Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

It does raise one interesting question though - in cases where you really are one of the few minorities in a bigoted town, is anarchy actually any better for you than modern democracies with civil rights and whatnot? I think so, because there's no apparatus of power for the bigots to capture and use against you, they'd have to do the oppressing themselves, and if there are other minorities a mutual defense association would work as a deterrent. But, it's still a scary thought.

I've been in a multi-day extended (friendly) discussion with a socdem. They keep saying pretty much the same three things:

1. People will somehow vote "more correctly" under "true" democracy whereas under anarchy people will automatically become bigoted conservatives bc of localism
2. Examples of the failure of democracy today are just "badly executed democracy."
3. We need a single reified entity to enforce a set of rules, so we can have a "society."

😂

cofe on a great day:

1. make cofe

cofe on a good day:

1. grind cofe
2. make cofe
3. cleanup

cofe on a bad day:
1. walk into kitchen
2. loading.gif
3. switch on espresso machine boiler
4. turn on scale
5. measure 18.2g of cofe
6. put cofe in grinder
7. grind cofe
8. clean bottom of grinder with brush
9. get portafilter
10. put cofe in portafilter
11. stir cofe
12. tamp cofe
13. attach portafilter
14. put scale on drip tray
15. put cup on scale
16. reset scale
17. slightly open steam valve
18. wait until boiler temp drops below threshold
19. switch on pump for preinfusion
20. wait until boiler gets up to temp
21. close valve and start timer
22. wait 30s for 27g of cofe
23. switch off pump and boiler
24. remove cup and scale from drip tray
25. turn off scale
26. sigh
27. leave portafilter attached
28. pick up cup, look for spoon
29. sigh
30. walk to drawer
31. open drawer, take spoon
32. give cofe a stir
33. sigh at dirty spoon
34. open dish washer
35. sigh at dish washer full of clean dishes
36. drop spoon in sink
37. leave kitchen

I am a huge advocate for never speaking to your abusive family again. and never let anyone convince you that you’re going to regret not reconciling before they die. that is entirely up to them.

Sysadmin tip: If you manage an ipv4 /24 and can't figure out a naming scheme, Pokemon Gold/Silver's full national dex is 251 pokemon. Throwing in Missingno, Oak, Elm, Jesse and James makes 256.

Figuring out how to get "Nidoran♀" into DNS and /etc/hosts without an explosion is an exercise left to the implementer.

I SAW THIS & I THOUGHT YOUD APPRECIATE . TODD!?

much like 2020, a lot of "the left" is ignoring the need for drastic action that needs to be taken wrt attacks on queer people and reproductive autonomy. don't pay attention to people telling you that we need some ultimate "mass movement" all we have is now and right here

y’all where is the safest place for lgbtqia people in the carribbean

lol my fucking (stock AT&T) router ran a whole scan of my network and tried to log into my NAS repeatedly until I got an email from my NAS saying it had blocked a local IP address 😅

Things autism research could be about:

- How does autism radar work?
- Do we have an easier time communucating with other autistics because our ways of communication are similar, or because we've all had to learn to accomodate the people we're talking to?
- What can be done to prevent and treat autistic burnout?
- What even *is* autistic burnout exactly?
- What effects does masking have on your mental health?
- What autistic traits are actually traits of autism, and which ones are trauma responses?
- How is a non-traumatized autistic brain work?
- How can we better accomodate autistic people?

What autism research is about:
- How do we make the autistic people stop existing?

I got a lovely reminder today that projects I worked on in the past may seem like ancient memories to me, but will be new discoveries for people when they find them later.

As a person who's most familiar with making live performances, asynchronous creativity at times still feels like a magical new idea.

Keep making stuff.
Keep sharing stuff.

Rapport d’enquête du BEA-RI sur l’incendie du data center SBG2 OVH de Strasbourg du 10 mars 2021
BEA-RI investigation report on the fire at the SBG2 OVH data center in Strasbourg on March 10, 2021
https://lafibre.info/ovh-datacenter/incendie-ovh-strabourg/

me today

Heads up to anyone trying to get estradiol valerate (estrogen injections): insurance won't cover a supply of any medicine that lasts you more than 90 days - I guess because they don't want you to get TOO secure or independent from the doctors and insurance people - but estradiol vials don't come in anything less than 5mg, so if you're on a 0.25mg dose per week like me, that adds up to a 140 day supply at minimum. To get around that, you need to ask your pharmacist to put it in as 90 days anyway.

@calcifer @malte The thing I always point out about preventing hierarchies from re-emerging in anarchist thins is that it has to be a conscious, ongoing effort. Every egalitarian society I know of which has survived for substantial amounts of time had purposeful levelling mechanisms to ensure that no one developed outsized authority, and any time I try to envision any kind of anarchist future I always include how decentralized organization can balance power and thereby eliminate hierarchy.

It's cool that people want to make more egalitarian structures. It's amazing that people want to eliminate hierarchies of power. But it's frustrating to watch such attempts fail because a certain brand of idealism prevents people from understanding that the absence of a plan for keeping power distributed and accountable will in every case produce unaccountable power structures, which is usually a worse outcome than what they're trying to avoid or replace

it's exhausting to watch people make the same mistakes over and over.