Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I have been thinking about this ever since years ago Julie explained to me that the reason she dislikes graphical user interfaces is they feel like prisons because to a much larger extent they are an experience fully orchestrated by somebody else.

We choose or are required to engage with a person, organization, business, government. They dictate what software to use for the interaction based on what is most convenient and advantageous to them.

The notion that people choose to use computer applications because they are useful at accomplishing tasks is extremely outdated. The vast majority of software use is not voluntary.

OMG OMG OMG, Kinners, ich habs! Die Lösung für das Congress-Ticket-Problem! \o/

Maskenpflicht! Das wird das Interesse am Congress senken. Und zwar von den richtigen Leuten! Everyone wins! Für dieses Jahr ist es zu spät, aber nächstes Jahr vielleicht? 🥺

@joepie91 direct action works

who called it a fascist newspaper and not a "maga zine"

Developer comments be like:

But like, quickly hopping back to Cyberpunk and taking a really quick shot in photo mode there... I'm kind of sad they're not planning on using this engine again because they have absofuckinglutely stacked it with ray and path tracing options. I think it's the only game I've seen so far that renders the screenshot. Even a quick and dirty half assed shot looks nice in this engine.

It's a pretty inexpensive way to freeze the world and play with composition and lens options.

I also kinda miss my widescreen monitor because it was also a way to play around with very wide compositions. But hey.

"Necronaut," low-polygon 3D style artwork, made in 2018.

#LowPoly #space #SciFi #horror #death #skull #ScienceFiction #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #sculpture #3DModeling #illustration #illustrator #digital #DigitalArt #art #arts #arte #artist #artists #GraphicDesign #3D #blender #Blender3D #B3D #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon

just got my GDPR Wrapped 👀 learning so much about my browsing habits

"Family" as some control freaks might see it: A group of individuals that you're probably at least somewhat genetically related to that "cares" about you so long as you make yourself fit into some arbitrary pre-determined box and every action you perform reinforces their biases and fragile worldview as well as whatever "news" they recently saw on TV or other hearsay that they're desperately holding onto.

Family as it ought to be: A group of individuals that you may or may not be genetically related to but you've nonetheless settled in with who really values your well-being, wants to see you thrive, and doesn't care about making you fit into some metaphorical box.

CD City.
As seen in my profile banner.

I was looking for something to do with a broken CD player and thought of making a diorama of sorts.

I imagined opening the player and a tiny city magically pops up.

I couldn't achive the magic or popping, but I did scratchbuild a city at the smallest scale I've worked at.

#Scratchbuilt #ScaleModel #Diorama #DrH #CDCity

🦾to trans people fleeing to new locations

Trafficking is a safety concern. Here are some ways to try to avoid it

1) have multiple contacts at your destination who are not working together. make friends there. Find discord servers and chat groups. Then there is somebody else there you can ask for help

2) always retain control of your identity documents, communication devices, funds and means of travelling when staying with somebody. Those are your lifelines in case the situation goes badly

3) never, ever let yourself become wholly reliant on one person or org for everything. If you cannot leave a situation without losing all your means of surviving, you are vulnerable to exploitation

4) talk about what you are experiencing with people you already trust so they can lend you perspective

at some point you will have to trust someone and take risks to make progress. there’s no hard, fast rule as to who is trustworthy. Safety is about *redundancy* #gtfomystate

whoa!!!!!!! kudos to DigitalOcean workers for organizing!!!!!! wish we'd learned about this when it happened, but we're super glad it's being reported on now. solidarity!!!!!!!!!

and wow what a fucked-up situation prompting it https://www.404media.co/ceo-attempted-to-navigate-anti-lgbt-hate-incident-by-telling-employees-his-mentor-was-a-kkk-member/