Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

https://www.jennyboot.nl/ode-black-girl-with-pearl/
This photo is a beautiful riff on 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' by Johannes Vermeer. #art

TIL if the water between denmark and sweden freezes and a swede crosses the ice by foot, danes are legally allowed to beat them with a stick. this is in their constitution

The most essential step in keeping a #journal is simply to write the date each day. It's OK if you don't write anything else. Doing just that says a lot.

Though, often with the date written you can write a bit more. Or draw something.

I used to keep journals for all of my projects but fell out of doing it in my 30s. I've gotten back into it recently and I'm shocked at how powerful of a tool it is to keep focus from one day to the next. To set and reach goals. To process emotions and ideas.

where are like all the south asian western diaspora trans-femmes who had their gender and sexuality discovery stunted by a mix of garbage media representation and toxic parenting from asian traditions?

like statistically I can't be the only one, there must be others in my situation? no? or am I truly uniquely messed up in this regard?

I feel like I'm screaming into a void sometimes~

So basically if you're vegan, remember to check the label on your margarine! It might be much closer to butter than you realize!

just received news that one of the ppl who died in the invasion against ukraine was Ivan Taigamyr, who belongs to the Kerek people, who are one of the Indigenous nations that live on the territory of so called "russia".

There are only 23 Kerek people left.
None speak the Kerek language fluently.

i read that on the wiki page for Kerek people and my heart just sank.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/12/12/an-irreparable-loss

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kereks

this fascist machine, and its actions in ukraine, does not only threaten ukrainians with extinction, but also destroys indigenous, nonwhite and minority nations in russia by conscripting people who belong to them disproportionately, leaving them to die.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/russias-ethnic-minorities-disproportionately-conscripted-to-fight-the-war-in-ukraine

THIS is why i am telling yall that russia is a fascist force. it's a fascist, white supremacist force that mows down everyone who opposes it or in any way isn't russian, white, cis, abled, heterosexual, christian. it's a fucking nightmare made reality.

so many of western leftists online engage in their bullshit campism so much that they decenter the victims of russian/soviet imperialism

Finished the Garage series ~*

#TheStaticTraveler

I designed my own rainbow star tree topper 🌈
And if you have access to a 3D printer and want to put it to use, I’ve shared 6 things you can 3D print for Christmas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-ZuGpuFYso

I have been hosting and maintaining a fedi server with 1-2 users and a couple years ago one with 10+ users for about two years now, and had accounts on other servers before that and here are some thoughts I couldn't really put into words yet until now. Some good, some bad so here we go:

Fragmentation is still a problem. Both by technology and by admin moderation. Even with very liberal settings and not being blocked by anyone I find myself having 10 tabs open with different instances at any given time just to get the "full picture" of a conversation. Sometimes not even that is enough, and your instance sees posts that not even the origin instance is displaying and so on. Lately, a lot of instances outright block viewing a post on their instance unless you're logged in. It's not a dealbreaker though and I understand that it will always be a problem due to Fedi's design.

To block or not to block an instance? By far the biggest dilemma when running an instance yourself. Sure if a server is entirely dedicated towards illegal things, the answer is very simple. But most of them are not as simple. Most of the time only a handful of people on an instance are terrible people. Should you just block them on your profile but then leave your other users on your instance to fend for themselves? Do you block the entire instance, cutting off communications with people you know?
No matter what your stance on moderation is, moderating the fediverse is Sisyphean labor and you will never be finished. I understand that many take more drastic measures as a result of that like disabling the federated timeline, publicly accessible posts and so on.

Fedi not having good post discovery is a blessing in disguise. Every other social media platform is, always was or has become a ragebait hellscape but Fedi is not.

The people on here are very cool!

My hot take is that Fedi will remain stagnant regarding user growth but that's okay. The other platforms have proven that more people does not lead to a better and more healthy experience for it's users. If anything I think Fedi would collapse if it would get the same userbase and attention as the other sites, even if just for mostly technical and regulatory reasons.

But in the end I still love Fedi and the many awesome people I meet on here. If this ship ever goes down you will likely not find me on X Threads or whatever else will try to squeeze out thousands of hours of my life with rage, hatred and bait. I love Fedi and I'm glad that it will be my last social media.