Pixelfed exists today because of @nlnet's vital support since 2019.
Their grants helped build our ethical photo-sharing platform from the ground up.
The EU must continue funding #FreeSoftware projects, as we have proven, they can be hugely popular and shift the control back to the people, where it belongs.
https://www.ow2.org/view/Events/The_European_Union_must_keep_funding_free_software_open_letter
No billionaires at FOSDEM
https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html
Dorsey is presumably being platformed in Janson because his blockchain bullshit company is a main sponsor of FOSDEM this year. Dorsey and his colleagues want to get us up to speed on what Block is working on these days. Allow me to give you a preview: [...]Jack Dorsey laid off 1,000 employees, ordering them not to publicly discuss board member Jay-Z’s contemporary sexual assault allegations on their way out
Jack Dorsey is giving a keynote at FOSDEM 2025? He can fuck right off.
https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html
Last August, Lynch (who had emphysema) said he might never direct again because of the "let it rip" covid unmitigation strategies adopted by governments everywhere.
Wondering how many mourners would willingly, and without prompting, wear a mask around people suffering from Long Covid, respiratory illnesses, or other immune dysfunction, out of respect for their struggle, instead of placing the entire burden on vulnerable disabled people.
Heh, Drew is organizing a sit-in to protest against Jack Dorsey (former CEO of Twitter, billionaire, Bitcoin and blockchain enthusiast) holding a keynote at #fosdem2025.
https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html
"Twenty Years of 36-bit Computing with Digital 1964-1984" Brochure from Digital Equipment Corp. https://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/digital/DEC1964TO1984.pdf #DEC10
check out this lofi/ambient/misc lp i'm on and give some money to a neat seaturtle conservation project and maybe on the side, donate to some foodbanks and pet shelters and gofundmes and stuff in the southwest to feel like the good person that you are! https://beetlecrabturtles.bandcamp.com/album/turtles #music
If he were alive, he would definitely get away with this with no real penalty, if any penalty at all.
If only there was a way to hold these executives accountable and deter this behavior.
I suggest a letter-writing campaign. First, we need their addresses.
Looks fake doesn't it? This reconstruction of Medieval Bologna shows how Italian towns used to be a forest of towers, dense as Manhattan skyscrapers!
Here's a stable blog-formatted version of my thread from yesterday about the lost towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline wars https://www.exurbe.com/the-lost-towers-of-the-guelph-ghibelline-wars/
