Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

If you are in the US, threatened by the current administration, and need some kind of help with something, send me a DM and I'll see what I can do.

(For reference, I am in the Netherlands)

Also, if you were one of those people and are now suddenly panicking about all the fascist orders being enacted, as if you couldn't have seen this coming: a hearty "fuck you" to you in particular. Maybe fucking listen to marginalized folks for once.

I cannot adequately express in words how angry I am at all the people who have spent the past several years insisting that "it won't be that bad" and doing absolutely fuck-all in terms of resistance (and yes, this includes the people who considered "donating to Harris and doing nothing else" as "sufficient resistance").

You have an openly fascist regime now and the concentration camps are already being established. Congratulations, fuckheads. You had the opportunity to stop this and you did fucking nothing because it threatened your sense of comfort to acknowledge the reality of the situation.

There's this common advice for activism in particular, but also politics in general, that goes something like: "people are imperfect, so you should learn to work with people even if you don't completely align with them".

And in a vacuum, that is true.

But what gets missed here is the *context* in which this advice often gets used. That context is very often "some marginalized person frequently calls out bigoted behaviour from their supposed allies, and now nobody wants to work with them".

In that context, the advice *technically* still works. The marginalized person *could* decide to let it slide, and work on the common interest instead.

But consider the implications of that, and what is actually being asked of whom. A marginalized person, who already gets the short stick most of the time, is expected to let bigotry slide... while zero expectations are placed on the *other* allies, particularly the privileged ones, who *could* take off some of the load by calling out their peers every once in a while at basically no risk to themselves. But nobody is expecting them to.

And just like that, all the emotional work and responsibility are pawned off on the people who can least afford it.

I can arbitrarily recolor the plane now, without having to redo the gradients!

Next step is to have a separate 'shading' layer and 'surface' layer for each component, so that instead of a fixed white-based gradient of gray, it uses a partially-opaque-gradient black overlay to apply the depth illusion to *any* color choice (or even texture!)

Today, I'm practicing with mesh gradients in Inkscape. Which are cool but damn, Inkscape doesn't exactly make them easy...

(Original silhouette by Andreas 06 on Wikimedia Commons; the cutting up into parts and 'texturing' is my work)

Uh oh, apparently Atari bought the IP for Transport Tycoon in November of last year. I sure hope that isn't going to result in problems for the #OpenTTD folks...

To my surprise, I actually kind of like GDScript? It's very rare for *any* kind of DSL to pass my first evaluation successfully...

So it turns out that soy-sauce-fried leftover noodles with a sauce of pan-fried banana slices and some fruit jam and lemonade syrup mixed in is actually really nice, and pretty easy to make