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

Hello from my shift at the rural public library. While you're all debating large language models and AI and complicated online privacy topics, we are still storing our petty cash like this.

Now that a lot of people are regrouping from intense and embarrassing bouts of white fragility and white toxicity, if you are now turning to trying to help and support BIPoC and others directly impacted by the current Fedi meta bullshit, you may want to review this evergreen piece by Namira Islam Anani, about Silk's Ring Theory (how not to say the wrong thing to the wrong people): https://niawrites.medium.com/modifying-silk-ring-theory-for-allyship-c7ae4963912d

Please remember: This is a GUIDELINE. You will still be required to engage your critical thinking skills to figure out when's right to apply it, and how to specifically apply it to your situation.

But I personally have found the idea of Silk's rings to be very helpful both in the health and caregiving context and the effort of allyship/accomplicing to marginalized folks in general.

good day everyone ✨
lets try new iteration of #GodotHelpDesk!

if you're starting to use #GodotEngine recently or you're just running into issues: ask your questions, write about things you run into or otherwise in this thread!

people that are experienced doing #GameDev in #Godot, please take a look in this thread if you can answer a question!

no wrong questions, no matter how big or small!

boosts appreciated! ✨

edit: thank y’all for this iteration! tune in next week for another! 🙏 ✨

@joepie91 I think it's one of those things where you have to pay them enough to incentivize them not to steal the money they're moving.

Oh gooood, this whole #Unity3D blowout?

It literally happened because of that shitty Iron Source buy-out that everyone was pissed about. The call to add this fee literally came from the Iron Source side of the business, and it only exists to "kill AppLovin" (a rival ad provider that is better). https://mobilegamer.biz/unity-is-offering-a-runtime-fee-waiver-if-you-switch-to-levelplay-as-it-tries-to-kill-applovin/

Cabinet building project: success! Small custom cabinet on wheels for under a desk, as a practice project for eventually building some proper storage cabinets for the kitchen.

Managed to go from "base materials from hardware store" to "finished cabinet" in under 24 hours, which I consider an achievement given the ADHD factor :)

teach a man to program and he'll make some games, but teach a man to make programming languages and he'll never make a single game ever again

It looks like Allister Brimble has been commissioned to write a new theme for OpenRCT2.

(For those who don't know -- OpenRCT2 is an open source remake of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2.)

Before this Allister Brimble wrote most of the soundtracks for RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 and RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. That, of course, was twenty years ago.

You can hear it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkvaRXyJOTM

"If you saw someone stealing food; no you didn't"
Poster spotted in Manchester, UK

please stop telling people to “google it” and “educate themselves” on any social justice topic. have you even seen a google search results page lately? and we all know what can happen when someone “does their own research”

i love to have minor language adjustments as i realize a fucked up piece of rhetoric around class that was previously very normalized to me, even if like, something i don't *say*

just saw the phrase "fell into poverty. or maybe it's more accurate to say they were pushed" and i think that generally i may just exclusively use "pushed into poverty" now

I said before that I wouldn't dignify the subject of dog whistles with my thoughts. But let me give you a primer.

In any discussion where bigots are tooting, look for oft repeated phrases. Look for different people using the same phrases to communicate.

Language changes rapidly in discourse, so normally in non dog whistly discourse, you would expect to see different parties reach common understanding without mirroring each other's words and phrases. But in the presence of bigotry and group think, people will literally echo and mirror specific phrases in the discourse.

Right now, some hot dog whistles on the Fediverse in racist bigotry are "yes this makes sense", "conservative troll", and "lies exposed" or "lies revealed". They seem innocuous but these phrases signal identity, community, and safety among the racist bigots, and help to identify their targets. They also help build momentum for dogpiling and brigading that will persist for months or years.

Keep your wits about you and try not to perpetuate or boost dog whistles.