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

Christopher Nolan's filming of Odysseus has finished 2 weeks early. Yet another example of him straying wildly from the original story.

so in addition to the eight separate occasions Apple lied under oath, the court also just casually finds them to be doing accounting fraud on the App Store as well

lol, lmao even

If you're doing tech stuff for local activists, ask yourself this: Can I, right now, pass this whole thing on to someone who knows basically nothing about how any of this works?

And lest I sound like some kind of scold: I have not always done this, and I'm not sure I'm doing it right now.

But it's a variation on the first rule of activism: If you're not finding most of it super boring, you're probably doing it wrong. Tech folks want to be clever, but in this space, you want to be doing something that feels slightly beneath you. And you really need to have it so well laid and well documented that they don't actually need *you* to do it.

@sramsay This is particularly relevant for tech people, but true for everyone involved in voluntary work:

create structures that work without you!

If that means giving up control and status, that's a good sign you are on a sustainable path of avoiding burnout.

one of the rare greatest moments of the fediverse is how enough small instances can come together to allow people who are normally treated as a minority to act as a majority and put social pressure on an instance full of people who have never once experienced not being the majority in their life, into a position where they have to consider that they have cruised through life without serious principles.

the resulting implosion is often that they cannot accept being a minority for even a second.

As this is labour day, I would like to remind us all that if everyone who is not mega rich would stop cooperating with the mega rich, their wealth would mean nothing.

Money is only a tool that we made up to make trading easier, but somehow we elevated it to an ends, instead of the means it was meant to be, and if we all collectively decide that the mega rich's money is no good for us, their power will greatly decrease if not disappear.

This is why the rich and powerful put effort in keeping us divided, for instance, by sponsoring and endorsing nazi parties around the world.

It's because their biggest nightmare is that we, the lower classes, will realise that no matter the colour, gender identity, sexuality, etc, we have more in common with each other, and that the real cause of our issues are the people hoarding wealth like they're fantasy dragons.

if you keep referring to the exposure of fucked up power dynamics and fashy assholes as "drama" you're just doing bigots' work for them by raising the social costs of speaking up about it

people with an incredibly shallow understand of the politics of a situation who are doing their best to remain ignorant 🤝 bigots who have a stake in downplaying their own bigotry in public so they can keep perpetrating their bigotry on their targets in semi-private

calling everything "drama"

Like, dude, you have not *remotely* endured the kind of suffering that warrants a response like that, and maybe you should get off your fucking ass and do something about it instead with that privilege you're holding?

My least favourite combination of political awareness is "privileged enough that they are completely unaware of major injustices until it starts affecting people who look like them, and then immediately declares humanity 'doomed', 'hopeless', or 'unfixable' while completely ignoring the work that so many marginalized folks have done for decades"

Het jaar is 2081. Het trein-OV rijdt nu allemaal op hoge snelheid, en de treinen zijn van alle gemakken voorzien.

Behalve de Mat'64, die op de een of andere manier wéér een sloopronde overleeft heeft, en regelmatig opduikt op willekeurige routes. Niemand weet intussen meer wie ze uitbaat, ze zijn er gewoon en ze gaan ook nooit meer weg.

you put some cardboard boxes by the door so you remember to take them out for recycling. then after a few weeks they;ve become the door boxes