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

occasional reminder to folks with pronouns in bios to double-check if the ones they have written down still spark joy

Why do we always say happy Sunday, instead of "I’m sorry it’s Sunday and you work tomorrow"?

actually, shit, here's a few very basic changes you can make for better #GameDev #Accessibility :

1) please explain the graphics settings in language that people who barely know what a GPU is can understand, and in terms that aren't just about performance.

2) you know how Minecraft has a bunch of really specific audio sliders and not just "music" and "sound effects"? that's really helpful! you can even make it an advanced toggle or something.

3) for the love of god just let me drag resize your window. "fullscreen" vs. "borderless fullscreen" will not cut it. there are seriously so many more games that I could play without motion sickness if I could just make it not take up the entire screen. I cannot emphasize how confused I am that this is a problem to implement.

I like alt text because it lets me understand memes that are 7 levels removed from any reference I had any chance of getting

Ok mastodon, (or at least the part of it currently going through a big freeze), show me your strange ice pictures, your weird ice spikes, needle ice, hair ice and frazil ice, your beautiful ice crystals.

Is #icetodon a thing yet? It should be. I'll start.
#NeedleIce in the park today.. typically forms.when ground is warm (above zero) and air temperature cold (well below zero).

#Ice #BigFreeze #StrangeIce #IceSpikes

I am watching a video about someone being a prison abolitionist and one point she brings up is that in court when she tried to talk about the violence that happened to her in an emotional and violent way rather than straight forward one is she felt herself being sexualised.

She says this is because a lot of the language we have around erotic situations is already violent and I wholeheartedly concur with this sentiment. I have heard and seen it in various media, person-to-person situations and spaces set up to be 'erotic'.

I have a strong distaste for this being the norm around erotica and erotic situations etc. Not just because it leads to this normalisation but because it then also possibly leads to the softer and potentially what might be thought of as the more mundane side of erotic language and situations around this as either not being seen as interesting, or folks not knowing what to do with such language or in such situations. 1/2

"De verhalen die ik hoorde waren verbijsterend: vrouwen die gepest en ontslagen worden wanneer ze de avances van hun chef afwijzen, afschuwelijke huisvesting waar de ratten rondlopen, schijnconstructies om mensen geen loonsverhoging of contract te geven. Gedwongen doorwerken tijdens ziekte. Potige medewerkers van uitzendbureaus die mensen intimideren of in elkaar slaan, levensgevaarlijke werkomstandigheden, werkgevers die zwaargewonde arbeidsmigranten voor hun woningen dumpen."
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/01/05/onderbetaald-bespuugd-en-zelfs-aangerand-de-arbeidsmigrant-wordt-niet-gezien-als-mens-a4186092

@inthehands I just got inspired to meme by this awful statement.

Every part of this is good news
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/travel/europe-new-trains.html
#climate #travel #trains

Trans mood

I've discovered a very odd service that runs from Reading all the way through to Salisbury.

So I've decided to take it!

Why is it odd?
- It's SWR. Usually trains from Exeter and Salisbury would run through to Waterloo, not to Reading.
- It only runs both ways throughout the day on weekends
- On weekdays it does something even more odd, and only runs one way (Salisbury to Reading) twice in the evening!
- I don't think this existed before

If anyone knows why this exists I'd love to know 😅

Last night I found out why some of my repos on my forge have weird language stats: because Markdown and Org documents are generally ignored for Reasons.

I do not like when such decisions are made for me. I very much want my repository stats to include prose in the language stats! In more than one repository, the prose is the code, it is the main content!

This is especially jarring when HTML is considered for stats. Consider this repository: with prose disqualified, it's 56% HTML, 25.9% SCCS, 11.5% Nix, and 5.4% Pascal.

With prose enabled, it's 39.8% Markdown, 32.4% "text", and only 15.7% HTML and 7.2% SCSS.

The difference is stark. Flagging HTML as the main language here is just plain wrong.

Or take my NixOS configuration! 49.7% Shell, 26.8% Emacs lisp, 23.% Nix. But when I don't disqualify prose: 87% Org, 10.6% Text, 1.2% Shell, 0.6% Emacs lisp, 0.6% Nix.

So of course I am going to do something about it, because wrong stats make me Angry. Pull request against #Forgejo coming up shortly, I'm writing tests already.

Listening to my husband argue with the cat.

"I can't make it stop raining, Pica."
"Maarah!"
"I can't. It's not like the sink or the shower."
"MaaaaraHH!!"
"You didn't like it when I opened the door. It's January. It's wet and cold."
"RRRAaanah!"
"OK OK"
*opens door*
"MARAAAHH!"
"I know it's cold!"
"rrrrah?"
"I can't turn off the rain."
"murrah."
"I think you're unreasonable too."