Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#Alaska to resume ‘barbaric’ shooting of bears and wolves from helicopters - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/20/alaska-aerial-gunning-bears-wolves #murica has sunk to the level of #bokassa

Treated myself to not having to do this every week for the next four years by doing it in advance. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2025/01/20

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (3/2025): Find mobile-friendly apps on #Flathub

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-03-2025/

#LInuxMobile #FuriLabsFLX1 #Phosh #postmarketOS #PinePhone #Librem5 #PureOSCrimson #FOSDEM #SailfishOS #JollaC2 #UbuntuTouch

11 years ago Klint Finley laid out how neo-reactionary thought was taking hold in Silicon Valley

"many professionals, rather than admit to their role in gentrification, wealth disparity and job displacement, are casting themselves as victims. "

It remains an an amazing primer

Better than that horseshit NYT interview of "intellectual" Curtis Yarvin

https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/

If you want to stick it to the fascists, help houseless people. Help immigrants. Help abortion seekers.

If you want to confront the powerful, you need a coalition. To build a coalition, you need to demonstrate that having you as an ally is more of an asset than a liability. This means doing your best while learning how to do better.

We are in a time of monsters. The challenges will not cease, nor will the opportunities. There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

#MutualAid

Donald Trump is threatening to begin his second presidency with a new round of gratuitous violence targeting undocumented families.

In 2017-2018, people around the US blockaded airports, freeways, and ICE facilities. There were school walkouts, demonstrations, and barricades.

There are things we can do to resist. Let's stand up for each other.

https://crimethinc.com/ICEage

A link list >>

Resources about #cooperatives | Village One

https://www.village.one/garden/library/resources-about-cooperatives

Twitter/X is right wing controlled.

Meta (Instagram, Threads, Facebook) is right wing aligned.

TikTok is aligning itself with Trump.

Crypto-centric decentralized platforms are right wing aligned (the jury's out about whether crypto-funded ones are too).

Major newspapers are aligning themselves around the right wing.

Whoever controls the narrative has the ability to obfuscate and overwrite the truth.

The Fediverse is more important for freedom than ever before.

This panel from a comic I drew in June 2024 has aged pretty well.

Over the last year or two, I've been deleriously happy with my Bambu A1 w/AMS 3d printer. It's by far the most reliable, dependable machine I've worked with.

However, Bambu's recent strong-handed changes to lock down the API and force users to register with their cloud service has made me skeptical of the company and their products.

I can no longer whole heartedly recommend their printers until this situation is resolved.

https://hackaday.com/2025/01/17/new-bambu-lab-firmware-update-adds-mandatory-authorization-control-system/

#bambu #bambulab #3dprinter #api

I would like to hire someone to provision a new virtual server, set up yunohost on it and then move two instances of mastodon onto it that can then be updated thru yunohost. Any one interested?

President Biden claims to support press freedom.

But by extracting a guilty plea from Julian Assange, his administration handed Trump powerful weapons to attack the press.

He should pardon Assange to reduce the harm before time runs out.

https://freedom.press/issues/rights-orgs-demand-biden-pardon-assange/

A well-intended friend shared a deflating article titled “Why Is Climate Action So Hard?”, subtitled “It’s even more complex than you think”.
All the points were true. Which is why I organize with #NoCoalNoGas: one of our campaign goals is simply “show what’s possible”.
Doing something that works (e.g., shutting down a coal plant), showing others it’s possible, and building community while doing it, is so empowering! If you need an antidote to despair, see nocoalnogas.org.

Get 20% off of Peace by Peace: 99 Steps Toward Violence Prevention and De-escalation throughout the month of January with code JANUARY at checkout. See the link in our bio.

Good morning Mastodon peeps.

I can't tell if I am finished with my latest blog post, or if I am just ready to abandon it.

https://terikanefield.com/democracy-oligarchy-and-tyranny/

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau for January 19, 2025 - GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/01/19

#Humour #Cartoon

What is happening on RedNote is WILD. I'm having conversations with health care workers in China comparing and sharing experiences. Americans are asking Russian users about Russian social media apps. There is a shared earnest desire for cultural exchange that is transcending politics. I have no impression it will be allowed to last but it's really refreshing.

Just in case you ever need this in the future..

Actual wide-scale resistance groups operating under a repressive regime rarely look like what many movies have led you to believe.

What they look like are a lot of normal people who maybe lose a document, maybe forget to latch a gate, maybe take a little longer to do a task than they would otherwise.

It requires no command and control, no leaders, no connections to be compromised. For most, it is not the work of great measures, it is the thousand.. million.. cuts that grind the oppressor to a halt while never being something they can prove.

Think less about secret handshakes, and more about an unfortunately bad case of ADHD at an inopportune time.

Cartoon: A very official government proceeding

#MikeLuckovich