Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Unhinged Outsider parenting tip: Try not to lie to your children. And if you do, write every lie you tell them down, along with why you lied. When they're ready, tell them.

have people on the indie game scene made any weird terminal based games lately? seems like an underexplored “platform”

Do you regularly add alt texts to your images?
Please be honest, I want to use this result in an essay.

​:weewoo_green:​ Boosts appreciated!

This is really important advice, especially for anyone dealing with mental health struggles or a chronic illness.

Hey there, I thought I'd #askFedi because I'm already tired of #AI (#LLM) #slop killing the #web (and #computing in general), and it looks like it's only going to get worse. Is there a #movement that seeks to connect and promote content, #software, services, etc. made by actual #humanBeings? Maybe with a campaign badge.

USA companies and military using indigenous tribes, names, and general vocabulary to describe their products (especially war machines) are disgusting and should be called out. If you didn't get permission from the Apache people, you can't call your thing or software "Apache".

If you don't live here, you don't understand how quiet it is. It gets quiet enough in residential areas at night that you can hear a pin drop. If you pull up on a motorcycle outside of the city center after 21:00 everyone hears it. Its so incredibly loud and awful. As an autistic person I love how quiet this city is. Gas powered motorcycles (and of course cars) ruin it.

The Netherlands has given me a new found hatred of combustion motorcycles. They sound like ear piercing farts. I have no patience for them because they're not necessary. You can walk, bike, or take public transit here. You could even get an electric bike or motorcycle. Instead you sound like you have the meat farts from blocks away and you disrupt all conversation with your painful gas.

people in a couple of car groups i'm in have started replying to help requests with grok and chatgpt generated answers and i'm so looking forward to somebody completely fucking their car up because they followed bullshit instructions generated by a bullshit generator

Quick remarks on where the term "agentic AI" fits in and why it's a sign of the crumbling hype.

https://tante.cc/2025/05/12/on-agentic-ai/

Ik ben wel fan van hoe Cas Bergs de Prinses op de Erwt samenvatte voor omroep Brabant: "... gaat over een prinses die op een regenachtige avond haastig op zoek is naar een slaapplek. Uiteindelijk kan de hoogheid ondanks haar pluchen bed niet in slaap komen door een klein groen erwtje."

https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/4684825/nieuw-sprookje-in-de-efteling-met-geike-als-verteller-prinses-op-de-erwt

Zou Cas hetzelfde ongemakkelijke gevoel hebben bij iets dat veelal begint met:
"Er was eens een prins die zo graag een prinses wilde hebben, maar het moest wel een echte prinses zijn."

how am i supposed to be emotionally vulnerable and share beauty i see in the world and poeticism and thoughts and my deepest fears if it all gets shrugged off or washed out by irony? how? this is such a shallow way to look at the world and life in general

Nou, daar staat max 9 maanden cel op, en die man heeft al een strafblad. Wel interessant dat de legerleiding zoiets heeft van "Joh, prima als onze mensen op eigen intiatief geweld toepassen op de eigen burgers omdat zij vinden dat rechten alleen geldt als het hen uitkomt".

Klinkt als het type situatie waarvan we op 5 mei vieren dat we eruit bevrijd waren.

"Tempting as it may be to look to the War on Drugs during the Reagan era as the seedbed for state practices of racialized surveillance, interdiction, and incarceration, both the Reagan era’s escalation of these practices and the presumption of Martin’s guilt are bound up with the criminalization of blackness that emerges in the context of US slavery. This is a history of racialization in which black agency is figured as criminality."

#antiblackness

i am so tired of people when someone shares their meaning or interpretation of the artwork and someone goes "ha what if the curtains are just blue actually". like yeah congrats dude what did you achieve by saying this. did it make you feel good. are you happy? do you want a cookie for how "special" and "contrarian" and "not like everyone else" you are?

people have no joy and no imagination in their life