Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Once upon a time, I was very active on MySpace and then Facebook. Then things got really shitty, so I quit and joined BlueSky.

I felt horrible, like the smallest bit of the code, unrecognized, shouting into the void for robots and scammers. But it a good place, right? And then they banned trans people while bringing in the authoritarians.

So, I thought all social media is bad, and I should try and get a website going where I could shout at the void on my own space.

I came across @_elena and started playing around with PeerTube. I saw @firesidefedi talking about exciting things, connecting with real people, and rebuilding that good time I used to have being online.

It was exciting, but I wasn't sure. And then @TIBtv came on, and I was blown away. My people! There they are!

I hope other people like me quit lurking quietly and join in. It's fantastic here on the #fediverse

The green line is how much $ farmers make from selling crops & livestock. Goes up in D administrations, down in R ones.

The blue line is free money farmers get from the gov't. Goes down in D administrations, up in R ones.

It ain't rocket science.

Source article btw: https://www.agweb.com/news/policy/ag-economy/government-payments-drive-u-s-2025-farm-income-surge

Meaty explainer videos are such a fun kind of social media to make. Because by the time you make it & post it, it ain't the news anymore. : /

Anyway, for everyone wondering why farmers keep voting for Trump despite all the ::gestures broadly::

Free gov't money is a big part of why.

https://youtu.be/rZQxCvbLG6U

Looking at things from the outside, the USA is now a banana republic, where armed death squads go around terrorizing and openly murdering the population, while the dear leader and his backers live in ever increasing isolation and opulence.

ICE has spent hundreds of millions on surveillance. Some technologists are building tools to find it, map it, and push back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

This day in anarchist history, January 25th 1911, we remember the execution of Kanno Sugako.

https://kolektiva.media/w/9pcqmQLuzc1eauhhMd292k

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115955906339726373

"AI" is not about productivity gains but about crushing labour.

Why stop at the Nobel Peace Prize? Collect 'em all, President Smells-Bad. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/1/23/2364819/-Cartoon-Trump-Trophies

In the Melania movie, she finds Trump in a ditch like ET and brings him back to life with a can of Diet Coke. Brett Ratner is such a hack.

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,_detentions_and_deportations_of_American_citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration

#USpol #USpolitics

On the night a man was murdered by ICE in Minnesota, Tim Cook spent the evening watching what must be one of the shittiest movies of all time with the people running ICE as their own personal terrorist organization. https://www.theverge.com/news/867429/tim-cook-andy-jassy-white-house-melania-doc

Governor Tim Walz had activated the Minnesota National Guard…to relieve the cops guarding ICE at the Whipple Federal Building from protesters.

But Walz has assured the world that he’s very upset and has once again asked Trump very sternly to remove ICE from Minnesota.

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/walz-activates-national-guard-after-federal-agent-kills-man-in-minneapolis

@agx saved the day of everybody doing conf call with GNOME and a rolling distro with recent pipewire https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgnome-volume-control/-/merge_requests/31 ! Thank you 🙌 It is kind of funny now that a bug can affect both my laptop and my phone 😃

Good morning Fedi friends!

Using my GoToSocial account and its glorious 5000 character limit to clear the air about #WSocial and my opposition to it / why I want to speak up:

https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01KFT5S4RE18NTT8T3VWTV3RVE

Yes, I'm well aware there are bigger problems in the world but the battle I picked is: rebellion against techbros / promotion of FOSS and the fediverse.

Wishing you all a lovely Sunday, stay safe and resist ✊

ICE shot and killed a US citizen in broad daylight today.

Pam Bondi is using the shooting to try and force Minnesota to give her voter data.

What’s Trump doing?

Gathering his billionaire friends for a private screening of Melania’s new documentary.

Guests include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and Mike Tyson.

It’s beyond inappropriate.

It tells you everything you need to know about his priorities.

Shame on everyone in attendance.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/115952904044785452

A crowd formed in the immediate aftermath of this morning's fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents. Agents deployed chemical weapons without warning. Businesses along the Eat Street stretch of Nicollet Ave opened their doors to protesters to take shelter from tear gas.

https://youtu.be/Fd7VASt0yoQ

"Remember dont bring a gun to a protest, unless its an illegal fire arm and you cross state lines and your name is Kyle. Then totally bring a gun, so we can call you a hero. 😒"

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder #KyleRittenhouse
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https://www.threads.com/@akeemwoods/post/DT6I3wMjo6K

This is a brave man, with a phone camera in his hand, moments before he is tackled and murdered.

Funny how the “Make America Go Away” hat is suddenly going viral in Greenland this week 😂
Just a reminder: we cooked that shit up back in 2017, when I was still at @subMedia.

So yeah—if you’re gonna rock it, do it right. Grab one from the OGs and support the homies at sub.media, so they can keep giving Trump absolute hell like they always have.
🧢👉 https://sub.media/product/maga-embroidered-hat/

@FediTips There's also https://coopcloud.tech which is about the same level as #yunohost. I've been using it to run this instance and highly recommend it.

#CoopCloud