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

It's the last day of #AceWeek! I hope all my fellow Aces have had a good week - you are all wonderful and valid! ​

Also will toss it out there if anyone has any questions or wants to discuss the subject of asexuality, I'm always open to share my thoughts and experiences! *hugs* <3

Does this book exist?

"How Universities Lost the Internet"

or has someone done research on this topic? That is, the fact that many North American universities have ceded all technical capacity to Microsoft, Google, etc?

It used to be students could get web hosting, email, and even some cool experimental online stuff through their schools. Now every online communication channel is locked down.

I went to my optometrist this morning. They don't require customers to mask anymore, but were happy to have all their staff wear masks, including receptionists.

After my appointment finished, I noticed that all the waiting patients had masks as well, which I originally thought was just good luck. However, the receptionist told me that every customer had entered without a mask, and within a few minutes they all either put on their own mask or asked for one from the receptionist, noticing that they were the odd one out.

This experience powerfully showed me that for many, the decision to mask or not is heavily influenced by peer pressure.

Images you can hear

Subtoot of everyone who writes "screenshot" for their alt text.

#Spooky #HallowMeme

This.

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