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

If you're wondering why there are so few news stories about the rise of #Mastodon, it's because nobody is getting paid to game the media about it.

There's no publicists, no cozy ad deals, no suits, no coercion: Nobody is getting rich off of Mastodon

... that's also why it's so enlightening and fun to participate here

is anybody willing to house my friend and his mother anywhere around Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, or anywhere inside Wisconsin??

he is HIGHLY LIKELY to end up homeless and I am getting desperate

he is a disabled queer person and because of that he can't work

please

someone help

EDIT: WE CANNOT AFFORD HIM TO STAY AT THE MOTEL ANYMORE. WE NEED IMMEDIATE HELP TO FIND HIM STABLE HOUSING IN 2 WEEKS. HIS LIFE IS AT STAKE. WE NEED TO ACT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

#mutualaid #wisconsin #help

Itch.io is having to switch hosting providers sometime in the next three months, and that's going to act like clearing your browser storage: you'll lose your current saves.

So if you're playing long-form #InteractiveFiction or other web games that save to the browser, here's a little thing that should let you download your data and restore it after the switchover... https://crocmiam.itch.io/itch-localstorage-export-import

(Itch's post on the subject is here: https://itch.io/t/3099694/notice-for-html-game-devs-upcoming-change-to-cdn-domain)

#GameDev

(Edit: to be clear, this isn't mine; I'd like to think I would have seen it eventually but Florian Cargoët spotted the possibility and implemented it almost immediately)

tomorrow he will end up on the streets and I don't know what to do

he applied for section 8 housing but the queue is so long it might take months for him to get a place to live in.

is there anything, any way for me to save him from dying on the street? please. I don't live in the USA myself, which means I am limited in my options. I can't afford to lose him. please. you're my only hope.

We hebben een nieuw woord nodig voor “overprikkeld”. Iets zwaarders. Iets dat minder klinkt als “teveel cola, beetje buikpijn” en meer als “alles is nu een mokerslag, morgen kan ik niet denken en de rest van de week moet ik overal van huilen”.

(Nee ik ben nu niet overprikkeld, dan had ik dit niet geschreven 🙃)
#autisme #burnout #nah

I love this ... "Whoever this is, wherever they are, they have a fresh account waiting for them, and they're not subject to any pressure or any data harvesting for doing so. Facebook doesn't know about their Wikipedia account. Google doesn't know about their Wikipedia account. If the government wants to know about their Wikipedia account, they'd better come back with a warrant. Even Wikipedia doesn't know that much ...." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-08-31/News_and_notes #wikipedia

We hope that as many people as possible come in drag and at least want to wear colorful clothing, so that it is immediately clear to passers-by what we stand for: liberation and diversity! Come join us!

We ask other organizations to also sign this call.

https://www.doorbraak.eu/september-2nd-leiden-dont-give-fascists-a-chance-to-disrupt-drag-queen-reading-hour/

It’s funny that in the 2010s, any man who paid any attention to their personal hygiene was a “metrosexual”

What a weird time

"Whoa there" yourself, Adobe. I am mildly annoyed by the phrasing that makes it look like it's my fault that a corporation can't be bothered to develop for Firefox.

Wij vinden de voorleesuurtjes van drag queens juist super belangrijk omdat kinderen er een boodschap meekrijgen van inclusiviteit. Ze zien zo op jonge leeftijd al hoeveel mogelijkheden er zijn van de expressie van het zelf en gender. Dat staat natuurlijk in fel contrast tot het beperkte en beperkende binaire idee van man/vrouw en heteroseksualiteit waar extreem-rechts mensen mee onderdrukt.

https://www.doorbraak.eu/2-september-leiden-geef-fascisten-geen-kans-om-drag-queen-voorleesuurtje-te-verstoren/

> image I recognize in my timeline
> boosted by several people currently
> wanna boost it too
> already boosted in June, need to unboost and boost again

reminder: counterdemo against "let women speak" September 9 in Utrecht

they'll have fasho thugs with shields, come prepared if you're going

The #Tusky accounting drama smells like FUD. The total annual operating budget is $7k for crying out loud! Imo, this means several things but most importantly this:

"No one working on Tusky is making a living wage"

With a budget woefully small I personally just don't give a damn about every penny being traced nor every task being chased down by some self ordained pointy haired boss.

I'm honestly more inclined to donate now, not less.

https://opencollective.com/tusky

politics, late stage capitalism

It would appear that “former Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has threatened the University of Cambridge with legal action after a historian named her as a descendant of merchants who enslaved his ancestors.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/31/ex-tory-mp-threatens-sue-cambridge-university-slavery-research-antoinette-sandbach

Oh, my… It would be a damn shame if more people knew of this so please do not boost this post.

#AntoinetteSandbach #SamuelSandbach #Sandbach #british #slavery #britain #slaveOwners #tories #tory #conservatives #uk #cambridge #colonialists #colonialism

A very unscientific poll about light and dark modes on web sites:

FYI, when a website erases your text that you just spent an hour writing, you can use this little trick to recover it 99% of the time:

1. find the firefox pid

$ pgrep -l firefox

2. attach gdb to firefox and dump its core

$ sudo gdb <pid>
gcore firefox.dump
<this takes awhile>
quit
<firefox dies>

3. find your lost text in the coredump

$ strings firefox.dump | grep "a unique word/sentence from ur text"

i just did this today to recover a long post i wrote, and figured i'd show others!!

using -c copy with ffmpeg because my video is already trans-coded