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

Found in my archive:

"Denny, what are you doing? You should be asleep by now, not reading. Didn't you think I would hear it, you're reading out loud?"
"But, mum. There's a monster under the bed and one in the closet."
"There is no such thing as monsters. Give me that book, and go to sleep."
"But, mum, I promised. Please, just to finish the chapter?"
"Promised?"
"Guys, tell her!"
"Sorry, mrs Denny's mum. Could Denny please read some more to us? He promised."
"..."
"I think she fainted. Read, Denny."
#MicroFiction

Nazis in the sense of people who bought into a fascist government out of fear and insecurity and personal weakness and are likely to commit atrocities based on that fear and insecurity.

Not Nazis in the sense of some mythological evil that must be destroyed at all costs and cannot be understood.

I take issue with people conflating the two, not in calling something what it is.

One is human and can be overcome. The other is reactionary bullshit.

@ireneista @jrose i liked the way that cohost reposts put the reposter's content *below* the original rather than above. it's not a perfect solution against directing unwanted attention, but it seemed like it set up the interaction as the reposter adding to a conversation, rather than setting up a post to be gawked at by taking the first word

texted from a friend, authorship unknown

Happy Pride everyone!
Be proud of who you are ^^

The 🦨 is @Kooda
#AroogiArt #Furry #FurryArt #Pride #CommissionsOpen

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@xgranade Fun sidebar about that, Tulip mania wasn't actually a thing! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/

I like how the last couple of generations seem to have tacitly agreed that it’s objectively unreasonable to expect people to iron their clothes and we should just accept a few wrinkles instead.

> The most distressing thing is that maybe it does work; if not well enough to actually do the work, at least ambiguously enough to fool the executives long-term.

-- @glyph via @tante

https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html

so, so many parts of this that resonate with me. Thank you for sharing these thoughts

Sinds 2013 zijn er geen prostitutieramen meer in Utrecht, in 2021 sloot de tippelzone en nu zijn er plannen om nieuwe sekswerkplekken te realiseren in Parkeergarage Paardenveld. De buurt kwam laatst in opstand want ze vrezen overlast. Ik vermoed dat het politiebureau meer overlast veroorzaakt.

De kameraden van Wandelclub030 zijn begonnen met een stickeractie om solidariteit te tonen naar sekswerkers.

today in ADHD: oh shit I have so much to do [methodically works through todo list] oh, huh, guess its all done. I can do bullshit now.

So apparently when the display software of the SJ trains crashes it defaults to showing a trailer for Big Buck Bunny as part of its debugging info.

I initially posted briefly about this, but wanted to say a little more about Buscaglia, the journalist who "wrote" the AI-generated supplement in question.

Resist like your career depends on it.

https://loudpoet.com/2025/06/05/a-modest-defense-of-marco-buscaglia-ai-vs-journalism/

Here's the thing about content notes:

If I read them, I expect and NEED them to be accurate and complete. If I can't count on that, they're useless.
Let's get into the example that ruined a good few hours for me, shall we?

I decided to click on a post that was tagged with "forced transition". What I expected was a post about something social - maybe someone getting forced to wear a certain piece of clothing or getting addressed a certain way. Maybe a discussion about the social pressures to either perform being nonbinary or perform a binary gender. Something like that.

That's not what I got though. What I got was a joke about replacing soap with hormone gel, E in the men's toilets and T in the women's toilets.
That's not just forced transition. That's forced transition and the non-consensual admission of a substance that affects the physical health of someone without their knowledge.

Now, at first I, personally, was just upset about having to go to the women's bathroom again in that fictional world. That's what set off my knee-jerk reaction of "nope, I can't deal with this right now, I need to take a long fucking moment to breathe."
But the far worse thing is the amount of violence claimed as a fun joke that just didn't get acknowledged in the content note whatsoever.

Maybe that's on me, maybe transition only means medical steps to the op of that post and I just didn't know. But I wish they had put in that bit of information, because I would not have clicked on a joke about forcing medical transition on someone. I would not have spent the last couple of hours regulating my reaction to that and trying to find the words to express my issue.