Dit is toch geweldig?
Boer uit Zeewolde geeft land ter waarde van miljoenen euro's weg aan stichting - https://nos.nl/l/2552536
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@hweimer I think the missing component in your perspective is the large personal and social costs involved in making all those things happen.
The people who have burned out or who we have otherwise lost, as a consequence of various factors relating to power and agency over technology; abusers, bad governance, the fundamental power differential vs. tech corps, and so on.
Most of these initiatives exist *in spite of* immense social forces acting against them, and people frequently pay for them with their personal and/or community health, which is not a sustainable approach in the long term.
I think that is where the techno-pessimism is coming from; the knowledge that we are going to lose these things in the not-so-far future if something doesn't change about the larger power differentials involved.
Do you know what Freenode is/was?
Click each you know what they are/were:
https://tenforward.social/@nivex/113858275416348478
Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest community of them all?
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There are actual refugees and children of refugees on fedi. Just...learn some manners. Be good neighbors.
I just saw one who doesn't feel safe telling you to use another hashtag because the very same political machinations that made you come over here from insta or tiktok are making them worry about their safety and their continued existence. Have some perspective. Use another hashtag.
If you've been calling yourself a refugee because you've moved from one social media platform to another, please stop, and please donate and sign up to the newsletter of a refugee or asylum seeker charity that's close to you.
If you don't know any, feel free to borrow mine.
These Walls Must Fall https://wallsmustfall.org/
Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) https://www.wastmanchester.com/
The idea that individuals alone can't even come close to solving the climate crisis was brilliantly captured in this comic
submitted to @fluconf, if i get accepted i'm finally going to have to put together a manifesto for a less shitty security industry that i've been thinking about for a while now
If you’ve got a little wooden keepsake box, you can easily load it with 3M Auras and have a classy way present N95s to visiting guests.
A intercity crashed upon an excavator near Bunnik this morning. Nobody was hurt, but there is a lot of damage. No direct trains Utrecht - Arnhem/Rhenen today.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2552499-trein-botst-op-graafmachine-bij-bunnik-hele-dag-geen-treinen
More pictures with the damage from ProRail. It looks like at least one portal for overhead wires needs to be replaced, and a large part of the railroad crossing installation.
https://www.prorail.nl/nieuws/aanrijding-in-bunnik-tussen-trein-en-graafmachine
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.