Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

knowing whether someone uses the way world of warcraft's chat filter rewrites the word "lol" as shorthand for laughing is a pretty good indicator of what kind of ideologies they subscribe to

my game is not available on Steam China. but that hasn't stopped 245,548 people in China from downloading my game for the first time during the past year.

building a ten foot wall around the internet just creates a market for eleven foot ladders.

"Match Group, Inc. is an American internet and technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It owns and operates the largest global portfolio of popular online dating services including Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, PlentyOfFish, Ship, and OurTime, totalling over 45 global dating companies."

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World'o'Techno is an amazing location specific generative music machine that has made the rounds at SHA, EMF, CCC and now #mch2022. It has a label that says "Please take the art for a walk" http://www.jarkman.co.uk/catalog/robots/worldotechno.htm

in case there was ambiguity: there is currently no immunity to sars 2. if you haven't been recently boosted (<6 months) then you probably don't have antibodies. if you HAVE been boosted, it was with a vaccine made from an extinct strain. if you've been infected, your antibody response is very likely to be worse than if you were vaxxed. if you were infected, your T cells have probably become seriously fucked up (which is why monkeypox outbreaks started to happen after widespread covid infections)

"you probably already got [disabling virus that confers no immunity to itself] so there's no sense in continuing to avoid it" is such a nuclear take that only public health "experts" could've come up with it

Ah yes, the Netherlands

what would a cool cute name for an actually good not shit, secure, local only, no ad libraries mood tracker app be? not that im building one or anything like that tho hahahaha 👀

Are there any Netherlands-based artists here who can talk about doing commissions and how taxes work with that? Asking for someone who'll be watching the replies to this thread :) Thank you!

If you're genuinely worried about over population still?

Are you an advocate for bodily autonomy? Abortion rights?
Sex education, and access to birth control?

If not you're probably still just a fascist looking for an excuse to kill off people that don't look like you.

Happy self discovery journey.

"but we do have a population problem!!!"

No, we don't, we have a distribution problem and a racial capitalist problem.

We're in a world that's actively overproducing "useless stuff" that will never be used.
We are in a world that's shredding food on site instead of distributing that food locally (bananas come to mind).
We're in a world where it's often illegal to rescue edible food from the dumpster. Where is illegal to give your employees food that's about to expire, because it's a benefit and you have to pay/pay taxes on it. Where fresh bread are delivered by truck, and then returned to be scrapped, no one in the chain is allowed to take it home (we still did).

But, if you indeed feel strongly about it lowering the population, get snipped. Don't reproduce. If you still want kids, don't until you understand why ecofacism is bad, because no one should pass _that_ on to their children.

Hi,

I can't believe I need to say this:

Ecofacism is still fascism.

Thanks.

it's that time again, pls help me test a concurrency bug by boosting this status :')

if anyone ever tells you "you can't just run away from people you don't like" then they are fucking lying to you

that's some toxic shit toxic people will use to abuse you to give them your presence

your presence is a gift only you alone get do decide to whom you bestow

if anyone's wholesale dismissing your decisions to get out of an uncomfortable/unsafe situation then they do not care about you and only want your attention

TIL about "auticon" which apparently is the company that employs autistic people in IT at significantly below-market salaries in order to then sell their services as extraordinary IT consultants with unique cognitive strengths 🤮
Like, if your employees are so unique, they should be paid above market, not below.
And they market themselves as "helping", sounds more like exploiting the fact that some of these people have nowhere else to go.

just a reminder after seeing some folks' reaction to the newest bit of fashjacketing or whatever that's been going around

lots of smug tankie takes and very online hostility that its userbase passes off as leftist action or something and it's never gotten any better over the years

defederating from them is guaranteed to reduce your tl's rancid vibes and increase the average quality of visible discussions

#fediblock