Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Can you imagine taking a photo of your dog, it becoming famous worldwide, then an overused meme, then a joke cryptocoin, then a pump and dump scheme, then sadly your dog passes away just before it becomes the face of a fascist arm of government

https://thebeaverton.com/2025/02/americans-choose-most-expensive-way-possible-to-discover-what-goods-made-in-canada/

@KFvMalssen absoluut! Daarom zijn we ook op zoek naar actieve (!) mensen om te volgen. De mensen die we al gevonden hadden, blijken hier nauwelijks nog actief helaas. Terwijl mastodon een waardevolle bron van informatie kan worden voor ons. @EdwinvMeerkerk @amberwalraven @redegelde @fonolog @SharonnekeU @teacher_rick @thebandb

wild to me that I can just go buy ten thousand discretely-useful manufactured objects for the price of a burger

Given the bad weather,
if some of you want to avoid US based internet services, a developer from Vienna has just issued a list of usable such services (web search, mail, web servers, cloud services, etc...) :

https://european-alternatives.eu/

#fascism #europa

(Thanks @clemlatz for correcting me)

This seems like a good time to go exploring miniature worlds.

Hiep hiep hoera!

De Nationale Bibliotheek is van Xwitter!

Vanaf nu ook Mastodon!

@kbnationalebibliotheek

Geef ze een warm welkom aub

being poly is a superpower because you literally can make a badass heist crew out of your love interests

I want to see more statements like this from open-source project leaders, please.

It doesn’t go without saying, not today.
https://hachyderm.io/@mattdm/113936362658944850

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