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

Met de trein, sporen naar de toekomst!

We’re looking to buy a place in #Ireland (because renting here is nigh on impossible these days) so I approached a mortgage broker and they just got back to me with this gem:

“Bank of Ireland will not consider your mortgage application because you run a not-for-profit.”

How bloody lovely.

Congratulations on creating a system that rewards the worst of the worst and fucks over those striving to work for the common good. I, for one, won’t be shedding a tear should it burn to the ground.

#boi

"Nice people made the best Nazis.

"Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on 'politics,' instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away." — Naomi Shulman

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2016/11/17/the-post-election-case-for-speaking-out-naomi-shulman

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any adult working with children & yp is morally and legally obliged to ignore this guidance as it is so clear-cut that outing children to their parents would pose significant risk of harm to the child (violates Children's Act 1989, KCSiE and Working Together 2018). it so clearly contradicts the existing statutory guidance, and you will be protected *by law* if you ignore it

if you work in education you *must* ignore this forthcoming guidance, if not morally than let me explain why you should ignore it *legally*:

this is NON-STATUTORY GUIDANCE. it is trumped by statutory guidance (e.g. KCSiE, which still specifically mentions discrimination based on gender reassignment in the 2023 update) which is in turn trumped by law (equality act 2010, children's act 1989)

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded

pff, ik zou verdomme willen dat ik nog verbaasd was hierover. erger nog dan bewust racisme is het gewoon totaal ontkennen dat racisme bestaat en daardoor dit soort signalen gewoon niet serieus nemen. leer nou eens dat we een fucking probleem hebben in nl.
https://nos.nl/op3/artikel/2483097-duo-negeerde-signalen-over-etnisch-profileren-bij-fraudeonderzoek

I feel corporations have really given everyone unrealistic expectations on humanity itself. You must constantly be productive! Your server must have 100% uptime!

Ik vind het lovenswaardig dat het vervangingsteam in België eindelijk zo consequent is dat letterlijk alle stationsborden op een station worden vervangen (voorheen werd er vrijwel altijd eentje vergeten), maar het levert wel… interessante knutselwerkjes op 🫣

Remember when lots of journalists tried Mastodon but then found it too complicated, so they left? I think about that every time I read their 'analysis' of something

so i was reading about the history of the korean language and how it interacts with korean history, and why promoting accessible education is important to create an equal, egalitarian society. a thread. (1/?)

i'm not sure how to achieve this, but it seems desirable to embed awareness of and skepticism of such things into human culture, else we just keep repeating the same mistakes of seeing (colonial) exploitation as innovation

So I caught the recruiting tram again and made more photos for all you dorks 😄

(This is a tram that runs in Budapest that has clear paneling so you can see the inner workings. They use it to recruit engineers and mechanics for public transport.)

#Budapest #trams #tramstodon #PublicTransport