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

All the trains here are pulled by a reindeer

Dear Santa

I have been a very nice shark this year. I always planned my reis in de app! Even kort voor vertrek, i did de reisplanner check. I always checked in and out, even when going from NS to Arriva. I was silent in the silence zone and cuddles passengers who needed it.

I hope you consider my niceness and give me a VIRM for Christmas.

Signed
OV Blåhaj

Time for the - I guess yearly by this point... - toot again:

No, I will not be at #38c3. I *could* have squeezed it into my schedule despite an upcoming transplantation, but they have *once again* failed to implement any COVID safety measures.

A few days of Congress is not worth the risk of brain damage or (in my case) severe illness or death.

If you want to see me at your event, push for appropriate safety precautions like sufficient ventilation/filtering and (particularly where that is not possible) mask distribution and ideally masking requirements.

#CovidIsNotOver

cycled past Imperial College London this evening, and they've rebranded to look like a defense contractor. it looks terrible

sending lots of hugs and love to everyone feeling that normative holiday squeeze 🫂

remember that the holidays are hard for a lot of folks. there's nothing wrong or weird with not feeling like you fit into things you dont want to be doing. if everyone else is enjoying doing stuff you dont like or are actively opposed to, that isn't a reflection on you. hold true to your values. let them define you. ❤️

if anything, its wrong to make people fit into situations they dont want to be in!

well anyway. i hope you ar least get to eat something yummy.

to clarify — most of Kazakhstan celebrates new year instead. its aesthetically the same as christmas. we too put up a spruce tree with shiny balls and have a red boomer come home and shower us with gifts. we just don't do that on the birthday of The Dude Who Came Back

@joepie91 "if you disagree then you can just fork it" is a response that you'd only get from a developer to shut down genuine complaints often made by users who are themselves not developers and never will be developers.

It's a callous cop-out at best and a refusal to acknowledge and address poor design or critically missing features at worst.

I've worked with a bunch of game engines over the years. so far Godot + GDScript is genuinely a lot of fun to work with, it brings back that "small but powerful framework" vibe. Has many quirks and odd decisions (most I probably haven't even encountered yet), but yes, it's fun to work.

Wealthy Americans every Christmas: *watching endless adaptions of a moral fable by a Victorian social critic about how the rich stop the poor from affording necessary healthcare, so that their children die, and how this also damns the rich*