Jamie Gaehring
@jgaehring.bsky.social
I make #freesoftware for #farm & #food #workers 🧑🌾 🧑💻 🧑🍳
Curr'ly & mainly @runrig.bsky.social 🚜
Prev'ly & at times still @farmos.bsky.social 🌱 https://dfc-standard.org 🍇 openteam.community 🐝
Proud member of @goatech.bsky.social 🐐 social.coop 🐘 mayfirst.coop 👥
Curr'ly & mainly @runrig.bsky.social 🚜
Prev'ly & at times still @farmos.bsky.social 🌱 https://dfc-standard.org 🍇 openteam.community 🐝
Proud member of @goatech.bsky.social 🐐 social.coop 🐘 mayfirst.coop 👥
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A cogent and well-written reminder to log off, touch grass and experience the world.
December 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
A cogent and well-written reminder to log off, touch grass and experience the world.
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NEW: Two homeschooled teenagers in the Chicago suburbs spend their mornings tracking ICE vehicles and documenting raids.
They let me follow them for this story.
Watch the full documentary here:
They let me follow them for this story.
Watch the full documentary here:
Meet the teen brothers tracking ICE
YouTube video by The News Movement
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
NEW: Two homeschooled teenagers in the Chicago suburbs spend their mornings tracking ICE vehicles and documenting raids.
They let me follow them for this story.
Watch the full documentary here:
They let me follow them for this story.
Watch the full documentary here:
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When your own FBI appointees can't defend, or explain, your fabricated national threat.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
When your own FBI appointees can't defend, or explain, your fabricated national threat.
Oh wow, almost missed this! @pchiusano.bsky.social's 2019 Strange Loop blew my mind but having gained a deeper appreciation of distributed computing & its challenges since then, Unison strikes me more & more as such a novel, subtle, holistic, elegant approach. I def need to reacquaint myself now!
🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
Announcing Unison 1.0
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.
www.unison-lang.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Oh wow, almost missed this! @pchiusano.bsky.social's 2019 Strange Loop blew my mind but having gained a deeper appreciation of distributed computing & its challenges since then, Unison strikes me more & more as such a novel, subtle, holistic, elegant approach. I def need to reacquaint myself now!
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🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
Announcing Unison 1.0
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.
www.unison-lang.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
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I fucking hate Waymo. This is what it’s like driving in parts of Phoenix.
I counted 16 one time just driving to get groceries with the wife.
I counted 16 one time just driving to get groceries with the wife.
December 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I fucking hate Waymo. This is what it’s like driving in parts of Phoenix.
I counted 16 one time just driving to get groceries with the wife.
I counted 16 one time just driving to get groceries with the wife.
After a few instances of ICE being chased outta my hood (or NYC entirely) in recent weeks, I'm recognizing a kindred spirit in the squirrels in my yard whenever a sus cat or dog won't take the hint & gets an earful for it.
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
After a few instances of ICE being chased outta my hood (or NYC entirely) in recent weeks, I'm recognizing a kindred spirit in the squirrels in my yard whenever a sus cat or dog won't take the hint & gets an earful for it.
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Israel detained 21,000 Palestinians in occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem since start of Gaza genocide
Israel detained 21,000 Palestinians in occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem since start of Gaza genocide
Israel has detained around 21,000 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since the start of its genocide in Gaza on 8 October 2023, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said on Tues…
www.middleeastmonitor.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Israel detained 21,000 Palestinians in occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem since start of Gaza genocide
Such a phenomenal project! If yer not broke like me, give them money b/c we really need tools like Goblins and OCapN if we wanna live thru the death throes of capitalism.
For this #GivingTuesday I'm going to make the (biased) argument for why you might consider donating to @spritelyinst.bsky.social, especially if you care about a healthier future for the internet! spritely.institute/donate/
Here's a little thread explaining more... 🧵
Here's a little thread explaining more... 🧵
Support Spritely! — Spritely Institute
spritely.institute
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Such a phenomenal project! If yer not broke like me, give them money b/c we really need tools like Goblins and OCapN if we wanna live thru the death throes of capitalism.
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*None* of the decentralized social networks today are robust enough to handle threats facing vulnerable people and activists today. Not the fediverse, not Bluesky/ATProto. What to do?
(Here's a talk on that: "Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis" c-tube.c-base.org/w/f9pF5pwxX8... )
(Here's a talk on that: "Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis" c-tube.c-base.org/w/f9pF5pwxX8... )
#fediday2025 Christine Lemmer-Webber - Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis
Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis (EN) Christine Lemmer-Webber, The Spritely Institute Christine Lemmer-Webber, co-author of the ActivityPub specification, frames the work of dece...
c-tube.c-base.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
*None* of the decentralized social networks today are robust enough to handle threats facing vulnerable people and activists today. Not the fediverse, not Bluesky/ATProto. What to do?
(Here's a talk on that: "Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis" c-tube.c-base.org/w/f9pF5pwxX8... )
(Here's a talk on that: "Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis" c-tube.c-base.org/w/f9pF5pwxX8... )
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600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
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The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive.
Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
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Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
1/
November 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive.
Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
1/
Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
1/
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JFREJ BX Neighborhood Group folded a bunch of zines while hanging at our local pub. Fun and easy! 🤩💪🏻🥰 @meganpiont.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
JFREJ BX Neighborhood Group folded a bunch of zines while hanging at our local pub. Fun and easy! 🤩💪🏻🥰 @meganpiont.bsky.social
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With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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Status update: fiber cut between data centers - trucks are rolling. Services are slow but functional, except for the Wayback Machine, which is still offline.
The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed.
We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Status update: fiber cut between data centers - trucks are rolling. Services are slow but functional, except for the Wayback Machine, which is still offline.
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OPINION: "19th-century Southern intellectuals drew on this imagined Egypt to legitimize slavery as an ancient and divinely sanctioned institution," Charles Vanthournout writes.
Opinion | How America Used Egypt to Justify Racism and Slavery
Charles Vanthournout writes about how ancient Egypt shaped slavery and liberation in the American South.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
OPINION: "19th-century Southern intellectuals drew on this imagined Egypt to legitimize slavery as an ancient and divinely sanctioned institution," Charles Vanthournout writes.
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Alfred Hitchcock's cure for fascism
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Alfred Hitchcock's cure for fascism
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
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To be a successful working-class woman of color comes with the territory of erasure. I’m sure the kids will find me the way I found Begum Rokeya among others.
And it’s just infuriating to see Shahana Hanif’s story be ignored, particularly in this moment. This won’t be the last time I rant about this, but I’ve read more about losing (almost all male) Muslim candidates than I have about the most successful Muslim woman in the history of NYC politics.
November 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
To be a successful working-class woman of color comes with the territory of erasure. I’m sure the kids will find me the way I found Begum Rokeya among others.
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Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
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That blistering house editorial -- it was not an individual's op-ed -- came despite a vow by the edit page to stop doing endorsements in local elections.
I wrote about that a few months ago and was told that the earlier ban suffered from "imprecise" wording.
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www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
I wrote about that a few months ago and was told that the earlier ban suffered from "imprecise" wording.
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www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
To endorse, or not to endorse: For the NYTs, that is the question.
NYT opinion editor says she was “imprecise” with her earlier ban. Plus: Loomer and Grok vs. the truth, DOGE’s real-world fallout, and the ill of the chase.
www.cjr.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
That blistering house editorial -- it was not an individual's op-ed -- came despite a vow by the edit page to stop doing endorsements in local elections.
I wrote about that a few months ago and was told that the earlier ban suffered from "imprecise" wording.
3/
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
I wrote about that a few months ago and was told that the earlier ban suffered from "imprecise" wording.
3/
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
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I’m not actually trying to tamp down anyone’s hope here, so much as attempting to redirect it. Do not put that hope in any elected official. If you’re feeling it, give it to where it’s safer and more deserved: in the grassroots movements that make left electoral wins possible.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’m not actually trying to tamp down anyone’s hope here, so much as attempting to redirect it. Do not put that hope in any elected official. If you’re feeling it, give it to where it’s safer and more deserved: in the grassroots movements that make left electoral wins possible.
This! Right here! Hell yea!
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👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥🔥
If a leftist politician’s message has resonance, it’s because countless people (outside of elections and campaigns) have worked together to create a shared understanding of their conditions. Left politicians use these *already existing* conditions to attain office. They DO NOT create them!
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This! Right here! Hell yea!
👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥🔥
👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥🔥
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Revolutionary change does not and never will be brought about by “the electorate” acting as such but they *can* do enough to occasionally make reactionaries spend a whole day or two crying and that’s always funny.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Revolutionary change does not and never will be brought about by “the electorate” acting as such but they *can* do enough to occasionally make reactionaries spend a whole day or two crying and that’s always funny.