Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

in ten years, this will become another Iraq, another Gulf War, another memory where liberals will conveniently forget their place in it. they will claim they had no choice, or if they are at all remorseful, that they thought they were doing everything they could.

they will place themselves in the shoes of the same radicals they threatened and wished violence upon. "well they should've known not to do that" they say of any of the innumerable victims of state violence. they would never dream of defying the state so openly in that moment. but when they have created enough distance for the radical and the just to become the ordinary, they will say "that was us. aren't you proud? we did that." and they will only speak the names of the radicals they must acknowledge.

and further, they will transform images until it suits them. Nixon and Reagan are hazy memories, praise them when the moment is suitable. Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, and King Jr. are no longer subversive and quite so radical - their edges that cut the social order until it bleeds will be softened until they become blunted enough that anyone can handle them with ease.

all images are subject to this regardless of their position at the time. to the liberal, had the national guard and snipers not been brought in during the Detroit Race Riots, there would have been nothing else but the destruction of the city. to this day, many of them stand by Johnson and Romney's decisions. unavoidable tragedy. Kent State Massacre, unavoidable tragedy. LA riots, what else could the state do? unavoidable tragedy, if they even say the second half.

they'll say the same about Gaza as they have about Iraq and Afghanistan. there was no other choice. they know it's not true. tell them to go fuck themselves if ever they try to claim a W

Huh, a complete viaduct has disappeared at Amsterdam Zuid 🤯

i have achieved purr-petual meowtion! ♾️😺

#Caturday

A wide ask here so please boost: my grandfather is trying to get rid of an old business computer, and I was wondering whether any vintage computer people might want it. It was purchased for $50k from The Ultimate Corporation in the early 80s. This ran the Pick operating system, and my best guess is the hardware was originally manufactured by GE or Honeywell. It's about the size of a half-rack and currently lives in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. It has sat covered in plastic in a chemical warehouse for the past 35 years. Where do people usually post stuff like this other than here? Thanks!

#RetroComputing

Check yourself when criticizing Kamala Harris. There's lots of great criticism for her, though she seems like the absolute best candidate the left could have this year.

But check yourself, because a LOT of people are using anti-black and anti-woman tropes to criticize her, and it is REALLY easy to fall into those.

These are small calories (cal). The large or dietary calorie (Cal) is equal to one kilocalorie (kcal), and is gradually being replaced by the latter correct term.

I did not listen to myself.

thinking about green battery juice

Verslaggeefster van 1Vandaag noemt mensen die transgender jeugdzorg steunen een cult vergelijkbaar met Jehova’s getuigen, iedereen die er later uitvalt (detrans) wordt geëxcommuniceerd. Nou, dan weten we ook weer hoe neutraal de verslaggeving van 1Vandaag is 🙄

I wonder what percentage of urban trees are removed by house flippers. Anecdotally every time a tree in my neighborhood goes down it's to increase resale value.

There used to be two big trees behind my house (in my neighbors yards). Lost the first one a year ago, losing the other today

I'm beating a drum like, electronics isn't actually sorcery y'all,

and then TI casually drops *this* into a datasheet

I want to live in the least patriotic country. Where....is that

The rise of ChatGPT-style "AI tools" is a climate change issue. Advertising them is, by extension, an attempt at disengaging our sense of alarm.

Therefore, "you need to adapt and learn these 'tools'" is an anti-climate stance. Companies that engage in marketing these tools *are* engaging in the politics of climate change, even if they don't know it yet.

can't believe i used to joke about mastodon needing discord-style now playing music statuses when #sharkey actually legiterally had those all along lmao

Train: "if you see something that doesn't look right..."
Me: "yes hello British transport police first of all no OV Chip? What? Not right? For the rest what is not right is these private te...."
BTP (hamgs up)