Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Positive subtoot: supporting good alt text by telling people what you need from alt text

Here's mine:

If there is a publicly recognisable person in an image, please always name them in the alt text.

Calling someone just 'an absolute legend getting arrested' or 'a warmongering arsehole signing papers at a desk' is not useful, it doesn't help differentiate them much at all. Value statements and commentary on the person are fine (she IS a legend), please add people's actual names too.

This is one of my favorite weird mice: a Bluetooth combo mouse and number pad with built in calculator, made by Canon. There’s a button you can use to send the result of your calculations to the computer.

hey artists who sell stuff at booths

HOW.

How do you find places to set up a booth?

Indy has fuck all when it comes to art fairs, i found only one that is explicitly queer friendly and thats not til june

what terms do i need to be searching

A friend has just suggested I turn on a humidifier and a dehumidifier to wirelessly transfer water.

i should really get my adhd medicated (and diagnosed in the process i guess)
got any doctor recommendations? i'm in southwest germany, willing and able to travel a few hours by train

If you're a psychologist and you work for insurance companies reviewing claims for "medical necessity," I'm going to ask you for two favors:

1. Re-think your life choices.
2. Make sure you're actually qualified to speak to the population you're assessing. If you deny autism testing as unnecessary, I'm going to google you, and if you have no training in autistic adults I am going to tell my client how they can contact your licensing board and report you for practicing outside your scope.

Mede-autisten:

Wat vinden jullie van de afkorting 'auti-', zoals bijvoorbeeld gebruikt in een woord als auti-café?

Het komt mij nogal infantiliserend over, maar ik aarzel om daar een sterk standpunt over in te nemen, omdat ik mijn diagnose nog maar kort heb... Niet dat ik dan minder recht op een mening heb, maar toch...

I feel like an important realisation for a lot of autistic people is "I'm not actually antisocial, I just want the right company".

Time for another round of "is it phishing or is it not?" - guess!

Software usually has extraordinarily high margins. Tech’s nonsense management tactics are contingent on being able to float shit away on a tide of money. You only get away with bullshit software dev, shipping abysmal apps, and constant security lapses if you are making an obscene amount of money

I assume that people who need to know this would already know it, but I am not such a person and did not know it, so I will pass this on from a correspondent who wishes to remain nameless: There's a FOSS menstrual cycle and fertility tracking app named "drip." created by feminist female developers with privacy at its foundation. I'm not qualified to opine about its safety or security but developers say everything stays on your device: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.drip/

The biggest lie in tech?

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Wir haben das Wochenende genutzt, um im Alaunpark ein paar Flyer zu verteilen. Mit dem guten Wetter geht auch die Kontrollsaison der #Polizei wieder los. Mit unseren Flyern seid ihr auf einen Blick informiert: Was sind eure Rechte in einer Kontrollsituation? Was sind eure Pflichten? Was könnt ihr tun, um anderen zu helfen?

#Polizeikontrollen sind für die Mehrheitsgesellschaft überhaupt kein Thema. Wer hingegen nicht dazu gehört / gehören soll und als "anders" wahrgenommen wird, erlebt sie ständig. Das kostet Nerven & Zeit und nicht selten auch Geld. Viele Strafanzeigen entstehen erst als Folge solcher Kontrollen. Nicht weil vorher etwas vorgefallen wäre, sondern weil Beamt*innen im Nachgang Anzeigen stellen, weil Betroffene sich nicht "angemessen" verhalten.

#Kriminalstatistik #Repression #racialprofiling #Rassismus #Dresden

Context: I am not actively suicidal, but do have suicidal thoughts that I’m talking to a therapist about.

Are there any suicide hotlines available in Germany that are actually safe for neurodivergent trans people? I have heard trans people having bad experiences with the German hotlines and would very much like to have an emergency plan in place.