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

I have no idea how it took me this long, but after two decades of working in the video gaming industry, I'm finally writing my first ominous-sounding "An Open Letter to the Games Industry" post.

Lots of folk end up writing these, and most of them are better than mine, but mine is at least highly specific https://www.improbableisland.com/potato.php

Wat mij betreft is felle kritiek de enige valide berichtgeving over dat voetbalkampioenschap.

Ik ontvolg direct iedereen die inhoudelijk over het voetbal zelf begint en doet alsof dit een normaal feestje kan zijn.

I have one (1) bottle of granat left in my flat and the hackerspace (my source of mate) is out of granat

absolute crimes

Did you know there's a large raccoon mural in Lisbon that is made out of trash?

Now you do!

what happened there makes me angry. it makes me fierce.

we need to talk. i urge you to open the thread if you care about the lives of queer people.

they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough

me: working from home gives me the opportunity to focus on tasks free from the the distractions of a noisy office!

brain:

TROUT

TROUT

LET IT ALL OUT

THESE ARE THE FISH I CAN DO WITHOUT

SALMON

I’M TALKING TO YOU

SALMON

me: cool never mind

I would like to be able to make recommendations to BIPOC who have been scared off by the (non)moderation of mastodon.social and some of the other bigger instances.

If you know of an instance where there are non-white people who are doing the moderation (and also that the moderation is good) please let me know.

Thank you, comrades! <3

Minecraft won't launch. I backed up .minecraft and tried reinstalling. The launcher hangs forever at "Cleaning up". No obvious errors in the logs but can paste them up somewhere if anyone thinks that'll help.

KDE neon 5.26, Linux kernel 5.15.0-52
#minecraft 🐘

Does anybody have like, an actual LIST of known-good instances with decent moderation and not of full of chuds (nazis/terfs/swerfs/etc.), that are accepting new users?

(For sharing with users who are currently stock on mastodon dot social or w/e)

boosts appreciated, also if there's a hashtag that obviously goes with this kind of question let me know

@doorbraak

In the toot above 👆 I'm replying to is a link to youtube video of a violent group in blackface that are targeting antiracism protesters in the netherlands on their way to protest blackface. Video is a collection from various sources about what happened.

The police stood by and didn't intervene to 'avoid escalation'

The netherlands is a racist cesspool

This story with Tracy Chou, an engineer who specifically works on creating tools to stifle organised harassment online, getting posts removed from mastodon.social because of "reverse sexism/racism," is maddeningly infuriating.

We know that Mastodon's flagship instances have been having issues with moderation for a while, but this seems to point that the trend has gone from "ineffective absent moderators" to "moderators protecting the feelings of white men," which I think will backfire. It also validates every criticism the fediverse receives for being a bastion of tepid, neoliberal, unexamined racism-as-reflex whiteness.

Link to Twitter: https://twitter.com/triketora/status/1594348646396559361?s=20&t=CBkHeo8EqdlUfI94EKr-mg

To echo Tracy Chou's bannable offense: I also heavily recommend reading more books by non men, by non white people, and by non cisheterosexual people. What a violent ideology! Tabarnouche.

Pablo de Pastinaak en Pedro de pompoen gaan in de #soep 🥣 #GooglyEyes

If I could have a minor superpower, I'd want to walk into a room and *whoosh* put everything back where it belongs. Then I'd head straight for the British Museum

A long time ago, I wrote a site called ConRoomies. It has proven to be pretty popular for furries finding roommates for cons.

Unfortunately, it was built in the height of the Web 2.0 login craze, and its only way of authenticating is with a Login with Twitter button. Oooops.

Well, it has given me the opportunity to do some much needed engineering work that really should have been done years ago anyway.

Just another reminder about putting all your tech eggs in one basket.

Introducing the first alpha release of Mastodon 3.11 for Workgroups!

Available for Windows 95