Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

anyone have opinions on projectors for home use? i looked around and they go from 230 euros to 2,300 euros and uh, that's a big spread

EDIT: Fwiw we can position it pretty far from the screen (about 3 meters I'd guess) and we have blinds that we can use to darken the room very effectively

An escaped scarlet ibis is hanging around in a polder near Dordrecht, and it makes for some incredible photos. The animal looks like it came straight from one of Audubon's books.

#birds #birding

Question for pagans and/or Christmas-music avoiders: I’ve been told I have to play holiday music next week at the bookshop. I protested fruitlessly but am allowed to play “witchy solstice” music (an idea I threw out there) as long as it’s “festive holiday” music. Any thoughts on a Pandora station that might pass muster? What’s “festive” and lends itself to peaceful bookshop browsing—maybe folk, instrumental (like harp??), Celtic, Scandinavian, ancient Germanic . . . ?

#PaganMusic #SolsticeMusic

they say that visiting IKEA and assembling furniture is a true test of a relationship, so what does it mean when emily and I walk in with a complete AR-checked 3D model and parts list, head directly to relevant departments, pull everything from the warehouse, aldi-speed through self-checkout, and pack everything into my car within 45 minutes of arriving?

My mother’s union just secured a 40% raise and 7 weeks parental leave for its workers after walking off the job (in an illegal strike no less).

Don’t let people tell you unions aren’t worth fighting for

Putting the new iOS18 “vehicle motion cues” to the test in the passenger seat on today’s windy roads down the Oregon Coast to reduce motion sickness potential. So simply clever, so unexpectedly effective, and barely distracting once you get used to it.

The only downside is that it’s impossible to remember how to search for that very specific name in settings search, but there’s a control center widget for toggling it that makes that moot.

anyone else keep redundant pieces of furniture around cause the cat likes em?

#CatsOfMastodon

#flohmarkt needs an #accessibility review to leave beta phase.

Is there someone in the #fediverse who can help on #a11y?

Boosts highly appreciated!

https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/issues/182

Imprisonment is a form of torture, no matter how 'humane' it is on paper, and should be treated as such from an ethical perspective.

And when you argue for imprisoning people as a form of 'justice', you are arguing for torture as a form of 'justice', with all of the implications that that has.

It's just a form of torture that's easy to rationalize if you don't want to confront those implications.

Oh my FUCKING GOD

I finished dumping 99.99% of a very old, damaged, backup CDROM that was previously unreadable. It took 3 days and I was super excited to find out what old data I put on it. The disc had UDF sessions, because that was common at the time for just Adding Files to non-rewritable media.

So I mount that shit in my Windows 98SE box, and lo and behold, this is all that was on it.

I would be absolutely upset if it wasn't so fucking funny

#cdrom #DataArchival #retrocomputing

Heb jij vragen over burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid? Wil je de A12 blokkeren, maar twijfel je nog? Maak je je zorgen om je Verklaring Omtrent het Gedrag (VOG)? Dan is een actietraining iets voor jou! Je bent van harte welkom met al je vragen!

Info & training: https://a12blokkade.nl/

"The basic premise is that neither the institutions of power nor those opposing it will meet our demands without being forced to do so. The basic premise is that, without the self-organization of those directly concerned, we entrust it to the State to define the politics of care. And it will develop health capitalism where we want a politics that favors a production of care."

[translation: mine, if you find mistakes please let me know]

"highlighting the points of convergence between AIDS and COVID makes it possible to remember the importance of a communal fight against the hierarchization of lives, for the defense of preventive, patient-oriented/care-oriented public health and in favor of a medicine that remains evidence-based and scientifically produced and validated."

[translation: mine, if you find mistakes please let me know]

so recently i found out about that morrowind mod that adds a complete recreation of emba-5 (a real small military town that was built in kazakhstan during the ussr times). the mod was made by a person who lived there and i thought it was kind of cute until it turned out the mod maker is a russian religious quack nazbol guy who says that it's a "uniquely russian" town and believes kazakh people cursed it and bastardized it after ussr fell. wack.