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

Over on the platform formerly known as twitter, people are sharing “art that makes them emotional” and somebody shared this, an all-time favourite tumblr post of mine. Wanted to share it here.

This resonates with me hugely because I tend to be able to point to all my little habits and tell you where I got them from, and what that person means or meant to me. It helps me remember that friendships ending doesn’t mean they were wasted, just that it’s over.

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Testing is a great way to keep friends, family, and coworkers safe.

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Me, encountering literally any podcast recommendation:

"This sounds really interesting. I'd sure like to read a transcript of it instead of listening to it."

Amsterdam is importing infrastructure innovations like "a post in the middle of a bike lane"

i'm home. it's quiet. a few hours ago, there were many people. now, there are none. there was colorful light and talk and energy and worrying about leaks in my mask and covid in the air. now, there is nothing. silence, and familiarity. and thoughts.

many people will catch covid. a sizeable number will develop long covid from an infection that can be traced to this very event. how will the community react? will we recognize our shared responsibility in the people that have been harmed? make amends for the future? or push them under the rug, like has happened before now.

maybe i will get covid too. masks are not perfect. a little gets through, always. maybe there was a leak. maybe i misjudged the risk, and i should have left earlier.

was it worth it? in hell, where the water is poison, do you drink?

stay well, all of you.

#37c3

Every criticism of a company or product made on the internet eventually degenerates in bootlickers derailing the conversation and turning it into a le debate about whether the scummy and often evil shit the company pulled was justified or not and I'm fucking sick of it 💀

So, CEOs...

#Capitalism #AI #work

#mood #endofyear #year2023 #year2024

it's almost like publishers don't want us to buy games

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ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: baby steps ✅ 🎮

you did your first fedi moderation action ever against a spammer on mastodon.social

As the effervescent and wonderful Jason Hickel said over at Muskville; "Thanks to a lot of tech bros and economists getting Very Upset about degrowth, this article is now the number one trending publication at Nature."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x

also, if you're ever talking to a stranger who doesn't speak the same language as you via email or whatever, write to them in your language, not theirs. It is infinitely easier to figure out what a bad machine translation of good text should say than it is to do that without having access to the good text.

how can we help restaurants use HTML to share menus online challenge 2024

Website that lists all known #AI agents (including autonomous chatbots and data scrapers) on the internet, in case you want to update your robots.txt.

https://darkvisitors.com/ #webdev

I’ve had more interaction in about an hour on my toot about my recent experience regarding no masks in health care settings, and #longCovid, than I have from my friends in a week on two FB posts on my wall about long Covid.

I’ve been absent from mastodon for a while and I’d forgotten how good it feels to be validated (outside of a dedicated long Covid group on FB) and not dismissed for daring to say the C word.

As I type this my support worker is out picking up medical supplies for me as I’m crashing hard after going out for the first time in six months on xmas day somewhere that wasn’t a medical appointment or rental open house (we have to move).

I’m just as sick as I was when I actually had Covid. Congested, coughing, really sore throat, aching all over, weak, no appetite (I’ve tested negative three days straight). All because I spent a few incredibly chilled hours with 3 other people, none of whom were visibly or audibly sick at the time. This is my life now and my nearest and dearest can’t even be bothered to pretend they read a post or an article and hit the like button to show support. So thank you for reminding me that there are people out there who do still care about it and are taking it seriously.