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

Epileptic folks, do you have any tips to avoid falling outside please?

I can sometimes feel the seizure coming, up to 10s before it starts. I try to sit at least or lay down, but I usually don't have time.

I'm afraid to go out since Friday, just like when I was extremely depressed and when I was dealing with social phobia... I'm so afraid to fall back into this...

To UK academics (students and staff).

⚠ If you're offered work marking in the next months, please say no!

It's likely an attempt to break our marking and assessment boycott, our most effective industrial action to avoid threatened pay cuts.

Please boost if you have UK followers.

#ucu #ucurising #academicchatter

"Wait, you're a shapechanger?"
"Yes?"
"You can take any shape?"
"Preserving mass, yes."
"And you chose to look like that?"
"You're a phrasebuilder?"
"What?"
"You can say anything you want?"
"I mean..."
"And you chose to say that?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

And another thing! Sometimes people will put their work frustrations on you when you're disabled and not employed. They'll be like "well *I* suffer through work from 16 to 66, how is it you don't have to, you have no excuse". That's not your fault, they're putting their frustrations with the way the world is and putting it unfairly on you, someone who is struggling through life in a different way.

Meta Ireland fined €1.2 billion for violating GDPR by transferring EU/EEA users’ data to the US without adequate protection. DPC orders Meta Ireland to suspend future transfers and cease unlawful processing within 6 months. Decision follows EDPB dispute resolution. #GDPR #Meta #DPC

Link:
https://dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/press-releases/Data-Protection-Commission-announces-conclusion-of-inquiry-into-Meta-Ireland

Further reporting:
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/0522/1384948-meta-fined-12-billion/

Which reply seems most genuinely enthusiastic: (please boost)

Wheeee!

Lang zal die leven! Over neutrale voornaamwoorden in het Nederlands.

https://langzaldieleven.nl/

#genderneutraal

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My first job was at a fast food joint. It made so much food daily, and I would give out a lot of it to people I knew because I knew it didn't matter.

Some homeless people would come by occasionally close to closing, and I would take their order because we would throw it out anyway.
The manager of the place saw me doing it one night and got really upset because he said it was against company policy and someone might sue. Every single employee laughed because this *does not happen.* He got pissy and wrote me up and said I wouldn't be put on the schedule anymore.

Ha, before you ask, yes, he was.

The moral is there is more than enough food in this fucking country. It is absolutely absurd anyone is going hungry, and people are going hungry because there is a policy that makes those conditions.

That was one of first the moments I realized how fucked up this country was. Letting people go hungry is completely nonsensical and purely about cruelty.

This pumping station is straight out of Myst.

Every now and then, I think about the most casually accidentally racist line I've read in a book. It was wholly unintentional, the sort of line that reveals the author spends Zero Time whatsoever around anybody darker than what you'd expect from southeast Asia.

The line was something like "and she had blue eyes, like all babies." It was the most bizarre thing I'd ever seen, because, well, Black babies' eyes are not blue at birth. Most mixed babies don't have blue eyes either. #BlackMastodon

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