Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

I'm sad to say that I am in need of financial support again.

My weekly work hours at my day job will be reduced soon, leaving me with less money than I already have, and I am looking for a second job and a few helping hands.

If you have enjoyed my work on Ubuntu Touch over the years, please consider donating via PayPal or Liberapay. I only hope for donations for the short term, long term I want to be able to stand on my own again. Links over at https://fredl.me

Absolute banger of a post shared by @tarakiyee on another network. Every other paragraph is quote-worthy.

"That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the pathology of command and control. Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests."

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

#BigTech #monopoly #standards

The Sword in the Stone

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

This is a really excellent analysis of the opportunities and risks of an effort I'm involved with—ensuring tokenized cooperative ownership is widely available under US law: https://ownership.substack.com/p/should-the-sec-update-cooperative

Okay I finally got back to my super commuter bike project. Did some welding this evening and got the front triangle together. Just need to add one more pivot near the bottom bracket.

Lillian Gish leans on Jesus (and her shotgun) in THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955).

Charles Laughton's Noir parable is on Tubi.

#BOTD #FilmMastodon #FilmNoir

Hey, for anyone looking for an alternative to #Meetup dot com, just a heads up that there's a Fediverse alternative. It's called Mobilizon.

https://mobilizon.org

I'm starting to use the US instance (mobilizon.us) for tech and dance events here in the DC area.

And hey, #Elixir people? It's written in our language.

Bob Ross art from his 1983-94 TV show will be auctioned to support PBS.

30 paintings will be sold. Two were auctioned earlier this year for a combined $210K.

"I can’t think of a more meaningful way to share his works of art than by supporting public television"

https://apnews.com/article/bob-ross-auction-public-television-1029c1e91ac55d8030e6847310cebc59

#PBS #1980s

My buddies start pulling on their ski masks and checking their submachine guns.
"Brace yourselves!" the driver yells, and we smash through the high fence protecting the USDA's National Stone Fruit Reserve Facility, the "Fort Knox of Plums".
"Do you think we're taking this bit too far?" I ask, but my buddy smacks me in the shoulder.
"There's no time for cold feet now! You need to stay focused on the cold sweets we're about to steal from Uncle Sam's own icebox."