Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

me when im 20 minutes late to my accommodations appointment because the bus driver hit a fucking telephone pole

With every new technology, there are people whose livelihood is disrupted, who find that the word "progress" somehow doesn't include them. Technologists will always argue that it doesn't have to be like that, that technology can help everyone.

I honestly think that's true, but that raises the question: why is it that in our society, every new technology has left people behind, when that doesn't have to be true?

@RadicalGraffiti Reminded me of an old project a few of us theorycrafted a couple of decades ago. We noticed that whenever gentrifiers where about to destriy your working class neighborhood, the first thing they'd try and do is rename it. So near me the working class suburb of Coolbellup had a big chunk renamed "St Georges Estate" and then basically walled off, all the rental places threw out the old tenants, and the place was bulldozed and rebuilt. So we thought, Lets do it back to the fuckers! and came up with the idea of making up signs with names like "Shitsville" and "Stabbytown" and going into the rich peoples suburbs and putting them up and declaring we are renaming their nice white suburbs so the propery values would crash and working people could move in, since they couldnt live in working class suburbs anymore. A bit of political theatre, and it never went anywhere, but I still think it would be a fun campaign.

"I hope this graffiti lowers housing cost$"
Seen in Bellingham Washington

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world to stop making electronic devices out of transparent plastic.

Portugal tackles housing crisis:

- all unoccupied homes to be put on market at affordable prices
- government acts as estate agent
- capped rental price
- 'tourist apartments' prohibited

*Surprisingly, article is in Spanish*
https://elpais.com/economia/2023-02-17/portugal-revoluciona-su-politica-de-la-vivienda-prohibira-nuevos-pisos-turisticos-y-elimina-los-visados-de-oro.html

giving a catgirl a Linux image of an undocumented device from China is like giving a cat a ball of yarn

Following @ca_dmv_bot has taught me that every colour is a gang colour and every number is a gang number

Love how people will write up and publish a full academic paper about scholarly instances on Fedi and completely re-write the history to erase scholar.social, which has been on here since 2017

Autism Speaks came up again in interactions recently so I just wanted to make people aware again that it's an *incredibly* harmful organisation that caters to neurotypical's feelings rather than help ND people. TW for article: eugenics, abuse, harmful ideas, etc https://medium.com/artfullyautistic/autism-speaks-deception-eugenics-and-abuse-618cf65c094a

If you can’t afford a sidewalk, you can’t afford a road.

with Swarm/Foursquare feeling like they might be at risk of shutting down at any point, I keep wondering what an ActivityPub-based equivalent might look like

Foursquare have an incredible venue database, I think in part because they’ve done a great job at gamifying data entry- what if you could do the same against e.g., OpenStreetMap?

Roses are red, my code is a disaster
git push --force origin master

How do you know you have failed utterly as at #design and need to reconsider your choices?

handsomeware (infects your computer and calls you cute)

Balcony by Valenberg #pixelart