Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I enjoy video games because they allow me to live out my most perverted and unrealistic fantasies, like having a positive impact on the world

as a transfem it actually scares me that i am only seeing people talk about "transfem solidarity" anymore instead of "trans solidarity" like what the absolute fuck

like, im not surprised, ive been yelling into the void about shit like this for months it feels like, this is not okay you cant keep slicing off more and more of an intersectional, pluralistic revolutionary movement down to some core of imagined purity of identity and expect it to be meaningful or productive, not when youve alienated and dehumanized every marginalized community that ostensibly believes in your humanity and autonomy as much as you do but wont work with you against a common foe because of your need for control

I made a neat terminal-friendly cross hatching effect with unicode

My cousin now needs a liver transplant due to getting COVID.

Also, as a reminder to everyone else:
The COVID vaccines do not work on people with a transplanted organ!

boost this for wider reach, need public input

chat, are there any resources to learn NGT (Dutch Sign Language)? i don't expect like, resources for English speakers so pretty much anything will work (but if those exist then on god please drop them by)

i'm thinking of an alternative path for communication that is less weird than using the notes app or a TTS in case my mutism persists for a very long time if not forever

many thanks in advance btw

The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.

Not to treat privilege like a scarlet letter. But it's just like I want ppl to be reminded that the act of not needing mutual aid is a privilege that many in this economy don't have. They don't have a choice to just not get needs met. Or that ends in social death and actual death.

I really feel like "whether or not you will shut down or transfer ownership of the instance, and to whom, and if they will move your data to a new legal landscaped region, if you want to stop running it" is something that should be thought about ahead of time and put in your instance info, and updated if that changes.

That's a headline of the day right there.

#mastodaoine #cork

OK, this is a twist in the NaNoWriMo controversy I didn't see coming: apparently the "criticizing AI is classist/ableist" line was a bridge too far *even for the 'AI' company*.

https://archive.is/DYqsA

In 99.9% of cases the fantasy of the engineers, sysadmins, SREs, etc getting up and leaving, or being axed, leading to the complete destruction of a corporation is just that: a fantasy.

What happens instead is things get very very painful, and corporations roll that pain to their individual employees and, if they have to, their customers. Reality doesn't stand in the way of managerial demands and there's an infinite supply of people who are in a position where they need to take even a painful job to keep food on the table.

You cycle through enough grist and burn enough people out and eventually the pain of a burning down infrastructure is bandaided enough to just be normal day to day operations pain again, and there's plenty of people jumping to show off how culture fit they are by throwing themselves on the altar of pager and overtime.

Perhaps if we could all as a unit say no, no one is gonna do the the shitty work of cleaning up after you exploded your team of talent by being capitalistic fucks; but in the position we're in now that's not likely.

This is where I start on my "We need a union" speech again.

Say, what *was* Cory Doctorow doing at the REBOOT Conference, an explicitly right-wing tech conference, in 2022?

https://web.archive.org/web/20220329223559/https://www.rebootconference.org/day-two

Is there a website where companies can only publish job offers which don't come with any requirement towards experience?

#AskFedi #jobseeking