🚨 BREAKING FROM FFO 🚨 23 US-Funded Organizations Drive The EU’s War on Tech Companies

This is the “retaliatory regulatory regime” strategy I’ve been advocating as a poison pill measure against any foreign government who fines a US company for hosting free speech online. Fantastic stuff by Preston Byrne putting forth a concrete proposal to codify this into law

OpenRiot is a clean, minimal, ridiculously polished i3-based OpenBSD 7.9 setup with fish, Helix, and Polybar — all tuned so things just work. No more config drama, no more obscure package fights, no more “works on Linux” copium. Start a Riot at OpenRiot.org

They not like us

Up until a few years ago, we were able to browse the modern web, on a PowerPC “Classic” MacOS (MacOS 8/9) system, using a port of Firefox. This is no longer possible. Not because a G3, G4, or G5 systems running MacOS 9 are not beefy enough to handle the task (far from it)… but

9.8 Million X Followers. Lucky to get 36 likes after 1 day. Those TechCrunch followers? They’re not real. It’s all (99%+) bots and dead accounts. They’re using those (clearly fake) numbers to sell “sponsored articles” (ads disguised as real articles) to Tech companies.

NEW on my personal blog: the Censorship-Industrial Complex Is About to Get Defunded. "NGOs will be forced to make a choice if they want American State Department money: side with the First Amendment, or side with the censors." prestonbyrne.com/2026/05/02/def…

Periodic reminder the US government funded at least 23 of the NGOs behind the EU’s Digital Censorship Act, including 13 of the NGOs directly enforcing it

Local Carpenter Continues To Spread Disinformation Deemed Harmful By Religious Experts buff.ly/GzzyhXd

We are in the pursuit of justice. I was one of four Republicans who stood firm from the beginning, pushing with resolve to sign the discharge petition and release the Epstein Files. I have voted, repeatedly, to stand with the survivors and to oppose any effort to obscure the

Roblox lost 20 million daily users since it started demanding facial scans and ID uploads to access basic features. Half the platform is now stuck in a degraded version where the path back runs through biometric data. People are voting with their absence. reclaimthenet.org/roblox-loses-1…

If you've never tried OpenBSD, I highly recommend giving it a try. Try it in a VM to start. Download here: openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#…

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For those of you who saw Peter Doocy’s show on Fox News and want to be reminded of the military-filmed UAP footage demonstrating apparent “instantaneous acceleration” that @G_Knapp and I obtained and released… here is that footage…

🇺🇸 Elon Musk: "Since I bought Twitter, no left-wing voice has been banned or suppressed." The media spent 3 years telling you X was a far-right echo chamber built to silence the left. Elon just said the opposite, on record.

If you are genuinely worried about illegal immigrant families being split up by deportations, stop encouraging them to come here and have anchor babies. Problem solved.

Since 2014, we chose the hard path: NO systemd. Good reasons for this keep coming. Now it harvests personal data like birthdates, unrelated to computing and ripe for abuse. This is not a feature. It is a boundary. We do not ship surveillance. github.com/systemd/system…

A statement from the Devuan GNU/Linux team: “Since 2014, we chose the hard path: NO systemd. Good reasons for this keep coming. Now it harvests personal data like birthdates, unrelated to computing and ripe for abuse. This is not a feature. It is a boundary. We do not ship

1/🚨 In November 2025, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) signed an IRS form under penalty of perjury describing itself as a lobbying organization "advocating for change" at named tech platforms. Two months later, its lawyers told a federal court the same organization