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

Disabled folks at UC are constantly told the public university we pay for with our taxes, tuition, and fees finds accessibility "too expensive".

Yet when they raise >$7B dollars, where do they prioritize that going to? More goodies for abled people. #UCAccessNow #Ableism #NeoliberalHellhole @academicchatter @disability

A reminder that Mickey Mouse is thinly coded minstrelsy. A tune in Steamboat Willie, “Turkey in the Straw,” has a previous title so racist I won’t note it here. Minstrelsy is a long scar on our cultural landscape, one of the most popular forms of entertainment for a century, and its vestiges and symbols remain with us.

Happy New Year!

[Updated to correct error about where “Turkey…” appears; link to song details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_in_the_Straw ]

happy fuckin new year, let's kick the fascists to the curb

In 2014, I made a steampunk submarine costume for my son's wheelchair. When the chair was in motion, the pinwheel twirled, the wheel's design spiraled, and the periscope was retractable. Made entirely from cardboard and random stuff, including paper tubes, pill container lids, altoids tins, wallpaper, duct tape, and a clear plastic salad bowl rescued after a catered event. #wheelchair #disability #OpulentMobility #wheelchaircostume #submarine #cardboard #upcycling #steampunk

Most posts about #37c3 were published on the Fediverse.

I found 11.130 posts on the Fediverse (known to chaos.social or mastodon.social), 2.620 posts on X/Twitter and 1.069 on ATProto/Bluesky. Published between 2023-12-23 and 2023-12-31. (I haven't figured out how to collect posts on Threads, but I have found 150 there. Maybe there are more, but they don't show up in the search results.)

Ik heb net de pomp uitgezet van de beregeningsinstallatie van molen de Salamander.

Weinig molens hebben dit, maar wij hebben sproeikoppen aan de buitenkant van het riet zitten, waarmee we dat rietdek drijfnat kunnen maken.

Dit kost zoveel water dat we het uit de vliet pompen, en de nevel lijkt verdacht veel op witte rook die uit de molen lijkt te komen.
Vandaar dat we de brandweer waarschuwen voordat we deze installatie aanzetten.

De molen zou nu tegen verdwaalde vuurpijlen moeten kunnen.

The funny thing about LLMs is they’re not good for knowledge work because they sometimes make up stuff that doesn’t exist and they’re not good for creative work because they sometimes make up stuff that does exist.

Can’t believe they’re going to roll 2024 out to Production late on a Sunday, right before a public holiday, without testing it in Staging, and without fixing any of the bugs in 2023.

@smveerman vanwege het niet rijden van deze trein rijdt deze trein vandaag niet

I tried to cat a text file to my printer and this is what happened

Nieuwe doxingwet geeft een wapen om journalisten weg te houden
https://www.doorbraak.eu/nieuwe-doxingwet-geeft-een-wapen-om-journalisten-weg-te-houden/

"Als ik me direct tot journalisten mag richten: hoe zien jullie de komende jaren voor je? Als het nu gaat om kritiek op de overheid, bedrijven en machthebbers. Gaat een kabinet-Wilders dat toestaan? Gaat hij de politie tegenhouden of juist loslaten? Iets om over na te denken."

#Doxingwet
#Criminalisering #Repressie

The cop who lives across the road just set off fireworks in his yard.

Fireworks are pmuch illegal for private use in NSW, under the Explosives Regulation 2013.

Ik zou willen dat ik de luxe had om mijn schouders op te halen en maar eens af te wachten hoe heet precies die soep zal zijn. Die luxe heb ik niet. Haat is nooit gesmoord met stilzwijgen en afwachten. Tegen haat moet je knokken. Onze Kamerleden die het op moeten nemen tegen die collega's die er in het geheim even verwerpelijk gedachtengoed op na houden als Wilders, Bosma en de rest van de PVV, zullen veel steun nodig hebben om zich staande te houden.

daily psa: kinks are not necessarily equal to sex

asexual people can enjoy kink

sex repulsed people can enjoy kink

it's not rocket science

A reminder: Open communication, in every relationship you have, be that a romantic partnership, friendship, anything, should always, emphasis on always, be a priority. If you can't be open with the other person in that relationship, then your relationship is not healthy. The other aspects can be great, but if there are communication barriers, you have very big problems. Talk. Put things out there. If you're withholding things from the other person in your relationship for any reason, that is going to explode. And it's going to be a thousand times harder to manage that relationship drama than it is to have a hard discussion or two. Lack of communication breaks people apart, and can sometimes damage relationships beyond repair. Lack of communication can show the other person any number of things, anywhere from lack of trust to coming across distant/uncaring about them/their feelings/ETC. Even if you don't mean it that way, the message can get conveyed with that lack of openness. Communication can be really hard. I get it. Some of those discussions are really, really hard to have. But seriously. Just talk. Reach out. Express yourself. Put your feelings out there. Any true friend/partner/ETC will and should always respect you, accept you, and always have your best interests at heart. If they don't? You know where you stand. Communication is, and always should be, a huge piece in any relationship. It's healthy, and necessary