Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town

I know it upsets a lot of people when I point out hypocrisy in the way liberal policy conversations seem to ignore a still grave threat for millions of people in #COVID , but I do it for the same reason you want less guns.

All ages are being hurt. Hundreds of thousands will die every year from acute infection or complications from that infection.

If you want less guns, you should want less COVID transmission. But you can't just hope for it.

#WearAMask N95+ push for more, not less, protections

Great news for trans Apple developers: In Xcode 14.3 beta, the Authors view and other git features now support mailmap files. That means you can make old commits show your chosen name instead of your deadname without the disruption of rewriting the repo’s history.

I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of seeing my name next to code I wrote before I was out!

Over the past year or so something I've been really unpacking is how badly brainwashed I am by this particular nasty phase of capitalism where you have to have a ~thing~ and market yourself as the ~thing~ to the detriment of your wholeness. There are so many things I am interested in, I have a variety of skills and perspectives that in some ways converge and in other ways do not.

the collapse of google search results as a useful source of accurate information is a boon to screenwriters everywhere. "why didn't they just google the house to see if it was haunted" they did and the top ten entries were identical automatically generated real estate ads on different seo-scumming websites

The real story behind all those UFOs the Air Force was shooting down last week is quite embarrassing.

I’m guessing someone at NORAD has now figured out why the sensitivity settings on the radar was turned down in the first place.

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf

MICROSOFT: Alright, our last browser was super slow, so this Edge has to represent speed

WORKER: How about we make the logo a snail shell?

MICROSOFT: Brilliant!

Hey, can y'all please CW examples of transphobia, e.g. screenshots of transphobic articles? My mental health is not great today and I'm guessing a lot of other trans people's isn't either.

If there is an un-CW'd post you want to boost:
1. Fucking don't
2a. Make your own CW'd post about it,
2b. Make a reply to the post with something like "CW: transphobia" and boost your own reply instead,
2c. Put the link to the post in a CW'd post of your own

This French city is introducing free transport

Montpellier in southern France is set to introduce free public transport. It will become the largest French metropolis to introduce such a scheme.

“By introducing free transport, we are bold in taking a great measure of social justice, of progress, which works for the ecological transition,” tweeted the mayor of Montpellier, Michaël Delafosse.

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/02/16/this-european-city-is-making-public-transport-free-for-citizens-from-december

#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #France #PublicTransport

Y'know how sometimes you'll cut into a bell pepper and inside that bell pepper is a bell pepper?
That's roughly the technology that makes seedless fruits work.
Except this seedless orange tastes like crap and was a hassle to peel, cuz there was a small orange in my orange!!

Look, I'm not saying anyone *should* throw a brick through the NYT's windows. It would obviously be morally wrong. But we should certainly be allowed to talk about it. Open debate is an important part of a free society!

What if everyone leaves one line for a new metal song in the replies then other people who do An Music make it into a song

ok brain, new day, let's go, useful thoughts

brain:
"#define printf(...) putchar('f')"
":)"

Medium article: "Coding won't exist in five years. This is why."

First paragraph: "once upon a time, in a world not too different from ours, handmade clothing was the norm."

Comrade. Friend. I really need to tell you that clothing is still hand made. We just exploit people in the global south to make tons of it cheaply.

nothing makes be believe in empty internet theory more than when I look for a solution for a particular problem I have, and the only real solution is a blog post by someone I know

(everyone from the top down does it, and anyone buying anything related to adtech needs to realise that they're wasting their money)