Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

A few words on how to speak to/about #Native people:

1. We still exist. Do not speak about us in the past tense unless you are discussing history. We were not wiped out; don’t try to erase us again.

2. There are 100's of American Indian tribes/nations. We are not a monolith; don't expect us to be experts on cultures that are not ours.

3. Speaking of expecting us to be experts, don't come to Native people or communities demanding them to educate you. Start by listening.

#Indigenous #Mvskoke

TIL you can have dots in the protocol/scheme part of a URL

When the train station at airport Schiphol opened in 1979, it did have 3 tracks. Although station designs in the '70s used to be very cheap, Schiphol actually got some budget for design. The 300 pillars in the station each got an individual painted design from Martin J. Schwencke, which, when looked from in the right way, appeared like an arrow. Later, the paint was replaced with tiles in the same colors. In the '90s, with the expansion of the railway station, everything disappeared behind new gray coverings.

But the tiles are still there, just not visible! Yesterday I noticed a strange looking pillar during a stop on Schiphol. Based on my observation, somebody visited the station the same evening and indeed saw that the gray cladding has been removed from two pillars

"We are so glad to have found you," the aliens said. "So many of our old friends are gone."

"We're so sorry to hear that," the human said. "What happened to them?"

"Oh, just the expansion of the universe. They were closer a few billion years ago. We write, but it's not the same."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Thinking about my childhood memories of tearing through 400 page mass market paperback science fiction. The books all had this wonderful, slightly musty old book smell. The stories were always of futures far more optimistic than the one we're in now.

Do you use #Wikipedia (or any other #Wikimedia project) with JavaScript turned off?

I can't help but feel that there are some wild inefficiencies with home cooking: everyone buying and preparing their food individually. Communities should have some form of low cost co-operative cafeteria that prepare meals in bulk.

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon & the Fediverse whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.

This. All of this. Times several million.

https://medium.com/@GregPogorzelski/the-thing-about-the-kobayashi-maru-4d5e1e49993e

In today's picture: Corvus cornix (known as hooded crow). #CORVUSPHERE #CorvusCornix #HoodedCrow

oh my god Sarota Myrtea looks like a noble steed, look at it!!

photo by José Alberto Cubero Guevara

https://www.facebook.com/groups/artropodosCR/posts/2752490631585435/

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What's the proportions ratio for social media banners? The more for different platforms you know the better, but at least Mastodon's should work for now. Thanks.

(Asking bc wanna make a shitty banner for myself)

disabled people and people who are unable to work are working class, simple as. the role capitalism has assigned to them is working, and that's precisely the reason why they're shamed and portrayed as a burden for being unable to work and fulfill that role. they're used as an example for people capable of working of what happens when you don't work or lose your job.

capitalist economic exploitation can't exist without coercion, and coercion can't exist without harsh consequences for people who don't have a job AND a constant reminder of this threat.

even tho i align with orthodox marxism in many ways, I strongly disagree with its portrayal of the "lumpenproletariat". marxists already reject splitting the working class in many instances, like PMC theory, as revisionist. why is it okay to do it in the instance of the "lumpen"? just because marx did it? this shit isn't the bible. the class interests between the working part and the non-working part of the proletariat clearly align, they're the victims of inherently connected mechanisms of the same system. the disabled and the homeless are already regularly used as scapegoats for economic hardships caused by capitalism, and introducing a fictional class divide here is only going to open the door for that even in leftist circles.

on average disabled people probably have a lot more class consciousness than a lot of able-bodied people. many of them organize and participate in activism. the idea that they have "no revolutionary potential" doesn't reflect reality today. maybe it never did and the people who theorized this lacked perspectives, but a lot of things also changed since then, we have the internet now, as an example.