Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

P.S.: dear PeerTube admins who mirrored the video on your instances to help offset its bandwidth consumption...

and dear regular PeerTube users who kept your browser on my PeerTube page to take advantage of the P2P function and also help with bandwidth

you're real life superheroes to me. I cannot thank you enough! ❤️

I only got a couple of reports of the video being down, but it was mostly up and very fast, traffic surges and all 🤗

Space exploration isn’t wasteful. Letting the worst of humanity do it their way for all the wrong reasons is wasteful.

“That money could be spent on real problems here!” We solve real problems here via science and engineering, both of which are advanced by space exploration.

Nobody is starving because we have a space program. People are starving because we have billionaires.

🚫 So we just caught another “thanks but no thanks” from a grant we applied to for our next film A Red Road to the West Bank—a journey into Indigenous resistance from Turtle Island to Palestine.

But fuck it. We’re not waiting around for institutions to decide if our stories are worth telling. We got a fresh batch of keffiyehs, straight from Palestinians in Syria via a homie in the West Bank, and this is how we’re gonna fund this film—through real-deal solidarity, not nonprofit begging bowls.

We’ve got black & white (classics), red, green, blue, and yo—RAINBOW keffiyehs. Only 9 of those exist, so if you want one, move fast.

💥 Go to https://amplifierfilms.ca, click the Keffiyehs link, drop a donation for A Red Road to the West Bank, and tell us which color you want in the notes. If we’ve still got it, it’s yours.

Half the cash goes to support the Palestinian vendor and his fam. The other half helps us get this radical-ass film made.

#NoGrantsNoGodsNoMasters
#ARedRoadToTheWestBank
#FuckColonialism
#KeffiyehNotCapitalism
#AmplifierFilms

Most of #Phosh's short tutorial and demo videos are now also available on #peertube at https://peertube.debian.social/c/phosh/videos . Some of them are already a bit dated and thus look a bit old fashioned (but can still be useful)

#LinuxMobile

My first paid software development job was on accessibility software. I remember visiting a user to help set up our code, and the sheer joy he had at being able to communicate more quickly than he had been able to for years.

Seeing the effort put into improving modern Linux accessibility is heartwarming. There's been almost 20 years of almost nobody caring. It's important. It's worthwhile.

Say thank you to the people doing that work. Stop amplifying the people saying that work isn't happening.

https://thecocklebur.substack.com/p/new-map-shows-public-land-for-sale

This is a disaster. As a Montanan, I'm not surprised that our R reps were against this, as conservative rednecks love going out to the un-developed woods just as much as the leftist hippies. Is there a lesson in there for other places?

"A new map published by the Wilderness Society documents which tracts of public land could be for sale. The potential sale area includes a vast area of over 250 million acres in 11 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. (NOTE—Montana is exempt from the proposed public land selloff due to resistance from the state’s Republican Representatives and Senators who oppose the sale. See, Republicans, speaking out works!!!)"

France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force - GendBuntu is a silent EU tech success story

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1lfxdsd/france_quietly_deployed_100000_linux_machines_in/

Well done. Let us get free from Microsoft spyware OS. They are not trustworthy vendors, and all taxpayers' money should go to fund open-source apps/software and not to Bill Gates' fortune.

#linux #OpenSource

If you know anyone who's tired
of commercial social media,
share this with them.

If you know anyone who's curious
about Mastodon and the Fediverse,
share this with them.

If you know anyone who hasn't
watched it yet, share this with them.

Thank you @_elena for this incredible video about our community.

I hope everyone everywhere gets to watch it

https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Friendica #PeerTube #Lemmy #SocialMedia

Private equity vampires are collecting billions by sucking the life out of businesses and communities. The Trump/Republican reward-the-rich tax bill gives them even more incentive to do this. Call your senators and representatives, now.

https://cepr.net/publications/private-equity-titans-eye-new-tax-perk/

https://www.levernews.com/wall-street-gets-a-trump-tax-break-to-fire-workers/

#pitchforks

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URGENT: Help raise emergency funds for seven Sudanese anarchists. The RSF is approaching their city and they need $315 each to evacuate to safety. 🖤

We’re aiming to raise $2,500 to cover their evacuation and basic fees. Every dollar counts. Please contribute if you can, and share widely.

💸 CashApp: $jtsholar (Note: “S”)
🌍 Or donate via OpenCollective.com/support-sudanese-comrades

Solidarity is life-saving. Let’s get them to safety. ✊🏿❤️

#SudanCrisis #MutualAid #SolidarityNotCharity #AnarchistSupport #SudaneseVoices #RSF #EvacuationSupport #DirectAid #SupportComrades

From Dan Tynan:

"Hey, maybe (White House personnel director) Gor is not a Putin asset. Maybe he has no connection to Russia at all. But if there's nothing to hide about his background, why is he working so hard to hide it?"

https://tynanfiles.beehiiv.com/p/russia-is-in-da-white-house?utm_source=tynanfiles.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=russia-is-in-da-white-house

You know how I guessed recruiting would be easy? I have put two candidates into interview processes, averaging four hours per candidate (two with the employer to get details, two with the candidate for a social + gentle pair programming session).

That's an INSANE speed compared to the industry. Recruiters really are exactly as easy to own as they appear to be. AhahahahaHAHAHAHAHA death has come for you

The problems I saw raised were:

Raised by me: The new intellectual property clause was permanent/irrevokable; Mastodon retained rights to your posts even after they were deleted.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086

Raised by Cory Doctorow: The new TOS forced users to give up the right to sue in court, & forced use of arbitration instead. 😬
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114706885462760813

Raised by Sarah Jamie Lewis and others: It was ambiguous if *other federated servers* counted as "users" under the TOS.
https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/114699476927561899

FAQ on Refusing Illegal Orders

(from the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild:

https://nlgmltf.org/military-law/2025/faq-on-refusing-illegal-orders/

PDF: https://nlgmltf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Illegal-Orders-FAQ-17JUN2025.pdf

Please boost, promote, and distribute to servicemembers!

("DoD Instruction 1325.06 permits a servicemember to possess a single copy of this document.")

If you’re arrested you should be able to examine the technology used to identify you, especially if there’s a history of inaccuracies. We argue just that in our latest amicus brief. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/eff-nj-supreme-court-prosecutors-must-disclose-details-regarding-frt-used-identify

"In this short piece I will portray the work of our team in collaboration with two different networks in Argentina, one related to rural secondary schools in the Province of Buenos Aires, and the other one related to small workers cooperatives to support people who suffer from mental health-related challenges."
#WorkerCoops #SolidarityEconomy
https://geo.coop/articles/dynamic-coalitions-organizational-solidarity-practice

This week's comic now up on Daily Kos:
DONALD AND JOHN
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/19/2328762/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-takes-a-Calvinesque-and-Hobbesian-look-at-protests