Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

What a fascinatingly weird, specialized tool (h/t to @ColleenDoran for the pointer): https://x6ud.github.io/#

It provides you with a “skull" that you can rotate to a desired position, and then you can search for reference photos of animals facing that way.

I'm no artist, so don't have any use for it personally, but for folks composing #art that includes animals that look more realistic than medieval paintings, it looks pretty helpful…

The deadline to comment is March 17th, 2025, so there's time to gather your thoughts.  This is a situation where a carefully thought out and researched statement will be weighted more heavily than a general one dashed off quickly.

This Reddit post provides links to three places for public comment on the anti-trans passport policies: #^https://www.reddit.com/r/Passports/comments/1it0ko3/public_comment_on_us_passport_form_changes/

Recommendations are for comments to be polite but firm.  Specific personal stories and expert knowledge are particularly valuable on these kinds of federal "public comment" sites, which are meant to compile perspectives and data, not to track raw counts of numbers of people on each "side".

(boosts and reposts very welcome)

To my dear but deeply flawed homeland: when your democratic process delivers an intellectually & morally deficient autocrat & his evil entourage... the response is not 'we need incremental change!'. No. The response to that must be massive, grassroots, fundamental structural change. It must reject, entirely, the concept of billionaires (plus a 'margin of safety'). There's no incremental way out of the very deep hole you(we)'re in.

@lwriemen @a11yMel If moving, I would say to mirror it to/from Codeberg as codeberg is not as accessible yet. While I absolutely agree we should all be trying to reduse our dependance on github and US based services, please don't forget people with disabilities.

Look, it isn't difficult.

- They aren't susceptible to appeals to kindness or decency because they are cruel and indecent people. The cruelty is the point.

- They will never listen to appeals to logic or intellect because they are, fundamentally, stupid and illogical people. The stupidity is the point.

- They will not be swayed by political appeals to patriotism or democracy because they themselves are unpatriotic and undemocratic people. The fascism is the point.

Right now, Trump and his MAGA party goons are anti Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, anti Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations, anti Roosevelt's New Deal, anti Truman's NATO, anti LBJ's Great Society, anti Reagan's immigration policy, anti Carter's emphasis on Civil Rights, preventing climate change, and peace in Israel, anti Clinton's making space for gay people and feeding children, anti Bush Sr's No Child Left Behind, anti Obama's healthcare, anti Trump's own US-Mex-Can trade deal, and anti Biden for the sin of picking a black VP and acknowledging the existence of trans people for the first time ever in our nation.

As a measure of just how venal this current cabal is, G.W. Bush's greatest humanitarian achievement was a project designed to fight AIDS in Africa. These assholes just cut its funding. If not reversed, it will end with an estimated 30 million deaths. And that's just for starters.

My main point - Trump and his MAGA jackboots have only one real goal: destroy respect for democracy. Details of their plans mean nothing to them. Stupid, crazy, extravagantly wasteful, doesn't matter.

The actual goal is failure.

I would like to formally apologize for once referring to crypto as "digital Beanie Babies." A lot of people lost money buying Beanie Babies, but at least they didn't directly transfer that lost wealth to billionaires.

Build local networks with decentralised solutions that are #OpenSource #FreeSoftware and based on #OpenStandrds not because you want to fight BigCorp, but because you want to help your neighbours. Focus on solutions, not on problems you can't really solve. Build bridges, not walls. Deal?

Und wenn wir schon mal dabei sind, bzw. zusammenraufen und eigene Angebote schaffen.

5) Lokale #Linux User Groups sind eine gute Möglichkeit sich auszutauschen und gegenseitig zu helfen. Man kann kleine Workshops und Vorträge organisieren. Meiner Meinung nach sollte es mehr davon geben. Gerade am Anfang brauchen einige dann noch mal etwas Hilfe. Wenn jemand Interesse an #Debian #GNU #Linux im #MTK (#Hofheim) hat, gerne Bescheid sagen! Ich bin vor über 20 Jahren von #Windows auf #GNU / #Linux umgestiegen. Eine lokale Linux User Group (#LUG) war immer ein Ort wo mir bei meinen Problemen geholfen wurde.

6) Wir brauchen auch Angebote für unsere Kleinen. Am besten noch bevor sie in der 2. / 3. Klassen diese iPads in die Hand gedrückt bekommen. #Kinder lernen extrem schnell und sie sind auch hoffen Dinge zu lernen (so meiner Erfahrung als Papa). Die Geschichte mit #Ada und #Zangemann von @kirschner@mastodon.social und Team ist ein guter Start. Immer wenn es um Software geht, spreche ich mit meinen Kindern drüber und sag,.. "Das ist wie bei Ada und Zangemann".

Meine Tochter sagt immer: "Wir spielen kein minecraft, wir spielen Minetest, weil wir Freie Software verwenden!" 😀 Wir sollten als #Eltern mit guten Beispiel voran gehen und ihnen dabei helfen. Es gibt auch Projekte wie @Teckids@bildung.social - dort bekommt man auch viele Information auf der Homepage.

Viele sagen es schon länger,... man hat aber nie gehört. Vielleicht öffnet die aktuelle Situation dann doch noch mal ein paar mehr Menschen die Augen.

CC: @amorgner@frankfurt.social @tizmic@mastodon.social

The opposite of DEI is NOT "color-blind, hire-the-best-qualified." It's "continue to hire the incompetent white male just because he's a white male." And the entire Trump administration proves that point.

Well #FediHire, I'm on the market again! 25 year #Ruby / #Rails (and more!) powerhouse looking for employment. Reached 3rd highest contributor at my last gig despite 200k+ commits, 15+ years, and hundreds of developers. Have ~100 gems w/ ~2 billion downloads. You know me.

Loves: languages / runtimes, profiling & optimization, debugging, testing, OSS, etc.

https://www.zenspider.com/ryan/Resume.html

please #boost ❤️

I started an open source project in response to the current US administration and their erasure of women from their websites: https://github.com/MelSumner/womeninstem

There’s a lot I still have to figure out but getting a repo up, issue templates in and a landing page ready (DNS stuff should be worked out by tomorrow?) seemed like a good step to start.

#womenInStem

If you find yourself thinking about posting something telling someone *not* to take some action they're taking to try to fight tyranny... maybe stop, think, and consider not do that.

I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in SEATTLE TONIGHT (Feb 19) with Dan Savage:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-with-dan-savage-picks-and-shovels-a-martin-hench-novel-tickets-1106741957989

And in TORONTO on SUNDAY (Feb 23) at Another Story Books:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/picks-shovels-cory-doctorow-tickets-1219803217259

More tour dates here:

http://martinhench.com

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TONIGHT! Mutual Aid 101: Intro to Mutual Aid (free online course from Shareable)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mutual-aid-101-intro-to-mutual-aid-tickets-1203535961459

It's ok to take some time to build yourself & rest.

It took 70+ years to get rid of Jim Crow. Then it took reactionaries 60+ years to get back to where we are now.

It's extremely unlikely this is gonna get fixed overnight. You can skip the news for a day. Really.

Attending a protest? Check out EFF's protest safety tips. https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest

Real education should educate us out of servitude and into independence and revolt. - Emma Goldman

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