Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I’ve been on Mastodon for a minute, and I had *no idea* I could scope notifications to people I follow.

(Thanks to the friend who mentioned it.)

#FediTips

I'm gonna keep posting this as it keeps annoying bootlickers.

#ACAB #FuckThePolice

One year on from when Brianna Ghey was murdered in a vicious transphobic attack, we're now learning of another teenage trans girl subjected to brutal transphobic violence.

She was targeted with slurs at a rollerblading party before being stabbed seventeen times and rushed to hospital where she thankfully survived.

Let's be absolutely clear, these are not isolated incidents - this is cultural. This is the result of the constant, frothing hatred and cruelty directed at us as trans people.

It's the fearmongering media who villify us as dangerous predators, it's the disgraceful politicians who lie about and dehumanise us to score points with bigots, and it's the bigots themselves who harass and cheer for violence against us.

There is now another trans person who will live with lasting injury and trauma, countless other trans people who will feel even less safe in society, and there will almost certainly be at least one young person whose hate-fuelled impulse will lead them to spend years or decades locked in a cage.

Virulent transphobia is killing people and ruining lives, and it's not going to stop until we rip the people fostering this hateful culture from their positions of power and bury their capacity to influence so deep in the dirt that it never sees the light of day again.

I never want to read another story like this, but I know I will - and that fact turns my stomach, it makes me sick.

I was just reminded again of how normalised colonialism is (in Dutch culture) by an example in a children's comic from only a decade ago. The story is about indigenous penguins on the south pole being "discovered" by western animals who are received very kindly by the penguins. The penguins without any significant cause suddenly express the desire to get access to more western technologies. They then decide the way to achieve this is to make their place a popular vacation destination for the western animals. Of course, the described scenario is not explicitly colonial, but very similar to the way colonial history tends to be romanticised and justified.

my favorite (read sarcastic) thing that I get as a Native person is getting to hear someone say something like "the genocide of the Native people was horrific and barbaric, I can't believe that Native life was destroyed. I do [some level of native appropriation] because they are all gone and someone needs to carry on their culture."

and they say that shit

to my face.

Like I'm not fucking there

there legitimately are areas that were taught that all Native people are dead.

That all Native culture is done.

That we all died. Or, if they were in a place that also is very white supremacyish, that we just disappeared a la Roanoke or were Raptured or something.

Places do teach that Native people don't exist.

Fun fact: I meant to post this two hours ago but I got distracted and ended up cleaning out my kitchen cupboard. #adhd

The correct answer to “but I can’t make what I’m making without having it violate your consent” is always “that’s ok, don’t make it then.”

#consent #tech #SiliconValley #BigTech #colonialistMindset

"[...]RAID array[...]"

"um, 'RAID array' is redundant"

"yeah, that's what the R is for"

Eric Idle being the best surviving Python

To the people who are like “What did you expect to happen when you picked a .af domain, are you idiots?”

Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the start
Yes, we were aware that political circumstances could change
But thumbing your nose at conservative autocrats as an even minor form of protest is fun
In the end pretty much everyone has migrated out successfully (and I’ll continue to help anyone who remains)
We’ve all gotten a fun story out of this

I’ve been signalling the probable demise of queer.af to my followers for the past year. We knew the end was coming; we just anticipated it to take a little longer

So long; it was fun while it lasted.

🎶 : Beste reijsende, vellkome in de internationale nightjet naar Zürich.

(SBB jingle with Dutch following sounds absolutely cursed.)

(Oh no, they use the full-train announcements though I turned off the speakers 🤐.)

a fedi instance is like a rock, and its users are like the bugs that hangout under that rock

Please, I beg of you, create a security@yourdomain.com email address for vulnerability reporting purposes. Bonus points if you create a security.txt file at both / and /.well-known/