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

i wish posts raising awareness of the severity of climate change did anything for me personally besides raising the severity of my anxiety levels

💽 If you have a SNES emulator running on any system it becomes a Super Pretendo.

I am a professional.

if the fact that they're making sitting on ledges illegal or impossible to stop homeless people from sitting or sleeping on them hasn't radicalized you you should wake the fuck up, frankly

"Accessibility on a Shoestring": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiCsvZZh5-k

A great, fairly short talk providing lots of practical advice and examples on how to make games more accessible with little time and monetary investment, so this one's particularly interesting for indie devs.

#gaming #accessibility #GameDevelopment #IndieDev

When you empty your vacuum cleaner you become a vacuum cleaner.

Good morning.

i wonder if raising a kid in a polycule is going to end up more mentally healthy for the child because the housework and the chores can be split between different partners evenly without overloading them and thus giving everybody time to spend with the kid

why aren't there open source gambling simulators that let you win fake money to help folks who need that stimuli for harm reduction

Language toolchains with a perceptible compilation step are challenging for the neurodivergent brain...

It's far too easy to start compiling, get distracted while waiting, then tons of time flies by before you remember to switch back to what you were working on. 😅

Developers, I'm *begging* you. If your app or site runs in an environment where there's a detectable user preference for a light or dark system theme, *please use it* instead of just going "hey I think dark mode looks cool" and making me hunt around in a bunch of menus I can barely read to find where you've hidden a dropdown list to let me change it.

This is basic #accessibility stuff, folks. These settings exist at a system level for a reason.

inventing a programming language where all keywords have diacritics and watching americans struggle to understand where all the syntax errors come from

I cannot accept being robbed by someone richer and more powerful than me.
Same goes for my peers.
#Landlords are some of the worst, I keep hearing stories about their tricks to not give back the security deposit (is this the proper name? I'm from Italy).
I have yet to meet a landlord who couldn't afford a meal because of a tenant missing payments, typically is the other way around, and even if it happened, being a landlord is not a job and guaranteeing a living to a landlord is not the tenant's job! [I support universal basic income, in general]
In Italy by law the landlord must give back the security deposit and then sue the tenant so that the judge can verify the cost of any damage; one can keep the security deposit if and only if the damage is unpaid rent, other costs don't apply.
Yet I hear about hundreds of euros kept and months of delay for things such as "stains caused by adhesive plastilins for wall posters" and "cleaning".
Because the tenant to should sue and risk losing (and paying) the lawsuit, just to have her money.
This is one of the most common and institutionalized instances of class abuse that comes to my mind, at least for Italy.
The housing problem here is big and bigger, especially for students and young workers, who are treated very poorly compared to countries of similar GDP etc.

This is from a FEMA earthquake preparedness doc and I gotta say, these are good rules to live by