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

People act like it's super important to be hooked into the news cycle and know what's going on around the world all day, but if it doesn't substantively change your behavior, and it makes you feel like shit, maybe it isn't really all that valuable.

why is it that "getting laid to rest" has nothing to do with "getting to rest" and also nothing to do with "getting laid"

I'm a totally blind software tester with previous testing experience. I know there are many of you in the #Fedivers working on many cool projects, I'd love to test them for accessibility if you're looking for an accessibility tester or any accessibility consultancy please get in touch :-) if everyone could repost this, that would be great thanks very much :-) #a11y #Blind #Accessibility

if you too hate embodied existence

and dislike the extent to which cardio rubs it in your face

all of the same things that you've ever found overriding your body's natural signals to sleep are excellent to distract from the unpleasant combination of exercise and existing in a corporeal form

(e.g., mine: short-form video, slay the spire)

i wish i'd figured this out before the age of thirty, but here we are

why don't video games have iconic melee weapons anymore

Question for a project I am developing; music makers only:

do you know any computer programming / scripting language, if so which ones?

*Edit:* I have gotten way more and varied responses than I expected. If you would like to help please fill in this 4 question questionnaire https://s.surveyplanet.com/k6r85nz1

I've picked a platform that won't steal your data, and this way I can build a better idea of what experience levels people have in music and programming.

Boosts appreciated.

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.

📸@daeshikjr@twitter.com

#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: