled "Practice of Neurosurgery on Saturn".

(Via @helendecruz.net, posting on Bsky.)

Latest comic - From Dawn to Dusk

#comic #cartoon #uspol #media #election #politics

Yo, parents! I see so many of my friends caught in this endless battle with their kids over screen time—negotiating, tantrums, the whole nine yards. It’s wild. Lucky for me, I haven’t really had to deal with that (so far). Wanna know my secret weapon? Books.
Since my kid was a baby, we’ve made books a huge part of his world. Even before he could read, we gave him picture books and comics to flip through. Once he cracked the code on reading, it was game over—this kid devours books like they’re candy. We hit up the library every week, and yeah, we even convinced them to increase our borrowing limit.
Now, don’t get me wrong—he plays computer games, watches shows and movies, and has a tablet. But thanks to his love of books, he can totally entertain himself with a novel or a stack of comics for hours.
This whole experience got me thinking: what if I could help other parents break the screen-time cycle while passing on good values to their kids? That’s why I started writing children’s books. My first one? I’m extra proud of it because I co-wrote it with my son.
So here’s the deal—check it out, share this video, and follow my project, PapiStudio.com. And heads up, I’ve got some rad animations dropping soon to promote the book. Let’s spread the word and help kids discover the magic of books.

https://kolektiva.media/w/ng1CZRCrEim8C5s4qYDjbm

It's the time of the year again where many non-profits do their budget planning for the next calendar year.

Just so you know that when you want to donate to your favorite projects, now might be a good time to do so. 😉
It increases the chances that your contribution will bring timely improvement to the tools you love.

This is a much more realistic of a view than everyone saying "but inflation is down, the economy's recovered, why are people still mad about it?"

"By greatly underestimating the extraordinary power these programs had, pundits and politicians alike have greatly underestimated the effects of their expiration. This meant they didn’t predict the wave of discontentment that would inevitably emerge

https://www.crisesnotes.com/one-election-takeaway-voters-hate-temporary-safety-nets/