Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Black anarchist movement veterans are on tour!

Help em out:

@blackrosebayarea Help Bring Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin to Speak in California 🏴 
 


Our communities and the movements to defend them are under attack. Now, more than ever, we must learn from veterans how to organize under dire circumstances.
 


Together, @blacklanterncoop , @blackrosebayarea of @blackrose_rosanegra , @norcal_resist , & @sacramentoanarchistbookfair are raising funds to transport, room, board, and support Lorenzo and JoNina for a speaking tour in California:

* Saturday, October 4: Black Lantern Books (6533 West Blvd, Inglewood)
* Tuesday, October 7: West Oakland Library (1801 Adeline St, Oakland)
* Thursday, October 9: Black Panther Party Museum (1427 Broadway, Oakland)
* Saturday, October 11: Sacramento Anarchist Book Fair (1819 E St, Sacramento)
 
Thank you for donating what you can. Only our collective efforts can make this possible. Link in bio to donate. 🔗 
 

We look forward to forging new connections, unpacking lessons, and building stronger movements with you this October ✊


https://chuffed.org/project/142143-help-bring-lorenzo-kom-boa-ervin-and-jonina-abron-ervin-to-speak-in-california

Today I learned about spiral ratchet #screwdrivers .

You push, screw turns.

The ones I've seen on sale in #Germany take some unusual bits.

Does anyone know where to get one accepting regular hex bits? (Germany)

#tools #askfedi

Educate. Agitate. Save 40% on all punk and education titles with Code THINK thru 9/1. Browse both categories via the link in our bio.

#Wayland input methods.

I'm sorry to say #iced doesn't have enough people with review/merge rights, so my work making #Chinese and #Japanese #input good on Wayland is going nowhere.

What are other #Rust #GUI libraries I could contribute to instead?

#cjk #opensource #nlnet

"Japan and the United States have been discussing a scenario, in which the U.S. military would use nuclear weapons...As part of the extended deterrence talks in recent years, Tokyo and Washington have held multiple tabletop exercises to strategize a scenario in which a conflict broke out in East Asia and the United States is pressured to use nuclear weapons, according to the sources."

Pressured by who? 🤔

https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/58051

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use #RSS.

https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/

RSS offers readers and writers a path away from unreliable, manipulative, and hostile platforms and intermediaries.

#RSS

It’s not too late to start masking.

You don’t have to do it alone.

There’s an engaged Covid cautious and disability community who will help you.

There’s local mask blocs who provide respirators to those who can’t afford them.

Covid is still here, and masks work!

Trump: “Drop that Digital Services Tax or we’ll stop negotiating and put more tariffs on you.”

Canada: “Okay, they’re dropped.”

Trump, today: “Cool. We’re gonna stop negotiating and put more tariffs on you anyway.”

CAN WE STOP NEGOTIATING WITH A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR NOW PLEASE?

@openstreetmap I noticed osm.org now uses #WebGL for the slippy map.

Having worked with #GPU drivers I keep that crap off on the web browser (which is as much an an untrusted context as it gets) for paranoia reasons :P

Is there a fallback that folks like me could activate?

#mapping #opengl #security #openstreetmap

Made a dumb little video bc the farm sector's been hopin' and prayin' that Trump "has a plan" to make tariffs go away before harvest so they don't go broke.

Yeah... look at him flailing around on Epstein. This dude doesn't have a plan for himSELF.

https://youtube.com/shorts/-WsDkbuxarw

New blog post: Q2/2025 Progress: Over 30 apps added, JSON API



https://linuxphoneapps.org/blog/additions-of-q2-2025/

Hello here's a writeup of what's really happening with the new secure boot certificates and how your computer is going to carry on working just fine: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/72892.html

The reason Substack pushed a Nazi blog onto people's phones is because—as founder Hamish McKenzie said in his response to Substackers Against Nazis 2 yrs ago—he believes it is valuable and important to platform Nazi voices.

This sort of thing is not a one-off. https://www.the-reframe.com/questions-for-substack/

@kcarruthers Here is the story of how we migrated to WordPress to escape from Substack 18 months ago https://systemsapproach.org/2024/02/19/decentralize-this/

#^https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/we-support-wikimedia-foundations-challenge-uks-online-safety-act
"...because the law requires Category 1 services to allow users to block all unverified users from editing any content they post, the law effectively requires the Foundation to verify the identity of many Wikipedia contributors. However, that compelled verification undermines the privacy that keeps the site’s volunteers safe."

If it ain't clear to you by this point why the Dems are a lost cause, you really have not been paying attention.

We didn't have enough medical privacy to begin with, but now the Trump regime, Big Tech (all of it), and Big Medicine are going to utterly shred the last vestiges of privacy.

Because they can. And because big money will be made by screwing the rest of us.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-rfk-jr-health-tech-fa73703bd1fd557c787ef0b590e151f1