Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town

@joepie91 that's in my city! I've been there several times. They have new stuff this year.

Every once in a while I see an old Linux screenshot and go "oh yeah, Linux DEs used to be *uglier* than Windows" lmao

Today I learned that there is a theme park in the US specifically tailored towards disabled folks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27pkOKYBptI

funny image i think y'all would enjoy
(i didn't censor the author, this is from a random telegram channel and I couldn't find the original post unfortunately)

hot take all those people who say "utopias are paradoxes you cant make a perfect world" ok bro we cant make the perfect pizza either but chefs are always trying and people are enjoying better slices because of it asshat maybe something doesnt have to be obtainable to be worth trying

Uh oh guys, I blocked out a big chunk on my calendar tomorrow morning, but now I have no memory of WHAT I blocked it for. Just three hours that I wrote "NO" on

“Basically, men need to start mansplaining sexism to other men.”

Perennial favorite…because this is clearly the case

*wet eyes, trembling lip* i-if i'm such a good girl, why are my basic needs constantly under implicit threat?

What I send: Flirting
What they see: Could not decrypt mesaage

Another #PixelArt daily done! :) The clock never stops.

You can grab the full-quality versions (for free) here: https://ko-fi.com/i/IU7U0160GAB

ENJOY!

Dear authors, and if Netflix or whoever is listening, you too:

If you're out of fun ideas for historical drama, alternate history or the like, how about this: an all-female gang in a European capital, renowned for coming up on top against male gangs and taking good care of their members, and one which may have endured for generations. You don't even need to invent most of it if you don't want to. This gang really existed and they were known as the 40 thieves or the 40 elephants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Elephants

Please write something in this setting. Please!

Support your local library

Can anyone recommend small independent sources of information/news, either about tech, world facts, or both, that are in a similar ballpark as kottke and 404media, but they're not US-centric?

Anything interesting in Europe or elsewhere?

if you're feeling like going on the offensive, but not like, smashy smashy offensive, an easy fun thing you can do is to put up posters around your neighborhood warning of CPCs, aka fake clinics that espouse misinfo about reproductive health and deliver religious nonsense instead of real choices.

(this post sponsored by me seeing such a poster from a weird local org - try not to be part of a weird org - covering up an acab sticker - try not to cover up acab stickers when you do this)

I remember David Graeber's insight into #voting being a big 'Aha' moment for me:

"Majoritarian democracy was, in its origins, essentially a military institution. . . .

"It is of obvious relevance that Ancient Greece was one of the most competitive societies known to history. It was a society that tended to make everything into a public contest . . . So it might not seem entirely surprising that they made political decision-making into a public contest as well. Even more crucial though was the fact that decisions were made by a populace in arms. . . . [I]f a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. . . . [E]ven if the vote was 60/40, everyone could see the balance of forces and what would happen if things actually came to blows. Every vote was, in a real sense, a conquest." #history #politics #democracy

- Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-fragments-of-an-anarchist-anthropology