Egg shell stickers!

Yeah, sorry. I do like cross-posts and cross-posted the same post twice into different foss communities. I didn’t realise that the second post wasn’t referring to the OG post.

They have a website (4000 tons) with regular updates (in German) and a map.

Some rough automated translations:

15. January 2026

Thank you!!

The first day is over. In the morning 22 tons were dumped at the Berliner Tafel, at the same time the first tour was supplied with potatoes in half (a total of 11 stations).

There is a lot to tell: press coverage, lots of great pictures, logistics details, support offered. Thank you to everyone who helps.

But the most important thing: the delivery of the many, many places next week seems organized. At the bottom of the map you will find all the places that will have potatoes since this afternoon (we have many more requests, but the financial support is still missing!).

18. January 2026

Second week

Next week, 132 tons will be distributed (after 42 tons in the first week). Then, however, it gets cold - which is not good for the potatoes - and we can’t finance more. Delivery will be made in several days, the details can be found at the bottom of the card.

We also collect recipes for potatoes in Berlin and Leipzig, which we then want to put online. In addition, we discuss how the unique action can perhaps be continued, in the interests of all farmers in the region. We will keep you up to date here.

22. January 2026

[…]

Is it going any further? We definitely have a sponsor for another truck (22 tons!). We want to extend it as soon as it has become a few degrees warmer. And for the farmers in the region, we are currently trying to get our technology to the start, so that something of our action remains.

I saw this take (on YT) just yesterday. The gist: the US has by far the greater military, but NATO without US has much more troops and equipment that are trained and working in harsh cold weather conditions. The US may take some ports and airfields, but small European and Canadian troops can defend the land and make it infeasible for the US to take any meaningful hold.

An absolute classic!

If you solve domestic political problems with foreign policy, then you have arrived in the middle of authoritarianism.

As far as I understand some NGOs (notably the Berlin Tafel, which provides food for people in need) are taking a portion of the potatoes. But their capacities are limited as well.

Automatic translation:

Try to imagine a quantity of four million kilograms of potatoes. Four million kilograms - that’s 4000 tons, the weight of 800 adult elephants, stacked as high as the Berlin TV Tower. It’s a lot that could fill hundreds of thousands of people.

These potatoes are stored in the halls of a farm south of Leipzig, neatly sorted, cool and dry, best food quality. And they have a problem: no one wants them.

The story of these potatoes is a story about the absurdities of our food system. A trader had ordered the harvest, but when the potatoes were harvested and stored, it was clear: the supply on the market is greater than the demand. The market price had fallen, the offer too big. What is no longer profitable for trade becomes a burden for the producer. Financially, everything was settled, but the potatoes remained.

Shortly before Christmas, I received an email from Ecosia, a search engine we had just reported on. Ecosia is the Berlin company that plants trees with its advertising revenue – over 200 million worldwide. Chief Financial Officer Wolfgang Oels wrote that there is contact with a farm south of Leipzig that has to destroy 4000 tons of potatoes. “Do we, as Berliner Morgenpost and Ecosia, want to make this a joint action?”

We can. We want. And we need your help.

The largest potato rescue in the city

The plan is simple: Ecosia finances the transport from Saxony to Berlin. The Berliner Morgenpost helps to organize the free distribution.

We are looking for distribution points throughout the city: parishes, schools, sports clubs, neighborhood initiatives, social institutions or private individuals. Each collection point receives one ton of potatoes, free of charge, to distribute to all who can use them (Agria variety, firm cooking!). They can help distribute - and show together with us what is possible if we treat food for what they are: valuable.

I love Cory Doctorow. Can highly recommend his novels as well!

In Germany there is some movement on this topic:

• The Prototype Fund (funds small FOSS projects)
• The Sovereign Tech Agency and Sovereign Tech Fund (funds companies, communities and individual contributors that commit to several fundamental FOSS projects like Maven)
• Zendis (the Centre for Digital Sovereignty, that is for example contracting several FOSS companies like Next Cloud to build an office software suite called Open Desk for the German administration)

OpenRA comes to mind.

Because it is not large math models but large language models. Language is always ambiguous.

The victory in NY is mostly about moving the Overton Window to the left.

Classic dictator 101: If you have domestic problems, solve them with international politics. Create a „rally around the flag“ moment.

German center for digital sovereignty (ZenDiS) is working on an office solution for the German administration called Open Desk.

If you are already using MD, perhaps you like to try Obsidian.

Hat take: He isn’t even dead. The whole thing was staged. Just look at the crowds at his funeral … can you imagine to manage an event that huge in just a couple of days?

Both parties have no positive vision for the country.

Some years ago I read an article that more and more hospitals (in Germany) are getting rid of their sterilisation facilities, because single use tools can be ordered in bulk and the facilities + personnel are costly. Profit-driven healthcare is such a nightmare for the environment.

Apart from Utah, no state laws or rules explicitly permit — or prohibit — plug-in solar.

Quote from OPs article. Emphasis is mine.

I‘d say that @Zombiepirate@lemmy.worlds assessment is still the correct approach. If the system collapses anyways, the best thing to do is build local infrastructure through solidarity — which is best anarchist practice.

In scandinavia anarchist groups started „preppa tilsammen“ (prepping together). It is not about hoarding guns, but community disaster relief.