Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

https://furry.engineer/@soatok/114150778081565024

My package has now been in 4 separate logistics centers over the course of 3 days and it is still not dispatched for delivery. I have never had an InPost package take this silly of a route. I actually looked through my package history and practically all the packages I've ever ordered through them would get dispatched for delivery after a maximum of 2 logistics centers within 2 working days. How do you even find 4 separate logistics centers between any 2 points in Poland?? The country isn't that big-

My latest newsletter is about J.J. Abrams' famous "Mystery Box" TED Talk, in which he claimed "mystery is more important than knowledge."

Our politics are all Mystery Box now. It's all rabbit holes and conspiracy theories, all the way down. The Mystery Box ate our world.

https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/its-all-jj-abrams-fault-not-really/

Oh my god http://stealmytesla.com

TfL found my lost wallet 3 months after I lost it and now I'm dealing with the hilarity of trying to get it delivered to an address in Northern Ireland and then discovering that (1) this requires a customs declaration THANKS BREXIT and (2) they can't ship credit cards and well yes I do not have an emotional attachment to my cancelled credit cards can you just take those out please but leave the other ones and oh no why is this so complicated

Ça, c'est un schéma à conserver 🙏

(source : https://davestewart.co.uk/blog/the-work-is-never-just-the-work/)

Today I learned https://www.startrekdesignproject.com has high-rez versions of most of the logos to appear on Star Trek. Including some great ones from Lower Decks.

unfair how nice fresh sheets are given changing them feels like a punishment 😩

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Kazakhstan’s health ministry rejects claims of ‘LGBT propaganda’ influencing teens

"According to the report, the LGBT movement does not push teenagers to change their sexual orientation. On the contrary, it helps them combat depression and bullying."

https://kz.kursiv.media/en/2025-03-12/engk-yeri-kazakhstans-health-ministry-rejects-claims-of-lgbt-propaganda-influencing-teens/

UPD: the article was taken down, suspecting an attempt to silence them. they still have it available at their IG page: kursiv.media, as far as i know.

truth will prevail.

This has the somewhat hilarious consequence that it is literally impossible to order from them without having baguettes added to your order, because the order minimum is the same as the threshold for free baguette

And they're not even a French company!

Okay, I've seen online shops before that give you free extra products if you go over a certain order total... but I have to say that it's a first to see one that automatically adds them to your cart and *you cannot remove them*

May your home be filled with tiny screwdrivers and utility knives engraved with the name of the local hardware shop with that one really cool queer person who won't shut up (complimentary) about how many measuring tapes they own, or about how cool the local makerspace is.

Or, you know, something else that fills you with joy.

Forget all that passing in special arguments on the command line or config files or any of that. I just want a big knob that controls debug level. If I want more debugging output I turn the knob. Too much, I turn it down.