Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

cranked out another blogpost!

https://cthu.lu/servermaid/pixie.town

An overview of the https://pixie.town services and sprawling infrastructure, plans for the future, and a bit about the financial side

To explain this policy of mine:

The fediblock tag is a flawed tool.

But it is still an incredibly useful one and has been for years.

Spamming the tag with nonsense in "protest" of the flawed tool is not the slam dunk you think it is.

Ditto for using the tag for overwhelmingly unfunny "jokes".

You are contributing nothing.

You are making a tool that a lot of admins/moderators use worse.

You are wasting their time.

If you have nothing useful to contribute to improving the fediverse moderation situation, at least shut the fuck up and stay out of the way.

good use of statistical machine bullshit: free humans from drudgery that they're barely paid for, if at all, and doesn't involve the need for interpretation or creativity (example: OCR for digitizing aging texts, translating individual words, pronunciation help)

horrible use of statistical machine bullshit: literally anything where people's livelihoods in our current capitalist society would get taken away; literally anything that involves human interpretation and creativity (examples: art, full translation)

Automation was supposed to free us from drudgery. I still support automation freeing us from drudgery. But when automation is used just to free Capitalists from having to *pay* for drudgery, while pocketing the change, that's not something that we can do until we free ourselves from the system-as-it-is.

Going forward I am considering continued abuse of the fediblock tag grounds for defederation of individual accounts and instances.

Stop wasting my time.

https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2021/08/02/children-as-an-oppressed-class/

Children are an oppressed group. The normalized treatment of children in our society undermines their autonomy and personhood.

Most common parenting methods aim to control and coerce children to behave in a way that that is pleasing to the adult. This is, in my opinion, one of the reasons ABA therapy is so popular amoung parents.

Heres a reminder that behavior communicates need, and that if your child is acting out that does not make them bad or broken.

#Autism #ADHD

What you see on this photo is not from the Empire Strikes Back.

No, it is German police protecting a coal mine excavator in #Lützerath - a village planned to be demolished by the energy company RWE to extract coal that is not even needed for the energy security of Germany.

#Klimaschande
#EndCoal #EndFossilFuels #LütziBleibt

Picture: @mariusmichusch

I love the part of adhd where you get fixated on something for a few months and then it suddenly doesn't hold your interest or appeal to you at all. Really great and definitely doesn't cost a lot of money and make you feel like it's pointless to have any interests

'fediblock will be used the same way as automated blocklists that silenced people' is a statement that is really easy to make if you don't actually pay attention to how a lot of moderators use and follow up on the hashtag

posting 'i'm blocking this person' and giving links and screenshots and offering a *choice* for other admins you federate with, on a platform where you can easily migrate if your admins make a bad call or aren't transparent?

it's pretty different to 'one person solo has control of who thousands of people block, has no expectations of transparency and community responsibility, and the people blocked are affected without the ability to move somewhere where they won't be blocked based on someone else's asshole decisions'

different things are different and you may wanna pay attention to the demographics actively telling you they use the tag when you go 'but marginalized users will be hurt!' because like. mostly until the past few weeks, it's been free speech assholes that are like, *the* vocal opposition to everyone having a network that says 'block these assholes'

#FediBlockMeta

You might be a fan of the liquid crystals, or maybe you like that new OLED stuff.

But my favorite display technology has got to be high voltage neon dot matrix

If the brain named itself then so can trans people

Although cis people pretend it's an open, democratic discussion of current events, "the transgender debate" is actually cis people discussing with themselves where they will draw the line between permitting trans people to exist and putting us into prisons and killing us.

The transgender debate is the oppressor's discourse regarding what level of genocide is acceptable to them.

There's nothing edgy about shitposting Black and Brown trying to protect themselves.

You're just racist.

Me: You do understand what an Emergency Power Off is for, correct?
Them: But it could damage my system.
Me: If this button is getting pressed, your system is already gone from either fire or the sprinklers going off. This is so someone can save *YOU* in an *EMERGENCY*.
Them: [shakes head in confusion] But my laser...
Me: IS LIKELY THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE

I've been struggling with this myself, so I thought I'd repeat it for other people that might be dealing with the same thing:

Not every hobby needs to be a project. Not everything needs to be a whole *thing* with a goal and an endpoint. It's okay to not finish something. It's okay to pick up something for a bit, explore it, start making something, and then drop it without making any "progress".

Productivity is capitalist bullshit that doesn't need to infect your free time too. Have some fun

Researching mines in northern Spain I came across this curious object. It's a canary cage designed to keep the canary alive in the event of a gas leak. If a miner saw the canary laying at the bottom of the cage it was time to abandon everything and leave the mine, but not without first closing the latched glass door and opening the valve of the oxygen bottle to save the bird. A miner would do that on their way out and take the bird with them. It's a signifier of the miner's legendary sense of solidarity, no lives lost to the mine on a miners watch. A solidarity that was also crucial in the fight for workers rights, creating safer and more humane working conditions, achievements of unionization and solidarity that some of us still enjoy today.