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

Apparently HR at this new company couldn't decide what gender I was, and was too scared to ask. HR person said the recruiter called me she and the interviewer called me he and my name is too neutral to tell. My neutral style of clothing definitely didn't help either.

I am become the mythical enby, destroyer of gender

It really bugs me in these natural disaster or zombie/alien movies when no one has a decent backpack. Everyone’s running around with these useless purses or crappy little rucksacks that will give you blisters the second you load it up. Come on, people! If you can loot a grocery store you can loot an REI. The concept is the same. Get a freaking compass while you’re at it. Maybe a bike. You can outrun a lot of zombies on a bike. I assume. Grab a hat, too. The last thing you need now is a sunburn.

Please enjoy this emojo of a leaf blower which I emojified off a hardware chain webstore. CC0.

Suggested uses: replying to sealions, combining with 🍁 🍂 emoji, complaining about leaf blowers.

Have you noticed almost everyone strongly against defederation as a management and safety tool also has a problem with consent and boundaries?

i love having a terrible memory because i’m out here rewatching doctor who genuinely excited for what matt smith’s tardis interior is going to look like because i forgot

today marks an exciting anniversary: exactly 10 years ago, I took this photo of a Burger King with messed up signage in Estepona, Spain

they fixed it before opening, but the memory the of whop lives on

unexpected Windows activation error in the bagging area

Stolen and reposted from someone who didn't bother with an image description or attribution

Source: Anastasia Dobrovolskaya, https://www.dobrovolskaia.com/

this is what an ecosystem looks like, right?

my hobby is getting computer hardware that people don't want anymore and finding out there's very good reasons why they don't want it anymore

If you look at a tool and don't see politics

what you are instead seeing is that your politics already align with the tool.

I fucking hate how classist the Democrats are ;-;;;

⚠️​ REFILL GENDER FLUID

i realize much of the above thread comes of as me being kind of superior and holding the whole thing at arm's length to inspect it through my fucking monocle or whatever, with my nose wrinkled up, and I'm really sorry about that. I know I do that, and it's really annoying.

i think i'm a bit uncomfortable when i sometimes look into that side of fedi cuz it's a real feeling of 'there but for the grace of god go i': I could have had this morbid attachment to right-wing shibboleths; I grew up around and have been friends with people who leaned right wing and all that. I get it. I made HORRIBLE jokes when I was a teenager which would have fitted right in with the kind of shit I see these people discussing. I could have been a nazi shithead!

I think I was ultimately put off from that by listening to a fuck ton of punk music, reading a fuck ton of good books (so, you know, having the privilege of having access to such things), and trying to get in touch with my queer identity over the years, but who knows what might have happened had I not?

All white westerners, I would say, are extremely prone to getting sucked into fashy cliques; it's basically just good fortune when it doesn't happen, and it's something to be constantly vigilant for. We're raised to be fucking monsters. That's not to say there's nothing to be angry about when people do get sucked in and embrace it, you know. There's always an out and folks choose not to take it. It's infuriating and has deadly real world consequences. But I do think a little more recognition that 'that could have been me' might be helpful in some cases.

OK, that's it, that's all I got! Weeeeeeeee!

so I remain not super convinced that their vision of the fedi is very appealing, honestly, beyond catering to the aesthetics and grievances of frustrated techy white dudes who are weirdly attached to edgy humor

further insights from my reading: they also seem to often console themselves that well-moderated instances are 'slowly defederating themselves' and will therefore die out, but this doesn't make a lot of sense: if i'm having a slamming house party with my friends and I don't let random fash dickheads off the street in, does that mean my party is slowly dying out?

love seeing people post lists of issues they have with mastodon which boil down to "defederation shouldn't exist"

just spent a bit of time looking through threads posted by chuds where they complain about 'canceldon' (ie., well-moderated Mastodon instances) and how folks with big block lists are uptight and have no humor etc

but from my perspective (an instance that currently blocks 941 domains), the fedi is bright and colorful and creative and thoughtful and alive

so i'm not really sure what the fuck they're on about

Made a last minute decision in Breda to switch trains, the train to Den Haag Centraal leaving a couple of minutes before the train coming from Belgium is operating with #ICNG 🥰