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

That’s quite an omleiding.

Oof, I recently found out that there's a video game UI database (https://www.gameuidatabase.com/) made and maintained by Edd Coates, a designer who specializes in video game UI and UX, but it's unfortunately both closed-source *and* the only way to contribute to it is by tweeting stuff at him. As in, exclusively through Twitter :<

I wonder if I should email him about accepting alternative ways of contributing cause the idea is super cool and I have a whole bunch of stuff I could submit, but I'm not sure he'd agree or even, like, acknowledge that I exist 🥲

#UI #UX

Forms where you can enter a comment, hit "post" and only then are asked to log in can die in a fire. Looking at you ifixit

no matter who's chasing you, you can rest assured it's technically always a skeleton chasing you.

this toot brought to you by people who have no interest in the development of early modern science and are pretty confident they can wall off "chemistry" as completely discontinuous with "alchemy"

ban homework

unironically

i've always had

and will always continue to have

a burning hatred for the concept of "homework"

it's bullshit

they already take so much from you expecting you to show up every day

then have the gall to demand you sacrifice your potentially very limited free time too?

jackasses

i was normally able to get by just only answering questions based on the info teachers gave in class

like i'd half-listen during those talks

then just not do any of the outside reading

because fuck homework

fuck all the asshole teachers who think they're entitled to your time outside of school

in addition to the bullshit drudgery you already have to put up with when you're there during the day

it's fucking nonsense

fuck homework

Remember kids, if your urbanism leaves disabled people as a second though it's not urbanism, it's sparkly gentrification

getting confused and ionizing the workers

Interessante denkoefening: bedrijven betalen belasting over wat ze na de kosten voor hun bestaan (enzo) overhouden. Personen betalen eerst belasting en over wat ze uitgeven nog een keer. Waarom vinden we dat normaal?

Deer deliver in the strangest of places! If you find a fawn in your yard, leave it alone, do not touch, move or feed it. They have no scent and predators cannot find them unless humans interfere. Mom leaves during the day for 2 primary reasons: to feed, and to keep her scent away. Mom will return, but not until dusk and not if humans are around. If you discover the gift of a fawn enjoy the experience, and let the Mom do what comes naturally. Please share, thank you. #wildlife

When the waiter brought our meals (we ate outside a restaurant! first time in 15 months!), he put a plate down in front of one person and said "madam", "sir" as he handed the next plate to the next person, so I was really interested to see what he'd say about the third plate which was mine. There was maybe a little pause and then he said "asparagus pizza!"

Yes, the three genders.

At least the passport controllers at Furth were polite - unlike the ones in Aachen the other day

I asked: is this a border control or an ID check? Border control he said. But “stichprobenartig” - random

Do you control every train? I asked

Yes, he said. And then he realised I had him. “But not every passenger!”

It’s so tiresome. Train or bus on a main line: controls. Car or bike off the beaten track: nothing.

This doesn’t stop criminals. It stops idiots.

There’s this thing that so nags at me: the extent that the personal is political

I cross borders by train all the time. I encounter border controls *where they shouldn’t happen* very regularly.

But I’m pretty sure that no one in the EU institutions encounters this to this extent - because you’d not get this at Brussels Zaventem airport or your Mercedes isn’t going to be controlled on the motorway to Luxembourg.

i wouldn't really want to *return* to this era of the internet, but i long yearn for my web browser to have some personality instead of dozens of features bloated on every 3 months and an ever-present dread Logging Online

no one has ever surpassed the animated netscape logo's ability to make the internet feel majestic and awe inspiring

No matter how many times an enthusiastic tech bro tells me that widespread AI use will be a positive for humanity, all I can hear is "capitalism go brrrr, income inequality go brrrr, structural inequities go brrr". It's strange how this happens every time. Must be something wrong with my hearing.