Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The cost of Reform UK’s anti-environmental policies - https://neweconomics.org/2025/05/the-cost-of-reform-uks-anti-environmental-policies "will cause significant damage to the UK economy and destroy tens of thousands of good paying jobs." #reform not just bad people, but economically illiterate ones... #climatecrisis

I know this is an out-there, controversial thing to say, but I’ve really got to come out against genocide and imposed starvation.

Anyone have tips for off gassing a microwave ? Mine broke with no warning and it’s currently my only cooking method.

Im hangry, dizzy and annoyed since it wasn’t even that old.

If I can find a way to replace it, my concern is the smell and how it’ll impact my mast cells.

Usually I would leave a new appliance to sit for a week or two but this is incredibly urgent.
#mcas #mastcells #offgassing

Propaganda and media thread 🧵

"While right-wing propaganda has its roots in the 1930s, it wasn’t until the ’70s that Republican thought leaders truly began seeding the notion that any media criticism of Republican policy exhibited a “left-wing bias” and should be discarded as unreliable. In reality, as media critic Parker Molloy notes, most mainstream U.S. journalism skews center-right."

https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/01/02/americas-right-wing-propaganda-problem-might-be-terminal/

After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!

https://tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-calendar-a-new-era-of-accessibility-achieved-in-90-days/

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #Linux #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GTK #libadwaita

FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn’t Anti-Trump - https://gizmodo.com/fcc-to-appoint-a-babysitter-to-make-sure-cbs-isnt-anti-trump-2000634566 " FCC commissioner Brendan Carr says CBS will have a "bias monitor." " not true: it will have a bias in favour of #trump

We're lucky the nuclear button doesn't have a picture of an underage girl on it. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Let me program your new network, Nepo-Ellison who looks like Tony Robbins wearing a finance-bro skinsuit.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/7/25/2335143/-Cartoon-Coming-soon-to-CBS

The Tea app is vibe-coded and has over 4 million users. Users' private data was breached, and all government-issued verification IDs, photos, and private messages were leaked. This is why you need a good team of experienced developers, IT and infosec folks to secure your infrastructures. You can’t just vibe code using AI and get away with poor jobs. Now they are going to use the same shity AI in government and everywhere and we will see more such things. What a mess

Refreshed Firefox, today, on my laptop and all of the stuff that I disabled (Home content, search engines that I deleted, AI bullshit) all returned.

Mozilla, you are failing so bad right now. Just stop! What happened to you? At one point, in the not-so-distant-past, you were going to be the savior of the internet. What a major disappointment you have become.

I am trying so hard not to just give up on you, but you are making it really difficult.

Most sickening email of the day starts, "I'm Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Medicare program, and I'm excited to introduce my new email series to help you stay healthy. "

The U.S. is in deep, deep trouble.

The best book I've read -- by far -- about technology and the "AI" bubble is Karen Hao's "Empire of AI".

It's deeply researched, tough, fair, and written with non-techie readers in mind -- and exposes the colonial-style corruption of the predatory tech giants. Read it.

https://karendhao.com/

The CSA is calling for universal respirator use in healthcare settings to reduce the spread of airborne disease!

This is huge, and if accepted would make healthcare much safer for all.

They’ve allowing for public comment between now and August 9th at the link below.

Please leave a comment and let’s make sure our voices are heard.

This will no doubt face opposition from the anti-mask crowd and we desperately need masks back in healthcare.

https://publicreview.csa.ca/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2fHome%2fView%2f2256677

#maskup #maskswork #COVIDisAirborne #covidisnotover #disability #ableism #n95

Indian Time, a newspaper that served the Mohawk Nation, informed readers for over 40 years. Then, it vanished.

To understand the demise of one of America’s oldest Indigenous newspapers, we spoke with Marjorie Skidders, Isaac White, and Stephanie Sugars.

https://freedom.press/issues/radio-silence-on-the-reservation/

Baltimore Shows You Can Bring Down Murder Rates Without Throwing More Cops At The Problem - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/25/baltimore-shows-you-can-bring-down-murder-rates-without-throwing-more-cops-at-the-problem/ "giving Baltimore kids safe, enjoyable options to take advantage of. The end result was hundreds of kids doing actual kid stuff — pool parties, summer camp, spring break activities — rather than just watching criminals do criminal stuff while cops did cop stuff. "

The results are in:

- mostly brown on top
- mostly gray on the sides
- somewhat missing in front

time to get the clippers and get this bothersome stuff off my head!

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Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data #sovereignty - https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_cannot_guarantee/ "Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin" and there we have it... #trump

"Were labor leaders in the days of violence against unions (the persistence and savagery of corporate opposition to labor has been airbrushed out of the most histories), rely on happy talk as a major motivating strategy? Did people fighting for causes they thought would not be won in their life, like abolitionists and the early suffragettes, rely on optimism to get them through the day? What you need is tenacity."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/a-pox-on-optimism.html