Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

statism is an empty world view because it postulates a world that is not about people. preserving the institution is the highest ideal, no matter how much murder is required to do that. anyway, yeah.

these concerns seem super abstract, to the point that most people, if pressed, will argue loudly that they're not worth worrying about, not worth taking a stand over, not worth changing anything material to account for

until the moment they are suddenly very concrete and far too late to do anything about

I hate just chucking perfectly good stuff away, that’s why I have a huge stockpile of electronic junk that is worthless up to precisely 3 seconds after I dispose of it, at which point a perfect use for it emerges

Look. I use two spaces after every period. It's what I do. It's who I am. It's how I space my sentences.

If your software 'automagically' hides/erases that second space while I'm typing, I just assume my keyboard is breaking. This is good for no one.

I’m thrilled that Healthy Debate picked up my Disabled Ginger article on masks in healthcare.

“A Plea to Maskless Healthcare Workers from Vulnerable Patients” is a personal appeal to each and every HCW.

Until we mandate masks in healthcare - do the right thing & put one on.

This publication is read by many HCWs - so fingers crossed some of them start masking again!

I will be publishing the next 2 parts (patient stories and HCW stories) with Healthy Debate & on Disabled Ginger.

Never forget that you don’t need a mandate to do the right thing. Wear a mask and show you care about keeping patients safe from COVID.

https://healthydebate.ca/2024/11/topic/plea-maskless-health-care-workers-vulnerable-patients/

If you missed the original article in Disabled Ginger - it was dedicated to @Tinu who passed away a little over a month ago. You can read here: https://www.disabledginger.com/p/a-plea-to-maskless-healthcare-workers

#keepmasksinhealthcare #CovidIsNotOver #CovidisAirborne #SARSCov2 #maskup #wearamask #N95 #ableism #disability

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