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

Also, it's #ShutTheFuckUpFriday

If the cops suspect you of a crime, NOTHING you say will help you. Tell them you are invoking your right to remain silent and request an attorney.

GETTING YOU TO TALK IS HOW THEY GET CONVICTIONS

Your lawyer will help you decide, carefully, what to say if anything. Don't make that decision without your lawyer.

i've seen a couple of people with blinking idle terminal cursors in their display handles around here and i love it, it's cute as hell

and i also keep getting confused bc i know i have blinking cursors turned off in my terminal

Spoutible is apparently a reskinned version of cheap social network software you can buy off the shelf, which matches with my experience of Bouzy and his hyperbolic claims to the media and general huckster nature.

https://mementomori.social/@rolle/109845742736153944

Also for those of you sitting in the back: stop crunching it doesn't work

Assuming a 30 year career before you die of stress related cardiovascular complications, that's 1560 days of your life pointlessly burned on the altar of corporate wishful thinking that you'll *never get back*!

So the pandemic normalized remote work jobs, and companies that don't offer them now are limiting themselves to the dregs of the hiring pool. An estimated 6.8 million deaths were needed to get the people in charge to realize that sharing respiratory diseases is a terrible team building exercise.

What's going to finally redefine the full time work week as being four days? The science says we're all just burning an extra day of our lives every week to be less productive.

When you have your friends over, where do you put the blahaj pile?

I am begging more people to understand that legal bans on drag are just an easier way to pass laws make being trans/GNC* in public illegal.

The claim that these laws are meant to "ban drag to protect children" is intended to hide the fact that they actually make "cross dressing" in public (aka "anywhere people under 18 could be") illegal.

That means if your ID says M and you are in a dress doing your grocery shopping you can be arrested. If your ID says F and you are wearing men's pants and a button down at your doctor's office you can be arrested.

This is not careless wording, it is a very pointed and purposeful way to get these laws passed before most people understanding their true intent and how they will be used.

They know people are less likely to oppose or work to stop a law that is "banning drag to protect children" from passing than a law "banning trans people from existing anywhere in public". They know that LGBTQIA+ people and our allies will not give as much time/energy to fighting what they think is a "ban on drag" than a "ban on trans people" because the level of importance and impact will seem lower.

They also want to stop drag and will use it to limit drag performances too, but the main targets/intent once these laws are passed is to use it against trans/GNC people so we literally cannot legally exist in any public space.

Their goal is to terrorize trans people out of existence, push us back into (or keep us from coming out of) the closet, and throw any of us who try to continue to exist in jail. Tennessee is now the first to pass one of these laws, but MANY states in the US have laws already being advanced that move them towards this goal.

It. Is. Not. About. Drag.

*GNC people like cis butches are also not the main target of these laws but will most likely be impacted more than drag performances will

#Transphobia #TransRights #Queerphobia

The existence of the sub-reddit /r/birdstakingthetrain/ presents us with a inescapable simple truth:

Even birds choose to ride the train, and THEY CAN FLY.

The US government has no excuse.

#Trains #PublicTransport

The trolley problem: your imagination versus the even sadder reality. (Just got this from a friend who also collects trolley problem variants.)

I'm sorry what

This is #SocialMurder and there is no less severe word to call it, only worse.

I grew up in NL and the #ableism is horrific. I was kicked from schools for being chronically ill. I was ridiculed by doctors. I was denied care. I was subjected to degrading tests by the government for a chance at a measly benefit. I was bullied, hated, forcibly pushed away from society.

The first covid speech in the NL spoke of #HerdImmunity. Cold shivers down my spine. Obvious it was going to end like this.

2/2

The Outbreak Management Team of The Netherlands declared #covid endemic and advices to end testing, isolating and any #covid19 measures still in place (barely any). They proudly call this a milestone.

What about immunocompromised people? They just need to watch out and keep a safe distance from sick people, or kindly ask sick people to wear a mask when approaching them.

What about #LongCovid and other possible bad outcomes? Just gently ignore that. Shhh. We don't speak about those.

1/2

yay, another fucking scrapebro
https://mas.to/@patrikcsak/109917221695178868

#FediBlock

I’ve been debugging the horizontal line across the bottom of the screen for a while now and just realised it is the YouTube progress bar.