Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

The deeply frustrating thing about this is that I also believe we have to be able to find our people in the big morass of the world, so I can’t accept that the Dark Forest/group chat model is the way forward, which is why I am spending all my available time and brain on this stuff. 🙃

i could go on, but it's just a small fraction of what i went through. it's an unimaginable amount of pain and i am genuinely fucking in awe and confusion how the fuck am i even still alive right now. it's something i went through, nonetheless, and i can't change it, but i hope that one day i can be happy, somewhere.

calling that "trauma porn slop" is spitting on everything i just described

@scanlime "we look forward to contacting you again when our HR system has a data breach"

Braziliaanse veehouder krijgt boete van 47 miljoen voor ontbossen Amazone. https://nos.nl/artikel/2530367-braziliaanse-boer-krijgt-boete-van-47-miljoen-voor-ontbossen-amazone

re-upping this one again

so many forms of writing are rendered nearly useless if they have no info on *when* they were written

https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/109768393609628133

Hey #wildfire fediverse - I'm a qualified forest firefighter currently available for deployment. Based in Australia, open to anywhere.

I do need to get paid for my work, and need someone to fund a chainsaw ticket refresher (last done in 2007). Otherwise I still have a valid arduous medical (until late November), 4wd, FFMV PPE, valid passport.

Not sure how much difference one extra pair of hands can make, I'm sure there are other people in the same position.

#fire #emergencyResponse

@kissane Amen.

Having said all that, I'm now interested in what the outcome of Windows being (largely, at least) Free Software would be. I suspect it'd be fairly like the Chrome situation - Microsoft's supported commercial release would probably still dominate even if anyone else could theoretically compete, since the sheer level of effort required to maintain a fork would make it impractical for anyone else to compete

this shit is honestly making me feel so sick it is giving me nausea. I'm already in a fucking bad place and now I can barely stand. I've been all day in bed.

people keep asking for money for the most basic necessities for how fucking long. people go fucking starving and get almost nothing. every fucking cent given that way is making actual material difference in the world and even if half of the money given goes towards a scammers (it fucking doesn't), it will still do measurable better good than giving what in the grand scheme of things be fucking pennies to a fucking imperialist party (and take the double meaning).

this is money who could change people's life but it will go down to pay for some pamphlet that will just go to the thrash.

this is conscious laundering to a fucking T. you wanna feel fucking good about yourself. doing shit so can say "I did my part" when shit hits the fan when you in fact, did nothing, because doing something that would actually impact the american politics is too much fucking work (like actually talking to people for once).

and the fucking worse is, it could have made a difference if you gave it to fucking anyone else. we always knew y'all didn't gave a fuck but you're now showing us the receipt.

you're on the wrong side of this. there already are blood on your hands.

#mastodonforharris

bees entering through the window: hmm. interesting. what is this. huh. ok. cool. i'm out.

flies entering through the window: aaaAAAAA hello hello HI HI HI WHATS UP whatsthisplacewowsomanythingshere oh WOW THERES ANOTHER ROOM ohmygodthisisthebestplaceeverwow i am NEVER leaving

i found this website on accident on the internet.

https://www.betrayingwhiteness.org/

in short, it's a "guided online learning path toward understanding & undermining the constructs of race" and is primarily focused on deconstructing race, class and white supremacy, and is aimed at white folks that wish to do some self-reflection to understand their own bias and work towards a future without white supremacy

i find it useful myself as someone who wants to work on that, so i thought i'd share that w yall

Imagining toots bragging about the Fediverse contributing a quarter of a million dollars to mutual aid instead of billionaires.

There's a thing that annoys me a lot that I'm going to call the "subtractive fallacy" where whenever you advocate for getting rid of some harmful tech or practice or cultural aspect and the person who wants to pick a fight with you treats it like all you can do is remove: not fix, not replace, not change just leave a gaping hole where something used to be

"abolish the police" => "so we should just let people assault and rob us in our homes and not do anything to stop it"

"end compulsory schooling" => "so children should all be illiterate and never learn anything"

"end car culture" => "so if you can't walk you just won't be able to get anywhere?"

PSA: if you're in infosec red teaming an evil maid attack and you are not wearing a maid outfit while doing so, you may not be in full compliance with security standards and best practices

do remember that some industry regulators additionally require testing with cat ears for full certification. some organisations opt to further demonstrate protection against against the ‘moe moe kyun~’ blessing of a machine to auditors, but this is not currently mandatory under any scheme

MIDI music implies the existence of MINI and MAXI music