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

Vandaag met veel plezier de #PrideWalk gelopen. Wel los van de groep waarmee ik vaker loop, want de aanwezigheid van een vlag van de Sovjet Unie binnen die groep, deed mij besluiten om met andere mensen te lopen. Know your #tankies. You know who you are.

I don't need a pink server rack for my new office. I don't need a pink server rack. I might need a pink server rack. PINK SERVER RACK.

the techbro mindset is banning features whenever they find out someone can use them to disagree with them

to give some examples from the Steam developer forum I've shared recently:

"halo's developers should not be allowed to post 'happy disability pride month' or acknowledge that black people exist in their news feed"

"valve should not be allowed to ban my game for plagiarism if I submit it for review without plagiarized assets and then add the copyright-laundered computer-'generated' art after the review is done"

(these were both real suggestions from real game developers who even doubled down when it was pointed out that what they said didn't make any sense!)

Your periodic reminder that tech companies like Google also have physical infrastructure

It's only a matter of time until the mediocre white dude admins of a bunch of these too-big instances come together and form something like a 'fediverse steering committee', and I end up laughing so hard that I piss my jorts

Donating to these large random NGOs so often just reinforces the injustices that they depend on to survive, even when they don't mean to be that way. If you can't work with locals, that's probably not the right thing to work on. If you really care about Africa (And I do) then ask people there, *in that context* what you can do to help. There's a good chance they'll say nothing, you can't do anything here.

I just find Peter Singer's arguments so infuriating every time I run into them.

I push people towards doing aid and recovery locally unless they have deep knowledge of the culture and landscape they're trying to affect. Because despite what academic philosophers like to spout THIS SHIT IS ACTUALLY HARD.

Like, the famine he used as an example for the moral obligation for providing relief was an aid *disaster.*

The biggest opsec trick all the privacy dorks use, the one that makes them safest from government surveillance and trouble with the cops and that they'll never tell you is: they're white and straight and unremarkable

At the end of the day, they may rail against it but they've got nothing to hide and nothing to fear, the government doesn't give a shit about a well off 37 year old app developer

Every time @supernovae@universeodon.com bemoans a lack of rational discourse, or that nobody's tried to talk with him, or 'those opinions don't get talked about' - we try. People in the JoinMastodon discord try to talk to him. I tried talking to him a few months back. Various other admins all try takling with him, but as soon as he faces disagreement, he blocks and then keeps on saying 'nobody talks about this'.

https://universeodon.com/@supernovae/110758755644839302

I tried, again, and it ended with him calling me toxic and blocking me.

You've got the 'that sucks' sympathy fave, the 'hot selfie asdgfd' fave, the 'so cursed I couldn't possibly boost this' fave, and my favourite one: the 'I'm too tired to reply so here is my appreciation' fave

@antiall3s
"I tried to fight for a COVID-safe organization.
But i failed.
Probably i was too desperate, too angry, too impatient, too undiplomatic. "

Don't blame yourself. You shouldn't have to beg for accessibility. You shouldn't have to worry that you were too desperate, too angry, too undiplomatic. You were having those feelings in the first place because they were discriminating. The feelings escalate because they were unresponsive and unwilling to change.

Would you blame PoC for acting on these emotions if they were excluded from an event? Would you blame women for being too undiplomatic for trying to make an event not men-only? You would probably understand them, have compassion and be angry at the event that they would not respond well. You wouldn't tell them to promote themselves differently.

It's not your job to be a perfect PR machine when advocating for yourself, it's your job to survive. Have compassion for yourself too. You and others fought and the shitheads hid behind fake left-wing arguments to be discriminatory. It's not your fault, you didn't fail. They failed.

I also don't think their way of treating this is even conditional solidarity. Having to contact the care team with your situation is a breach of your privacy. Having to be announced to the room to beg for cooperation, is discriminatory and a bullying tactic. Having to then wait for people to mask or not to show their willingness to let you live (with medical masks that are not good enough to protect you even) is like a terrifying trial. I'd never want to be put in that position.

This has been explained to #Anarchy2023 on social media and in private contact, by more than one person. They could have adapted and they didn't. They embraced ableism. They are excluding and abandoning their sick, old and disabled comrades during a pandemic. This is 100% on them.

They will not listen to science, they will not listen to the people who know better. Let them eat crypto, let them eat plague. Let them suffocate on their haughty excuses.

#Ableism #Anarchy #RIA #StImier #Anarchism #Anarchist

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i can only wonder what licensing agreement caused this

wtf? Chrome on Android is inserting its own "PDF" button to journal article pages that takes me via Google Scholar, even when the PDF is available directly from the publisher 🤬

I only noticed because I saw scholar dot google briefly appear in my address bar, and when I opened the page in Firefox the prominent floating PDF button wasn't there.