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

we need one of those pat gif emojis but for neo from the matrix. we could call it :neopets:

An owl stole a child's stick horse and flew around with it.

Photos by Eric Lind

It me.
#neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic

all web browsers should be open source.
there's no good reason to lock your code down.
the way you browse the web should be open and inspectable, just like how the web was designed to be.

This is still my favorite post about game development.

"Well... fuck."
Black pigment and glass shards on orange linoleum.
Temporary kinetic installation, 2023.

On the idea that emotional labour isn't something that happens within interpersonal relationships, because capitalism:

The sociologist who really talked about emotional labour wrote papers on the experiences of Black women and WoC who were nannies for white families, and who were caregivers for those white kids while also being unable to be caregivers for their own children who were left in their countries of origin. She also speaks about the experiences of people like restaurant/diner servers (who are also predominantly BIPoC) having to ignore their own emotions while appearing happy, bubbly, pleased to serve, etc. to their customers.

So, yeah.. it's about capitalism, but it's also about the emotional cost of having to provide care for others while sacrificing personally.

The times that I see this talked about as 'that's not emotional labour!!!!1' is pmuch always by white leftists who are shutting down BIPoC complaints about having to educate white people and sacrifice their own emotional states (ie - explaining calmly why racism is not ok, instead of having space to be angry at the racist)... this tracks pmuch perfectly with the experiences of the workers discussed above.

The times that I see people being all 'I'm performing emotional labour!!!!1' and are actually just talking about an emotionally difficult/painful interpersonal relationship, it's (again) been white leftists.

When I see BIPoC talking about performing emotional labour, they've never talked about just an emotionally painful/difficult relationship, and have always talked about the fact that they are non-consentingly forced into the caregiver role in those situations, are expected to stifle their own emotions and sacrifice while acting as a resource for whites, and never get any support in doing so - that IS emotional labour. If you want to analyse it further, it's labour because BIPoC (especially who aren't men) are seen solely as a resource to be used up by whiteness.

So, pmuch whenever I see white leftists talking about emotional labour, I'm meh about their opinions, because if you scratch the surface they're all about either declaring their own 'labour' (which isn't labour), or denying the declaration to BIPoC (who ARE performing labour) because of their shitty class reductionism when it comes to analysis of capitalism and inability to see how race plays into it all.

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

Nieuwsgierig: waarom kiezen politieke partijen een publieke non-EU cloud om hun partijprogramma te publiceren en schrijven ze daarin op dat we teveel van Amerikaanse providers afhankelijk zijn?

Anonimiteit op sociale media staat ter discussie. In verkiezingsprogramma's bijvoorbeeld. Daar krijg ik soms buikpijn van. Daarover schreef ik een nieuwe blog 👇

https://www.ronroozendaal.nl/blog/2023/10/anonimiteit-op-sociale-media-moeten-we-koesteren

i swear i'm not just thinking about https://maya.land/vampire-the-metasquerade/#virtuality again but i have this sense that there might be this genre of social tech use that will be parasitic on a pre-existing platform. like a totally bot-mediated discord server that reimposes restrictions on how people can interact – like https://slowsocial.us/ or maybe more complicated or weird...

If the Linux accessibility stack was just a little bit better I'd have switched. Probably yesterday. But honestly from my limited experience, I've had many random screen reader crashes for absolutely no reason among other random things.

If I could, I would love to fund some people who are a lot better at programming than I to make this thing happen. Perhaps someday...

i highly recommend against using PIA's InBrowser "incognito" mobile browser, since it ironically makes fingerprinting a childs play

all requests sent by InBrowser set the referrer header to "inbrowserapp.com" (even while navigating inside a page) rather than emptying it and given their extremely small userbase this parameter alone (or combined with really basic info) lets you conclusively identify and track a user, despite the browser not even identifying itself via useragent

this is comically bad