Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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I’m a 18‐year‐old transgirl from Eastern Germany. My parents are right‐wing extremists and have a problem with trans people. I am currently staying with my grandma, but she wants me out by 8 September latest.

I am going to stay with a friend from 9 to 10 September, but I still need a place to crash from 8 to 9 September, and also a more permanent solution for the time after. I am not bound to any particular place, but I would like to stay in Germany for now.

I am also looking for a job in IT, preferably in systems operations. I have been working with Linux in my free time for a few years now and I am really into NixOS. CV upon request.

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Interesting - RNZ's apparent advertorial for 'Kami' - educational software that's just got US VC funding - include the statement from a founder that their software's 'available for all platforms'... I see a lot of Google & Microsoft. All proprietary. Just signed up for a look & am told to install a browser extension for 'Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge'... is FF supported I wonder? All platforms? Hmmm. All the investment by edtech providers in integration with #bigtech... and nothing else.

Sometimes you say “yes” to a project on the spur of the moment, and it serendipitously turns out to be exactly what you need.

Several months ago, Steven at @pmpress asked me to write a foreword for what will be a book in the @workingclasshistory series: “Be Gay, Do Crimes: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion,” edited by Zane McNeil, Riley Clare Valentine, and Blu Buchanan. Since then, my writer’s bloc and “anarchism of despair” have both only worsened, and the idea of trying to pen a 1,000-word foreword felt unimaginable.

I sat myself down daily in the same spot—a picnic table outside a big communally owned building in Montreal filled with co-op-y, radical, artsy, and/or queer spaces, won after being squatted decades ago—and read all the “on this day in history” entries in calendrical order. Around that time, I happened on a free showing of a powerful documentary about ACT-UP being shown for free in another neighborhood community center. I also joined in an anticapitalist and anticolonialist trans pride march that was inseparable from its Palestinian solidarity. And I thought repeatedly of the critique of the slogan “protect trans kids“ that a 15-year-old queer anarchist pal recently gifted me: “We can defend ourselves.”

And we have. Over centuries. And we’ll continue to—always criminalized, defiant, and prefiguring lives that the-powers-that-kill can never comprehend.

You won’t get to read my now-finished foreword (nor the fabulous “Be Gay, Do Crimes”) for many months, but suffice it to say, this book is “like a bolt cutter. Each entry snaps open another padlock, allowing us to steal back what is ours. To reappropriate the many
scraps of our bottom-up legacies of good troublemaking that otherwise would be ‘lost’ to top-down histories, and use those glorious remnants, those fag ends, to figuratively craft our own amulets of mutualistic protection.”

Reading it did that for me. I remembered that resistance is a long, long journey with no end, just many rebellious ancestors and messy beautiful experiments, even if I feel stuck. What feels unimaginable is what sparks possibilities.

(photos: wheatpastes, fresh & attacked, Montreal/Tioh’tia:ke/Mooniyang, summer 2023)

Now I have 35 bags of toys plus some odds and ends to give away. I meet kids at the food shelf every week and #poverty sucks for them. Their parents can't afford toys. I would have killed for these toys when I was a kid.

The Arivaca Fire Department Chief admits that she ordered the wall to be cut to rescue the man in this article, so I guess now there is a bunch more of the story I can tell.

It's killing me that I only shot a couple quick phone snaps of the cutting operation, since it was super dramatic. I SOOOOOO wanted to be filming it, but being super illegal, I had assumed I wouldn't be able to publish them anywhere for a decade anyway.

Unfortunately, Border Patrol tracked the man down to the hospital in Tucson where he had his surgery and has detained him. It's infuriating that BP had the time and effort to search hospitals for injured people, but not the inclination to help when they could've. Like I said in an earlier post, there are agents in the field with good hearts, but the core of the agency is rotten and cruel.

People are working on getting the injured man a lawyer now.

https://azluminaria.org/2024/08/30/small-town-firefighters-sawed-through-arizona-border-wall-to-rescue-an-injured-man-who-waited-24-hours-for-help/

The lack of honest disclosure here isn't the panelist MSNBC featured so prominently. It's the fact that the channel didn't see fit to tell its viewers the full story.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/i-didnt-know-she-was-black-msnbc-mixed-race-voter-attacks-kamala-harris-turns-out-hes-pro-trump-gop-candidate/

Officials in Columbus, Ohio -- including a county judge -- need remedial education on the First Amendment. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/city-of-columbus-sues-man-after-he-discloses-severity-of-ransomware-attack/

EXCLUSIVE — For this year’s International Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity Week, Freedom interviewed the Anarchist Black Cross-Moscow to discuss their long history in Russia supporting imprisoned Russian anarchists, the challenges they face under Putin’s regime and their work during the war on Ukraine. https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/30/through-war-despotism-and-social-change-russias-anarchist-black-cross/ #anarchism #rupol #russia #prison

https://kolektiva.media/w/2BoF68SfvpVWj3iQkQtdBK

Oh, so you like bookfairs, eh?

Well it sounds like there will be 3 of em in the settler colonial project known as Canada in the coming month.

Check out

The Halifax Anarchist Bookfair August 31st, 2024 10am-6pm
https://halifaxanarchistbookfair.noblogs.org/

The Victoria Anarchist Bookfair September 21st 11am-6pm and September 22nd 11am-5pm
https://victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca/

And

The Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair September 28th 2024
https://hamiltonanarchistbookfair.noblogs.org/

US students arrested in #Gaza campus protests face academic and legal woes - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/30/us-campus-protests-gaza "As classes restart, many of the 3,000 students detained are navigating legal system and disciplinary proceedings" this is vindictive bullying, nothing else

Not even the Onion could have come up with something this absurd (though directly on point):

"Right-Wing Media Carries Out Emergency Investigation Into Kamala Harris’ McDonald’s Job"

https://www.jezebel.com/right-wing-media-carries-out-emergency-investigation-into-kamala-harris-mcdonalds-job

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/29/nx-s1-5090895/teens-school-college-poll
"What’s concerning is that students say they feel much less engaged in school than they did just last year, compared to Gallup’s 2023 Gen Z survey."

The survey indicates a very large (up to 10%, depending on the metric used) increase in student disengagement in the U.S. between 2023 and 2024. That's a huge change, and very recent.

Pat answers about problems with education that go back decades or short term changes due to lockdowns will not explain this.

Kendra Allenby, https://www.kendraallenby.com/

And it's exactly as I expected, bots and low effort accounts that post "content"

Anyone interested in staring at the night sky ? I think I'll make a session tonight.

#hackmas2024 #hackmas

Went to https://molten.org.nz this arvo hoping to buy a recycled case, powersupply, and basic graphics card (expecting to pay about $100-$150 for those three) so I could then drop ~ $2-300 for an Aliexpress X99 (Intel Xeon CPU) + motherboard + RAM kit (e.g. 32 GB RAM). I came home with a recycled HP workstation, with a high-end AMD graphics card, 16GB RAM (expandable to 256, 8 slots!), a Xeon processor (in a suitable Motherboard) tested & running (Mint USB) for $130. Wow.

In my recent experience ringing businesses & organisations in the US these days, *no one* picks up their phone. It all goes to answerphone. I seldom get call backs (suspect most USians can't work out international calling). Left wondering why people bother having phones there.

It looks like Purism finally got around to deleting my WordPress account, which unfortunately means the years of articles I wrote there no longer list my byline. It's a shame. I admit I'm pretty proud of some of those articles. End of an era I guess...

Due to the way the site is generated, the static copy of my WordPress author page still provides some sort of index to the articles I wrote for those of you who are interested.

https://puri.sm/posts/author/kyle-rankin/

@civillibertynz opposes the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Bill as an unwarranted intrusion on our civil liberties.

The bill allows search and detention without reason. The roadside tests used only show the presence of a drug and those tests are not reliable.

We do not have the technology to meet the standards of evidence in the principal act. Rather than accepting that, this act seeks to lower our standards for justice to match the available technology.

https://nzccl.org.nz/submission-land-transport-drug-driving-amendment-bill/