Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

But many historic museums have a clutter room, or clutter wing, or clutter floor, and if you ever spot one you should definitely give it your time, because there you’ll find the odd little knickknacks, contraptions, whatsits & doohickeys that capture the creativity and materiality of past eras 10/?

It’s time for the RENAISSANCE SPORK!
And the fascinating problems museums face when dealing with objects no one expects. 1/?

Sharing for my countdown to the release “Inventing the Renaissance” coming Feb UK/Mar US https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS #HistoryPix

In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with the proposed inclusion of advertisements. Initially, it was not clear what revenue model Wikipedia would get, and Wales moved towards a for-profit model already a year after launch. However, rather than working for free, so Jimmy Wales could profit from their labour via advertising, Spanish contributors forked Spanish Wikipedia as the Encyclopedia Libre Universal. Under the threat of losing the editorial community of such a large language, Wales conceded and set up the non-profit.

That is to say, however imperfect they are, all the digital commons we have are the result of ongoing struggle and hard work to keep them as commons.

Via Las Redes Son Nuestras (https://www.consonni.org/es/publicaciones/las-redes-son-nuestras) by @teclista

Update with more info:
https://post.lurk.org/@rra/113873611500414068

hey. listen

go play that video game you excitedly got on steam sale with so much enthusiasm, but never played

go play that game from your childhood that made you happy, that let you escape from the awful around you

go play that game your friend made and tell them all the cool things about it

go play that game your friends are all into but youve been too socially anxious to join in on

go play anything. your mental health will thank you for the break and youll love yourself a bit more, which goes a long way when we're all stretched too thin to give everyone the love we all deserve

Periodic #infosec reminder: AirDrop is insecure. You should treat any device with it enabled like it's continually blasting your name, email address, and phone number to everyone and everything within Bluetooth range. It cannot be fixed without a complete protocol rewrite and break in compatibility. I have not yet seen a single "safely bringing your device(s) to a protest" article that even mentions this.

you know that feeling when you get an appliance and there's a manual but you're like "I'm never going to need this because if I need to fix it I can look it up online"

that was the "living in a world where google actually works" mindset and you should probably stop doing that

we're going to have to be more honest about ourselves, our allegiances to losers who don't invest or sustain our communities, and many other parts of this sick society we accept as normal yet contribute to. we're going to start to be honest about people that we're quick to put on a pedestal because they do a thing we like.

folks will follow and defend their beloved deified artists and models and politicians and bloggers off of a cliff at the expense of themselves, their communities, and basic common sense and ethics.

this is especially true in fandom spaces.

it's actually a major problem we're gonna need to discuss again and again, especially as they continue to be used to sanitize fascism more and more overtly.

the celebrity class is like a lifelong proverbial addiction for the masses — and that includes you, reader.

yes, even if you are a card-carrying event organizer leftist.

don't kid yourself into thinking you can be immune to influence.

we're gonna need to be a lot more honest going forward, especially in this era, about the ways we've all been socialized to devotion and worship of these figures. it's unhealthy and dangerous.

"Trump just declared everyone legally female, why did he do this is he stupid?" Democrats are a fucking joke if this is how they're handling the next four years lol

I expect everyone to do at least these two things:

1. Actively seek out the experiences and needs of people who are marginalized in a way that you are not.
2. Do *something* to actively oppose and fight fascism, guided by those experiences and needs. The exact method is not that important.

If you are not doing both of these things, I will be judging you for it.

The Jack Dorsey talk has now been removed as a talk entirely with no comment from the FOSDEM committee.

There's a lack of transparency and accountability with how FOSDEM is organized and administered.

To be clear, I don't think the organizers of @fosdem are dishonest. I do think there could be more clarity and transparency.

Perhaps the slot could be repurposed as an open discussion for attendees, volunteers and the organizers.

https://www.onepict.com/20250122-mirror.html

#FOSDEM #NoBillionairesAtFOSDEM

Be Gay. Do Crimes.

And if being queer as hell is a crime? That makes it easy, all you gotta do is live. However you fucking can.

Lang geleden dat ik huismerk-brinta van de Jumbo in huis had. De verpakking is weer eens vernieuwd, maar gelukkig zit de oude vertrouwde typfout nog in de ingrediëntenlijst. Volkerenmeel, is dat een soort soylent green? 🤪

yall got too comfortable and complacent. you people let those vermin snuck up on you like you're some videogame ass enemies on easy difficulty. you preferred comfort to solidarity. and because of that, people like this are everywhere. they are in our groups, in our chats. in our furmeets and con leadership positions. so if you don't want that to get worse then go and grow a fucking spine already. "pawlitics" is gonna be here and affect us whether you want it or not.