Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

beseeching small businesses to post their hours on their websites. not their facebooks. you have a website. please. use it

“Why Agile Is Losing Steam - by Charles Lambdin”

https://thelaterallens.substack.com/p/why-agile-is-losing-steam

> Clients do not want you to maximize value as much as they want you to make them look successful—and those are often two completely different things.

if photomatt ever calls you trying to get someone fired you are required to go interrupt him and into the most over the top “do you have any idea who the fuck I am dickwad” routine you can manage and then tell him to go whine to someone else and hang up on him. that’s the gig. don’t let me down.

Just a pigeon taking their daily commute to do their best at working 9-5 at the seed factory. They've got an important message to put in their boss's pigeonhole. #BirdsOfMastodon #birds #pigeon

Artists discover a new glowing #mushroom in Switzerland https://phys.org/news/2025-01-artists-mushroom-switzerland.html

Is the #bioluminescence in many #Mycena species overlooked? ― A case study from M. crocata in Switzerland https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/mycosci/65/4/65_MYC633/_article by Renate Heinzelmann et al.

"the decaying wood M. crocata grows on can also emit a green glow when split open, lasting up to 4 hours... While some glowing #mushrooms might attract #insects to disperse spores, the bioluminescence of hidden #mycelium does not fit this hypothesis"

#Fungi

We treat creativity like a fast-food assembly line, demanding fully formed meals from seeds that haven't even sprouted. Art, like tomatoes, need time to grow. It starts local, nurtured by its environment, gaining depth & uniqueness. In the past, a new dance or art form would emerge in obscurity, building slowly until it became a cultural movement.
Now, TikTok ensures it's viral by the end of the day & forgotten by the end of the week.

it's not so much that i think programmers are very special geniuses but that they have their hands on some of the most impactful levers of a digitized world and they just don't fucking know it

Okay, listen. The NYT is going to continue to suck. It's going to continue to normalize fascism. It's going to continue to push absolute bullshit, and it's going to continue to publish opinion pieces by monsters who are operating in bad faith.

Acting shocked that they do this is boring. It also helps normalize the idea of the NYT as a place for unbiased, reasonable takes. The NYT is very much not that.

Not for nothing, but...

Couching one's language in Slightly-but-not exclusively archaic language appears to confuse those automatons doing the work of moderation on the properties of the Zuck. At the same time, many readers are able to parse meaning even if the occasional word remains unfamiliar.

... I posted links to various mastodon servers and basically just avoided keywords. Post still up, still getting engagement.

#Meta #Migration #Moderation

*throws a tennis ball across the federated timeline*

As someone currently homeless due to climate disaster and hasn't gotten much help, I want to remind y'all to pay special attention to the single and especially the single disabled who are being displaced now.

Everyone wants to help "families". Please remember the people that don't have those.

I'm looking to join or start a group for #blind #nonbinary people. Does anyone know if something like that exists? Boosts appreciated.

Normalise:

telling your friends how lovely they are
being kind to and empathetic with others
volume levels

It's been a rough few days. Better now. Here, I took a picture from the train (again).

So, here's the theory. There is one person who supplies all the ketamine for all the tech bros. They've decided to pull the plug and are therefore increasingly tainting the supply. Elmo was the first to break fully from reality, now Zuck and Thiel. Lately they're snorting nothing but baking soda and strichnine, but it turns out they have managed to build up an immunity like the Dread Pirate Roberts.

Ooft this 2010 post was right on the money about Matt Mullenweg and WordPress - the comments have aged like milk in the sun

https://web.archive.org/web/20110117190122/http://wpblogger.com/matt-should-resign.php