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

Animal of the day (009)

This very Pride-friendly insect is a Rainbow Stag Beetle, and it is endemic to Australia and New Guinea. It has gained popularity in the pet trade thanks to its shiny metallic colors, giving it the appearance of being carved from gold, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires. The larval stage goes through three distinct instars and lasts about three years, after which it matures into an adult beetle that will live for another 12 to 18 months. Unfortunately, it loses all of its shiny colors and turns dark brown after passing, making it a poor candidate for a preserved display specimen.

#Wahnimals #animals #nature #gay
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Ages when you’re in your prime: 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101, 103, 107, 109

There are a lot of Linux users on Fedi for the same reason you see a lot of vegans at local fruit stands or a lot of anarchists at Food Not Bombs.

Federated social media and free desktops share a common political framework.

"The function of freedom is to free someone else."

- Toni Morrison

#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops

#Kindness #KindnessMatters #audhd #autism #adhd #disability #neurodiverse #MentalHealth #Anxiety

STOP BUYING TRAIN TICKETS

– Riding the train was never supposed to cost you money
– YEARS of collecting yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for BahnBonus points
– want to buy a ticket anyway, for a laugh? we had a tool for that: it was called “BAHNSTEIGKARTE”
– “you don't have a valid ticket. you need to pay an Erhöhtes Beförderungsentgelt” – statements dreamt up by the utterly deranged

LOOK at what transport companies have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the vending machines we built for them:
(these are REAL tariff plans, printed by REAL tariff unions)

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„sorry sir this single-trip ticket is not valid for journeys through the Übergangstarifgebiet”
they have played us for absolute fools

Do I know any screen reader users who have successfully completed advanced math coursework? If so, I would like to meet with you. Boosts requested

Billionaires and oil barons can build up tolerance to guillotines. Here’s how.

Servers, Delivery Drivers, and Other:

Your employer has to make up the difference between your wages with tips and minimum wage, and has to pay their share of taxes on your tips. Always report tips.

Take note of your mileage at the beginning of the year, and keep track of your work vs personal vehicle usage. If your employer doesn't give a wear and tear reimbursement, you can claim it on your taxes.

Your employer cannot take customers running out, accidentally broken, or stolen items out of your paycheck.

You should have a labor law poster up in your workplace that has details like this. If it is missing, your employer is in violation of labor law and needs to be reported.

Similar to the third, your employer cannot make you pay for misprinted or abandoned lottery tickets.

You have the legal right to discuss your wages with your coworkers.

just remembered the time in 2018 when I went into a burrito place in London and saw an internet-connected receipt printer, spitting out random HTTP requests

Because they're like oppression lootboxes.

The liberal viewpoint is not one of intersectionality; they might sound very progressive and recognize one or more types of oppression, but do not (wish to) recognize the way these interact, or the structure and patterns that underlie all of them.

This means that it's only a matter of time before I hear them say some extremely shitty and/or bigoted stuff about a topic that they don't recognize as a form of oppression, but I can't know upfront which topic it will be, or when it'll happen.

With my intersectional friends, I could then just point out that it's a form of oppression, and they will take it seriously, introspect, and work (over time) to understand it. Mistakes happen, but they will try to learn. All I need to do, is remind them.

With liberals, however... they do not recognize it as another occurrence of the same thing, and so I am left having to "prove" from whole cloth that yes, it really is a form of oppression, before they are even willing to put in *any* effort to understand the problem.

Every time this happens, it takes hours of my time, and energy that I do not have to spare.

I am already running on fumes most of the time, and I honestly just don't really want to hang around people who put that sort of price on not being shitty.

okay question specifically for #WhitePeople (feels weird to tag that but this question is for you)

if you and your friends are about to go out to eat seafood, which option of the two would you say?

* "are" in parenthesis cause i wouldn't use it in my dialect but the focus is on whether you say crab or crabs.

@CharlioSpaceCadet and i are trying to figure this out. we have no idea, so please enlighten us lol.

It's been ridiculous since the DVD days that Apple won't let you take a screenshot from their video player. See also, modern streaming apps. Such paranoid nonsense.

Like, guys. I'm trying to talk about *your show.* The thing you want more people to hear about and watch and pay for. Are you really going to make me take a picture of my TV with my phone to make that happen?

sry I've been away I'm desperately trying to finish writing this novel before three thousand tv writers decide that maybe books are their future