Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Here’s what parenting can look like.

When I told my dad I was trans, my dad’s response was, “Oh! I can send you jewelry now!” (He was retired and made jewelry as a hobby).

Two days latter, I had a letter in the mail addressed to Joelle, the first time “Joelle” ever got mail, with a necklace in it. Later he made me this one. He told me, “I hope I got the colors right, I looked it up online.”

You don’t have to mourn a child transitioning. You can be the first to do so many affirming things.

They had the signs printed in advanced. Hired a graphic designer. (Wow he did a good job.) Handed them out. Waved them proudly on television. Like they say "Lower Taxes" or something.

There is no neutral way to read this sign. It's about getting rid of people because of who they are. There is no gray area. No fig leaf. Just eliminationism.

It doesn't even say WHO or WHY.

How to Survive Jail - Strategies from a Stop Cop City forest defender facing domestic terrorism and RICO charges by Priscilla Grim in Hammer and Hope: https://hammerandhope.org/article/jail-cop-city-forest-defender

I just submitted this bug report on the very cool Immich project which I promoted yesterday: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/11325 Will be interesting to see how that project lead responds.

We on the Fediverse need to nicely ask the coordinators of every 'open' project which it's not on the Fediverse but is on Facebook or Twitter... or which it's not using Matrix but is using Discord or Slack. If we don't ask, we'll never help people in open communities realise that the tools they choose *do* matter. https://davelane.nz/notslack

Exactly what I had in mind too.

In my mind, part of the problem of corporations is that it's designed specifically to make sure they can be super big and mitigate the stuff that can limit the size of businesses. I mean, the guy who started Cloudstrike was in charge of Mcaffee when that company took down half the Internet in 2010. If you were in charge of two enterprises that did such a thing, why are you still allowed to have your fingers in half the Internet? Because everything is set up to be compartmentalized enough legally that everyone can avoid consequences even when the worst possible outcome occurs.

In the US, there's been a lot of talk & concern about foreign investors buying up US farmland.

And there is, in fact, a tech startup that helps them do that! It's like Robin Hood for buying US farmland.

And who's one of its key investors, profiting off of every sale?

J.D. Vance.

Who Trump recently chose as his VP to "represent rural America."

Microsoft now blaming the EU for the crowdstrike issue, because the EU made them open their APIs to third party developers in 2009 is hilarious.

If your APIs had any kind of gracious error handling, this wouldn’t be an issue. Fix your bad code, Microsoft, stop pointing fingers.

REDALERT: The Senate is likely to vote on the Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) this week. This internet censorship bill will impact everyone who uses social media. Tell your representatives to vote no today. #THREAD https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/congress-amended-kosa-its-still-censorship-bill

When will these human rights atrocities committed in service to the IOC end, The New Yorker?

Join Sam Tracy in Milwaukee to discuss Riding More with Less: A Future for Bike Repair

Vulture Space, The Milwaukee Community Bicycle Project on Wednesday, July 24th at 6pm https://www.facebook.com/events/435855372688360

Boswell Book Company on Thursday, July 25th at 6:30pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sam-tracy-author-of-riding-more-with-less-an-in-person-boswell-event-tickets-863928743127

#books #bike

I have a comic up over at In These Times. https://inthesetimes.com/article/student-loan-debt-collective-comics

The new comics section at In These Times is up for the DEBT issue.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/student-loan-debt-collective-comics

If you want to support #Forgejo financially, you can now do this via #Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/forgejo/

The funding goes to approved team members first, and some leftover funds benefit Codeberg, too.

If you prefer other payment options, you can also donate to Codeberg, since we also use part of our funding for the development of Forgejo. https://docs.codeberg.org/improving-codeberg/donate/

Check your voter registration at least twice a month to make sure you haven’t been taken off the voting rolls! If there are defects you have enough time NOW to get them fixed!!! Don’t wait. Don’t procrastinate! Check this now: https://vote.org

#Harris #Harris2024 #voteblue #vote #kamalaharris

@civillibertynz opposes the Sentencing (Reinstating Three Strikes) Amendment Bill as it infringes on our civil liberties while not providing sufficient justification for doing so. It seems to us that the bill is more about political signalling than improving our justice system.
https://nzccl.org.nz/submission-sentencing-reinstating-three-strikes-amendment-bill/

Severe sentences do not deter crime, retribution often does not help survivors of crime heal, and the system overestimates when incarceration is needed for public safety.
https://www.vera.org/publications/a-new-paradigm-for-sentencing-in-the-united-states

Right - over the coming weekends, in addition to upgrading my Drupal7 blog (and another D7 site) to D10... I need to install HomeAssistant, PhotoPrism, and Frigate on my home server... As a #libre self-hoster, there're always exciting options to explore - I'm like a kid in a candy store, perpetually!

Wow, read this thread. Google (and #BigTech cloud services in general) can be pretty useful... right up until the instant they're not. And then you're *properly* screwed. https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112830813712646630

Pollution plan ‘must cut intensive farming for Lough #Neagh to survive’ - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/22/pollution-plan-must-cut-intensive-farming-for-lough-neagh-to-survive #farmers and #DUP marching lockstep in self-harming stupidity...

I find it really frustrating that people take the first attempts of disabled people to do something as an indication of whether they can do it or not, without realizing that anyone can fail when doing something for the first time just because they have never done it before. This is a huge double standard that I don't hear people talk about often for some reason. Today I saw a parent forbidding their blind child from cooking because she once accidentally spilled salt on the counter. The fact that the girl is rarely ever allowed to cook and doesn't have much experience somehow slipped their mind. Not to mention that such things can happen and do happen to literally anyone. I've also been in situations where people wouldn't let me go somewhere on my own, because they saw me get lost once. The fact that it's normal to sometimes get lost and not know the exact route if you have never been to that place before, again, slipped their mind. And God forbid if I tell them about this one time when I didn't get to the right place with Google maps. I keep being reminded of it every single time I want to go somewhere. I understand that those people are worried and everything, but damn. This only makes things worse because it's normal to learn from mistakes, and it's normal to make such mistakes. Maybe... I guess not for us.