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

crying about how you've been so righteous recently and the people being mean to you for not recognizing your own transgressions are somehow in the wrong betrays that you never actually did the total inward examination that comes with exiting alt-right spaces

spending even just two years in "alt-right rabbit holes" does more to your brain than just make you angry at everything all the time. its not enough to just disavow yourself of those spaces and work on correcting your racism, because the culture of those spaces builds up and reïnforces a particular type of hierarchical arrangement and liberal respectability notions that you also have to do work to interrogate and undo. its not enough to leave the rabbit hole and put a blm patch on

I have no internal speaker and I must beep

Looking for people who know something about early computing, especially in the Netherlands. Please boost and help me solve the mystery of this custom made plate that used to belong to my grandfather Bram Jan Loopstra, one of the pioneers of Dutch computing. What do the pictures mean? #computing #history (EDIT: Wow, thanks for the overwhelming response! You may have to check the post on my instance to see all the MANY helpful reactions.)

All I'm going to say is pay attention to the rage and defensiveness that occurred when I said I don't support any fediblock project that doesn't credit the authors.

Pay attention to how upset white people get about the basic idea of having to credit someone for work.

There was an easy solution to that situation but here we are.

A lot of people here need to really take a hard look at what kind of community they are contributing to.

The neurodivergent urge to put half of your statements in brackets* (because you want to give additional content)

*and pseudo-footnotes to everything you say

Me: I’ve been bitten by a wolf!
Doctor: Where?
Me: No. Just a normal wolf.

for the new year i'd like

a single follow-requester

to actually read my bio

*and* write a decent message

the liberal urge to insist fascist propaganda is part of an equalizing upward dance with marginalized experience

If people are against FediBlock as a concept or a tool, it's probably bc hit dogs holler.

"I don't like being held accountable for my continuos harmful behavior and its bad when you call me out on things"

It's giving DARVO and utilizing your marginalized markers as a shield against your behavior suggests that marginalization is an excuse for lateral abuse.

It isn't & I said this before. It's a common tactic on here specifically, something I've not seen on other SM spots to this extent

for everyone, from anarchists to LGBT people

im going to do kitchen nightmares but i visit instance servers and i rag about them having poor moderation and no backups

The tragedy of the commons is a pernicious myth.

The demise of the commons of Britain and Europe wasn't the result of misuse by commoners, but enclosing by the landowners. The original hypothetical was made up for storytelling purposes, and the term was popularized by an ecologist with anti-immigrant and racist views.

Here is my recommended reading for heading into 2023:

https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false-and-dangerous-myth

how long does it take from opening a piece of software to actually being able to use it and why do all the programs that I can convince other people to use have times exceeding 100 seconds