Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

There's a type of reply-guy that crawls out of the woodwork when I post anything that might inspire others to take action, and they're deceptively insidious.

Regardless of the topic, they sound like this:

Alice: I don't own a gun because they're for killing and I'm not a fan of killing.
Bob: Then only the bad guys will have guns.

Alice: I deleted my Facebook account.
Bob: If the good people leave then the bad guys win.

Alice: I'm openly queer so others know they're not alone.
Bob: You'll make yourself a target.

In every instance, they defend the shitty state of things by discouraging action and change. It's a reply that is designed to support the default, the current power structure. It's a type of reply meant to de-fang movements.

I've posted about this before, but apparently it bears repeating. Fighting for something takes energy. Change takes sustained energy and momentum. These types of interactions sap energy. They're not posting anything openly disagreeable, they're just dropping little doubt caltrops, little concern anchors—making it harder to keep fighting, harder to gain momentum.

If you're about to jump into a thread and concern troll, don't. I'm fucking sick of it. The rest of us don't have the time or energy to drag your dead weight along.

#ReplyGuys #Concern #Trolling #Change

Hoe vaak moet een theemok vervangen/gewassen worden?

#annaWilGraagWeten

I have an html question, for pictures will the “title” tag that gives alt on mouse hover also work for screen readers? Or do I also need the “alt” tag. On my website I added both since I wasn’t sure but I am curious if I actually need both

@joepie91

Het doet denken aan het begin van de pandemie toen Nederland zei dat toestanden zoals in Italië in Nederland niet waarschijnlijk waren.

People who use albuterol rescue inhalers, have you noticed a dip in effectiveness over the last year or so? I thought it was just me but been talking to some coworkers and they're having that experience too

fine people of the internet: I want to purchase a pair of speakers that can adequately render the entire range of a full sized piano that I can set up on or near my full sized piano for comfortable listening to my full sized piano in a normal living room sized space and I'd like to hear the bass end with some reasonable clarity *without* it being The Earthquake Machine that causes my upstairs neighbor who is the condo board president to pass new "bylaws"

anyone got any recommendations?

I haven't told anyone about this yet, so let's go: Last fall, attorney's working for a certain social media company we will call "Schmeta" reached out to me asking for help with a copyright suit specifically because I was an academic who is also an 'expert' with Blender. 🧵

This page shows various amounts of wealth shown to scale, in visual form.

If you think you can imagine it without clicking, even somewhat, I dare you to verify that yourself.

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

I’d like to know about the cost of clothes in the absence of globalization. I think the answer would start with a small herd of sheep, the salary of the herder (let’s assume living salaries for all involved!), the amount of wool produced, washing, spinning, weaving (or other techniques), cutting, sewing, etc. how many hours for each step? I’d also like to see pictures of all the steps involved. The only semi-non-industrial pullovers I remember were the Icelandic sheep wool pullovers of my youth. I was born in Iceland so my parents and some and wore them for many winters.

How long do you steep your tea? 🍵

meme, medical

"Here’s the real, ugly truth: This is just how every major climate disaster is going to unfold online from here on out. There will be criticisms and expressions of fury, some more fair and reasoned than others, But in an ecosystem where social media outlets have purposefully hobbled their ability to provide real-time, reliable updates to users, the people affected by those disasters are literally left in the dark." https://slate.com/technology/2025/01/california-los-angeles-palisades-wildfire-conspiracy-theories.html?ref=organizingmythoughts.org

me in 2010: yeah windows and google services are not perfect but pretty damn good but let's just fiddle around with linux and self hosted stuff for fun

me in 2017: can't be bothered anymore, i just use mostly windows and let my stuff float around in the cloud, it's probably fine

me in recent years: god no your questionable ai can not have my data let me self host everything sensitive and use mostly linux again

Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra ~60% for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern.

"Switch plan" just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want "Turn off recurring billing" and then "Current subscription without AI".

You're welcome. Please boost for others.

idk if this has been shared yet by others here but like, beyond just what Meta’s “transparency center” already describes publicly, the leaked internal documents are Insane.

full article: https://theintercept.com/2025/01/09/facebook-instagram-meta-hate-speech-content-moderation/