Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

📣 IT'S BRAND NEW THE TOM THE DANCING BUG REVIEW!
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💦 Dementia Donnie is back! And he's PISSED!
🐕‍🦺 Otis the Inner Hive Dog
💣 Nerrex, Inc. Joins the Nuclear Club
🦸 Less-Than-Mysterious Man
🐂 Comix for Cro-Magnon
AND MUCH MORE!
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Free for your eyes! 👀
https://tomthedancingbug.substack.com/p/dementia-donnie-is-back-and-hes-pissed

DoorDash Grandma isn't a paid plant. (For that, you need to be paid!) Instead, her story is far worse.

She's a depressing example of how MAGA cultists have internalized the lies that justify their own oppression.

An analysis.

https://www.salon.com/2026/04/17/trumps-doordash-grandma-isnt-a-plant-the-truth-is-much-darker/

I vibe coded a webapp called Teams Roulette where it joins you to random Microsoft Teams meetings, using Teams linked scraped from the internet.

Debating on if I should publish this one 🤣

Extraordinary journalism from Dave McKenna at Defector about a long-ago killing in Virginia, where local authorities refused to follow the obvious evidence, engaged in an ongoing cover-up, and left a victim's family endlessly damaged in the wake of undone justice. https://defector.com/the-killing-that-wont-let-go?utm_source=defector.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=microblogging-services-down-try-big-blogs-instead

"Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing"

"New York's proposed 2026-2027 budget currently includes provisions that will require all 3D printers sold in the state to run print-blockingcensorware—software that surveils every print for forbidden designs."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/stop-new-yorks-attack-3d-printing

#Privacy

> RTM is part of a larger, international tech federation called Co-op Cloud. It’s a collective of tech-based organizations committed to building and sharing tools based on libre software, which users can use and distribute freely

@rtm gave a shoutout to Co-op Cloud in the Guardian! (US, not the transphobic bin-fire that is Guardian UK) Congrats, and thanks!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/big-tech-breakup-parties

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The world’s leading #cancer charity to stop funding #openaccess publishing because of hybrid journals - https://walledculture.org/the-worlds-leading-cancer-charity-to-stop-funding-open-access-publishing-because-of-hybrid-journals/ sadly, unlikely to be the last to do this #copyright

Since the Snowden revelations, more than a decade ago, it's been clear that those big American tech companies have colluded with the US federal government against their own American and overseas users. The reelection of Donald Trump in 2024 has put this even more in the spotlight.

This week's comic is now up on Daily Kos
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DEMENTIA DONNIE IS BACK, and he's pissed!
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/16/800020143/cartoon/tom-the-dancing-bugs-dementia-donnie-brilliant-strategies-in-his-war-against-his-roommate/