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

I made the NS/Prorail version of the printed timetable for 2024: https://www.partim.org/misc/spoorboekje.pdf

Macy's workers at Southcenter Mall are on strike. The store was supposed to open at 6am, but it took until 11am to scabs on site to open the store.

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#BlockBlackFriday #Seattle #Protest #BlackFriday

i will also say here's a transcription and subtitles thing that really does need to stop happening, and it grinds my gears despite the fact that i am in no way hoh/deaf:

hey if you let the computer auto-transcribe or auto-subtitles

for the love of all things good on god's green earth

just

fucking

make a real human being

look at the results

with real human eyeballs

and fucking edit it.

special shoutout here goes to the slate.com transcripts for their advice column transcripts. they're so proud of how accessible things are because they made the computer transcribe it! and then, i shit you not, the computer immediately gets the name of one of the podcast hosts wrong, usually in the introduction, and will proceed to get it wrong in new and interesting ways for the rest of the transcription. along with things like the computer being very bad at distinguishing voices conclusively and deciding to err on the side of "too many speakers" than "combining speakers". so you get the podcast hosts as speakers numbers one through fucking nineteen.

it would take a fucking intern maybe all of thirty minutes to simply edit this, and that's being extremely generous in the time limit. for a lot of it they wouldn't even have to listen to the podcast. you just literally need a human brain and human intelligence going "wait a second, the host of this show is named Jenee, not Jenny, not Genie, not Jeanie..." and fucking caring about it.

anyway slate doesn't put comment sections on those podcast episodes probably to keep me from doing exactly fucking this in them because although i do not wish to do free work for the company, their transcript is worse than useless as an accessibility feature. it is the equivalent of saying "of course we have a wheelchair ramp!" and then the wheelchair ramp is rotten wood that will plunge you down into the sewers when it breaks, but the company wants to stand there with their accessibility rewards and be proud of it anyway.

here's a subtitles thing that i wish would stop happening:

[ speaks French ]

I KNOW POIROT SPEAKS FRENCH, MOTHERFUCKER. THAT'S WHY I WANT YOU TO CAPTION IT

(repost omdat ik de taal verkeerd ingesteld had...)

Wanneer je de #PVV hoort praten over hoe ze dingen beter gaan maken "voor alle Nederlanders", hou dan in je achterhoofd hoe racistische framing werkt:

Reminder that only having your stuff in one place online is not a backup.

Can anyone recommend me #glutenfree restaurants around the Rijksmuseum or Amsterdam Sloterdijk station?

Black Friday is the perfect day to unsubscribe from newsletters! They all helpfully email you today, use it for good.

Please don't vote for VVD or BBB

*monkey paw curls*

yes, it is incredibly fucked how companies will raise their prices just to lower them today

and -- irrespective of that -- if they can stand to lower their prices today, they could stand to every day and simply choose not to

and it is true the average person probably isn't aware of these facts

but all that is some corporation's fault, and getting mad at your fellow humans for it is just victim-blaming

i try not to shame people for buying shit on black friday

because when you're poor sometimes that's the only time you can really afford it

the people who get whipped up into a frenzy and get into fistfights over children's toys? yeah, sure, fuck them

but your next door neighbor finally getting to purchase a space heater isn't the enemy

“Mozilla sync service has been rewritten in Rust”

Me clicking the link curious if it’s finally easy to self host and if I can skip the identity server…

I guess the answer to “which programming language do you want to use” was “yes”.