Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

What a graf:

"All emotions are useful for writing except for bitterness.

Good writing requires the consideration of other minds—after all, words only mean something when another mind decodes them. But bitterness can consider only itself. It demands sympathy but refuses to return it, sucks up oxygen and produces only carbon dioxide. It’s like sadness, but stuck eternally at a table for one."

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/28-slightly-rude-notes-on-writing

i hate how many of the world's favorite games are rooted in so much pain. minecraft was made by a shithead with antisemitic npcs, starbound was made with child labor, destiny 2 was made by bungie, and so on

damn. Games Industry is kinda fucked a little bit

The US has letter paper. Most of the world uses A4. Here in Canada, I just saw "A4 paper" that measures 8.5x11".

@joepie91 also: regular rounds of layoffs

@joepie91 were actually open. So he lost his job of 10 years and was out that extra paycheck. When I was working at Walmart I applied for a couple of position that were outside of my department only to be told that they also were not actually open. This is not new and it’s not a secret so how anyone can say “no one wants to work these days” when they’re the ones not actually hiring is insane to me.

@joepie91 that meeting and tell about 7 employees that they are no longer and had two options. To leave with two weeks pay and the opportunity to reapply after 12 months or to reapply to any open positions in the store immediately (with no guarantee of being approved for the job btw) and not take the money. I took the money. My direct supervisor reapplied, a man who’d been working with Lowe’s for over 10 years, and he wasn’t hired bc none of the positions listed on the website

@joepie91 back in 2019 Lowe’s made the snap decision to dismantle its in house FSA (maintenance) and Assembly teams, I woke up on my 30th birthday to about 100 text messages from my coworkers asking if I knew and if I was okay. I was off work so I called in to ask and was told to come in when I could so they could go over it with me. That morning in their morning managers meeting corporate had told the management team that we were to be let go effective immediately. They had to leave

I think it's honestly kind of funny the very random mix of things I post on this timeline. Everything from "I am mad about some current awfulness in the world", to "Here's a fluffy story about a cat", to "aaaaaaaa help I can't sleep jrwlkjwkjrlejkrlk", to "hello everyone take care of yourselves please". And all kinds of other nonsense in between. I'm surprised anyone knows what to do with this lol.

If someone else needed this, I made a simple Opus compression GUI to quickly preview on which bitrate encoded samples start sound crappy beyond very audible threshold: https://codeberg.org/archydragon/ohtoo

@joepie91 Can't even get to a phone interview at most places with a decade of experience on your resume but sure, "nobody wants to work". Right.

It’s the city of Columbus so crashing into a bank means you get to claim you discovered it https://614now.com/2025/hot-topics/car-crashes-into-clintonville-bank