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

i bought a cane two years ago. in retrospect i wish i had had a cane around when i was 14 years old. hear me out. there are many reasons to love cane. Here's some times canes help me. maybe u want one too! (pls be careful tho if u get one u gotta learn how to use it right so u dont hurt yrself with it)

- ever pull a muscle or stub your toe real bad and now putting weight on that foot hurts? you'll be very happy that you already have a cane to help take some of the weight off.

- filled with dread any time you need to lean/squat down to clean items up off the floor? cane makes this way easier, because now your arm muscles can help lower you down and push you back up. this is why i vacuum with any regularity instead of declaring floor bankruptcy.

- frequently feel the need to sit down while standing in line? cane makes it easier to stand longer without feeling this, also makes it easier to sit down and get back up if you need to.

- seriously, sitting down and getting up from sitting is so much easier with a cane

- have trouble climbing stairs? cane in one hand, railing in the other hand, now you are dual-wielding climbing assistance

- getting in/out of cars a struggle? cane helped me.

- good for climbing hills

- good for descending hills

- scared of falling down on an escalator? cane helps.

- have trouble getting on and off a bus when its high up from the ground? cane can help you gradually lower yourself to reduce the work your knees put in. same thing for curbs without curb cuts

- if u need it, now u can sit in the front of the bus without people looking at u funny because lmao it turns out that visually indicating a disability is way more effective than telling people that many disabilities are invisible unfortunately.

- do u lose your balance a lot? cane is very good for regaining balance, or not losing it in the first places. good for progesterone dizzy spells!

- its a stim toy tbh

- u can put stickers on your cane like putting stickers on a laptop

if yr worried about social impact, my experience has been that people i already knew asked me "what happened" when i first got it and i just said i got it to help me get around and then they didnt care. i have never had a stranger ask me why i have a cane. most people dont rly seem to notice or care.

fyi the most natural way to walk with a cane tends to be to move it forward with the arm opposite the leg you're moving forward. so if its in your right hand, you move your right hand and your left leg together. then you move your right leg on its own. you can switch hands! i do this constantly. it takes practice. practice with yr cane.

u also gotta dial the height of the cane in properly or it can mess yr posture up. seriously, take some time on that one, get someone who knows to help u if u can.

canes are based

Thank you for contacting the abyss.
Your scream is very important to us.

the advice of "change your password every 60 days" is akin to saying "change the locks on your house every 60 days"

Presumably this is for all your passwords stolen from other places.

“It turns out talking about diversity, inclusion, and even just basic civil behavior can be controversial in technical spaces. I don’t think it should be, but I don’t get to make the rules. When I’m able I’d much rather spend the time to educate someone about diversity and inclusion issues and see if I can change how they see the world a bit. But I don’t always have the time and energy to do that. And sometimes, even if I did have the time, the person involved doesn’t want to be educated.

This is when I pull out “we don’t do that here.” It is a conversation ender.”

Can’t believe it’s taken me literal years to come across this post but it is brilliant!

“We Don't Do That Here”
https://thagomizer.com/blog/2017/09/29/we-don-t-do-that-here.html

#DEI #Community

My personal Fediverse rules 2.0
- Say thank you
- Use the LIKE button liberally
- Boost good stuff
- Most of the time a reply ISN'T needed
- But if I do reply and agree with the post, explicitly say so
- Don't assume, ask questions first
- Apologize if you misunderstand
- Most people aren't jerks
- Question the idea, not the person
- if the reply is very odd, just ignore it... really. It's not your job to decode it
- if the reply is very bad, block liberally, you owe them nothing

If "AI" is such a benefit to productivity maybe we should just tax all use of it accordingly then? Maybe your corporate OpenAI account should cost an additional few hundred EUR in taxes to help support the workers that system supposedly replaces?

The Archetypical Tech Guy is ultracrepidarian; he thinks that his domain expertise trumps all others (healthcare, culture, commerce, food…) and that there are no complicated problems he cannot solve. Art and literature, therefore, make him angry; he demonstrably cannot create them himself and cannot fool himself into thinking he can. One of the points of art and writing bots is to legitimize the Tech Guy. To cement him as the world’s intellectual leader, its savior even, who knows and improves, and should therefore naturally have a say over, all things.

Do you read people's profile info before you follow them? Please boost for a bigger sample size, because I'm really curious about this

New cool thing: Streets GL: “Streets GL is a real-time 3D map renderer built for visualizing OpenStreetMap data with a heavy focus on eye-candy features.”

website: https://streets.gl/
about: https://github.com/StrandedKitty/streets-gl/blob/dev/README.md
#OpenStreetMap #gischat #OSM #3d

If you're an "A.I" desinger or engineer who genuinely believes your work will be or is already "conscious" in a "human-like" way, then the first thing imma need you to do tomorrow is teach it not to cross the picket line 🤷🏾‍♂️

#writerstrike #NoAIScabs