Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“Squirter:” The Catastrophic Stupidity that May [Have] Set Off a Larger Religious Conflict - https://emptywheel.net/the-catastrophic-stupidity-that-may-have-set-off-a-larger-religious-conflict/ "there are almost no people in Trump’s inner circle who have been paying attention. Instead, he’s got sycophants, Crusaders, and venal developers advising him, deliberately trying to purge anyone who has been paying attention."

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that
⚠️ the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was
💥“anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.

From Saturday morning through Monday night,
👉more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).

The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.

The MRFF is keeping the complainants anonymous to prevent retribution by the Defense Department.

https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for

Medical journal The Lancet blasts RFK Jr.’s health work as a failure
Kennedy's destruction "might take generations to repair," The Lancet said.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/03/medical-journal-the-lancet-blasts-rfk-jr-s-health-work-as-a-failure/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Who wants to share (a) decent zine(s) on putting on a music show for one's first time?
Bonus if it has details on fundraiser shows and touches on potential hostile venues/door-attendees.

(@'ing is welcome)

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My experience of the #fediverse :

Year 1 (2023):
It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.

Year 2 (2024):
I start a blog - #TheFutureIsFederated - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.

Year 3 (2025):
My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.

Year 4 (2026):
I plan to buy a Heltec to try out off-grid mesh radio communication 💁‍♀️

As a child, I thought the lesson of history was that the good guys always win. As an adult, I realized the actual lesson is that the winners declare themselves the good guys.

The voluntary commitments proposed by #Apple won’t fix this. The #UK Competition and Markets Authority must mandate interoperability by default, ensuring all developers, including #FreeSoftware #OpenSource ones, get equal access to Apple’s OS (#iOS) and hardware features.

@stephen @RedRobyn

oh, yes! Georeferencing the Black Maps was one of the Summer Student projects at Environment Canterbury for years. You can access many of them now on Canterbury Maps:

https://canterburymaps.govt.nz/news/check-out-our-newly-digitised-historic-maps-black-maps/

Which also means you can add them as layers onto other maps!

And you can read more here: https://apps.canterburymaps.govt.nz/BlackMaps/index.html

Where I come from, the WW2 hasn't ended yet.

#Croatia

Forget a presidential library. He's gonna end up as bunch of jars in his own wing at the Mütter Museum.

Which services do you have an account on?

Since i'm getting tired of gitlab but am staying in part because it feels like moving to something "more obscure" would be a barrier to contributors

Boosts welcome

A Dubai based hedge-fund executive has said to the FT:

No one knew 'you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai. It was not a consideration. People have moved families. This element of concern is new'!

Given the Hedgies are supposed to be the smart guys, how did they miss the Middle East is suffused with global oil politics, and that it has been unstable politically for generations....

Oh that's right; low taxes, folks... it'll all be fine

#politics #MiddleEast #Geopolitics

Housing Justice: A Lexicon for Building Solidarity provides accessible language for housing scholars and activists. This Kickstarter supports the publication and dissemination of this vital volume. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/housingjustice

Contributors draw from case studies and organizing experiences around the world, foregrounding the complex entanglements of housing with racial capitalism, settler colonialism, migration control, and state violence.

Chapter 18 of 'Cooperative Enterprise & Market Economy' just dropped!

"In this chapter, Luis Razeto identifies the key to the democratic transformation of the market – “the formation of a new social block, a subject of transformational action, the bearer of a new structure of social action” – and analyzes the various theoretical and practical obstacles that must be overcome in order for it to occur." ~ @Matt_Noyes

https://geo.coop/articles/cooperative-enterprise-and-market-economy-chapter-18

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Anybody want to hire a fullstack js/ts dev with decades of experience and no "ai" taint? I do it all, I look good doing it, I'm cheap as hell, and I don't use rented coding tools so you can own all the code I write for you.

Remote from Canada, Eastern time zone.

Florida wants its own CIA. That could lead to unchecked domestic surveillance

A bill to create a state intelligence operation would allow scrutiny based on "opinions" — and could prompt other states to follow

FPF's Seth Stern and Lauren Harper explain:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/01/florida-cia-intelligence-unit-surveillance-views

Igalia is proud to announce our Coding Experience program for 2026! Open to all new programmers, students and self-learners alike, applications are invited till the 3rd of April in one or more of five areas of Open Source development.

Apply now!

https://www.igalia.com/2026/02/27/Igalia-2026-Coding-Experience-Open-for-Applications.html

Why the fuck does Thunderbird hide phisher's real email addresses behind their made-up names

Like, get an email from Hetzner, Thunderbird tells me it's from Hetzner, I have to click on the sender's name before it goes oh yeah that's actually from xrewuri@uhu819ywx.com

Scam-friendly by design

"Maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation"

~Epstein-funded tech fascist Joscha Bach

Big Tech has long discussed which of us are worth saving. Their answer is "the richer the worthier."

Via Musk, Thiel, et al, this fascist eugenics is now operating as US Trump govt policy

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/how-epstein-channelled-race-science-and-climate-culling-into-silicon-valleys-ai-elite/

Millions are dying every year from govt inaction on climate:

https://www.who.int/news/item/29-10-2025-climate-inaction-is-claiming-millions-of-lives-every-year--warns-new-lancet-countdown-report

#USPol #EUPol #EpsteinFiles #Eugenics #ClimatePurge #news #racism #BigTech .