Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

early in the pandemic i remember reading this comment from someone about how covid might traumatize us about their grandma who lived through the 1918 flu pandemic. they said that until her death she was always very worried about the flu and she would always make sure her house was very well ventilated by leaving windows or doors open

i fucking get it now. their grandma wasn't traumatized, their grandma knew it never went away even if people pretended it had, she knew that airborne respiratory viruses were really bad for you, and she knew ventilation helped keep them away from her

this poor woman, people treating her like she was traumatized and crazy all her life when *she knew* what was what better than most people

@xgranade Essentially, relying on corporations to 1) buy in to the ideology, and 2) create the financial support is just like... trickle down economics. It doesn't really exist, or when it does there's not enough seats for people to participate. And the majority contributions aren't reflective of the community's needs.

I think we all understand on some level that this is a path of failure disguised as success, but it feels like we all can't come to a consensus on a real solution :/

no dear tech giants, an alternative to "yes" isn't "later"

it's "no"

Incredible shenanigans. Since January 1st 2024, the Netherlands has a new sugar tax, an extra tax on sugary drinks like soft drinks, lemonades and processed fruit juices. Of course the dairy industry have managed to secure an exception: products containing dairy are exempt from this sugar tax. However, plant-based dairy alternatives like oat milk DO fall under this tax. And to add insult to injury for vegans, now fruit juice and soft drink manufactures have started adding dairy to their drinks in order to wiggle out from under the tax too! So not only do vegans now see the prices of plant-based dairy alternatives rise, they also see increasing swathes of non-alcoholic drinks yanked from their palet because of added cow milk to evade taxation... Yay capitalism!

Say hello to the bike transportation id.buzz

It’s compost awareness week, so of course, we’re celebrating community composting!

Transition Lymington collects kitchen waste from nearby homes, and it makes their community garden self-sufficient in compost for all the lovely local, no dig, peat free, nature friendly growing they do.
Coexist set up Bristol Living Soil community composting project with a Transition Together seed funding grant last year. “Biologically complete, deliciously fertile soil can only be made at a small, local scale with time, care, energy and attention.”

Here’s how they do it, another project to celebrate in #compostawarenessweek!

https://www.bristol247.com/opinion/your-say/we-want-to-regenerate-bristols-soils-rebuild-community-and-share-knowledge/

#transition #transitiontown #compost #growyourown #garden #zerowaste #community #climateaction

Warsaw tetris (stolen from reddit)

#language #linguistics #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded

Does anyone know how various rust gui frameworks compare, especially when it comes to mobile support

In 2024, $.32 gets you a Cortex M0, 4kB RAM, 16kB flash and a built-in 24MHz oscillator. All in a package that's terrifyingly close to being accidentally swallowable.

https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/Microcontroller-Units-MCUs-MPUs-SOCs_PUYA-PY32F003L24D6TR_C5128436.html

(index finger for scale - blurred so i don't get comments about fingerprint opsec)

video game where you play as the person who is the main character of every tycoon/management game at once