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

Incredible shenanigans. Since January 1st 2024, the Netherlands has a new sugar tax, an extra tax on sugary drinks like soft drinks, lemonades and processed fruit juices. Of course the dairy industry have managed to secure an exception: products containing dairy are exempt from this sugar tax. However, plant-based dairy alternatives like oat milk DO fall under this tax. And to add insult to injury for vegans, now fruit juice and soft drink manufactures have started adding dairy to their drinks in order to wiggle out from under the tax too! So not only do vegans now see the prices of plant-based dairy alternatives rise, they also see increasing swathes of non-alcoholic drinks yanked from their palet because of added cow milk to evade taxation... Yay capitalism!

Say hello to the bike transportation id.buzz

It’s compost awareness week, so of course, we’re celebrating community composting!

Transition Lymington collects kitchen waste from nearby homes, and it makes their community garden self-sufficient in compost for all the lovely local, no dig, peat free, nature friendly growing they do.
Coexist set up Bristol Living Soil community composting project with a Transition Together seed funding grant last year. “Biologically complete, deliciously fertile soil can only be made at a small, local scale with time, care, energy and attention.”

Here’s how they do it, another project to celebrate in #compostawarenessweek!

https://www.bristol247.com/opinion/your-say/we-want-to-regenerate-bristols-soils-rebuild-community-and-share-knowledge/

#transition #transitiontown #compost #growyourown #garden #zerowaste #community #climateaction

Warsaw tetris (stolen from reddit)

#language #linguistics #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded

Does anyone know how various rust gui frameworks compare, especially when it comes to mobile support

In 2024, $.32 gets you a Cortex M0, 4kB RAM, 16kB flash and a built-in 24MHz oscillator. All in a package that's terrifyingly close to being accidentally swallowable.

https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/Microcontroller-Units-MCUs-MPUs-SOCs_PUYA-PY32F003L24D6TR_C5128436.html

(index finger for scale - blurred so i don't get comments about fingerprint opsec)

video game where you play as the person who is the main character of every tycoon/management game at once

Tijdens een verjaardagfeest zagen we een andere manier om stickers te gebruiken. Een bekende van ons kreeg een cadeau ingepakt met rood-zwart plakband. Toen de jarige vroeg, waar de persoon zo zulk mooi plakband vandaan kwam, bleek het in stukjes geknipte stickers te zijn. De gene die het cadeautje gaf kon de plakband niet vinden.

Niet helemaal waar stickers voor bedoelt zijn. Al deed het ons denken, aan iets wat we deden bij de lokale ABC. Daar verknipte we stickers om die weer op kaarten te plakken en opstuurde naar gevangen.

Een mede activist van ons gebruikt stickers als boodschappenlijstje. Op de achterkant schrijft hij wat hij moet halen. Als hij alles heeft, plakt ie de sticker in de buurt van de winkel.

The official word from the #nixos foundation in today's live Q&A session is (paraphrased) "oh there's always someone who's going to object to something so we don't want to make any decisions regarding ethics".

What a fucking cop out. And what an insult to the community. Imagine thinking this is an appropriate response to 128 contributors signing an open letter within 24h condemning an ethical decision that you've made.