Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Just had some folks around for a BBQ & I didn't know a couple of them all that well. One woman was asked what she did for work & turns out she managed a few project teams who were all working on Microsoft Dynamics 360 implementations. I totally tried to look enthusiastic, but not sure I managed. And when I was asked the same question, I explained about the free (beer & freedom) university & because we weren't using Microsoft, it cost about a 1% as much. She thought I was joking.

A few years ago I made this flow chart of which Mastodon posts end up in which timelines!

So, you can see how each instance will have a different local timeline, and even a slightly different federated timeline - and you can see why the federated timeline moves so much faster than the local one, too.

This is why it's important to boost good posts and use hashtags - the fediverse is fragmented and harder to search by nature.

[ #mastodon #meta #tootorial #howto #mastopedia #mastotip ]

So, my grandma is full native. Not many people can tell, because she's pale.

I'm Ojibwe. We're a paler tribe. And she spent her whole career indoors, and so, why would her skin not be pale. I'm actually the same skin tone as her. We're just a pale group. We're great lakes folks, we didn't need the extra melanin. We can get to that stereotypical native skin tone. But it isn't the only tone we can have.

She's 100% (though blood quantum doesn't matter), a tribe elder, etc etc. There's a place in Detroit named after her maiden name.

But because she was pale, after she finished at the residential schools and knew to not speak Ojibwe and to be scared of admitting she was native, she was then just given to a white dude. My genetic grandpa. Nice German dude. Told to make white families. Because she was pale enough to assimilate, here's a white dude for you. She had some kids with him.

But, she refused to give up, she wrote all her kids down as native. Signed them up as Ojibwe tribe members.

All but my mother were sterilized at birth for that. My mother only was spared because she was born like a month after the IHS was caught sterilizing native babies. And so she was able to have kids (me and my brother)

My genetic grandpa died when my mom was real young. And my grandma married her childhood sweetheart. Who grew up down the street from grandma in Detroit and it's cute as hell. They're still together now, nearly 50/60 years later.

But because of what happened to my grandma growing up, she's still afraid to talk outside the house about Ojibwe culture. Once I said out loud in public something about being Ojibwe and she literally froze in fear. It's terrifying. The stories I've heard. The relatives that ha e "disappeared"

Anyways, all that to say. That my anger is very real, my relationship with the government is fury. And my generational trauma is real.

I don’t know if this will help anyone, but:

Mastodon: Help for the Frustrated User!
https://youtu.be/EQLfMLtqWEw

Does anyone know of a unions-centric Mastodon instance? Please boost for reach.

#SocialCoop friends, I've started a bit of a hackpad on sharing lessons from our experience for people building fediverse instances now. Want to join me in sharing our learnings?

https://cloud.medlab.host/s/dyZHePAzNA3PX3w

Teachers reveal scale of pupils’ hunger as 100,000 miss out on #FfreeSchoolMeals | School meals | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/nov/10/children-not-eligible-for-free-school-meals-going-hungry-say-teachers

#UK #England #Poverty #Education #Politics

TrustCor CA will be removed in the upcoming release of GrapheneOS. They've been proven to engage in malicious domain squatting and have close ties to backdoored software and surveillance operations.

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-policy/c/oxX69KFvsm4

We won't be waiting for Google and Mozilla to act.

Reading this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018866148/do-big-wheels-belong-on-beaches I think that people who consider '4WD' to be their hobby... need to find a more sustainable hobby.

@ReneMeadowbloom @winterkalte

🏴PROTEST TMRW IS STILL ON🏴

👉The tenants' union has received confirmation that the encampment eviction tmrw has been postponed thanks to the overwhelming public response.

Even with a postponed eviction, we will be going forward with a militant 9am protest. Postponened or not, we need total confirmation that campers will NOT be evicted ANYTIME in the future and that they will receive the services they need. We have received the encouragement of Resilience to make this decision.

We ask that people countinue to show support and to help coordinate a response by showing up tnight at the site of the encampment, 7:30pm, and showing up before the protest tmrw to check in on campers.

We will not allow the government to postpone the eviction so that a future eviction can have a more coordinated and heavy police response. We will also not allow public backlash to fizzle out. We're gonna keep up the pressure.✊️

AGAINST EVICTIONS!! HOUSING FOR ALL!!

For those not aware, the City of so-called "montréal" is planning yet another displacement of homeless people.

Fortunately the montréal Autonomous Tenants Union has called for a manifestation in protest
⬇️
https://nitter.net/i/status/1590160549224263681

For those local, try to get out there, or if you can't, alert those you know who might be in alignment.

The City has really been on some bullshit floating disinformation that they're helping unhoused people when all they may do is bus them to overcrowded (sometimes full), temporary "shelters" that are places of
(institutional) violence

#Tiotiake #Tiotiahke #Tiotáke #Mooniyang #montréal #montreal
#DefendTheUnhoused

Boosts OK. Feel free to publish translations.

A discussion about distributed federated systems else-network did bring up some concerning history that we should keep in mind:

#XMPP was, briefly, the dominant messaging system on the Internet. It was fully federated allowing hosting anywhere. Major extensions were being done by major companies (Apple adding voice and video for example). And it all fell apart because the three big providers (Apple, Google, Facebook) ditched it to have more control.

#mastodon (1/2)

With yesterday’s election, Illinois struck a decisive blow against the long U.S. trend to strip labor of organizing effectiveness under law in the name of a falsely-so-called ‘right to work.’ Here, the people have countered that trend and voted in an amendment to the state constitution that enshrines, rather, workers’ right to organized collective resistance and negotiation. And I was here for it. It feels good.

https://www.wjol.com/collective-bargaining-amendment-passes/

You can thank me later...

"We now demonstrate how Bob can extort Alice in the contract of Section II-A. Bob’s extortion strategy is quite simple."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.09857.pdf

In the case of journalists who were put off by having been blocked for not CW'ing political posts, one thing I think that needs to be emphasized is that Mastodon is not one single community. Different instances and cross-instance social networks have different norms.

Just because one instance blocks your toots does not mean that Mastodon as a whole isn't interested in them.

France just legislated that every parking lot for 80 cars or more must be covered by solar panels
That’s 11GW of new solar (same as 10 new nuclear reactors) powering millions of home - zero new land needed
Climate action is happening, just not at #COP27
#climateaction https://www.publicsenat.fr/article/parlementaire/l-obligation-de-pose-de-panneaux-photovoltaiques-sur-les-grands-parkings

https://www.kernelmag.io/2/virtual-violence