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

Sounds like the right stance to me for anyone who cares about the human beings out there and about free-software-for-freedom:
https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html

I think non-writers (and a lot of writers, too) want to hear about a beautiful experience that inspired the book, or me getting stuck until genius strikes, or the music playlists I meticulously craft.

But I don't do any of that. Read a lot, write a lot, come up with something (anything, really!) and show up until the book is done.

This is not romantic, but it's practical because it works for me.

Asterix and Obelix are Kiki and Bouba

tired: deadname
wired: placeholder name used during development

Luigi's Mansion, aber als survival horror für CEOs.

Wat is de beste plek om na te denken?

#annaWilGraagWeten

Update 1: https://wetdry.world/@cyrus/113856414320440362

I have really dreaded making this post, because this is a giant ask and also because I am scared shitless

but...I might need a place to stay, for a few weeks, somewhere around Düsseldorf or Neuss (Germany, NRW)

I don't yet know how many weeks, if not months, I've been struggling to find a job that won't either require an expensive drivers license or wants to rip me off for the lowest pay (from which I couldn't fund a home anyways)

The original plan (a long time ago by now) was to just stay at my parents and move in with a friend this summer (so, 2025), but since I've ran from that place I've been hopping back and forth

One of those friends I've been hopping back and forth with has effectively said they won't take me anymore, leaving me at another friend, which is living in a sort of social housing (kind of...) that gets weekly checkups where I basically have to leave and hide for ~30-60 minutes to not get caught. I wish I was joking.

All other options I have had, including my mum (whereas previously I lived at my stepmum+dad) and some other friends I've asked all can't take me either. Mum got issues with their landlord and could not really provide food, everyone else still lives at their parents.

So, I guess as my biggest ask so far, and pretty much the only hope I have left, I am asking for anyone nearby to please give me a place to live for god knows how long. I don't even know anymore.

if you need anything else explained, just ask here or DM me

#mutualaid @mutualaid

today in Q is not awake: showing my BC50 instead of my D-Ticket to the bus driver

i think you misheard me. i said that the implementation is "conformn't"

#fluConf2025 will feature a track on Luddism, and we're still looking for submissions.

We want to hear from people that are talking or writing about the deliberate use of technology, resistance to the dominant narratives in tech hype cycles, analysis of the strategies employed by venture capitalists and their distorting effects on society, activism against extractive and exploitative technologies, sabotage of algorithmic systems, and whatever else Luddism means to you.

Apply up until midnight of January 19th, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)

https://fluconf.online/apply/

#luddism #workingClass #laborHistory #sabotage #classWar #resist #AI #directAction #algorithm #capitalism #hyperCapitalism #enshittification #butlerianJihad

So cool when messages from one side of my house to the other have to traverse us-east-1 first. What an utterly bizarre world.

PSA: if you're on a mega-instance like mastodon.social and want to move to a better instance but you don't want to leave your history behind, I will personally help you run my SQL script that loads your account export into a gotosocial database

https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/masto-gear-solid

Yes, it actually happened

Context: https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-general-fired-after-missing-anti-tank-mines-were-found-in-ikea/