Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town

im consistently surprised by how terrible people are at taking photos of their camera lenses for second hand listings... like... you're a photographer... this is like, your thing

I never transport cursed stuff by international public transport. Never.

This hand truck (and the backpack) transport a total 70 CPU cores.

- Where is the police when Neonazis show up?
-Well... where is Peter Parker when Spiderman appears?

Sticker seen in Stockholm, Sweden

Hey, it's me again sharing some GR news from time to time! (sorry)
Everyday it gets more and more surreal living in this country.

Our grief becomes rage as more details are getting known about the train collision near Larissa, on the country's most commonly used route.

ETR 740s, a degraded railway system+more. We learned that there is no telematics/electronic system checking routes etc. Everything is still manual in 2023. The railway workers were demonstrating for years for this to be fixed. The public didn't know.

The company, in a tragic try of damage control, is still not releasing the official number of passengers, after 3 days, while relatives are searching the hospitals to see if their missing child is there or not. Not to talk about the ones who have no one to claim them.

The government is trying to cover their members responsible for the degradation who lead to this, of course, corruption. Elections are soon.

Demos everyday in many cities. We hate it here.

Something I don't understand is the impulse to go "oh no they got me, i anthropomorphized the computer" because they caught themselves going "thank you" when it helped them

Like i guess but it's not in a harmful way imo. If the extent of it is "when something presents itself to me like it's sentient i'm polite out of habit", that just means you have a good habit

Comment I just left on a PR: "YES!! I love this, always love to see more smaller functions, and this is a really nice self-contained chunk of logic to break out. Excellent call."

This is your semi-regular reminder to call out the good things in code reviews along with the changes you're suggesting! Coding is an inherently human endeavor, humans have feelings, and that is an attribute, not an inconvenience to be optimized away.

Also, this applies to many other feedback-oriented scenarios too, I imagine. When interfacing over digital mediums, I can always use more reminders that there's a person on the other end.

I came to Rome, and visited the Vatican, and climbed ~320 steps, and took many photos.

But my favourite is this cranky-looking seagull.

People who have larger/chubby/fat OCs or fursonas shouldn’t get labeled as fetish content solely because of their sizes. They can get cute art pieces of non sexual themes and non fetish related themes and not have to deal with others thinking inherently because it’s a very chubby or fat character that *it has to be* fetish material like it’s some underlying motive.

currently thinking about the ways in which the tyranny of "professionalism" works to hold people apart who should be in community with each other

these ones have worked with a cool queer for over a year and have never until this week found a venue in which we were both comfortable discussing our extremely similar experiences of romance, sexuality, kink, trauma, and spirituality

and that was accomplished primarily through the kind of incredibly oblique signifiers that Empty Spaces specializes in (their DO NOT PET patch, my Dusa pin)

#emptyspaces

To book an international railway ticket in Europe it SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY

1️⃣ to have expert level knowledge

2️⃣ to need to have 20 browser tabs open simultaneously

3️⃣ to have parts of your trip where you have no option other than to buy tickets on the spot

4️⃣ to have to go to a railway station, or pick up the phone to make the booking - ONLINE has to work

5️⃣ to have to consult multiple sources of information to get the best price for a single train

the biggest lie that capitalism has told us is that people can be one hundred per cent self reliant, "self made" and independent

"i dont need socialism i am self reliant" who delivered you when you were young? who fed you when you were a kid? who taught you? who treated you when you were ill? who built the roads and parks and schools and your house? who made the clothes you wear and the art you enjoy?

you never were self reliant. nobody is. a person alone is weak and fragile. we can't survive by being cold and isolated and bitter towards each other. so respect those who helped you be safe in this cruel world. protect their rights. help them, for we are stronger in numbers than we are all alone.