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

»Masking is not ‘living in fear’, it's being smart to avoid damage to your health from a deadly disease. It also protects others, which we should all be doing.«

#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #covid #covid19 #WearAMask #maskup @novid

Thrilling chase underway in Gateshead...

the funniest thing about Apple is the last version of MacOS features "video reactions" where if your camera sees you do a thumbs up or heart symbol with your hands, stuff happens behind you like fireworks in ANY video app you are using BY DEFAULT.

A friend was in an online therapy session, describing his trauma so the therapist asked if he was alright and he did a thumbs up and then HUGE FIREWORKS BEHIND HIS HEAD.

It's so bad that online therapy sessions now start with a warning dialog!

This is going to be unpopular.

I keep seeing people say they're shocked how anti-Indigenous Australia is, and when I go look at their profiles they all have "leftist" written.

You all need to understand what this means for how your leftism is tied in to white supremacy.

If you're shocked to find out that a colonised country is racist, you haven't been listening.

If your leftist selves haven't been listening to Indigenous people on this Stolen Land, you're leaning into white supremacy.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

You know, without Web3 NFT bullshit, there was a lost era of decentralized gaming back when it wasn't cost effective to have massive servers for users. Old games which used the host/join system. Hell, just games where one client in a LAN also acted as the server computer. I get it, it's just easier to run all your online interactions through Nintendo, but like... Those old games can still go online, whereas everything else just died. That's sad and we should make that a consideration again.

Bus to Honour Oak, where the fash have been protesting drag queen story time. Might even be a conscious choice by TfL - I’d like to think so anyway

the violent politics and rhetorics at the center of this conflict. A country and government that has seemingly thrown in entirely with the hard-line right wing, violent government of Israel. So maybe it is on me to have some opinion.

Watching mostly from the deep sidelines, though, I have to say that my white, Jewish and (Asian) model minority type friends, when they take sides, are largely moving in harmony with the hard-line, violent Israeli government, sending support, prayers, and contributions solely to Jews and Israeli Jews and refusing any complicity with any context that got us to this point.

And in contrast, my friends who are Muslims, or who are BIPOC, who are Palestinian, who fight fascism at home and abroad, who dedicate themselves to humanitarian causes, who fight police fascism and white supremacy, are calling for ceasefire, diplomatic solutions, and sending aid and donations to organizations that support Israeli and Palestinian people, that try to dismantle the propaganda machine that is radicalizing us toward violent and dehumanizing responses to the current terror attacks.

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@checkervest There's an old medieval castle in the center of Ghent, the Gravensteen. In 1949 it had been sitting basically abandoned for a while. A bunch of university students, ostensibly protesting for cheaper beer, walked in with a few kegs of beer, locked the door behind them and held the castle for two hours while throwing rotten fruit at the cops trying to scale the walls with ladders.

This event is commemorated in a by now traditional student song and celebrated in the Gravensteen every year by Ghentish student organisations.

What's more, some hero managed to film this, in 1949!
https://www.ugentmemorie.be/sites/default/files/GRAVENSTEENBEZETTING_Universiteitsarchief%20Gent%20-%20compressed_1.mp4

we produce enough food, globally, to feed everyone.

there is enough housing built to house everyone. there are enough construction supplies and equipment for any additional housing needed to be built in short order.

medicines and medical equipment have never been easier to produce in mass quantity than they have ever been before in world history.

so why do we not ensure that everyone is fed, housed, and given sufficient medical care for their needs?

"This “moral calm”—a sort of manufactured consent—impedes risk mitigation by promoting the underestimation of a threat. Soothing public messaging during disasters can often lead to an increased death toll: Tragically, false reassurance contributed to mortality in both the attacks on the World Trade Center and the sinking of the Titanic."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-pandemic-panic-calm-advice/

@joepie91 This also applies to people who agree with your point.

I've heard "I disagree with you and you're not going to convince me" but also "I agree with you but you're not going to convince other people".

Turns out we did in fact convince enough people to make a difference.

For anyone else reading along not knowing my specific context, I've been on the A12 a bunch of times, and then this happened: https://nos.nl/artikel/2493572-xr-stopt-acties-a12-kamermeerderheid-voor-motie-afbouwen-fossiele-subsidie

Wooooooh, the Async Functions in Traits (AFIT) FCP has completed which means they'll be available on stable soon! That means AFITs should be part of Rust 1.75, which will release in the last week of December.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/115822

Na ruim 10 jaar constant geklaag tegenover activisten aan te moeten horen ben ik het intussen wel echt zat, en mijn geduld hiervoor begint steeds minder te worden.

Als activist kun je het nooit goed doen - dan ben je te gewelddadig, dan ben je niet gewelddadig genoeg. Iedereen heeft er een mening over en twijfelt niet om die te verkondigen.

Er is geen enkele erkenning dat activisme ook gewoon een specialisme is zoals ieder ander, en dat mensen die het al jaren doen misschien een idee hebben wat ze doen; nee hoor, de beste stuurlui staan aan wal, en iemand die in z'n leven nog nooit een demonstratie van dichtbij gezien heeft leest je gerust de les over hoe "je zo toch echt niets gaat bereiken".

Loop je een demonstratie, dan "gaat toch niemand zich daar iets van aantrekken, en je verstoort alleen maar de orde".

Begin je een juridisch proces, dan is het "kansloos en het rechtssysteem overbelasten met onzin, doe eens echt wat".

Blokkeer je een weg, dan "val je onschuldige automobilisten lastig en creeer je gevaarlijke situaties".

Sloop je dingen, dan "ben je gewelddadig en moet je het netjes proberen op te lossen door de politiek in te gaan".

Ga je de politiek in, dan wordt je weggezet als lachertje en als publieke schietschijf gebruikt want "dit kan je toch niet serieus nemen" (zie bijvoorbeeld de reacties op BIJ1).

Ja, wat wil je godverdomme nou? Hoe denk je, precies, dat problemen opgelost gaan worden? Door wat van de zijlijn te roepen en te hopen dat de situatie op magische wijze verandert? Door te vertrouwen op de "steady march of progress" (die overigens het gevolg is van, jawel, activisme)?

Als je niet bereid bent om concreet bij te dragen aan activistische campagnes, prima, maar bemoei je er dan ook niet mee en laat het over aan de mensen die het *wel* begrijpen voorbij het niveau 'onderbuikgevoel'. Erken dat het een specialisme is dat je niet hebt.

Neem een stap terug, onthoud je van eigen commentaar of mening, en leg de focus op wat activisten zelf zeggen. Ondersteun ze op de manier waar om gevraagd wordt.

Of als je *wel* bij activisme betrokken wilt raken, ook prima - maar neem dan ook de tijd en moeite om te begrijpen waarom campagnes werken zoals ze doen, waarom activisten doen wat ze doen, en hoe dat op de lange termijn effecten kan hebben die je niet direct voor ogen hebt.