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

It’s important, if you can, to give the new folks a little bit of grace

They’re coming from the most toxic place on earth, a carefully perfected hate engine

They’re expecting everyone to be horrible to them, for many, that’s all they’ve ever known of online interaction. They’re expecting to be manipulated, dogpiled, and abused.

Some folks will slip into their new place and fit right in, others might be a little feral at first

I’m not saying to ignore abuse or bad behavior, I’m just saying, WE can do a lot to show folks how this place works and what we expect from each other

And remember, they’re coming up from the bottom of a cold crushing sea

There’s a lot of nitrogen still dissolved in their blood, and they might need some time to decompress

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It's super frustrating to work with computers for a living, because it means I know:

1) Exactly how bad they are
2) Exactly how good they can be under perfect circumstances
3) Why we have 1 instead of 2.

I'm looking for a nice high resolution monitor. Any recommendations?

Please keep wearing masks, the pandemic isn't over, holidays make it worse, and a lot of us disabled people feel completely abandoned.

@zkat It just makes me sad watching cool people come over, treat m.s as the "default" instance, then rail about how awful the whole fediverse is off of one damned server.

Transporter accident in Zandaam

Source: tumblr

#Introduction
My name is Fernando Salvaterra, I'm a freelance map maker and illustrator from Brazil.
I'll mostly post art, maps and TTRPG content, and boost mostly posts about nature, plants, geology, archaeology and landscape photos, with occasional left-wing political commentary.

I have no idea how it took me this long, but after two decades of working in the video gaming industry, I'm finally writing my first ominous-sounding "An Open Letter to the Games Industry" post.

Lots of folk end up writing these, and most of them are better than mine, but mine is at least highly specific https://www.improbableisland.com/potato.php

Wat mij betreft is felle kritiek de enige valide berichtgeving over dat voetbalkampioenschap.

Ik ontvolg direct iedereen die inhoudelijk over het voetbal zelf begint en doet alsof dit een normaal feestje kan zijn.

I have one (1) bottle of granat left in my flat and the hackerspace (my source of mate) is out of granat

absolute crimes

Did you know there's a large raccoon mural in Lisbon that is made out of trash?

Now you do!