Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

The SAVE Act will require "proving citizenship" to vote, and looks like it could tie in with the same "having changed your name and gender marker is identity fraud" stuff, possibly blocking many trans people from participating in US democracy https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-could-keep-millions-of-transgender-americans-from-voting/

🙏 always good to know it’s isn’t just techy fediverse-using people who hate AI lol

I was recently introduced to the concept of “hypernormalization” coined to describe the Soviet Union.

Hypernormalization is when the economic and social system is obviously broken, but instead of fixing it, people just accept it as normal because the truth is too complex or inconvenient to change.

So politicians and citizens alike are resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society.

Hello there. I'm a visual artist, printmaker and author from The Netherlands (Ulft, Rotterdam, Hilversum).

I'm interested in how parts make wholes, late Romanesque / Early Gothic manuscript illumination, and long-form black metal. Maybe you have seen my bird prints?
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#introduction #art #letterpress #printmaking #LEGOletterpress #hilversum #birds

These tall tales we see of complex apps being generated entirely LLMs, or legacy codebases being ported to new platforms in just a few hours... If they're not accompanied by actual code we can look at, or working software we can test, you can safely conclude it didn't happen.

So far, it never has. Not a single verifiable example.

train ticketing is a joke

it's called ssh-keygen but doesn't even play cool tracker music?

I like that there's a number of orgs that advertise via stickers. If they didn't, I'd probably never find out about them, because I'm so terribly isolated.

#anarchistlibrary #AmsterdamPublicComment #AmsterdamStickerArt #AmsterdamGraffiti #antifa

Just finished reading the whole collection of HP Lovecraft's fiction, and it was in some ways really interesting and enlightening. Not necessarily in the ways he may have WANTED, mind you, but still...

Gracious, did that man love to read himself write like some people like to hear themselves talk. And the racism could get real unbearable at times. But overall, I can see why his world-building and eerie atmospheres are still beloved to this day.

Also, now I finally get some of the references in Lovecraft-based media I like, so that's fun.

#bookstodon #book #reading #HorrorFiction

Btw @lonelinesscorps is a group bot that will boost anyone that tags it.
It's basically a mustering point for community building.
People use it to:
•reach out when they're bored
•start some kind of silliness like our watch parties
•share strategies for local community building
•and sometimes just have deep talks about loneliness, community, and healthy relationships

Follow it for more randomness and connection in your life.
Use it to help combat loneliness for yourself or others.