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

`man` wrapped: you spent five hours this year reading the function prototype on mmap(2)

"The Atlas of Surveillance is a database of surveillance #technologies deployed by #law enforcement in communities across the United States.
This includes drones, body-worn cameras, automated license plate readers, facial recognition, and more."
via @eff https://atlasofsurveillance.org/

#privacy #data #repression #USA #Antireport

"Midgård is one of the largest online stores in the Nordic region for white power music and merchandise. Since the 1990s, Midgård has played a significant role in the Nazi movement in Sweden, serving as an infrastructure for the movement. Over the years Midgård has actively participated in and financially supported several Nazi organizations as well as beeing presenct at internal events."

They have had customers from all over the world and "All of these customers have actively chosen to financially support the Nazi movement in Sweden by ordering from Midgård".

The customer register from 2017 to 2022 containing 17719 entries is now available so you can check who close to you ordered from there:
https://midgard.antifa.se/register/

Click the "Land" (=country) column to sort by country-code.

🧵 Here's a list of queer and queer-friendly resources in Almaty, Kazakhstan. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇰🇿

#almaty #kazakhstan #lgbtq #trans #transgender #queer

1. CLUBS
- ☂️ Safe Space
Community center for queer people. Includes board games, karaoke, movie nights, and so much more!
https://instagram.com/safe_space_ala

- 🍿 Movie Club Almaty
A safe space for queer people to watch movies and shows. Part of Safe Space KZ.
https://instagram.com/almatymovieclub

- 🎛️ bULT
Techno club with queer-oriented events. Lots of enby ppl and nice music!
https://instagram.com/bult____

- 🎤 ZVUK
Queer-friendly techno rave club.
https://instagram.com/zvuk_collective

2. BARS
- 🥂 Amirovki
Queer-owned bar which includes cocktails, karaoke, board games, and more! Part of Safe Space KZ.
https://instagram.com/amirovki

- 🎸 SUBJECT
Queer-friendly disco bar.
https://instagram.com/subject.club

- 🍸 Kumano Bar
Queer-friendly bar with DJ sets, live concerts, open mics, and more.
https://instagram.com/kumanobar

- 🍷 PlayBoy (🔒)
"A club for the tolerant youth."
https://instagram.com/playboy_bar_almaty

- 🍾 Persona Nightclub (🔒)
Queer-friendly nightclub.
https://instagram.com/persona_nightclub

🔒 - locked account, will most likely have to send a follow request

3. DRAG
- 💃 DragOn!
Drag competition for aspiring artists. Part of Safe Space KZ.
https://instagram.com/dragon.kz

- 👠 AFTERDARK VOGUE BALL
Drag show competition(?), focusing on voguing.
https://instagram.com/afterdark.vb

4. OTHER PLACES
- 🧣 Dala Bala
Queer-friendly second-hand corner shop.
https://instagram.com/dala__bala

- 👚 Heaven & Hell
Queer-friendly vintage second-hand shop. https://instagram.com/heaven_and_hell_vintage

- 🏠 Dom 36
Queer-friendly hub for creative people. Includes art performances and more.
https://instagram.com/dom36kz

- 🖼 nonmuseum
Queer-friendly museum of architecture.
https://instagram.com/nonmuseumalmaty

- ⛰ iHouse
Queer-friendly house rental in the mountains.
https://instagram.com/ihousealmaty

hey peeps if you are planning on visiting the city i grew up in and i live in and wanna hang out with me check this amazing thread by @chloe on queer-friendly places and spaces in #almaty. i never realized we have such an exploding underground queer and indie art scene https://wetdry.world/@chloe/111529647515888968

boston university fucked up their hrt guidelines on their website for injectable estradiol and this has probably hurt an indefinite amount of people

today I walked past this shop who clearly have a lot of stories to tell about alcohol licensing laws

So many free bikes!

gah. I've said this before, but I /hate/ intermediate waits. if something happens in like 0-4 seconds, that's great. I can just focus on it. if something takes an hour to run, that's fine too, because I can do other stuff in the background.

but things that take like 20 seconds to 2 minutes are the worst, because they're just long enough for me to task-switch away, but not so long that it makes sense to have a notification system to tell me when they're done

"Now that it is becoming safer to come together..."

I used to pride myself in having a large selection of facepalm gifs to react to things like this.... but I feel this deserves all of them chained into a loop and put on repeat for 10 hours.

Never forget that while HIV was killing "the right people" conservatives were cheering it on. They didn't bother pushing for treatments, a cure, preventative measures until white hetero dudes started to get it in droves.

And even then they'd rather teens not be able to get condoms

The key unlock was deleted in newer PLC software versions, but the lock logic remained.

After a certain update by NEWAG, the cabin controls would also display scary messages about copyright violations if the HMI detected a subset of conditions that should've engaged the lock but the train was still operational.

The trains also had a GSM telemetry unit that was broadcasting lock conditions, and in some cases appeared to be able to lock the train remotely.

3/4

We found that the PLC code actually contained logic that would lock up the train with bogus error codes after some date, or if the train wasn't running for a given time. One version of the controller actually contained GPS coordinates to contain the behaviour to third party workshops.

It was also possible to unlock the trains by pressing a key combination in the cabin controls. None of this was documented.

2/4

I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.

We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parties.

1/4

if we can't preserve the history of our queer activists, writers, artists, scientists, musicians, inventors, sportspeople, intelligentsia, journalists, philosophers, and many others — who are the queer people of the future going to look at as an example? we can't grind each other into dust like that, heterosexist hegemony is already doing it. this is more important than any money or fame or clicks or internet clout.

history and culture is written by the winners, and often the winners are privileged people with money and power and fame. if we have to fight our erasure, if we are to ever win the fight against capitalism and sexism and queerphobia and other forms of oppression, we need to keep our collective memory. our culture. we have to stick together. otherwise, we will be preyed on one by one. we only have each other. how else can we survive?

and like, it's not like i fucking care about copyright. i don't give a single pissed finger about copyright. it's a tool of capital. but i care about history and i care about people. do you know how many inventions were wrongly attributed to white cishet men, stolen from bipoc and queer people and women? and later people say we never were remarkable, we never existed, we are untermensch.