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

If you're standing there facing people and thinking "They're not going to care about what I have to say" remember that a committee of people who know what the audience is interested in has already decided that the audience is interested in what you have to say

The first real conference talk I gave was on a large stage and I was timetabled against the first public presentation of d-bus and it was a community I had no real prior experience with and yeah it was fucking terrifying but I promise it does get easier

Ik zie dat in het debat over het #eindverslag van Putters weer krampachtig geprobeerd wordt om het eraan komende rechts-extreme kabinet als "centrum-rechts" wit te wassen. Hier een herinnering dat de PVV volgens politologen de meest rechts-extreme partij van Europa is:

Is there any African who is constantly invited to news orgs as an "expert" of a European country & seen as such by a bunch of European citizens? Does anyone see how bizarre it is that these ppl are elevated to "experts" because someone needs a white person to invite as "neutral"?

Now on CNN, to discuss the situation in England, with us is "England expert" Timnit Gebru.

Now on BBC, to discuss the situation in Norway, with us is "Norway expert" Timnit Gebru.

I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates

It means that every post published was important to the writer

Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most

You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters

Goedemorgen vanaf station Tienen. Het is de eerste dag van de astronomische lente en het weer belooft een spektakel te worden. Een mooie dag voor een #SpoorLangsWandeling in de Haspengouw, de grootste fruitstreek in België. Dit is aflevering 3 van #Egeil en ik ben onderweg naar de eerste tussenstop Ezemaal.

As a straight middle-aged white dude who worked for decades in tech, my superpower is admitting that I don't know enough about something to have an opinion.

You could also develop this superpower.

[muting this, because yikes, there's a lot of y'all. and yes, yes, this statement has limitations and boundaries.]

Result!
#nzpol
#AoNZ
Freyberg High School's David Seymour haka: Thousands sign letter supporting students | RNZ News
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/512114/freyberg-high-school-s-david-seymour-haka-thousands-sign-letter-supporting-students

I feel like the funny thing for me with the Tiktok ban is that a lot of Americans, on either side of the debate, don't seem to realize that Tiktok feels to Americans like every single social media platform feels to people outside the US. You're telling me the app is located outside your country and your government's control, and you don't know how its data gets handled in that country? That's every app, to me.

DHL is firmly convinced that since they've loaded the parcel onto a delivery vehicle on 20th (today) they can make the delivery on 19th (yesterday).

This is the best and funniest piece of performance art this year. A whole-ass court case brought by a man who doesn't seem to understand the piece of art he is complaining about.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/20/artist-behind-monas-ladies-only-lounge-absolutely-delighted-man-is-suing-for-gender-discrimination

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sometimes a fanfic is a love letter to the canon, sometimes it's a polite rejection, and sometimes it's the 95 things that canon did absolutely wrong nailed to the wall with crossbow bolts