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

being obsessed with programming and computers my entire life, then learning everything about them and having that as a job is really funny

because now i don't rally feel that way anymore, but still find it fun?

it's like being a jaded wizard, someone asks me about the magic of how any of this works and i sigh and say "ah, yes of course, DNS"

Whenever I mention that boycotting is a privilege, I inevitably get people trying to explain how wrong I am.

How “easy” it is to find alternatives.

How “important” it is not to support big businesses like Amazon.

How “lazy” it is not to shop local.

They talk over me, condescend and accuse me of not fighting for the cause.

Disabled people need your support and solidarity.

We’re all in this fight together.

When we tell you something is inaccessible, believe us.

Most of us already feel guilty we can’t do more, but there’s many things that aren’t “easy” for us.

Survival is resistance. It’s not “lazy” to utilize a service that will keep you alive.

Fight the fascists. Not one another.

Theme: anti-AI, focusing on the labour exploitation aspect.

Style: must draw attention and be colourful; otherwise it's up to you!

License/attribution: must be possible to redistribute under CC-BY or CC0 (your choice). Feel free to add your name/handle into the design if you want.

Technical: to be offset-printed (full-colour) as an 85x55mm sticker, so must have a decent 'non-critical margin' that is covered by the design but contains no essential elements, as sticker cuts will be inaccurate.

Obviously, no "AI" must be used in its creation.

If you're interested, please respond with some examples of past work that you feel are relevant, and a price estimate (can be adjusted later based on revisions etc.). Either reply or DM works.

Note that I'm often low on spoons so I will only be able to respond to the offers that look most relevant to me. I'll star every reply as an indication that I've seen it, but can't guarantee a response beyond that!

@joepie91 This is a great example of the wiki integration :)

The Seine in Paris has been declared clean enough to open swimming spots again.

Swimming in the river had been banned since 1913 due to ship traffic increases and water quality decreases.

#GoodNews (hopefully)

hey i am currently at a black sabbath goodbye web concert and slayer is one of the opening acts and i never listened to them before...are slayer nazi sympathetic? i kinda skimmed the wiki article and they seemed really weird

the old line "the revolution will not be televised" is attempting to make the point that mass media are a tool of power and will not, under any circumstances, tell their stories in a way that truly challenges that power

the editorial boards of the world aren't asleep at the wheel, they know what they're doing by portraying the situation as less horrible than they is, and by not describing protests in ways that encourage more protests.

neat trick about age for people in the back half of their twenties & working on a quarterlife crisis or whatever

think in dozens, not decades

chapter 1: years 0-12 are developing from a neural scream potato into something that can think, plan, & act — minimally functional human.

chapter 2: years 13-24 starts with a brain as the baseline & is all about how to be simultaneously more socialized + more independent — minimally functional adult.

chapter 3: only now does the main story begin ❤️

Sharing the link to the OG blog post that started off all the spoonie lingo for anybody interested:

https://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/

#spoonies #spoonTheory

Reminder that CAT is on the BDS list to boycott because they're used in domocide as part of genocide. Stop making memes about CAT. Stop white washing the genocide.

Cat people, I know you love cats, but CAT bulldozers kill people in their homes. Please stop.

https://kawn.org/boycott-caterpillar/

when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark"

he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.

she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.

the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.

instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface.