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

i think what the entire somerton situation taught me is to not to make any idols or idealized role models out of people. you see, i used to be a huge fan of james. i saw him as a part of some kind of modern day queer and leftist intelligentsia. i treated his videos like lectures. i even donated to him. and hbomberguy's video just...left no room for any doubt that he was a scammer and a liar.

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"Drop" is probably the most useful concept that I don't think is widely understood outside the kink community but applies to SO MUCH STUFF in everyday life.

Drop is the shitty feeling you get after an intense experience (including an intense positive experience). It's sometimes immediate, but sometimes the day after or some other time. "Post-con depression" is a form of drop. In the kink community, we try really hard to stop drop from happening with aftercare, but outside of the scene you don't often get the chance to build in aftercare to intense experiences.

Different people find different things helpful for dealing with it. Rest is generally good, as is doing things you like, sugary foods, and recognising that you are in drop and not putting too much pressure on yourself.

allowing yourself to do what you need to get through drop is crucial (imo) to allowing positive experiences to stay positive, and to deal with the emotional effects of negative ones.

someone should do a study on the relationship between the price of admission for public baths in in different cities of the roman empire and the concentration of twinks in the same cities during the 21st century

When people say "we need laws" what they usually mean is "we need enforcement".
Most of the stuff we don't like is already illegal. Those laws just aren't enforced.

We can just strap little filters to our faces and not get shitty sicknesses anymore, that is so cool!!

Since it's that time of year where people everywhere start asking me whether I'm coming to #37c3, here's my answer:

No, it is not possible for me to come, because the orga has chosen not to implement any COVID safety precautions, forcing me to choose between "keeping my kidneys working" and "attending a hacker event".

Currently working on (vector) input prompts which will include icons for all common controllers, plus keyboard and mouse! Once released they'll be available for free, public domain (CC0)

#gamedev #gameassets

if you make a möbius strip out of double-sided tape, does it stop being double-sided?

If you think posting about alcohol or drugs without a content warning, please kindly fuck off and never show up on my timeline ever again.

It’s kinda weird that ENT (Ear, Nose, Throat) doctors in Germany have zero air filters installed in their waiting rooms, walk around without masks and complain about their employees calling in sick. Anyway. I was the only one wearing a mask and thankfully no one tried to discuss.

Hello, friend!

I have to say, in the successive wakes of big media companies losing licenses for and deactivating access to digital media (books, music, video), I'm thinking that if purchased licenses cannot legally be perpetual, what's to keep us from deciding not to respect copyright?

If I've licensed a shitload of digital media and I want perpetual private access, wouldn't torrenting and archive.org and other ways to get that content be at least morally/ethically right?

Note I haven't done anything like download torrents of all the movies, ebooks, and music that I've licensed through various media companies. But I sure am thinking about it. And thinking about whether I have local storage to support it. The cloud is "convenient" but not if they can take away my viewing permissions arbitrarily.

Redo, maar met alt text.

Every time I think about how much of the world’s most-used software runs on infrastructure wholly owned and operated by either Google or Amazon with no insight into that underlying infra, I get this feeling of creeping dread

Google ain’t just search, y’all
Amazon ain’t just a storefront

Those fucken goobers effectively control the world

Brazilian delivery workers have a new way to protect themselves: the bololô — an impromptu protest at the home of nasty customers, involving groups of workers driving around in circles, honking, chanting, and setting off fireworks
https://restofworld.org/2023/bololo-delivery-workers-fireworks-horns-protest/

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(Original post on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0U4FnMJmn0/ )

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