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

A quote from The Feminist Killjoy Handbook on trigger/content warnings that is spot on.

"In fact, trigger warnings are better understood as techniques that can enable some people to remain in the room in order to have difficult conversations about distressing material. Trigger warnings are about providing more information, not less. They are not about putting an end to difficult conversations but enabling those with a history of trauma to participate in them."

#FeministKilljoy

please stop boosting un-CWed stuff about how dangerous it is to be trans or brown. I just woke up and I'd like to have like a minute, please, to have a nice time on fedi before being reminded that there's people who want to kill me

This is truth.

This smart TV screenshot full of fake movies has such supermarket popular cartoon knockoff energy and I’m here for all of it

Looks like the US is doing a bail-out for SVB. They’re not calling it that of course but somehow “all depositors will have access to all their money on Monday”. “All” seems like a lot more than the 250k federal bank insurance when that’s only claimed to cover 3% of deposits held at SVB.

I guess we’re firing up the dollar printers?

I think politics is pretty clear cut tbh
- the planet shouldn't burn
- we shouldn't starve
- gay

In Utrecht, NL people have been falling into a pond because duckweed has been stressed by the cold and turned it red an looks exactly like a cycle path.

👨 get off let go ow
🧠 my keyboard

so uh anybody have a favorite open-hardware cnc laser cutter kit to recommend? what's the cnc laser equivalent of the prusa i3

👨 oh look at this laser cut cardboard stuff, that's neat
🧠 hey...
👨 what
🧠 we always have a bunch of annoying cardboard clutter around to be tediously recycled
👨 no, i know where this is going
🧠 if we buy a cheap laser cutter
👨 we have enough projects to last for like three lifetimes, stfu, please
🧠 we could make all kinds of organizers and cases and things for $0 and get rid of scrap cardboard at the same time!
👨 *darth vader voice* nooooooooo

I'm posting this partially to acknowledge progress and to thank all who made it happen, but also to encourage those who get discouraged and think that one individual can't change anything big.
In 2018, I received my Census code in the mail. I'm totally blind and had difficulty performing OCR on the code, so I asked the Census Help Line if I could have the code texted to me. They first said that would be fine, but then said they couldn't do it for "security reasons" a standard phrase that is often used to fob people off.
After I issued a media release, being interviewed by several. media organisations and the Minister being asked to comment, a senior official from Statistics NZ actually came to our house on a Sunday afternoon to read me my code, which was absurd.
I started a Parliamentary petition. I appeared before a Select Committee. The Committee was sympathetic. I got a personal apology from the Minister sent to me as an inaccessible PDF image so they had to send it a second time. But in the end, I got a commitment that yes, blind people count and this debacle would never happen again.
Here we are in 2023 and its census time again. This year, I went to the fully accessible website, completed a fully accessible form to get my code texted to me, and have now completed the fully accessible form. I know this wouldn't have happened had I not taken a stand.
So when you think you can't change things for the better, please don't sell yourself short. Each of us have the ability, and I maintain we have the duty, to make good change in the world.
Thank you to all those involved in Government at all levels for getting it so right this time.

"You can't change the world, Veronica".

I just don't accept that kind of defeatism. Societies have changed throughout history. Sometimes slowly, sometimes very quickly, but they do change.

Nothing will be the same way forever. We absolutely can make positive change. Even if it's hard.

BREAKING: City of London police today issued a statement warning netizens to avoid the website sci-hub.ru, saying that even though the current domain for sci-hub is the portal for a vast array of scientific literature, free at the point of access, and while it may be an unrivaled and public collection, it's also accessible via Tor, and via other private network services.

#StarTrek, #DS9