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

I would just like to say that these signs in the DFW airport bathrooms are peak social engineering, and I do hope Dan Patrick enjoys all the phone calls from people upset about the government photographing their hairy bits.

#egv #texas #fightback #transrightsarehumanrights #socialengineering #trollingtheGOP

'Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest and then I will murmur agreement, not actually say anything. I am not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard. But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought.'

- Terry Pratchett - Guards, Guards.

#RandomQuote #quotes #quote #bot

Another article talking about how the Freedom Flotilla is being treated in international waters. I CWed it with eu/uspol in addition to pspol because there are both eu and us citizens aboard this vessel. They still have their conscience and just wanted to deliver aid to starving people. Israel is reacting horrifically, as always.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-drone-strikes-aid-ship-bound-gaza-international-waters

Re. https://mastodon.art/@Curator/114400044441100499 , it's been a week and we've seen nothing to indicate that Fosstodon will be changing for the better any time soon, and so we have defederated from the instance.

This has severed all existing connections between people on mastodon.art and fosstodon.org, and will prevent any further communication between our instances (e.g. you won't be able to find or follow people on Fosstodon, and they won't be able to find you).

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in celebration of mental health awareness month i won't be having any of either mental health or awareness

Literally just a button that says "Buy .epub file, $5 (works on any device)" would replace the massive stack of "Buy on Kobo" "Buy on Amazon" "Buy for Nook" "Buy on Apple Books" "Buy from the Google Play store" literally why do people play along with this farce, why make it all so bloody pointlessly complicated

If you're on the fence about anarchism, consider this: is it possible that the reason you don't think it can work is because of brutal repression from the ruling class?

Anarchism would mean that they would only be as good as everyone else, would receive the same treatment, have the same amount of input & the same obligations and responsibilities. Of course they do everything in their power to kill it. They don't want to be equal.

Is it possible that they crush it because it might succeed?

The entire 'recommended for you' box on the IKEA site for me is just different sizes and combinations of SAMLAs...

and they're not wrong

https://mastodon.online/@vwbusguy/114439269826523881

What do you folks do for backups these days? I used to use a drobo RAID array for all my stuff, but the company and the device died and all my data is stuck on drives that i can't decrypt. I'm looking for something more resilient and long-lasting. A lot of it is raw footage so it's a couple terabytes of data.

For this #fursuitfriday the bird got to meet a legend from mythbusters

This happened again today

🦝 Oh cool, a local solarpunk author with a neat blog, I will go and buy their book

🦝 I wonder if I can just buy it on their website and they'll email me the .epub or let me download it

🦝 That would be the easiest way, and would work on any phone, computer, tablet or ereader made since around 2007, so I bet that's what I'll find on their website

🦌 how about eleven (11) different links to buy the book in eleven (11) different ways from eleven (11) different stores

🦝 Will one of them work with my ereader

🦌 no

🦝 Cool

For reasons not truly known to anyone, one of our state funded free-to-air tv channels* broadcasts The Fifth Element, five times in a row, on May 5th. Last year they only showed it once and people were offended, so this year it's once again five times in a row.

*SBS Viceland.

Hundreds of thousands of Computers won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11, but that shouldn't make them eWaste.

Kudos to the @kde team for this amazing initiative!

https://endof10.org/

#windows #copilot #microsoft #ms #landFill #recycle #cheapNew #laptop #linux #Surveillance #privacy #security

i don't know how as a tall and fat person i only just now discovered what a good idea is reserving a seat next to the emergency exits when flying. my wife and i often reserve seats anyway so we sit together, and when available, to get extra leg room, but the emergency exit offers more leg space, more hip space (as the row is rarely occupied) and at a lower seat reservation cost, all for the small price of agreeing to pull a lever if necessary.
i get that for some it may be stressful, and i get why many avoid it. but if you don't mind those are literally the best seats in the plane.

anyone know how to get an owncast server up and running streaming to a domain i have with namecheap using an old laptop? ive tried it on a bunch of different linux distros now and keep getting stuck at the part where i have to set up the server to point at my website. its possible my dns is set up wrong, also my ports 80, 443, etc all seem to always be closed or just some sort of issue with them lmao. i tried using caddy and some other methods but none have worked. i have spent way more time on this now than i was anticipating so if you have any ideas or alternatives i am very open to them