Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

I was just reminded again of how normalised colonialism is (in Dutch culture) by an example in a children's comic from only a decade ago. The story is about indigenous penguins on the south pole being "discovered" by western animals who are received very kindly by the penguins. The penguins without any significant cause suddenly express the desire to get access to more western technologies. They then decide the way to achieve this is to make their place a popular vacation destination for the western animals. Of course, the described scenario is not explicitly colonial, but very similar to the way colonial history tends to be romanticised and justified.

my favorite (read sarcastic) thing that I get as a Native person is getting to hear someone say something like "the genocide of the Native people was horrific and barbaric, I can't believe that Native life was destroyed. I do [some level of native appropriation] because they are all gone and someone needs to carry on their culture."

and they say that shit

to my face.

Like I'm not fucking there

there legitimately are areas that were taught that all Native people are dead.

That all Native culture is done.

That we all died. Or, if they were in a place that also is very white supremacyish, that we just disappeared a la Roanoke or were Raptured or something.

Places do teach that Native people don't exist.

Fun fact: I meant to post this two hours ago but I got distracted and ended up cleaning out my kitchen cupboard. #adhd

The correct answer to “but I can’t make what I’m making without having it violate your consent” is always “that’s ok, don’t make it then.”

#consent #tech #SiliconValley #BigTech #colonialistMindset

"[...]RAID array[...]"

"um, 'RAID array' is redundant"

"yeah, that's what the R is for"

Eric Idle being the best surviving Python

To the people who are like “What did you expect to happen when you picked a .af domain, are you idiots?”

Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the start
Yes, we were aware that political circumstances could change
But thumbing your nose at conservative autocrats as an even minor form of protest is fun
In the end pretty much everyone has migrated out successfully (and I’ll continue to help anyone who remains)
We’ve all gotten a fun story out of this

I’ve been signalling the probable demise of queer.af to my followers for the past year. We knew the end was coming; we just anticipated it to take a little longer

So long; it was fun while it lasted.

🎶 : Beste reijsende, vellkome in de internationale nightjet naar Zürich.

(SBB jingle with Dutch following sounds absolutely cursed.)

(Oh no, they use the full-train announcements though I turned off the speakers 🤐.)

a fedi instance is like a rock, and its users are like the bugs that hangout under that rock

Please, I beg of you, create a security@yourdomain.com email address for vulnerability reporting purposes. Bonus points if you create a security.txt file at both / and /.well-known/

That final e-mail before your domain does dark at the regsitry:

Afghanistan ccTLD Network Information Center ( af NIC ) queer.af has been suspended in the registry and will no longer be included in zone file generation. This means that any services connected with this domain, such as websites or email addresses will cease working shortly. Please contact your registrar if you have any questions about this process. Your registrar's details are as follows: Name: Gandi SAS Website: https://www.gandi.net Email: support-en@support.gandi.net Phone: +33.(1)70.37.78.80 Fax: +33.(1)43.73.18.51 Address: 63-65 boulevard Massena Paris 75013 Ministry of Communications and IT Mohammad Jan Khan Watt Kabul Afghanistan