Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

you know that feeling when you get an appliance and there's a manual but you're like "I'm never going to need this because if I need to fix it I can look it up online"

that was the "living in a world where google actually works" mindset and you should probably stop doing that

we're going to have to be more honest about ourselves, our allegiances to losers who don't invest or sustain our communities, and many other parts of this sick society we accept as normal yet contribute to. we're going to start to be honest about people that we're quick to put on a pedestal because they do a thing we like.

folks will follow and defend their beloved deified artists and models and politicians and bloggers off of a cliff at the expense of themselves, their communities, and basic common sense and ethics.

this is especially true in fandom spaces.

it's actually a major problem we're gonna need to discuss again and again, especially as they continue to be used to sanitize fascism more and more overtly.

the celebrity class is like a lifelong proverbial addiction for the masses — and that includes you, reader.

yes, even if you are a card-carrying event organizer leftist.

don't kid yourself into thinking you can be immune to influence.

we're gonna need to be a lot more honest going forward, especially in this era, about the ways we've all been socialized to devotion and worship of these figures. it's unhealthy and dangerous.

"Trump just declared everyone legally female, why did he do this is he stupid?" Democrats are a fucking joke if this is how they're handling the next four years lol

I expect everyone to do at least these two things:

1. Actively seek out the experiences and needs of people who are marginalized in a way that you are not.
2. Do *something* to actively oppose and fight fascism, guided by those experiences and needs. The exact method is not that important.

If you are not doing both of these things, I will be judging you for it.

The Jack Dorsey talk has now been removed as a talk entirely with no comment from the FOSDEM committee.

There's a lack of transparency and accountability with how FOSDEM is organized and administered.

To be clear, I don't think the organizers of @fosdem are dishonest. I do think there could be more clarity and transparency.

Perhaps the slot could be repurposed as an open discussion for attendees, volunteers and the organizers.

https://www.onepict.com/20250122-mirror.html

#FOSDEM #NoBillionairesAtFOSDEM

Be Gay. Do Crimes.

And if being queer as hell is a crime? That makes it easy, all you gotta do is live. However you fucking can.

Lang geleden dat ik huismerk-brinta van de Jumbo in huis had. De verpakking is weer eens vernieuwd, maar gelukkig zit de oude vertrouwde typfout nog in de ingrediëntenlijst. Volkerenmeel, is dat een soort soylent green? 🤪

yall got too comfortable and complacent. you people let those vermin snuck up on you like you're some videogame ass enemies on easy difficulty. you preferred comfort to solidarity. and because of that, people like this are everywhere. they are in our groups, in our chats. in our furmeets and con leadership positions. so if you don't want that to get worse then go and grow a fucking spine already. "pawlitics" is gonna be here and affect us whether you want it or not.

if you see people like this, if you see that shit, you make noise. you tell them this shit won't fly and they better shut up. if they don't stop, or start some shit, you get rude, you excommunicate and ban them. maybe even beat the fuck out of them if they're physically present.

saw a furry on twitter harass a black furry by calling them you know what already word. with a hard -er, too.

this mf 5 years younger than me. he ain't even fully adult yet and he already feels comfortable saying that shit to someone.

so here's the deal, fellow furries.

you either fix your spaces,

or you let your culture and legacy die and you turn into another 4chan abomination filled with owo uwu nazis.

i don't care.

This will take a lot of practice to nail down - but have a look at the concept:
Zoom pulling during exposure on a moving subject

Sony A7, ISO 400, 1/25, Canon nFD 28-55mm

Physicians may be surprised to learn that there have been *dozens* of potential biomarkers (blood tests, saliva tests, etc, basically) identified for ME/CFS and #LongCovid. These never get turned into working, widely-available tests because no one funds the studies needed to validate them in large cohorts. Here's a new story from The Sick Times & a page from MEPedia that lists many potential biomarkers.

#medicine #ChronicIllness

https://thesicktimes.org/2025/01/21/finding-an-accepted-long-covid-biomarker-will-be-complicated-this-blood-test-could-give-us-answers/

https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_biomarker

@oatmeal #AltText For this poignant and beautiful work.