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

does anybody know any nsfw kink and furry positive instances that don't have shitty politics pls????

#askFedi

Fedi, I need some help,

I'm looking for an LGBTQ+ (particularly NB) friendly personal trainer in London (I'm around the docklands and work in centre if that makes a difference) who can do face to face.

I say that as VR doesn't work for me, and "just joining a gym" is ... Terrifying.

My prior experience with gyms has been... Negative and was over a decade ago.
Classes and such terrify the fuck out of me, especially as a n00b

I found some who look great but would take an hour+ to get to/from.

A lot of gym chains say they are friendly but until you interact etc you never really know.

Any help appreciated!

#askfedi #london

@joepie91 This is exactly why I get outright snippy at anyone who tells me that I could be rich if I sold my knitting and crochet. Writing for a living made me hate writing. Also with fiber arts you're competing with Walmart and Amazon selling literal slave labor. I've written a couple of patterns and those I might sell. But production line BS is not healthy for me and I find it insulting when people demand Michelin star food produced at McDonald's speed.

@joepie91 I feel like LLMs destroyed my love of programming, and it feels hard to rebuild that when it was built on curiosity and desire to help people, something that seems completely at odds with what software has become.

And like, I would also be fine with maintenance work on something open-source that's already useful, but it's surprisingly hard to find a project that fits the bill there?

Like, I'd want to work *with* someone, without a hard scheduling commitment (because ADHD), using tools that I am comfortable (even if not familiar) with, which mostly means non-monolithic JS, and be confident that the project doesn't veer off to something miserable like "AI" or cryptocurrency.

And those constraints filter down the available options way more than they should, honestly.

Aside from generally feeling miserable about the software industry and who it serves, I've also been struggling with a lot of programming just being... *boring*.

Like, this is definitely the ADHD brain talking, but a lot of new software development is just the wrong kind of routine work for me. It's not novel and it's also not caring for something that people already use and rely on. And I understand programming too well to still find much enjoyment in it.

So I've been needing something novel, something I don't understand yet and which I can work on in an exploratory way, where I *don't* know where I'll end up yet. And I think I've found it? It seems like (inclusive) malleable software fits the bill - it's both exploratory and practically useful.

https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/114679882247156017

when there's a reckoning in the future around what roles people played in facilitating the genocide in Palestine, it is a moral imperative that journalists + the ownership class of the news outlets they work for must be held to account

don't forget this: by repeatedly, systematically refusing to call out Israel's crimes, these bastards have caused as much shedding of innocent blood as though they were on the ground pointing the fucking weapons themselves

PLEASE BOOST: Icelandair broke two wheels off my new suitcase. I'm stuck in KEF airport in Iceland. Is the reach of Mastodon powerful enough that it can find someone nearby who can help me get a new suitcase that has dimensions that can be checked on Austrian Air? I think that's 158 cm linear.

Dear people of the Fediverse,
Do you have any suggestions for a good, not necessarily free, spech-to-text recognition / dictation app that saves the audio and allows exports as txt, and, most importantly, does not force you to sign over your data to hundreds of "legitimate vendors"? If the same app also works on a desktop - even better, but it's not necessary.

Edit: Android and Windows.

Ah. No ethnic minority person in my compartment, so no passport check. Police just look. But - like in Kehl last week - the train waits in Frankfurt (Oder) while they do the illegal controls, so we accumulate more delay…