Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

if you have money to donate to the democratic campaign

you have money to be giving to mutual aid asks

#blackpanthers #history

The side of the black panthers most of us white kids were never taught

This is CrowdStrike admitting they haven't used staggered rollouts or canaries -- techniques to limit outage blast radius, both of which are now well over a decade old. Total ineptitude!

my train from the spanish-portugese border from badajoz (as well as the intercity from entroncamento to lisbon) got cancelled because of the strike actions. i've applied for delay compensation and put in the delay that would've had me reach my destination using the next train (around 16h later), but i took a long-distance bus the same day (which i didn't disclose). now #interrail staff is asking me to confirm:

After a review of the situation, we need you to please confirm if you reached your final destination (Lisbon Santa Apolonia)? If you did, how long after your initially planned arrival (at 22:30) did you reach that?
If not, then please elaborate on how the final destination was reached.

As far as we understand, you reached your final destination on the next day. Is that correct as well?

now i don't want to lie to them, but i'm scared that if i disclose that i didn't take the train after all, i won't be eligible for compensation (around 20€ per delay) - the bus cost me 72€.

does anyone here know enough about #train/#railway passenger rights to help me here?

"just one more refactoring/optimization and then to bed, i won't stay up until morning hyperfocused on autism stuff this time" and other lies we tell to ourselves

experimental lineless style! this was harddddddd but a lot of fun and learned a lot! will definitely give this style another go sometime :3

#Furry #FurryArt #Samoyed

Yesterday I found out that Garth Nix, one of my favourite authors, 'doesn't worldbuild the way other writers do'.

He doesn't sit down and plan out detailed worlds. He just comes up with details as he writes and needs them and then that grows in complexity over time, sometimes with occassional ideas or notes floating around.

He worldbuilds like me! I feel so validated! I have always felt like SUCH A FRAUD but The Old Kingdom might be my favourite fantasy world and he built it how I do!

Here’s what parenting can look like.

When I told my dad I was trans, my dad’s response was, “Oh! I can send you jewelry now!” (He was retired and made jewelry as a hobby).

Two days latter, I had a letter in the mail addressed to Joelle, the first time “Joelle” ever got mail, with a necklace in it. Later he made me this one. He told me, “I hope I got the colors right, I looked it up online.”

You don’t have to mourn a child transitioning. You can be the first to do so many affirming things.

One thing I hate the most about trying to prepare a trip to another country is that it's very difficult to find anything useful on the internet. ​​

The search engines are filled with travel blogs who have clearly been paid to promote the place to say that You Should Most Definitely Check Out These 25 Things, which are always the church, some castle, a few statues and the city center - which you can only see after accepting their cookie policy and their 1528 partners.

YouTube is filled with influencers that tell you their local pastry is a-ma-zing and you should DEFINITELY try it, and all the informative videos are made by Americans who have not been there and read aloud a list of facts that they copied from Wikipedia.

Just gimme some simple recommendations like "Finnish people like saunas so you should try a sauna" stuff, I'll see the rest for myself anyway. ​​

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