Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

almost managed to entirely forget about the whole concept of paying for the bus

Deutschlandticket has ruined me

If you've been a pagan for a while, you run into the same questions over and over again. It can be difficult to come up with quick, easy to understand answers to a topic as complex as religious beliefs when you're like, standing in line at the grocery checkout.

I've learned that the best strategy is to somewhat meet their expectations, and then direct the next question to a simpler, more specific topic with your answer.

Here are some that I've developed over the years that seem to work:

Q: "What is paganism?"
A: "It's a nature-centered religion where we believe in many gods, kinda like Buddhism."
(This gives people a frame of reference to something they have heard of before, even though it's not perfectly accurate.)

Q: Do you worship Satan?
A: Not personally, though pagans worship all dofferent kinds of gods. As long as no harm is being done, we don't tell people which gods to worship.
(Emphasizing the polytheistic nature of paganism works best, especially for christians, who have to get over that binary good vs. evil idea first if you want to reach them)

Q: Do you do spells/believe in magic?
A: Yeah, a spell is just like a prayer with ingredients. I make a brew, light a candle, and ask the universe for help. I mean, it can't hurt, amiright?
(Sounds a lot less cool and mystical like that, but it appeals to reason.)

Q: So are you, like, a witch?
A: Yeah, I practice witchcraft every time I work in my garden, lol. It sounds way cooler than it is, it's mostly meditating and lighting incense.
(Don't tell what witchcraft *is*, focus on what it looks like.)

#Pagan

De stukjes overheid die hun bestanden en mail nog niet op Amerikaanse servers hebben gezet, maken grotendeels enorme haast om dat nu alsnog te doen. Men lijkt een druk te ervaren. Maar negen andere ministeries gaan nog niet over, dus kennelijk *hoeft* het niet nu. Is er echt wel haast? Of wil men snel over voordat het duidelijk wordt dat zoiets gewoon niet meer kan? https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/naar-de-cloud-nu-het-nog-kan-is-dat-het/

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At 17, Pippin has masterfully honed her stealth and camouflage skills. 🤭

#Caturday

Jullie hebben neem ik aan ook allemaal een fanfare op de oprit?

#wa? #heddegijdanie?

#carnaval

There was a long queue to the repair shop. There always seemed to be, these days.

The areas for fabrics and fibre, wood, metal, mechanics and electronics were all busy, but none more so than the dreams section.

"Oh, this has taken some beating, poor thing."

"Can you fix it?"

"We'll do our best."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

2025 will be the year of "oh god there are no good browser options left to switch to"

Found at a crosswalk in Amsterdam. The sticker is attributed to @tesseltenzweege.

I will slowly start posting all the stickers I take photos of. Many of them will be under the hashtags at the bottom of this post, if you'd like to mute those terms (namely #AmsterdamPublicComment). I'll still always try to CW as best I can, but the bulk of them will be nlpol (like this one), uspol, pspol. I haven't actually created any of these stickers and I'm never the one sticking them to things (unless I'm covering up something worse).

These will always be left leaning messages but will most frequently cover:

saying right leaning politicians, parties, and governments are badsquatting good, housing good
veganism good, animal abuse bad
fossil fuels bad
pro Palestine content
pro kurdistan content
pro union stuff
pro trans/queer stuff

#AmsterdamPublicComment #AmsterdamGraffiti #AmsterdamStickerArt #StickerArt

There is an annoying number of things on linux that would be really handy to have an api for rather than reading magical device files, for instance `/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/` to get the types of hugepages the system supports.

I would love a `sysconf` for that, or w/e

Mijn zus en ik bellen dagelijks met onze bejaarde moeder (82) op Skype. Ze leert heel moeilijk nog nieuwe apps en programma's en heeft daar ook stress van.
Zij werkt altijd op een iPad, dat is gemakkelijker dan een smartphone. Mijn zus heeft android, ik Apple. Welk alternatief voor Skype?

achievement culture is toxic unless you achieved safety, health, happiness, or achieve helping others get safety, health, and happiness ​:neocat_floof_angel:​

FISH 🐟
DOORBELL 🔔
TIME ⏰

In the Netherlands, spring fish migration has begun! This literal live stream from a manually operated canal lock in Utrecht lets you click a button when you see fish, which sends a screenshot and lets the lock-keeper know to open the lock and let fish through.

The #Visdeurbel returns March 3 and there will be some exciting additions: updates from 4 fishways (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_ladder) across the Netherlands! The latest Visdeurbel news report explains: https://youtu.be/BQNPNQ6Ui2Q

https://visdeurbel.nl/

Can we go back to when pods were still music players