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

the absolute apathy of so many cis folks on here about threads harboring and encouraging transphobic terrorists is apalling.

don’t yell at me for not CWing this. yell at them for making me feel unsafe and unwelcome around them.

A writeup of US/UK/JP office culture like it's an uncontacted tribe

> The participants in the ritual begin by taking stimulants extracted by an elaborate process from the seeds of the Coffea arabica or Coffea canephora bush. Thus excited, they sit down in large isolated over-lit rooms and, in this paradoxically benign environment, spend most of the rest of the day focusing on papers and computers. In this way, their society decides who gets seen by doctors, who can travel, and who gets wealth.

I was told by a neighbour this morning that I am "the right kind of immigrant".

When asked to explain he said that I work and pay taxes. He didn't also say that I'm ok because I'm white but I wonder how the conversation would have gone if I had a different skin colour.

Am I reassured that because i am "the right kind of immigrant" everything will now be fine in the Netherlands after a quarter of the people who live around me just voted for a fascist, when the new speaker in our parliament is a conspiracy theorist as well as a fascist, and when most of the rest of the country appears to think that this is just fine ? No I am not.

I have more in common with asylum seekers and any other immigrants than I do with fascists or with unthinking voters for fascists.
#pvvisfascism
#RefugeesAreWelcomeHere

Never underestimate how many AI startups could be replaced wholesale with a single W3C proposal.

The last day of the Endless September is scheduled for 11132 Sep 1993: https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538?hl=en

Libs of TikTok, PragerU and Gays Against Groomers all host accounts on threads right now as well as many transphobic and other generally horrible people... so

So, my parents just called to inform me about their city's disaster plan that was suddenly announced to them...

A little necessary backstory: my parents live in The Netherlands. They live in a city of the between 50k-100k inhabitants category, next to a highway, in an area that would flood with rising sea levels (province bordering the sea), but where nothing special has happened in their lifetimes so far. No earthquakes, no fires, nothing.

The Netherlands has a civil defense siren for disasters, and when it rings, the government advice is to remain where you are or get indoors if you aren't, to close all doors and windows, and to check the news station to see what's happening.

My parents told me they received a letter that explained the following: if a disaster were to strike, it's no longer the main plan to close your doors and windows and to remain where you are. If they get The Disaster Signal (no explanation what that would be) they now need to rush to their car.

From the area where they live, there is a small path meant for bicycles and pedestrians that leads to the highway. They need to rush their car over that path, to the highway.

The highway is blocked off from the bicycle path with a gigantic wall to minimize the car noise, but they've put a door in there that is just big enough so one car can pass at once. On top of the door is a new sign: disaster door. When The Disaster™ happens, the door will be opened. Everyone from that part of the city (at least 10k people) will have to enter the highway with their car through that door and flee.

They also told me that it was explained to them, that if someone doesn't have a car, they need to try to hitch a ride with someone else, or they'll have to call a certain number and the city might have someone pick them up.

I'm all sorts of confused. Are they expecting a disaster to happen for which you'll have to flee? If so, is it flooding? Does this mean they acknowledge climate change and are preparing for the worst (in a terrible way)? If everyone's rushing to their car, there will just be a massive traffic jam and nobody will reach that door in time for evacuation via that little bicycle path, right? And who's opening that door? Will people without a car really be picked up? What if sirens go off for something like a dangerous air pollutant, but everyone starts driving toward that door, like, how do they differentiate between possible disasters?

My parents got uncomfortable with any of my follow-up questions and just burst out laughing about how absurd it all is, and that I should "check the door" if I never hear from them again, and that if a person's time is up, it's just up and you die, nothing you can do about it, that's the way life goes. Sigh.

Anyway, does anyone have any experiences with or anecdotes about their area creating unexpected evacuation plans like this one? Have any of my Dutch readers had the same happen to them recently?

Can't think of any other explanation than that their city is preparing for a possible new watersnoodramp (North Sea flood of 1953) because they're in the general area of that. But to make it so inefficient and unclear... 🤔

#apocalypse #evacuation #DisasterPlanning

The last time Facebook embraced an open federated standard they did it for precisely long enough to saturate server-to-server contacts between an already existing userbase and their stuff, then shut off that federation and told anyone cut off by it to just come to Facebook instead.

This is literally something they did. This is in their playbook.

The people running the stuff behind the scenes were blindsided by it; it was an executive decision. Those people wanted to build the thing in good faith and the Business Plan was to let them until the time was right to strike.

That we're again going "It seems to be done right, let's give them a chance" is a little infuriating considering I was pretty impacted by the fallout of the last time.

it's the christmas dota update, everyone who smurfed got a gift box full of coal that permabans them when they get it, tons of streamers who were smurfing got the coal live.
oh fun christmas gift box, full of coal permabanned and vacban

(btw he reads "banned until 1/18?" but fails to read that the ban is until 1/18/2038)

(video source: https://clips.twitch.tv/CheerfulFrozenLaptopMcaT-u70lacgn1Q8z8DzN)
#dota2

@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe

The pro-federation camp has also repeatedly tried to dishonestly frame the possibility of an admin making an instance block decision with which their users disagree as an example of tyranny.

"I was given some advice before making it into Parliament - to not take anything personally or it'll eat you up."

"In only a couple of weeks, in only 14 days, this Government has attacked my whole world from every corner."

"Health, taiao (environment), wai (water), whenua (land), natural resources, Māori wards, reo, tamariki. How can I not take anything personally when it feels like these policies were made about me?"

"I am not fearful of this place, or this debating chamber."

"I was perfectly fine growing my kūmara and learning maramataka (Māori lunar calendar), but this House kept tampering with things they shouldn't be touching, and that's why I left the māra (garden) to come here."

-- Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke (NZ MP for Hauraki-Waikato, and the youngest NZ MP to serve in 130 years)

#Maori #NewZealand #Aoteroa #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

somewhat related to the threads meta:

for the last few months i've been giving out the fake email "fuckzuck@fb.com" to marketing databases when required to enter something on a wlan captive portal

International ticket planning is like "well, if you go in the direction of Austria for 30 minutes, you're gonna be in Poland one hour earlier"