Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

good morning fediverse.

lots of folks planning on heading out to various sorts of protests today.

if that’s you, while you’re out there, spend a little time networking with the other members of your communities that are also there.

it’s good to loudly protest the bullshit being done in your name and with your taxes. it’s great to also build resilient community-led groups to reduce dependence on the systems that oppress us.

be safe out there.

we want to privately chat with an expert about handling speciesism and racism in TTRPG settings.

we're be happy to pay for this, in particular with a black, queer, and disabled expert, but would also be happy to be sent links to read or books to buy written by someone with experience and perspective that we can't have.

if you're the person for us, reply, mentions, DM, etc are all fine, but you also can email us at tabletopsocial@chaosfae.com

please boost!

#TTRPG #TTRPGDesign #black #racism #speciesism #DND #writing

"Extremely homosexual non-compliance" is the most beautiful word combination I've read on the internet this week.

Assembly ✅

This is a graphic from a paper on ants but it looks like something I drew in a boring meeting.

(The point it's making is an interesting one, all ants can do all jobs, and you don't need to inject them to make it happen, they will just switch if the job isn't being done. But, I think they found a way to trigger this switch in the paper which would be ... huge, honestly. )

I will not comment on the "ant muscles"

Is everyone interested in ants just... weird?

https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(25)00573-2

Open source/Free software projects are global by default (even by definition). Open to everyone. So please stop this nonsense about „european“ Open source that „we“ should invest in. Digital sovereignty with open source means global upstream, global cooperation and local implementation. But nationalist open source thinking simply isn’t the software freedom we are fighting for since many years.

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Before discussing politics, I like to administer The Test.

The Test is simple, and should be easy to pass:

"Which is more important:
1. Human Rights
2. Property Rights"

There is one unambiguous, simple, correct answer. If they fail The Test, I don't talk politics with them.

🤔 what kind of limitations are the ones that breed creativity, and what kind of limitations are the ones that are annoying? Is this question entirely subjective? Are there specific qualities that make something generally more creatively inspiring in its limitations?

It would love to hear others thoughts on this, this randomly popped into its head but it is too eepy to contemplate it further and is crowdsourcing this contemplation from any that wish to accept it

How it feels to have executive dysfunction

Superimposition of three iterated function systems. A little bit like fractal flames. But all colors are sampled from flowers.

#fractalFlame #motionGraphics

Bird's nest fungi popped up in one of our outdoor potted plants

#FungiFriday #Fungi #Fungus #Nature

RIP AdventureGamers 1998 – 2025 https://virtualmoose.org/2025/06/13/rip-adventuregamers-1998-2025/

Finally got my pride T-shirt from work 🐺

There's these competing beliefs, "turn your hobby into a job and you'll never work a day in your life" vs. "turn your hobby into a job and you'll never enjoy it again"...

And I think I've finally worked out where the disconnect is: it's all about the agency you have in your work. Whether one or the other is true depends on whether you can make a living doing the thing you wanted to do anyway, or whether you're dragged along in a maelstrom of industry misery.

By this point I feel pretty safe concluding that for me and tech, it's mostly the latter, especially in more recent years.

So there's that Wat talk by Gary Bernhardt. Pretty funny, I felt at the time it came out - not something to take seriously, of course, just something to blow off some steam.

And then I noticed people starting to take it seriously. It started coming up in discussions, as if it were a legitimate argument about a language being 'bad'. It started being used to attack programmers writing in those languages, and question their competence.

And then Gary Bernhardt himself, the speaker in that talk, turned out to be somewhat of a language-elitist ass.

Since then I've taken a rather more grim view of these kind of overly simplified 'jokes' about programming languages. Because it turns out, they mostly punch down, and quite often they're not really jokes at all, they're just someone looking for an excuse to talk down on others.

The place I'm staying has a pond nearby so I went out this morning to check things out. Lots of wildlife out there.

A couple of mushrooms I saw on a hike this morning for #FungiFriday

#mushrooms #fungi #mushtodon