Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I called EMS once and police showed up before paramedics (paramedics were busy).

The first thing they said? “You don’t look sick.”

They waited for paramedics who took me to hospital - but that initial response stuck with me.

It’s why mask bans are dangerous. Police aren’t trained to make medical decisions. They shouldn’t be the ones deciding who can and can’t legally wear a mask.

Many illnesses are invisible - you wouldn’t KNOW we’re disabled to look at us.

Most of us have experienced gaslighting from friends, family and even doctors - people are quick to judge and decide you’re “not that sick.”

So are we really expected to risk criminal charges by wearing a respirator & just HOPE police will believe we truly “need it”?

Not to mention that medical exemptions leave behind anyone who wants to mask to protect and preserve their health - as well as caregivers and family of disabled people.

We rely on them to keep us safe - we NEED them masking in public.

I sincerely hope more people join the fight against mask bans soon - because if we don’t fight against them - more cities and states will pass them and more people will suffer.

A good respirator is excellent protection against covid & other illnesses.

We shouldn’t be further excluding disabled and high risk people from public - but that’s exactly what these ugly laws do.

Call your elected officials - tell them medical masks can not and should not be banned.

Don’t embrace escalating fascism and eugenics just because you don’t think it will impact you.

Don’t celebrate it because you hold a grudge about mask mandates.

It won’t stop with disabled people. Help us now & your future self will thank you.

My full article on mask bans, medical exemptions and how we’re witnessing (and even welcoming) escalating eugenics and fascism: https://www.disabledginger.com/p/we-are-witnessing-real-time-eugenics

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #keepmasksinhealthcare #MaskBans #NoMaskBans #bullying #CleanAirClassrooms #UglyLaws

What I really want from technology these days is passivity. Physical buttons, and PASSIVITY.

No guessing, no anticipating, no predicting.
No autofill, no autocorrect, no autodrive and PLEASE God no autoplay.

Just be inert until acted upon!

NEW VIDEO - Goth Is White: Pallor, Prejudice and Purity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knrnIY8snKk

probably my nichest-sounding topic yet, but many of the concepts apply more broadly and relate to broader issues. should be something of value here for anyone with any interest in learning about power structures and race dynamics, however wh*te goths are obligated

even by my standards this one might get people’s backs up, so please approach with good faith and be ready for some potential discomfort

this has been a HUGE labour of love (and many other emotions). big thanks for all the encouragement when I was hesitating about it back in April or so, glad I did it in the end 🖤

Only 7 days left in the European Citizens’ Initiative to tax the ultrarich to finance the climate transition.

Over 340,000 people have signed the petition so far. We need more than double that to send a clear message.

It takes less than 5 minutes.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home

#climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #TaxTheRich #EUPol

My fellow chickens:

If we do NOT allow the fox to sit down with us and help us draw up the blueprints for our upcoming coop renovation, then can we really claim to be a welcoming and inclusive community?

Shame on anyone who wants to outright exclude the fox. Especially since the fox has some great ideas for how we can make this place useful and accessible for all our canine and lupine brethren. I thought we were champions for diversity!

(unfortunately I am not at liberty to disclose how much of this chicken feed was provided by the fox)

#Meta #Threads #SocialWebFoundation

I am getting this post framed, fuck it all in a hopelessly positive way

So about the #SocialWebFoundation announcement... This sentence sort of sums it up for me:
"Users on any platform can follow their friends, family, influencers, or brands on any other participating network."

So, not people but users.
No collaborators, organizers, activists, co-conspirators, fellow players, or colleagues, but influencers and brands.

It sounds like a dream from corporate USA, not an underground movement, mycorrhizal network, research collaboratory or emancipatory project.

I specifically do not want any influencers or brands in my timeline.

That is not what I want to build or live or love in.

Want mogelijk goed om te weten, je hebt geen cookiebanner (met acceptatie) nodig voor ieder cookie! Alleen als je je gebruikers gaat tracken. En wil je dat echt? En waarom? https://www.acm.nl/nl/verkoop-aan-consumenten/reclame-en-verleiden/online-beinvloeden/cookies-plaatsen

When the kids in the other room go to the search bar on the Apple TV, my phone pops up a dialog asking if I want to type on my phone’s keyboard instead of using the remote.

So I hit yes, and when the search box pops up, I hit the X to clear what they were entering and quickly type “BAD YAMS” and tap the search button.

I can hear them yelling from here. “Why does it keep searching for bad yams? What’s wrong with this thing?”

Explaining the #Nix store to people

My brother works at a healthcare facility that recently unveiled a bunch of new, time-consuming, and complicated procedures for sterilizing equipment.

The equipment techs have been complaining because the procedures are, in their opinion, stupid.

The organization they work for cited a research paper that said these procedures reduce infection rates.

My brother, however, has a science background, and knows how to read a peer-reviewed paper.

He found the paper they cited, and it does say that these procedures will reduce infection rates, and it cites another paper as its source for that.

He found that paper and read it. It cites another paper in making that claim.

He found that paper. It had cited a previous paper. So he found that one.

He traced this claim all the way back to its original paper, which doesn't even make that claim. These procedures were just mentioned in the paper as something that *could* possibly reduce infections, but as something that would need to be tested to know for sure.

They weren't tested. A series of authors just kept citing the author before them, each making the claim a little more firmly until it was stated as a proven fact.