Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Things spotted on market day in Aotearoa #newzealand :

A small human with his face and hands covered in chocolate ice-cream being told by his mum "Fin, keep your hands to yourself." He spreads his hands as wide as possible, grins cheekily and roars "NO!"

A guy with bare feet (20s?) and a British accent talking to a stall owner. He says "I came here six months ago. I only meant to stay for two weeks but I can't bring myself to leave yet." Stall owner nods in sympathy.

A small human and his grandma walking along. Grandma on small human's heels as he instructs her how to ONLY step on the shadows because stepping in the sun is bad luck. Both seem to be thoroughly enjoying the game. Later seen in line for a crepe. (Standing on shadows.)

The owner of a pottery stall explaining to a woman (80s?) with arthritically bent hands that he makes sure his cups have handles that anyone can hold. She makes a delighted noise when he shows her a cup that she can grip easily.

A macaron vendor explaining to three small humans (8 and younger?) how he makes his macarons. They are all completely focussed. He says "The trick is, don't sift the almond meal. They all tell ya to do it, but don't believe them!" All three small humans nod solemnly.

Any typos spotted in this post are not typos, they are poetry. Or at least that's what this author is claiming and I am totally prepared to do an interpretive dance to any typo poetry to back it up. (With kazoo accompaniment. Because poetry.)

The irony of a commercial ship tearing down a symbol of post Cold War cooperation, collaboration, and peace between nations cannot be overstated.

A new era is born with future projections pointing to the building of commercial space stations.

#space #ISS #tech

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https://www.space.com/spacex-dragon-iss-deorbit-vehicle-design-revealed

in case you hadn't heard about it yet: there's an app, that will take your CO2-measurements and put them on a map for all to see.
https://indoorco2map.com

"Anyone who has a mobile phone and a supported mobile CO2-Monitor can participate in the data collection. Currently only the most widespread Device, the Aranet4 is supported but it is planned to support the Airvalent and Inkbird as soon as August."
https://indoorco2map.com/about.html

#CovidIsNotOver #IndoorAir #Aranet4 #CO2monitoring

(i cracked it: adhd talking is just s-expressions (because we always have something to add (this is a reference to nesting parentheses)))

TL;DR: HELP ME REUNITE WITH MY PENCIL BOX😭

I know this is a long shot but if you spot a pencil box that approximately looks like this stuffed with fountain pens, crochet hooks and a penguin key chain, please let me know?

Highly likely in Dublin City Centre by the River Liffey

It is not that valuable in money, but it does have my fountain pens and I am so sad. 😭 😭 😭

Mine is more maroon than rainbow but it looks like this.

BRB going to cry my eyes out

#mastodaoine #Dublin

You see some wild labels in other people's labs

#Labstodon

I think the problem with having a shitty software job is the fact that programming is one of my favorite things to do, to the point that I have devoted my entire life to becoming an engineer since elementary school, and they're having me write ten lines of powershell scripts, and then five hundred google docs

Every now and then I think about this old drama chestnut in the NES speedrunning community that more or less entirely jaded vee on the idea of any leaderboard being entirely trustworthy and representative of the game's entire speedrun history.

The short of it is a few people got together and tried to make a list of "NES console-wide rules". Then started going around speedrun.com asking board mods to adopt them in addition to game-specific rules.

This got real weird when that group landed on Battletoads & Double Dragon, a game that allowed turbo/autofire. A couple of representatives from "The NES speedrunning community", as if there could only be one, showed up and started demanding turbo be banned and the board purged because you couldn't tell who did or didn't use turbo. The mods didn't really respond, so those people went to SRDC staff and had the game's moderation removed and replaced with people who don't even run the game, in order to "fix the board"

As I understand it, one of the people calling for the board purge was friends with the site's core developer, not even a site moderator, and the dev just took him at his word and made the moderation change.

Anyway the new mods blanked the board, citing "we don't know any of these runners and can't tell who did or didn't use turbo"; because after all, they didn't know the game they were taking over.

The reason the mods didn't respond to the demand initially? The entire speedrun scene of BTDD NES was Russian. Russians, by the by, primarily experienced NES in the era via a NES clone called the Dendy.

This is a Dendy. Notice the turbo buttons?

This is why I have zero faith in some one-size-fits-all pure view of speedrunning. That community more or less died because the people who took the board over didn't actually care about the game, they just wanted turbo out of their pure NES world.

It's also why I stopped trusting SRDC. Goes double now and days considering dotabuff owns them now.

At least, as I understand, the person who caused this mess chilled out in later years. That shameful-ass post of "If you can't do the mashing go find a different game" spat into a community of people who all agreed to allow turbo is still there though.

It's funny because I was reminded of this because I went and found Callum's old Toto World 3 run and found they said "Oops I had turbo on for a small segment, I penalized myself several seconds for that" and I'm cool with that. A lot of people wouldn't be.

What's your favourite thing about the Olympics?

The forced political truce? The €12 billion thrown at the private sector? The 24/7 media coverage of sport? Tons of cops and ultra-security measures? More than 10,000 evictions? Queer washing? Validism at every level? Nationalism in the guise of competition? The mockery of ecology?

Or the fact that raising just one of these points turns you into a killjoy at best, or an anti-Republican danger at worst?

the rise of alt text has taught me that people who post reaction gifs dont know what theyre from either

but this system would not have survived had it not been upheld by people LIKE YOU.

people who call us bums. crackheads. beggars. people who spit on the very idea of having to believe us. people who put up spikes on benches or passcodes on restroom doors. people who arrest activists for handing out food for the poor. people who believe in capitalism that kills them. people on this very platform, who would rather see a person suffer than not donate to a richie

(9/?)

simone de beauvoir once said that "the oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed", and that this is exactly what is destroying us all. your willingness to suck up to the oppression you yourself are a victim of, and indulging in the "fuck you got mine" mentality.

was CK's death "trauma porn slop" to you, as well?

is his suicide a "bury your gays" trope, perhaps?

how absolutely monstrous are you willing to be?

(11/?)

one of the reasons i hate you fuckers to the bone is because you never know what it's like to watch your best friend die because someone wanted to snatch more money off of his cold dead hands.

i used to have a friend. Nicholas "Chairkicker" Leo, but i will call him CK because that's what he wanted.

guy was a poor queer indigenous disabled guy. an activist, a writer, a protector. someone who i trusted.

more than half a year ago, he died. (1/?)

#MastodonForHarris

Starting a music streaming service that only implements SSL with 40-bit RC4 because it sounds warmer than modern TLS