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

Is there any permanent way to block YouTube showing me the output from a single particular channel?

I know there is a "Don’t Recommend Channel" option but that doesn't stick and generally seems like a soft suggestion to the algorithm rather than a NEVER SHOW ME THIS EVER directive

Is a perma block possible?

One of the things I have loved about Mastodon and the fediverse is that it changed how I use social media. On Twitter, my feed looked like everyone else's: RTs of all the same big accounts.

The big accounts aren't here. They aren't dominating conversations or our feeds. We are finding new accounts, new voices, new perspectives, and new jokes. I realize that this wisdom and wit did exist on Twitter, but it was not easily discovered.

I just popped into Bluesky. Looked at the feed of a well-known Twitter account, and all it consisted of was interactions with that exact same select few accounts.

Twitter, Bluesky, and Post are spectator social media. There are people who prefer to be spectators, and some of the big accounts do provide important information and insight. But it's not conversational in a way that includes followers.

Dear tech bros,

Have you licked the boots of your favourite billionaire and/or trillion-dollar corporation yet today?

Remember to nitpick and challenge every word of those trying to warn folks away from them and creating alternatives that don’t exploit people for profit (fucking commies, amirite?) while giving them every benefit of the doubt (let’s be frank, who hasn’t caused the occasional genocide?)

Silicon Valley thanks you for your service.

#SiliconValley #techBros #BigTech #bootLickers

I’ve never met a guy who called women “females” who didn’t say it like it was a slur.

hey do i have any c++ nerds who would want to help me? i'm trying to write a godot gdextension to use lmdb. i know the general shape of what it should look like but im unusure on a lot of basic stuff

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#photography #fotografie #naturephotography

Attention! I recently learned that the behaviour of lying flat out on the belly with arms and legs spread out that some animals do, often to cool off, by radiating heat into the cooler ground, is called "splooting." I personally have been calling it "going full rug", but I guess splooting is also hilarious. So here's a red panda splooting, in case you need a demonstration. #RedPanda

I hope folks "heal" from how techchuds successfully conditioned many folks to accept white supremacist and otherwise fashy moderation norms. I hope folks remember how they felt in their thoughts and feelings before they accepted this as "normal"

Lots of people used to report racist, queerphobic, violently nationalist, and fash posts on nazi-sympathizer-owned social media until they learned that did nothing, and then they gave up and had to "make do" even though they were right

I hope folks who knew better but gave up find a place good enough to deserve them. I hope the same for folks whose lives were made more fraught and isolated by corporate tech's extreme harmful incompetence in acting as a publisher for fash propaganda (intentional though it was)

I love playing with spreadsheets and making them pretty and elegant and efficient. if you want or need a spreadsheet i would like to discuss what i can do for you for free. mostly i use Google sheets.
For example I've made ttrpg character sheets and competitive video game performance analyzers. I don't have experience putting together budgeting sheets. I'll reply to this post with links to examples tonight.
#anarchism #mutualaid

The best advice I got about Mastodon is that it’s for things you love, not hate

"perfect is the enemy of good" does not apply to architecting cryptography

oh FUCK OFF

My contribution to #howtodragonyourtrain
A Belgian Thalys!

The swordsmith inhaled sharply.
"Is it bad?" the Hero asked.
"This blade can't be repaired."
"But it's the Blade of Fate!"
"Sorry."
"It's destined to help me kill the Dark Lord!"
"Old Runsy?"
"Runsy?"
"I went to school with him. Did you know he's mortally allergic to cats?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

I’ve been thinking about the difference between how I use this account vs how I used my twitter account, framed in the context of me being confused about some of the almost *angry* reactions I see from people trying to make the jump. 🧵