Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

so it's now legal for, say, the EU or Vietnam to kidnap the US president? Have I got this right?

Welcome to 2026. If you're a #USA citizen, starting today you can you request your ballot for all the upcoming elections this year (the big one in November, but also primaries leading up to it).

The best way: use https://votefromabroad.org to fill out the form electronically and have it sent to your elections clerk in the place where you're registered (or want to register, if you need to do that).

I just did it - took < 5 minutes.

The service is paid for by @democratsabroad (the party who WANTS you to vote), but it's open to ANY US citizen abroad.

Please boost and pass the word to any USA people you know outside the USA!

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.

I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

A request from somebody in the USA: if you live in another country, please start pressuring your government to institute sanctions against US.

Diplomatic sanctions, economic sanctions, whatever is possible.

I do not expect this to happen quickly. Start laying the political groundwork now so that it can happen at all, ever, while it still matters.

Thanks to some generous translators, the Fediverse Punk Month website is now available in Spanish:

https://fedi.the-counterforce.org/es
(including the digital/printable flyers!)

and Danish:

https://fedi.the-counterforce.org/da

#FPM

New MRR Radio episode for a new year, by yours truly: https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/radio_show/mrr-radio-1970/

Intro
CHANCE OPERATION – Din

Can’t Have a Life
?FOG – 5 Heads of State
SHAKTI शक्ति – Maut मौत (Death)
BAAT-BAAL – Taboo Death
REAL IMITATORS – Make Up Your Mind

An Indication of My State of Mind
PARISIAN ORGY – Come Pretty Pump Sleep
THE URINALS – Scholastic Aptitude
RHYTHM OF LIFE – Portrait of Heart
KABUKI – My Hair

Quality Time is Flashing By
ART REMAINS TANGIBLE – TV Nut
PERSONNEL – Close Quarters
HÉLÈNE BARBIER – A House
STOLEN POWER – Family Snapshots

Fantasy or Ecstasy
LA STRADA – On
OUR HEROES – Fantasenile
NEONBABIES – Die Krönung
BEAUTY PAGEANT – Lashes
THE NIXE – Commercial

Outro
PERFECT END – Puppets

#MaximumRockNRoll #MRR #Punk #PostPunk #NoWave #ArtPunk #Radio

It's so fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

Today is Digital Independence Day, a German initiative to move more and more away from Big Tech in 2026. Let's reclaim our independence!

https://di.day/

Slopagandists also get blocked and also on Github (would GTFO but work dictates it): https://hachyderm.io/@mitsuhiko/115803499180761742

People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year - https://www.wired.com/story/people-who-drink-bottled-water-on-a-daily-basis-ingest-90000-more-microplastics-per-year/ "New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t."

Someone posting AI generated images followed me. They do disclose that the images are AI generated. I blocked them. I didn't just mute, this is not just about attention hygiene anymore! I am ostracising those who post slop! #AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #genAI

“US Justice Department”

(That’s it, that’s the whole joke.)

Principal engineer at Big Tech paid to promote LLMs: "You know, I too was skeptical of the coding agents, but then I gave [our coding agent] the task to generate [our open source software whose entire codebase is on GitHub] and it spit out the code, which took human developers a year to produce, in one hour! If you do not learn how to [prompt LLMs to spit out what is in their training set] you are going to fall behind [and I won't be promoted]!"

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #genAI

HI everybody,

I am considering opening up a shop that will initially sell at the small local markets that happen around where I live and online. The idea is for it to cater for a niche market: books and illustrations, DIY, music, anarchy, zines, underground art, games for families, nerdy stuff, all things weird. A kind of gift shop that focuses on the off the beaten track stuff. For adults, for teenagers, for kids.

Of course such a space needs to be carefully curated. It is a long process that involves a lot of work and inspiration. The main aim of this shop won't be to make a profit (although of course that would be very welcome), but rather to act as physical space where people with similar interests in the area where I live can find each other. Part shop, part infoshop.

So am now asking all you cool people of the fediverse for inspiration and ideas! If you have any recommendations for any cool stuff stuff that might fit it in descriptions given, please fire away! book titles, cool art, educational cool games for kids, cool gadgets, toys for kids and and adults, weird things etc I will consider everything !

would extremely appreciate boosts for this toot to reach far and wide.

#books #weird #games #underground #gifts #diy #gadjets #creative #art #illustrations #bookshop #gift #cardgames #design #crafts #punk

The War on Terror Turns Left -- NSPM-7 [12/4] https://unicornriot.ninja/2025/the-war-on-terror-turns-left/

The cost of living has never been higher, but life? Life is cheap. Innocent life has never been as cheap as right now.

"where were all the trans people before?"

We hid. And if we didn't hide, we died.
- we were deemed clinically insane.
- we were put in institutions.
- we were forcibly medically castrated.
- we were tortured with electric shocks.
- we were hunted down and killed.
- our murderers claimed "panic" and were set free.
- many of us chose the "easy way out" instead.

Helping trans people exist is good, actually.

Bari's gonna get to the bottom of all this. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/1/2/2360664/-Cartoon-Bari-minutes

It's egregious not because it flouts international law (god knows we've done that enough times), but because it also violates US laws and US norms, where the President would normally keep US lawmakers informed (at the very least). It's a show of force, not only against Venezuela, but to US citizens as well.

3/?

Kamala wouldn’t invade Venezuela because THERE’S NO FUCKING REASON FOR A GIANT-ASS ECONOMY LIKE THE US TO KIDNAP THE TINPOT DICTATOR IN VENEZUELA UNLESS OF COURSE OUR SHITHOLE COUNTRY IS ALSO RUN BY A TINPOT DICTATOR WITH A TINY PENIS AND WET DIAPER.

Kthx.