Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Finding life in unexpected places. It looks like someone was instructed to refresh the yellow paint on this concrete lamp base, and they just sprayed over the mosses and lichens, which have managed to continue growing anyway.
#mosstodon

*very loud sounds of objects clipping into eachother*

shoutout to all the autistic ppl who got maliciously misunderstood as a kid and thought they could fix it by learning to speak with well-researched precision but ended up getting hated even more as a result because now people think you’re just using big words to try to show off

If an employer ever asks you to resign, tell them "no".

There is no benefit to resigning unless you have another job lined up already.

Make them fire you. Get your unemployment benefits. Make sure you are legally protected in case of malfeasance. Resigning undermines all of that.

This message brought to you by AWS telling workers to return to office 5-days-a-week by commuting or relocating, or they should resign.

Again, the answer is "no, you'll have to fire me."

EDIT: To clarify, in most areas "fired" and "let go" are not legally meaningful terms and can be used interchangeably. The important term is "for cause" or not. So don't commit misconduct to get fired. Poor job performance is typically not a "for cause" reason, nor is failure to accept changes like RTO

Honestly if you left the tech industry a decade ago and sat out all the “big trends” (blockchain, NFTs, metaverse, AI) you could come back in a few years time and have missed precisely nothing of substance

Na een volle week met twee begrafenissen blijkt dat mijn ouders nu covid-19 hebben. Ik ben echt ontzettend blij dat zij iedere booster en/of vaccin halen die er te geven is.

Mijn vader is in de 80 en hartpatiënt, mijn moeder is iets jonger en heeft zes jaar geleden een nier gedoneerd.

Het gaat goed met ze, wel veel hoesten, maar de huisarts (heel attent) houdt ze goed in de gaten.

Net kippensoep en wat dropsnoepjes gebracht, dus ik maak me zo iets minder zorgen om hen.

Mijn buurtjes (stukken jonger dan mijn ouders) testten vandaag ook positief, maar die hebben de afgelopen twee jaar geen booster meer gehaald, want het zal zo'n vaart niet lopen. Die liggen nu met flinke koorts uitgeput op bed.

#BlijfDiePrikHalen #Covid19 #BoosterDeBoostBoost

Something I've been saying for a while now. If you know how to program and are willing to dig in, you don't need permission to create the online world that you want. But that's not sufficient. Very few people have both the skills and fortitude to do something meaningful on their own. I would go further and say that's not even what we want.

Creating the world we want is always a social problem. Because we need to find like-minded people to join us.

Maybe I should make an autistic news channel where I just read whatever bullshit that's coming out, and translate it to "this person thinks they'll make money if you believe what they're saying"

This Halloween remember: Damage to property matters only so far as it harms actual people.

UDP jokes are unreliable at best. You never know if someone's going to get it

Most adorable : the conductor had a printed sign "Tickets please" they hold in my sight in the silent area of the train rather than loudly asking for it. They said that'd be more comfortable for everyone than shouting and half of the people in the train were wearing headphones anyway.

I really, really like that idea and their commitment to just print these tiny signs.

tl;dr In just over 2 weeks I will donate a kidney.

Some of you may know that @joepie91 is preparing for a kidney transplant. That kidney is mine. But if everything goes right, not for much longer.

See their post at https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/113227488818373457 for their perspective.

Lots of people have told me IRL that this is a huge thing. But honestly, it was a "no reason not to"-situation. I'm in near perfect health, and otherwise in a situation where the procedure won't really impact my life that much.

i saw this being floated around again and it felt very apt lately.

#ChronicIllness #LongCOVID

It's my last day of being a Pumpkaboo before the spell is lifted and I may return to my dragon form!

I have had a lot of fun as a Pumpkaboo and I'm especially looking forward to pumpkin carving today, though as a Pumpkaboo I certainly have some mixed feelings.