Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Stop making a commodity of artistic expression. There is no "good" and "bad" for art. There is only the expression, and whether or not it clicks for you.

The middle school band doesn't suck, they're building skills. The sculpture isn't terrible, you just don't see what the artist was going for, and that's OK.

Let expression just be expression; no need to give it a rating out of five stars. Doing so limits the power of human expression and cheapens the very concept of culture and the human experience.

Another reason to buy via eBay versus Amazon:

USPS treats it's employees respectfully and most of my transactions via eBay ship through USPS.

TIL that there is a World Porridge Making Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Porridge_Making_Championship

#food

Must watch for all co-op people, imho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMa63wautfg

Liam Neeson Narrates #AntiVax, Pro-#RFK Documentary - https://www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeson-narrates-anti-vax-pro so Neeson turns out to be a moron. I shall avoid his films in future...

Hey Social.coop peeps, we're looking for some new Finance working group members. If you are interested, let me know and I'll put you in the loop.

"The #GenAI #bubble is going to pop. Everyone knows that. To me, the urgent and interesting questions are how widespread the damage will be and what the hangover will feel like." - https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/07/Thin-Spots-In-the-AI-Bubble

They may “flood the zone”, but we stay on mission.
Help us by supporting our Pledge Drive and Make America Grin Again!
https://cartoonistsrights.org/donate

New post: "A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-1-reasons-requirements/

I can't believe my #selfhosting one year anniversary is coming up next week. @yunohost truly changed my digital life - for the better.

This is a 1st post in a 4 part miniseries intended for real newbies.

And now excuse me while I go hide in a cave expecting irate replies from sysadmins about certain things I wrote 😅

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

A pretty big update for the perfect photo sharing alternative.

Follow @PixelFed for updates, and you may get invited to beta test it before release!

#pixelfed

Brey, these folks plan to literally kill you all to keep burning oil and accumulating the money and power that comes with it. They are literally PLANNING to do you like vermin, so it can continue on a boiling hellworld.

You might want to stop pretending there's a way out of this where both you, and the billionaire maggots running everything survive. You're running out of time to get real about this; the rich men who mean you harm have certainly decided on *their* course of action.

German ministry renames itself, domain expires, is bought by SEO-spammer, expires again, is bought by domain grabber, then later bought by itsec company who now learns that apparently plenty of internal systems of the ministry still try to connect to the domain...
I don't even know where to start how terrible that is and what it tells us about government IT security practices...
https://mint-secure.de/bundesdomain-im-blindflug-dns-leaks-und-ein-jahrzehnt-it-nachlaessigkeit/
@TimPhSchaefers good work!

Vegan Christmas market in Heidelberg, Saturday 13th December:
https://veganer-weihnachtsmarkt-heidelberg.de/

#vegan #Heidelberg

You can refuse to provide official ID or biometric data for social media accounts requiring age verification.

Actually, I bet if everyone did refuse, and let their account dormant for a couple of weeks, you would suddenly see American Big Tech transforming into the fiercest defender of your privacy rights, using their powerful network of lobbyists to fight these invasive government regulations.

They need you more than you need them.
Force them to work for your rights.
Do not comply.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #Biometrics #AusPol #USpol

“I understand I’m just an independent developer—the kind of person Google doesn’t care about" -- developer whose accounts were wiped by Google for what the company later, but only after being contacted by a journalist, admitted was an unfounded, machine-decided "violation".

https://www.404media.co/a-developer-accidentally-found-csam-in-ai-data-google-banned-him-for-it/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=6939854c7ce61e0001620dc5&attribution_type=post

The disabled were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis because they knew people wouldn’t fight for us.

They knew that most people see the disabled as an expendable, so it’s easy to commit atrocities against us.

They called us “useless eaters” and threw us away

Trump using the R slur is not a mistake. It’s not a slip up. It’s not him just being a cranky old man.

He’s testing the waters.

He’s trying to see what he can get away with.

He’s furthering a eugenicist agenda.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/the-r-slur-must-never-be-normalized

#uspol #ableism #disability #fascism #eugenics #walz