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

“[P]erhaps the late in ‘late capitalism’ isn’t a description of capitalism but of us. Maybe it’s we who are late—late to the work of building what comes next, of believing that there can be a next, that this isn’t all there is. Happily, as the saying goes, the only thing worse than late is never.” – @aworkinglibrary

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/late-pandemic

Video game companies will sell shitty new versions of their old games and expect people to give them a round of applause for preservation when you could play equal or better versions of them for free. Capitalism is antithetical to art preservation and also art in general

Have you ever tried emulating #Windows98 on a #Ryzen system and had it crash spectacularly? Just within the last year or so, someone's written a patch for 95/98/98SE to fix it!

There's a floppy image you can boot your VM from, which will patch and fix your Win9x install even if it's partially installed and you hit the Explorer crash, so it doesn't even matter hugely where/when in the installation process you apply it. https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x/releases/

Boosts for visibility welcome!

#retrocomputing

today in the UK is not real: an MP called Crispin Blunt arrested for possession of controlled substances

istg who comes up with these names

I’ve been to the Efteling theme park in The Netherlands hundreds of times. Feel free to ask me anything.

The park is less known than Disney and Universal parks, so don’t be afraid to ask the most basic of questions. Like why you should be interested in visiting, what the top rides are or what makes it unique? I’m happy to answer them all!

I can talk about the park for hours, which I do at @kleineboodschap

Inspired by a post from @louie on Disney parks.

Most 📸 by my friend Kris van de Sande

PSA to other folks who also frequently schedule meetings across the Atlantic: DST ends this Sunday in Europe but it doesn’t end until the following Sunday in the US—because if we’re going to fuck with the clocks let’s maximize the chaos and fuck with them at different times, sure, why not.

#BIJ1 vindt dat het #kraakverbod moet worden opgeheven: kraken is een noodzaak om het recht op #wonen af te kunnen dwingen. Dit gebeurde bijvoorbeeld in 1975 in de Gliphoeve (Amsterdam Zuidoost) waar Zwarte activisten middels #kraken zorgden voor huisvesting voor de Surinaamse gemeenschap.

Zaterdag 28 oktober, 12:30

Tussen Den Haag CS & Woonprotest (Koekamp)

BlJ1 heeft de afgelopen dagen kraakpanden gevraagd welke spullen ze nodig hebben: samen met onze achterban willen we dit inzamelen.

#BreekMetKraakVerbod #BreekDeKetens

Een stem voor de Piratenpartij-De Groenen is een stem tegen transgenderrechten. Wees verstandig, stem wat anders progressief.

Sometimes I go into Street View and go on virtual "walks" around the city where I keep flipping between the current images and the oldest ones they have

And the biggest thing that pops to me is how much *less* billboards and ads are strewn around :o

Like, genuinely, great job on this

Remember: malicious bigots rely on people’s latent bigotries coming out when they’re stressed, overworked, triggered, or otherwise having an issue as a cornerstone of perpetuating -isms/-misias. Don’t get defensive or victimize yourself if you find yourself in that situation — reflect

This #IntersexAwarenessDay we're celebrating Jemma Redmond, Tallaght bioscientist who pioneered research into bioprinting organs so intersex people like herself could have children. Awarded Silicon Valley prize shortly before her premature death in 2016. Jemma didn’t believe in binary approaches to gender: "Raising children in some stupid binary way is harmful... children should just be allowed to be themselves. They know who they are"
📷 MakingQueerHistory.com
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemma_Redmond

A lot of white people look at the mountain of work it takes to become a reliable accomplice and nope out. Which is a shame. Like fighting toxic masculinity is something we can all do to help anyone with gender, fighting racism helps everyone, even the people noping out.

Another thing white people do is they look for algorithmic rules and rule books to try to memorize and learn how to be antiracist. But I need to tell you, those rule books don't exist. They can't be written. White supremacy makes sure by changing the rules, by existing at almost all layers of social intercourse, by living also in myth and religion and oral history.

One thing I do think works is developing a practice. Making it a priority to Do the Work.

It's easy to hear a BIPOC or advocate/activist saying that being careful of language helps. But actually being careful? Looking up the etymology of words and phrases in your parlance before using them with strangers? Doing the work every time you aren't sure or can't remember? Being responsible and responsive when you misstep and someone calls you on it? That's gold. That's where the better future lives.

Do the right thing and Do the Work. Don't just consider it done by knowing about it. Do it.

Beginning of a Journey

#PixelArt #MastoArt #animation

I love bitrot. You find things on Wikipedia, you click the references, you get a page which links another relevant article, you click that one, it's a Google+ post that redirects you to Currents or whatsitnow and that one redirects you to the obituary for the platform.…

Ah, here's that original post! Or at least a screenshot of someone else posting it...