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

#BIJ1 strijdt voor een toegankelijke en inclusieve samenleving, waarin iedereen vrij is om keuzes te maken over diens eigen leven en lichaam. Daarbij is het cruciaal dat mensen uit gemarginaliseerde gemeenschappen meebeslissen met beleid: niets over ons, zonder ons.⁠
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Lees al onze punten over #zelfbeschikking, #toegankelijkheid en #inclusie in ons verkiezingsprogramma.

https://bij1.org/programma/zelfbeschikking

https://bij1.org/programma/toegankelijkheid

#TK2023 #BreekDeKetens #BekenKleur #StemBIJ1

Reasons I decline to review an academic paper in order of frequency (estimated):

* Your review manager site is too broken to function and I'm not going to try more than 2-3 times to log in, sorry

* Your journal has done something very fucky to me personally and I DO NOT FORGET

* Your journal has done something very fucky to science itself

* Bad luck re: timing (won't have time to do it properly before deadline due to other commitments)

* Other reasons relating to the content of the paper

there is this comic i can't refind that contrasted the design of ak-47s to .. uhh... m80s? the american one. and how the american one was superior in theory but proved massively less resilient under field conditions

anyway i feel like this applies to optimization models. but i want a non-gun example to make this point at work. are there contrasting engine designs that work like this?? i....... don't know car thing

Poekie has died today, at 16:13 UTC+1.

I don't remember exactly when she came to live with me, but it would've been something like 11 years ago - previously she lived with a number of cats, who'd continuously chase her away and steal her food, and she was a ball of anxiety and trauma by the time I adopted her.

Over the years, she mostly recovered from that, and learned to trust people again - but the panic attacks never quite went away, and eventually dementia appeared to set in, after she'd already been dealing with thyroid issues, near-total blindness, and incidental epilepsy attacks for a while.

For several years we could manage the issues using a combination of felimazole, phenobarbital, and annoyingly tiny doses of diazepam - but eventually that stopped working, the panic attacks became more and more frequent, and the treatment options ran out.

So I've finally had to make the difficult decision to put an end to it, given that there was no path forward other than suffering. It's still something I'm deeply uncomfortable with, making this sort of decision for *any* other creature, and it frustrates me to no end that I had no way of communicating about it with her. I guess it's some sort of sad consolation that most people would've apparently given up sooner, or so I've been told.

I can't shake the sense, however, that after I spent her last two days hanging out with her on the couch, she eventually caught onto what was happening - suddenly wanting to go check out the bathroom and the office (which she always recognized as my 'territory') when I started preparing to bring her away, wanting to hang around with me there for a bit, and then walking back down and waiting there for me, being unusually calm as I led her into the cat carrier. But I guess I'll never know.

I will probably not be around much for the next few days, at least. Poekie has been my only companion for many of my most difficult years, and it will take me some time to process this fully. I'll have to get used to the silence around the house, too.

I might tell some more stories about her on here, I don't know yet.

as an expression of love for declaratives web colors i made this crafty tool named against,
https://against.ungual.digital. it creates combinations of web named colors based on their accessibility ratio, but with some spicies.

Squatnet: **Amsterdam: Nieuwe Leliestraat 70 gekraakt**

"Enige tijd geleden hebben we Nieuwe Leliestraat 70 gekraakt. We verbleven er stilletjes tot 23.09.2023 waarna we ons nieuwe onderkomen aan de buurt onthulden. Het gebouw is eigendom van de sociale woningbouw vereniging Ymere, die het meer dan zes jaar leeg heeft laten weg rotten. Het werd eerder gekraakt in 2020,de krakers werden toen naar […]"

https://nl.squat.net/2023/09/29/amsterdam-nieuwe-leliestraat-70-gekraakt/

#anarchisme #bot

@outie @PsyChuan A cop named Jim Lunsford (who is still on Masto, btw!) started a Mastodon instance in 2019 and proudly announced that he was a cop (shared IIRC in the context that we should all feel safer now that he was on the fediverse).

That went about as well as one would have expected.

It's an extremely good impulse to feel unmotivated to labor for a society that's hostile to your survival. Wishing you gentleness with yourself and confidence that you deserve much better than this as you do what you gotta do

Today is #WorldDiabetesday (nov14).
About 100 years ago, Frederick Banting and John Macleod won a Nobel Prize for discovering the treatment which has gone on to save millions of lives around the world - insulin.
This day is important to me because my partner is #T1D and without modern medicine he wouldn't be here today.
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Here are some usefull facts about type one diabetes.
- isn’t caused by diet or lifestyle choices
- There is no such thing as “mild” diabetes. All types of diabetes are serious and can lead to complications
- it is autoimmune condition, it cannot be prevented and there is no cure. The cause of type 1 diabetes is still unknown.

Anyway, if anyone wants a desk (1.56m x 65cm) in Berlin (south), let me know. Pick up only. It's used and you can see it but if you're into it, you can probably sand down the top. You can also have it to sell it after, I don't care, I just want it gone.

Become ungovernable

so is anyone still talking about the metaverse or is that just done now

I just generally think that adtech is toxic in a ton of ways:

* Big vector for scams and outright malware
* Positions you and the website in an adversarial relationship
* Wastes tons of resources, both energy wise and "brain power expended to make ad metrics marginally better" wise
* Requires, at least according to big companies (who may be lying about that, of course) massive profiling and tracking operations with gigantic abuse potential
* Necessitates censorship to please advertisers (outright on e.g. tiktok, "soft" / demonetization if you as much as mention a sensitive topic on YT)
* Worsens barrier to entry, since "ad supported free as the default" is often only going to be an option if you are already huge

I think an internet where we do that less and exchange money for goods and services more, and where the free stuff is for the most part free as in wikipedia or, in fact, a fedi instance, rather than free as in facebook would be a better internet overall

I wish more people understood this.
source (kinda?): https://shark-myths.tumblr.com/post/169658382122/what-i-mean-when-i-say-toxic-monogamy-culture