Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

when i was about 15 they called us into the school assembly. “theres this new thing, called cyberbullying. its bad. so if youre thinking about being cyberbullied — don’t!” and then a guy from the National Campaign Against Cyberbullying gave us leaflets titled “don’t be bullied - it’s a crime”. the week after that, someone from the National Campaign Against Poverty gave us these little bracelet things. if we all wore them, it would make poverty history. i think maybe only some of us wore them

"Even as new polling fielded after the fatal Jan. 7 shooting of Renee Good shows that a plurality of voters back ICE’s elimination, top Democrats on Capitol Hill are seeking to restrain the agency under Trump’s leadership — not disband it."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/democrats-react-minnesota-ice-trump-frey-omar-schumer.html

Thank you #FOSDEM Graphics track organizers for accepting my proposal! I'm excited to tell where I (re-)took this #Wayland project I started back in 2018!

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/MVVELP-wayland_input_method_wrap_up/

Curse you FOSDEM organizers for accepting my proposal! Now I have to prepare it :P

If our authorities exist for the protection of the people, then the laws should exist for the protection of the people, not the protection of authorities. If the law exists for the protection of authorities, then the authorities do not exist for the protection of the people.

It is important that the achievements of Schengen, of free movement in Europe without border control are emphasised. German EU law professor Werner Schroeder decided to sue Germany over illegal controls https://euobserver.com/rule-of-law/ar0dff2b9e

I'm helping an elderly person with a patient portal, and wow, there are about 4 different problems ranging from unclear instructions to pages that don't work well when the phone is zoomed in enough for an older person to actually read the text.

Plus, the iPhone keeps popping up unhelpful gunk.

This person isn't particularly afraid of technology either, but they literally can't do it.

I now think every web developer should be forced to walk through their processes with an 85-year-old.

I made a map of all the public transit in Vermont! It's the map I always wish I had when I plan travel there. My goal is that someone sees this map, learns about a bus near them, and then takes the bus because of it.

Hi-res version at https://codeberg.org/skyqrose/vt-transit-map

#Vermont #PublicTransit #TransitMap #Amtrak #Greyhound #Inkscape

Hooray for Santa Cruz #California. More communities can live without #surveillance.

Santa Cruz the First in California to Terminate Its Contract With Flock Safety | KQED
https://www.kqed.org/news/12069705/santa-cruz-the-first-in-california-to-terminate-its-contract-with-flock-safety

Governor Walz addresses the Trump regime's attack on Minnesota. He implores people to show solidarity with their neighbors -- by, among other things, documenting the federal thugs' violent attacks on unarmed people so that, someday, the criminals will face justice.

https://youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU?si=SnfGVrNwe9paGv27

Only one week after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, The NYT confirming that federal agents have shot an immigrant in the leg at a protest in Minneapolis.

During the George Floyd protests in 2020, Trump asked Secretary of Defence Mark Esper if they could “shoot protesters in the leg”.

He was worried the protests made the country look weak.

He wanted a show of force.

Esper refused.

This time around, no one says “No” to Trump.

It’s costing lives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/minneapolis-federal-agent-shooting-immigration.html

#uspol #ice #abolishice #fascism #minneapolis #minnesota

US Big Tech is conspiring with European (and American) fascists to wreck the EU's ability to even modestly regulate this rogue industry, which has unparalleled -- and growing -- power over people's lives.

Fascism and tech are an unholy, and maybe unstoppable, alliance.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1916422/us-tech-giants-allying-with-european-far-right-to-strip-back-eu-rules

In case it somehow wasn't already obvious how completely repellent the administration's legal harassment of Becca Good (Renee Good's widow) is, *six* senior career prosecutors in the local US Attorney's office resigned today because they wanted no part of it.

SIX.

Battery-based renewable electricity generation is pretty much unassailable now. No justification for gas or coal in Aotearoa NZ any longer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR--t-eMq_Y

Microsoft now paying customers to train in Copilot AI

Please use our lying chatbot. Please?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIzRJ0eZoDs&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260114-microsoft-now-paying-customers-to-train-in-copilot-ai - podcast

time: 4 min 04 sec

General strike, Friday January 23rd.

Finally.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-day-of-truth-and-freedom-economic-blackout-ice-operation-metro-surge/

@flng @pluralistic

How to create a harmful dependency on a hostile entity in one easy step.

1. Elon Musk's Starlink is deciding the fate of nations on behalf of petrostate despots & oil oligarchs.

https://cepa.org/article/should-elon-musk-decide-who-wins-wars/

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r4veg0rrzo

2. Chokepoint democracy
https://idtechwire.com/czech-digital-id-edoklady-election-failure-2025/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/what-do-when-voting-machines-fail

3. Addiction services combined with partisan indoctrination
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/22/teens-social-media-and-mental-health/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/mcgill-expert-warns-youth-despair-isis-resurgence-and-ai-fuel-radicalization/

https://19thnews.org/2025/06/internet-culture-algorithms-alpha-males-tradwives/

If you're interested in trying out Project Aardvark - a totally new decentralized social app that doesn't require or use servers and gives YOU control of your social data... now is the time!

The linux release has dropped, and a MacOS release is being built as we speak.

You can find the bundle https://forge.hackers.town/Wrewdison/Aardvark/releases

It's early days, so don't expect things to be perfect. Bring a sense of adventure!

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/115896285175783665

@pluralistic I hadn’t adequately considered how AI slop-coding tools might be used to allow our overlords to steer our art and our communities.

As the Trump regime steamrolls everything in sight, congressional Democrats are demonstrating weakness with more enthusiasm every day.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/115895838276928275

NEW: A note apparently from AFSCME Council 5 says they confirmed Hennepin Healthcare is "complying with a request" from DHS "for access to employee I-9 forms" which could lead to the "potential targeting of workers based on immigration status".
Interim CEO of Hennepin Healthcare resigned Tuesday.