Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Having instances with open registrations on this network means each person that is actively anti-racist here, or that experiences racism, will randomly have some loser @ ing them with pages of the N word and other unhinged hateful bile out of nowhere.
If you've got open registrations on your instance you are literally facilitating that mechanism for harassment. Happens all the time. Can happen at any time, from any instance with open registrations.

tldr: If you are an admin of a fediverse instance, close the registrations on your instance if you don't want to be used as a platform for drive-by hate speech. It might not have happened to you personally yet, but it literally will. Don't be that person.

Tech is cooked. You know growth through actual value-creation is over when tech pivots to military contracts. It has pivoted, therefore, we’re on the downward curve of extraction.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/114721179380101771

As promised, the remaining pictures of the wheels (and feet) installed on the table!

#woodworking

Project update! Our living room is multi-use, so we needed an easier way to move the table around. And now it has wheels!

This was somewhat nontrivial - originally the table only had two thin rectangular 'feet' as part of the sideboard's shape, not wide enough to mount wheels too. So I also had to make little feet, screwed to the underside, that can hold the wheel mounts.

The color match isn't *perfect*, but it's pretty good! The feet started as bits of plywood; I glued two layers of it together per foot, sanded the entire stack of 4 feet down as a single block, then manually sanded nice smooth edges all around. Then a few (rapid) coats of wood stain, and finally a coat of varnish.

I also accidentally discovered a new technique in the process; the only varnish I have is glossy, but the table's varnish is matte. Turns out that by repeatedly alternately a) lightly and carefully sanding and b) applying some highly diluted varnish (ie. the water from my brush cleaning pot...), you can turn it into a matte finish!

(Pictures of the wheels installed on the table in next toot)

#woodworking

If you are someone who would go to Pride, and your local Pride celebration included a couple of early hours, in cooler temperatures with minimal environmental noise, maybe called "Quiet Pride", how would you respond?

Boosts very welcome, thank you. Answers or comments in not-English also explicitly welcome.

Ligt het aan mij, of kom je steeds vaker op bagger websites wanneer je iets zoekt? Websites met slechte content en waarbij er voor 600 partners cookies verzameld worden die bijna niet uit te zetten zijn.

Ik word er de laatste tijd zo saggo van dat ik bijna het hele internet (behalve Mastodon) de prullenbak in wil gooien.

En nee: ik hoef geen tips over cookie-blokkers, browsers en zoekmachines (ik doe al veel). Ik wil gewoon dat er niet steeds meer bagger op het internet komt. Grom.

@joepie91 ultimately one has to wonder where the myth of government/civil-service inefficiency started. Quite possibly with officials taking bribes from same industries who stood to benefit from privatisation.

rapid deenumeration (pulling the USB cord)

#solstice #humour #humor

@mutualaid @disability @MutualAidVisibility @QPtheSnep

Still $0/$550. In full panic now. Preparing to be evicted. Miracle again, please??

https://mastodon.world/@jblue/114722014315668107

The Met Office (UK) invites you to suggest names for future storms. Make your own suggestions at https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names

Here are mine.

Build more housing (but maybe a little larger)

#AI #Terminator #meme

I still miss skeumorphism. Give me a pastel paper UI that looks like the unhinged interface to a game for an OS and I’m set for life.

They looked at me as if my European passport must have been fake. Racist assholes.