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

@0xabad1dea Ethan Zuckerman (@ethanz on here) noted this way back in the 20th century when he worked at Tripod. In 2008 he wrote "Porn is a weak test for the success of participatory media — it’s like tapping a mike and asking, “Is it on?” If you’re not getting porn in your system, it doesn’t work. Activism is a stronger test — if activists are using your tools, it’s a pretty good indication that your tools are useful and usable."

Links/cites/context at: https://www.erosblog.com/2013/05/01/the-pornocalypse-comes-for-us-all/

So I see that in one day, folks organizing through a hashtag on Mastodon have successfully collected almost $100,000 in donations for Kamala Harris' campaign. This is pretty impressive, in my opinion.

Now, I'm not going to discourage you from voting or from participating in electoral politics. But I am going to just point out that Black queer and trans folks' mutual aid fundraisers on this platform routinely go underfunded and even the boosts are sparse.

When considering donating money, I want us to ask ourselves: whose needs are centered? Who benefits? Why donate to a politician but ignore a poor person? What are my politics really and how do they show up in my spending habits?

These are just suggestions, but I think the implications are pretty important.

has anyone made a formula for how much thread a seam would take?

i imagine it would be something like

seam length • (fabric thickness • a + stitch stride • b)

where a and b depend on the stitch pattern used (obviously a backstitch will use more thread than a single stitch)

i have once again fallen to my vices: trying to explain some small technical thing and having it spiral way out of control until i'm conflating release engineering with Doing A Gender and decide to announce another transition via my work's developer comms

https://blog.axo.dev/2024/07/an-app-by-any-other-name

Oh gods it's true it's so fucking true

if you have a savings and a steady income

you should be giving to mutual aid asks regularly

help people for fucks sake

if you have money for new tech regularly

you have money to give to mutual aid asks

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?

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.