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

I sometimes hear people who are not even millionaires saying things like, “Just being a billionaire doesn’t make someone a bad person.” It absolutely makes them a bad person. One doesn’t just happen to accumulate a billion dollars because one has a great product or service. It happens because you exploit the fuck out of people and resources. You hoard profits for yourself rather than share them with the people who are actually making your products and providing your services.

this is, once again, a case of the medical establishment reinforcing social stigma against normal physiological variations.

how many doctors tell you to just go to sleep earlier and tell you that sleeping late is unhealthy? this is just the same bullshit as always.

I'm here to tell you that your body knows what it needs, and if you listen to your body's signals and give it the amount of sleep it needs at the time when it needs it, you're doing everything right.

a lot of studies have been done and found that people who go to bed late have poorer sleep, poorer performance in life, more stress etc, but not a single one that I've seen has mentioned, let alone examined, the effect of social sleep norms and expectations, so I find them all questionable.

especially because many of them not only do not correct for, but in their methodology and their analysis actually reproduce and reinforce stigmatisation of "undesirable" sleep times.

Its always morally correct to pirate @Adobe software, especially when they snatch data from your private artwork and feed it to their "Content Analysis" for (in their own words) Machine-Learning.

Good on Jon Lam for sounding the alarm. Remember: "Industry Standard" is a Marketing Term. What matters is if you can do the work well. Whatever tools work for you are what work best. Dont let corporations make you dependent on them.

Make changes to your Adobe account here:

account.adobe.com/privacy

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