Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@owashii "if you actually defend yourself with violence you are as bad as them"

Libs end up fetishizing nonviolence, which only really serves the fash. Because they use that "don't be violent" aspect to put pressure on the left, while the right and fash are understood to be violent by default

And like

Nonviolence is a tool
It's useful
But it's not *the only tool*
It's the compromise position. "Deal with me, fix the situation, or then you deal with others who will be more active in their defense"

OH:
“Yak shaving”
“what is that?”
“[…]”
“sounds like my job”

Rent-a-spoon

Squatnet: **Amsterdam: eerste kraakaktie van het jaar, Spui 11**

"Gister is er een nieuw pand bekendgemaakt, er is een kleine manifestatie gehouden op het spuiplein en zijn flyers uitgedeeld aan de bijstaanders. Politie is ter plaatsen geweest en geeft aan nog niet over te gaan tot ontruiming. Het pand vestigde 179 jaar lang de muziekwinkel Ha…"

https://nl.squat.net/2023/01/06/amsterdam-eerste-kraakaktie-van-het-jaar-spui-11/

#anarchisme #bot

Concern trolling about “polarization” only serves the status quo. If others caring about inclusion and stating ways in which things are exclusionary, makes one feel attacked, one was never really on the side of DEI.

.art has one moderator for every ~1000 active users, 10 mods total right now, spread over all timezones.

We have six or seven of the top eight languages used on our instance covered (and more that aren't in the top 8), and we're an entirely queer team; our team has BIPoC, queer, ND and disabled voices with a great deal of intersectionality between them.

I say this because I'm proud of our team, and I'm glad to have their voices contributing to keeping .art a safe space. <3

"Libraries aren't just a place to obtain books for free. They're one of the few public spaces left in our society where you're allowed to exist without the expectation of spending money."

sure is easy being a white queer leftist these days who doesn't feel any pressure whatsoever to challenge their own white supremacy. Just blame Capitalism and straight people for everything and absolve yourself of work or responsibility.

If you are a person of relative privilege please CW your political posts. It took a lot of work to get people to respect that norm pre-influx and it seems to have gone by the wayside again.

Not everyone lives in your country and not everyone can follow politics while maintaining their mental well-being. Give people the choice.

People who are not privileged get a pass because they have some things other people need to hear whether they want to or not.

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