Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Update 1: https://wetdry.world/@cyrus/113856414320440362

I have really dreaded making this post, because this is a giant ask and also because I am scared shitless

but...I might need a place to stay, for a few weeks, somewhere around Düsseldorf or Neuss (Germany, NRW)

I don't yet know how many weeks, if not months, I've been struggling to find a job that won't either require an expensive drivers license or wants to rip me off for the lowest pay (from which I couldn't fund a home anyways)

The original plan (a long time ago by now) was to just stay at my parents and move in with a friend this summer (so, 2025), but since I've ran from that place I've been hopping back and forth

One of those friends I've been hopping back and forth with has effectively said they won't take me anymore, leaving me at another friend, which is living in a sort of social housing (kind of...) that gets weekly checkups where I basically have to leave and hide for ~30-60 minutes to not get caught. I wish I was joking.

All other options I have had, including my mum (whereas previously I lived at my stepmum+dad) and some other friends I've asked all can't take me either. Mum got issues with their landlord and could not really provide food, everyone else still lives at their parents.

So, I guess as my biggest ask so far, and pretty much the only hope I have left, I am asking for anyone nearby to please give me a place to live for god knows how long. I don't even know anymore.

if you need anything else explained, just ask here or DM me

#mutualaid @mutualaid

today in Q is not awake: showing my BC50 instead of my D-Ticket to the bus driver

i think you misheard me. i said that the implementation is "conformn't"

#fluConf2025 will feature a track on Luddism, and we're still looking for submissions.

We want to hear from people that are talking or writing about the deliberate use of technology, resistance to the dominant narratives in tech hype cycles, analysis of the strategies employed by venture capitalists and their distorting effects on society, activism against extractive and exploitative technologies, sabotage of algorithmic systems, and whatever else Luddism means to you.

Apply up until midnight of January 19th, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)

https://fluconf.online/apply/

#luddism #workingClass #laborHistory #sabotage #classWar #resist #AI #directAction #algorithm #capitalism #hyperCapitalism #enshittification #butlerianJihad

So cool when messages from one side of my house to the other have to traverse us-east-1 first. What an utterly bizarre world.

PSA: if you're on a mega-instance like mastodon.social and want to move to a better instance but you don't want to leave your history behind, I will personally help you run my SQL script that loads your account export into a gotosocial database

https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/masto-gear-solid

Yes, it actually happened

Context: https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-general-fired-after-missing-anti-tank-mines-were-found-in-ikea/

A friend showed me Punch-Out!! (NES) last Friday, and while it's not really my jam, there's a little detail I've been thinking about a lot where when you knock out the first guy he spins around and falls over, but there's this part of the animation where he pauses in a funny position for a moment and the sound makes it feel like he's rapidly spinning two or three times around that point and the effect is so well executed you feel it even if you focus on how he's not actually moving.

I bet we could do some really awesome stuff if sound design, graphics, and animation were that tightly integrated in games today. Hard for large studios to do that without interdisciplinary departments though, but smaller studios could clean house here. I think it's a mistake to treat treating graphics as this super advanced thing that carries stands alone, but alas the industry is broadly still under the tyranny of 90s magazine ad thinking.

Sure, I was assigned a gender at birth. I also got assigned homework at school but I didn't do that either.

It's okay to turn off the news.
You were never meant to carry the burden of the entire world.

I heard we're stress-testing pixelfed's infrastructure, so here's a photo of what I think is a variety of Catharanthus roseus

#florespondence #bloomScrolling #gardening

Wuppertaler Nebelbahn.

We're still accepting submissions for the #fluConf2025 track on #inclusivity and #accessibility in tech. Broad interpretations of the topics are welcome, ranging from the technical implementation details of how to build for and with assistive technologies, to the many cultural factors that act as barriers to adoption of free/open software and participation in the wider ecosystem.

Share your insights on designing hiring processes, identifying biases in data and barriers to access, the lost art of progressive enhancement, and whatever else the themes mean to you.

Apply up until midnight of January 19th, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)

https://fluconf.online/apply/

#a11y #assistiveTechnology #progressiveEnhancement #audioDescription #FOSS #openSource #BeingDisabledInPublic #ableism #disability #altText #queer #lgbtq #neurodiversity #actuallyAutistic #ADHD

anyone up for a puzzle?

I brought my Olympus 35 RD to #37c3 this year and took a whopping 72 shots, … just to find out later that the camera jammed twice, unnoticed by me ;—;

There were 0 pictures on one film and just 1 picture on the other, the single picture is of course a compose of an unknown number of other shots. That however turned out to be a very happy accident. I love the resulting picture, so far I have found 13 (!!) separate shots within! :O
It’s so colourful and vibrant, I’m so sad about the jammed camera

the american mind cannot comprehend trains

Perfection.