Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I think I’m officially giving up and admitting defeat with my moldy clothes. I’m losing my baseline so fast because my caregivers are spending all their time trying to salvage items that probably can’t be salvaged.

It’s almost my entire wardrobe.

The stress of thinking about how to replace it is also tough on my baseline… but I’ve got to tell myself mold is simply not worth the risk. Especially with severe MCAS.

This is another great example of the “crip tax”. If it weren’t for my disability, I wouldn’t need specific types of clothes. I would be able to soak and salvage them myself. I wouldn’t be restricted to only online shopping. I wouldn’t be on a fixed income.

This feels like a disaster, but it’s better than making myself sicker.

Let me know your best suggestions for affordable all cotton clothing (tshirts, zip up sweaters, sweat pants, socks)

#clothing #mold #mcas #disability #chronicillness #ableism #criptax

I wouldn't leap to the conclusion the wait staff *didn't know how* to communicate.

Having worked menial shitty jobs, of which “waitstaff in a typical restaurant” is certainly a prime example: I would find it entirely likely the staff recognised a plausible way to spend a few paid hours *not* under pressure, until either the system was restored or they were told to go home.

The manager might give a shit about losing an evening of business. The wait staff almost certainly don't see that as a downside, certainly not one that counters the upside of a couple hours of peace.

@ColesStreetPothole

😂 So, we just went into a small restaurant that only has about eight tables. Something seemed a bit off. The host came up to us and said they had a momentary power outage, and even though the power had come back on, the Wifi didn't, which means their ordering/payment system was off line, so they couldn't seat anyone.

I said, "What if I paid in cash?"

"We can't open the cash drawer."

"What if I paid the exact amount?"

"We still can't place orders. We can't communicate with the kitchen."

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No you cannot use LLMs to optimize your meetings without alienating the people actually doing work in your group. No you cannot use LLMs to guide your vanguardist international strategy. No you cannot use LLMs for keeping abreast of what your local fascist paramilitary is up to. No you cannot use LLMs to unionize your colleagues. No you cannot use an LLM to promote or coordinate a general strike. No you cannot use LLMs to generate a vague kind of labor currency. Yes using LLMs isolates you from people around you, yes LLMs are antithetical to solidarity with people around you, yes using LLMs corrodes the basis of social cohesion needed for local organizing, etc.

@Tatjna I think the most chilling stuff is later in the piece. "30 per cent of the world’s helium supply: gone. 30 to 50 per cent of fertiliser: gone. Half the planet’s industrial sulphuric acid: gone. Not “supply disrupted.” Not “temporarily off market.” Gone. Blown to fuck by Israeli and American strikes on Iranian processing infrastructure that the Pentagon either didn’t know existed or didn’t care about."

I expected bad, this is worse.

Calling your labor "unskilled" is just a way to justify paying poverty level wages.

Part of the movement to reclaim social media? Here are some ways to limit your liability risk under U.S. copyright law. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/copyright-and-dmca-best-practices-fediverse-operators

Will Bunch:

"This is the E-Trade presidency. In an era when the everyday American is increasingly addicted to sports gambling, or loading up on crypto, or betting on the next drone strike, Trump has emerged as our gambler-in-chief.

Why don’t Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors — “A Watergate everyday,” as the writer Garrett M. Graff described them — ever gain public traction in the way that Nixon’s scandals or Bill Clinton’s extramarital affair once did?"

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-stock-trades-palantir-nvidia-20260517.html
#UsPol
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Chinese #EVs are arriving in Canada. Nearly 400 dealers are already fighting to sell them. - https://thenextweb.com/news/chinese-evs-canada-dealers-byd-chery-geely BYD, Geely, and Chery

Nobody wants a CEO to give a commencement speech. Put a Muppet up there. Those grads earned some fun.

rust leadership keeps on winning streak with “shut the FUCK up about ethics, we already decided we DON’T care because some people disagree so it’s impossible to know if they’re good or bad”

Fucking-AI-ass posts from Cloudflare and GitLab 🤮

Thoughtful and elegant solutions to problems will always be more valuable than simple, quick, and easy ones.

Effort yields results.

New columns from the lastest issue up on this site (including the newest from @THINK ☺️ )

https://the-counterforce.org/think-column-3/
https://the-counterforce.org/i-will-do-my-worst-4/
https://the-counterforce.org/questions-statements-2/

I've released more substantial UFO files than any administration in history. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/15/800038526/cartoon/more-identified-aerial-phenomena/

You ever start browsing the internet and think, "Yeah, I'd love if I had to upload my ID to check out this cool new site." We didn't think so. EFF is fighting back against bogus age verification laws across the globe. You can support our fight today: https://eff.org/spring

Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors - https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/05/16/europe-built-sovereign-clouds-to-escape-us-control-then-forgot-about-the-processors/5237735 "Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies"

German leader Merz says he ‘would not advise my children to go’ to US - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/15/friedrich-merz-germany-children-study-work-us-politics "Chancellor says he no longer views US as land of opportunity amid ‘deeply polarising’ social climate" #richtig

"The result of the Hormuz shock—now cascading through fertilizer, food, and critical industrial inputs like sulfur and helium—will be #demanddestruction for #fossilfuel energy." - https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/dawn-of-the-electric-world-order/ #renewables

Big batteries took a bite out of gas generators’ evening peak party, then they ate the whole dinner - https://reneweconomy.com.au/big-batteries-took-a-bite-out-of-gas-generators-evening-peak-party-then-they-ate-the-whole-dinner/ nom nom #renewables