Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town

When it comes to the tariff stuff I think the take that makes me bite my tongue the most is seeing people lament that they can't mass produce merch of their OC/sona anymore.

I get it everyone has to eat but also the fact leftists are more upset they can't exploit foreign workers for cheap crap made of mostly if not completely plastic that's going to end up in a landfill for centuries than just about anything else is uh...

De NVWA vindt 1600 liter illegale bestrijdingsmiddelen bij een aardbeienteler. https://www.nvwa.nl/nieuws-en-media/nieuws/2025/04/09/nvwa-iod-vindt-1600-liter-illegale-bestrijdingsmiddelen-bij-fruitteler

finds open source project
"made by Google"
ask about state of finely aged (stale) 6 months PR
no response

ask around
all people working on the project at Google were fired and its barely maintained
ffs

Op 12 en 19 april houd #RepairCafe weer een #Linux Repair Café in #Amsterdam. Daar zullen ze je helpen Linux te installeren en te gebruiken.

Ben je nog niet zeker? Je kan er ook Linux proberen op een PC van hun alvorens je de keuze maakt het te installeren.

Voor meer info, zie: https://www.repaircafe.org/linux-repair-cafe/

people have been curious about it so here's a short thread about recycling glass for art

Do you experience significant sensory difficulties relating to clothes? Do you, despite that, consistently wear masks to protect yourself from COVID, which is still not over?

Share which #N95-or-better masks you've found to be comfortable for long-time wear. Pictures/links are a bonus.

#CovidIsntOver #ActuallyAutistic #WearARespirator

#Deextinction is a BS scam and a distraction from real conservation work. It's the AI of biology. They are genetically modifying animals to superficially resemble extinct species while vaguely gesturing towards sci-fi ideas about finding/reconstructing entire genomes. We are nowhere near this stage, and it's doubtful we ever will. And guess what, that still wouldn't bring anything back, because living things are much more than their DNA on so many levels.

Voorronde 7 van de #groteKleinLeedVerkiezing. Is het klein leed? Ja. Op het moment zelf ook? Nou…

Wat is het KLEINSTE leed?

Being an artist is a curse.

And no, I mean that as a curse on others, not me.
Been needing a new mug and I've been thinking about designing my own.

Taking a break for now but oh boy, I'm excited to finish this :3

Ugh, Python got over 500 #GSoC applications this year and so many of them are absolutely trash, didn't follow any of the instructions. Most years about half of our applications are like this. But usually we have a lot fewer applicants and the submissions were blank files not plausible AI nonsense.

So I'm stuck reading hundreds of incredibly low quality nonsensical submissions today in hopes to take some workload off my other unpaid volunteer mentors. This is not the volunteer gig I signed up for 15 years ago when it was mostly working with new contributors and not their AI chatbots and I'm grumpy.

#AI #Python #OpenSource

i’m declaring the rest of the day international nap time day every person on the planet is allowed to take a nap today

Well. With my magnum opus being effectively realized, NOW is finally the time to share it: images of my very own museum exhibition!!!

The name of the exhibition is „On distant worlds- how could aliens look like?“ and is located in the natural history Museum Niebüll, in northern Germany! The exhibition is on display from April to October this year!

Here is a thread.. >:3

Thats all! I have been working on Phtanum privately for over six years, and to have my work displayed in a natural history museum like this is still absolutely surreal to me. I overhauled the entire project for this exhibition- new groups of life, new weird features, and a crazier and more grounded biosphere than ever before. And thanks to all the wonderful fedi entities who supported me in one way or another as well <3

The Home Assistant wiki badly needs a section on how to properly apologise to your family members