Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I'm looking for examples of companion planting using #nativespecies for #foodsystems and #ecological #restoration. The Three Sisters method of growing corn, beans, and squash together is an example from #indigenous North America. Are there other regional examples of native plants that can be grown together for mutual benefit? What about sea vegetables in #coastal settings?

#bioregional #ethnobotany #nutrition #permaculture #ecosystem #climatechange #bluecarbon #sustainability #askfedi

Listening to RNZ this morning, and hearing Mr Carnegie (the head of Energy Resources Aotearoa, an industry lobby group) talking about the need for more fossil fuels... saying "we need to be practical about this". What he means is: we need to compromise our values and do the wrong thing because the wealthy elite don't want their profit reduced. Remember: "expedience is the *absence* of principle." I've got nothing but contempt for people like Mr Carnegie and his organisation.

"Discovering evidence that the most famous Indigenous woman in Canada, Buffy Sainte-Marie, was neither Indigenous nor Canadian was not what I expected when I sat down with my son last year to watch her biography, "Carry It On," on PBS. I had hoped the film would inspire him to learn about a successful Native musician." #pretendianism

By Jacqueline Keeler
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/buffy-sainte-marie-pretendian-native-canada-keeler-18508936.php

Our latest #MediaIndigena episode 333 is out!
How Canada Diddles while the World Burns - A Climate Check-in
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYWluZGlnZW5hLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz/episode/OGUwNTRkYzAtMDc5Yi00YjJhLWIwY2UtOTA1MTgwMGQ3MGY2?ep=14

This argument that we’re overreacting to MAGAs and trump is so mind numbingly stupid, I want to punch anyone advancing it. There is no way to watch this unprecedented Christo fascism seizing all of norms and governance, even the rule of law itself, and not see that democracy is in dire and immediate peril.

COOL! The spicy article I wrote about satellite pollution is FINALLY published! "Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide" in Nature News & Views.

This article required weeks of back-and-forth with the editor, the editor-in-chief, and Nature's lawyers, so I hope that means it's a good one.

During this process, I learned that satellite companies are so powerful and litigious that even giant publishers like Nature are terrified of getting sued. Which is...rather worrying.

Anti-monarchists in the #NorthWest are going to be apoplectic at what the Guardian has uncovered...

The Duchy of Lancaster has been profiting from funds collected from those who die without a will or next of kin.... running at about £6m a year for the last decade.

I know a lot of people who will be getting ready to get really mad about this (and rightly so).

Get that will sorted, is the best advice to anti-Royalists!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/23/revealed-king-charles-secretly-profiting-from-the-assets-of-dead-citizens

@cogdog in my days of providing IT support for people unlucky enough to be using MS products, I was frequently asked to help save corrupted MS Office files. MSO is surprisingly fragile. LibreOffice's code for opening Microsoft's proprietary formats is demonstrably better than MS'. Many 'irretrievable' MS files've been saved by LO despite MS trying to hobble it for most of its existence (because it's excellent). Users should take note. Incidentally LO came from StarOffice which predates MSO.

The Murdoch family's Fox "News" did its best to foment national fear and loathing with its dangerously bogus claim that the car explosion at Niagara Falls was terrorism.

It's a reminder that Murdoch and his underlings relentlessly inject poison into our civic bloodstream, for profit and power.

If you subscribe to cable/satellite TV or a digital equivalent, you are sending them money every month.

Please stop. Please cancel. Do not support this evil company.

Sometimes, despite it being unpopular with the bonfire proprietors, all of us have to be bonfire pissers. Because some bonfires are just a really bad idea.

No Thanks No Giving on stolen land.

Art by @KleeBenally (on IG) of Indigenous Action.

Learn more and support at indigenousaction.org & donate to Indigenous Mutual Aid at indigenousmutualaid.org and Kinłani Mutual Aid kinlanimutualaid.org.

The NY Post is part of the Murdoch family's media empire.

Media Matters has been one of the few organizations that has consistently called out the Murdochs' poisonous influence in our culture.

So it is no surprise that the Post -- which doesn't disclose this context -- is doing a hit piece on Media Matters.

Gonna re-signal boost that we're looking for folks to help out with (at least) #Go hacking on #Abra!

https://docs.coopcloud.tech/abra/

#Abra is used daily by actual real life tech co-ops such as @autonomic & https://local-it.org (fedi handle?) and loads more.

We have good collective process in place to submit proposals for compensation for the work.

The community is full with Very Nice People. It's free software and copyleft.

Happy to help on-board!

-- @decentral1se

Do I know anyone here who is willing to share their experience deploying an institutional Mastodon server? A contact of mine is looking for someone to discuss the experience as he works on getting a government agency to deploy their own instance. Boosts appreciated #fediverse #mastodon

I wrote a piece on a #Coop alternative to Etsy that just launched, one that puts power back into the hands of artists & makers:
@coopartisans (glad they're on Mastodon!)

I didn't realize the extent to which #Etsy had become toxic to sellers until starting interviews for this piece. It's clear that artisans are being drawn to this because an alternative is long overdue.

(there's a tech issue with the authorship at the top; it names me as the author at the bottom)

https://www.shareable.net/artisans-cooperative-an-etsy-alternative-owned-and-run-by-artists-and-makers/

And the winner of the Dutch election is... The Dutch Media. They've spent decades hyping up every right wing racist party, allowing them to say the most outrageous things without any fact checking at all. The public has now given the most votes to a racist linked to Putin. I'm ashamed.
#tk2023 #DutchPolitics

Debian Votes: A General Resolution torward an offical project statment has been initiated regarding the recent EU 'Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive' https://www.debian.org/vote/2023/vote_002

Although Dan Godin never says it directly in this article (as he should): https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/normally-targeting-ukraine-russian-state-hackers-spread-usb-worm-worldwide/ but this new USB worm is a *Windows* issue. I always wonder why tech writers *never* state this explicitly. They only ever imply it, leaving it as something only informed technologists can work out.

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