Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be-held-accountable/

So if you've got a solution:
•that's easy to use (for development);
•that's intuitive and easy to use on the front end;
•integrates seamlessly with BookFunnel, BookVault, advertisers, review apps, and e-commerce platforms;
•that isn't run by fascists…

Then I'm all ears. And I suspect I'm not alone.

But it's not going to happen overnight.

#Shopify #USPol #CanPoli #CdnPoli

All I'm saying is, just think about who you're punishing when you #BoycottShopify.

Small business like mine are often paid up a year in advance. And moving to a new host is expensive and complicated.

Shopify makes its most of its money from business owners, not from consumers.

#USPol #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Shopify

Is there an #ADHD term for, uh, nominal priority.

Like, I decide I'm going to work on that specific thing with full expectation that I'll get repeatedly derailed.

But I will get derailed in that general direction.

Trying to get people to join this platform is like all your friends complaining about the restaurant you're in and you try to tell them about this cool place that has amazing, cheap food and the people working there are awesome and it's an ethically run co-op that's been around for ages...and then all your friends decide to go to Applebee's instead.

i 100% predict the labor void that the immigrants once occupied to be replaced with imprisoned labor.

it is legal in america to use the imprisoned for labor. you can only imagine the conditions and pay.

but for that, of course, they'd need tons of prisoners. workforce ain't gonna fix itself.

so they're probably gonna be itchy for reasons to jail someone now.

stay safe out there

This really shouldn't need to be said, but time blindness as is common with ADHD isn't a sign that someone is lying.

I can't reliably place events into years, months, days. I compensate for this by referring to records or specific memorized years of great importance, and then doing calculations based on that.

For example:

I remember that I was in the class of 2011. Therefore, I was a senior in 2010–2011, a junior in 2009–2010, a sophomore in 2008–2009, and a freshman in 2007–2008. The first iPhone came out when I was a freshman, based on the appearance of my Japanese class I remember from the time. Therefore, the first iPhone came out in 2007.
I first used a computer running Windows 3.1 when I was 2. I was born in 1993. Therefore, I must have first used a computer in 1995.
I started HRT when I was working at Taco Bell, kind of during the second half of my employment there, during a time when it was snowy, but snow was melting. My resumé shows that I worked there from 2015 to 2016. Therefore, I must have started HRT sometime in early 2016. I was born in August, 1993. Therefore, I must have been 22 at the time.

I have to do things like this every time, unless a specific date comes up so often that it becomes one of those extremely important dates. It's generally an effective strategy for dealing with my time blindness, but sometimes I have no reference date to use, or I wrongly think I have a reference because of incomplete data that doesn't have enough context to show me that it doesn't work as a reference.

So referencing dates and showing that I got some dates wrong in something I said does not demonstrate lying on my part, and it is, in fact, ableist to assume that it does. I can generally accurately tell you which event came first. But I'm not going to intrinsically notice any particular difference between two year numbers so I can place everything on a timeline. As great of a superpower as that would be, I just can't.

That means I'm going to get dates wrong often, and that needs to be ok, because it just isn't realistic for me to obsessively journal every single insignificant detail of my life and keep those detailed records for all time. It would be, in fact, incredibly unhealthy to do so.

🦇

#TimeBlindness #ADHD #ActuallyADHD

wishing a very "don't ever speak to me again" to every apologist that ever told me the word "fascist" gets used too readily

I deliberately blocked out all US-adjacent news for the past few days while I was working on organizing fluconf.

Now that I'm catching up a bit... wow...fuck.

i think i've said this before on here but i always think about an old ceramics teacher who insisted on any vessel that could potentially hold food, to be food safe since ceramic items can last for such a long time no one in the future will know if its toxic to eat from. these things stick around, some for loooong after anyone we know is gone. i also think about the kind of care to think of someone that far into the future. i think a lot of us here are thinking of those far off folks alongside ourselves and wanting better for both, i hope we can get that, and ensure it for them

Layered up and ready to go! This Chrysina lecontei watercolor took a couple coffee shop visits (plus a dozen layers in spots) to get the glow. Painted with golden QoR paints, an Art Toolkit palette, and a water brush–soon, it’ll be leaving my sketchbook for a new home! #insects #sciart