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

"opinions are my own"
seems like a really tautological, cargo-culty thing to write down. like "no copyright intended"

does it do anything?
internet says: (in the usa) maybe

it *doesn't* stop your employer from firing you for any reason

it makes it less likely that somebody could claim you're speaking as an agent of your employer and successfully sue *them*

it's a little gift for your bosses, to make them less nervous about the dangerously unvetted thoughts you might have outside work hours

Mental health tip as I see increasingly fewer things on the TL behind CW: You can mute certain posters temporarily! I typically use 1wk for hot topics.

When I found social media was severely impacting my mental health, I started using the following test for whether I wanted to keep hearing about certain subjects' doom and gloom:
- Is this new to me or am I aware of the larger trend?
- Will learning about this change my actions for the better?

If no to both, mute generously.

The Onion has come to collect the New York Times, and it's fucking brilliant.

https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997

(via @parkermolloy at https://masto.ai/@parkermolloy/109881381405559533)

Someone, not a friend exactly, just someone whose content I enjoy and with whom my very limited interactions have been nothing but pleasant, is having some issues with transphobic asshats. I see this happen so often, and there's precious little I can do about it, but I've noticed a few facts:

1. Tech is just fucking *full* of LGBTQA+ folk, especially so with transgender people.

2. Society is incapable of functioning without the work tech people do.

3. Staffing levels in modern business are such that less than 3% of the workforce in any given company failing to show up for work for any period of time greater than a few hours breaks things.

Combined, those factors make me begin to wonder what would happen if all the tech queers just went on general strike for better treatment by society at large.

i boosted this site earlier but i think it deserves more explanation. this is a search engine for images that shows you the copyright status for the image right there front and center and you can filter for them. for instance i grabbed this copyright 0 image of an echidna from there. and it even generated a citation for me: "Echidna on the move" by CazzJj is marked with CC0 1.0. i think this is a really easy way for getting a reference image while ensuring the person who took the image consents to its use! https://openverse.org/

many parents are concerned that not enough bricks have been thrown through the windows of the new york times

Roses are red, coding is pain
git push --force origin main

Wild bun was enjoying some cabbage when surprised by ANOTHER wild bun! 😲 After rubbing noses it was established that they know each other and then they shared a meal together, the end 😍
#backyardanimals #nature #wildlife #bunny #rabbit #animals

New Wireshark icon just dropped. ​

When asking your #autistic friend how they figured out that they are, in fact, autistic, keep this in mind:

Autism is defined as a collection of traits. Each trait, when viewed in isolation, can seem perfectly innocuous.

So when your friend gives an example of something they struggle with, you might be tempted to say, "but I do that too, and I'm not autistic" or "but everyone does that".

Your friend is only sharing a small fraction of the long list of ways in which they're different. That list is always very long, and kind of personal too. It's also difficult (and sometimes embarrassing) to convey the intensity of each item on that list.

Autistic people who weren't diagnosed in childhood frequently struggle with autistic imposter syndrome, and your kindly meant "well, everyone's a bit on the spectrum" or "you don't seem autistic!" can be painful and invalidating.

#actuallyautistic

What. The. Fuck.

Een meerderheid van de Tweede Kamer heeft ingestemd met een motie van de fascistische partij JA21 om asielzoekers naar Rwanda te sturen. Kritiekpunten waren vooral dat het praktisch niet uitvoerbaar is... Dat het in strijd met de mensenrechten en meerdere Europese en andere internationale verdragen is heeft de Tweede kamer kennelijk niet tegengehouden.

Naast verbazing ben ik gewoon bang. Een dergelijk plan is al eens eerder geopperd. Toen was het Madagascar waar de Nazi's alle Joden heen wilden sturen. Dat bleek alleen praktisch niet haalbaar, zoals er nu ook vooral praktische bezwaren zijn geuit tegen het Rwandaplan. De volgende stap waren concentratiekampen...

Laat dat even tot je doordringen. De Tweede Kamer is één stap verwijderd van het creëren van concentratiekampen.

https://www.platformstopracisme.nl/stop-het-extreemrechtse-rwanda-plan/

headline: in defense of the brick throwers

“i just think it’s weird that it hasn’t happened yet. all those in tact windows for so long. it’s unnatural. i have serious questions” says children’s music performer, the blue wiggle

Gal Bardot, president of the Percussive Buillding Ventillation Institute says bricks through windows can have many positive mental health outcomes