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

Edit: I posted this back in 2023 originally, but I thought we could all use a shot of niceness in this, our universe of fear and anger.

Feeling Boo-tee-full. Endearing and wonderful art from Nick Maskell. (Edit to add link to Nick's site: https://www.nickmaskell.com/ )

I imagine this is what my mom's career as a nephrologist is like.

Evil employers should have to put it in the first paragraph. "Actually what we make is weapons" or "our tech stack is Java" or "we boil the oceans with LLMs".
I should not have to read Dostoyevsky to learn you're bastards I don't wanna work for.

yes, that means testosterone for gym bros

and estrogen for cis femboys

and bottom surgery for butch dykes

and whatever else confuses the cisheteronormative expectations and comfort

you don’t need to understand it to support it and everyone deserves that support

true trans liberation comes when everyone - cis and trans and otherwise - can look how they want, act how they want, and achieve the care that they want, while being supported by the people and systems around them

this includes informed consent hormones for anyone who wants them

using whatever name and pronouns and identity terms for anyone who asks

informed consent surgeries of all varieties

and none of this being restricted by gender identity, presentation, characteristics, or other gatekeeping bullshit

this includes if you describe your organization/laws/medical system as trans-affirming but they have no recognition of non-binary people

stop pretending like cis-normative (and hetero-normative) trans rights are rights for all trans people and start fighting for the rights of all people of all genders

via @mikael

cute terminal font that doesn't look Like That

https://qwerasd205.github.io/AnnotationMono/

Use Our New, Light-Weight, Modern Kunernetes dashboard!

Boring, tired, played-out

All kubernetes dashboards are modern and lightweight.

Who's got a chonky retro 8bit dashboard? A vacuum-tube uptime monitor?

OpenGL accelerated 3d etcd HUD over an x11 connection?

Physical dynamite-plunger driven deployments?

give me some passion dammit!

good idea vs. real cats
#catsofmastodon #cats #Humor

"but I'll just block them", the instance admins with open registrations say. Even though this particular instance of choice for this person is blocking them very quickly, the harm is still being done?? The person the hate campaign is directed to is still experiencing the hate campaign

Case in point. Here is a DM I just got:

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.