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

OH: this meeting couldn't have been an email, because the email client would warn you about the empty body

I picked up a hitch-hiker. I always stop for them, so I pulled over out of habit. Forgetting I was on a tween road, a ghost road, a twixt road.

"I'm going to Bonn," I said.

"What century?"

"Twenty-first."

"Close enough, I can wait there."

"Hop in."

I don't pry, but I am curious.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

apparently you can just airdrop yourself Apple Pro Apps from display units in Apple Stores and use them without paying hundreds of dollars xd

there's no rule that goes "it's okay to cheat as long as it's not multiplayer"

cheating in a game is okay if everyone affected by it consents

if you play a custom game mode in any moddable game, that's the same as cheating but within a framework that ensures everyone who is playing with you vaguely understands what changes have been made to the rules of the game

the player count doesn't matter. what matters is consent

The fact that open source exists makes the extent of the burnout dumbfounding

What I mean is, you can read open source as "you can't stop developers from writing code"--we have some of the most prized skills in the world, and we'll give it away because we love computers.

How does the collective business world take that and fuck it up so bad that we never want to look at another computer again?

But, like, all the white people in the replies trying to be helpful by centring themselves is . . . fucking yikes.

So, for people who want to be allies:

1. Don't ask the person being harassed for stuff. If you want to help, but don't know what to do, make a separate post asking on your own TL.

2. Your feelings of guilt or shame or whatever for stuff that you didn't actually do - replying about those emotions reads like a request for reassurance. Somebody been systemically harassed should not be asked to make you feel better about their pain. If you're having complicated feelings about whiteness, this is good for your own post. Self-loathing is not a more acceptable way of centring your own whiteness.

Rule of thumb: if your reply is actually about you, just subtoot it instead.

I think we need to encourage people to stop using phrases like "Rupert Murdoch is worth $8.3 billion" and replace them with the more accurate "Rupert Murdoch *controls* $8.3 billion." People aren't worth any more or less because of their wealth or lack of it. The phrase encourages a sloppy and immoral habit of thought.