“A capitalist ethos of independence & productivity, & the pervasive colonial perception of nature as commodity, would have us see abandonment as natural, even inevitable. An ethics of abandonment is, what leads massive amounts of money & energy to be poured into fantasies of escape like Elon Musk’s rocket ship or billionaire bunker estates, or the politically mercurial fantasy of the rugged ablebodied survivalist living off the land post–climate apocalypse.”
Sunaura Taylor - Disabled Ecologies
After transitioning was the first time in my life where the puzzle that was myself, my life, my future, actually fit together. Before transition I couldn't image my future. Not because I though I wouldn't live to see it, but because I couldn't image it. I could not image myself being a middle aged man one day. But now I can imagine a future for myself. One that fits, that feels right.
Its a weird antisemitic trope that's long running. There's never any logic in antisemitic tropes, so it doesn't make sense. It just is.
Zuckerberg will never see your federated posts using this trope, but Jews will, so please don't. I know its a meme, but not everybody making memes is a comrade.
health update, transplantation
Transplantation day today! Here's to hoping it all goes well.
Love it when journalists provide context when reporting news.
"Mastodon’s announcement comes at a time when the WordPress open-source project and its cofounder have been embroiled in a months-long legal feud, and Meta’s Zuckerberg has made headlines for stripping back Facebook and Instagram’s fact-checking and content moderation before lying about it to Joe Rogan."
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko
As I was lazily contemplating the yellow enamelled kettle, which was boiling water, I noticed its bottom was darker yellow, it was more orange. It was actually clearly orange, one could even call it red. A dark red, bordering on purple. In fact, the entire kettle was more orange than I had realised.
Only then did it dawn on me that yes, I had put the kettle on, but forgot to fill it with water.
"smart" hospital adventures
Also the TV runs an Android(?) TV app but has Windows scrollbars
"smart" hospital adventures
My IoT app crashed when I tried to close the curtains and @Peetz0r's room tablet seems to be a hand-me-down from an entirely different hospital - coincidentally, the hospital I normally go to
“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.
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"
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.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.