Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

A billionaire is someone who could lift thousands of families out of poverty without any noticeable impact on themselves, and has chosen not to.
#TaxBillionaires

OH: this meeting couldn't have been an email, because the email client would warn you about the empty body

I picked up a hitch-hiker. I always stop for them, so I pulled over out of habit. Forgetting I was on a tween road, a ghost road, a twixt road.

"I'm going to Bonn," I said.

"What century?"

"Twenty-first."

"Close enough, I can wait there."

"Hop in."

I don't pry, but I am curious.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

apparently you can just airdrop yourself Apple Pro Apps from display units in Apple Stores and use them without paying hundreds of dollars xd

there's no rule that goes "it's okay to cheat as long as it's not multiplayer"

cheating in a game is okay if everyone affected by it consents

if you play a custom game mode in any moddable game, that's the same as cheating but within a framework that ensures everyone who is playing with you vaguely understands what changes have been made to the rules of the game

the player count doesn't matter. what matters is consent

The fact that open source exists makes the extent of the burnout dumbfounding

What I mean is, you can read open source as "you can't stop developers from writing code"--we have some of the most prized skills in the world, and we'll give it away because we love computers.

How does the collective business world take that and fuck it up so bad that we never want to look at another computer again?

after that one I stop (for now, today, maybe, dunno):

liberals be like:

But, like, all the white people in the replies trying to be helpful by centring themselves is . . . fucking yikes.

So, for people who want to be allies:

1. Don't ask the person being harassed for stuff. If you want to help, but don't know what to do, make a separate post asking on your own TL.

2. Your feelings of guilt or shame or whatever for stuff that you didn't actually do - replying about those emotions reads like a request for reassurance. Somebody been systemically harassed should not be asked to make you feel better about their pain. If you're having complicated feelings about whiteness, this is good for your own post. Self-loathing is not a more acceptable way of centring your own whiteness.

Rule of thumb: if your reply is actually about you, just subtoot it instead.

I think we need to encourage people to stop using phrases like "Rupert Murdoch is worth $8.3 billion" and replace them with the more accurate "Rupert Murdoch *controls* $8.3 billion." People aren't worth any more or less because of their wealth or lack of it. The phrase encourages a sloppy and immoral habit of thought.

I don’t know why taking photos of shit like this is so irresistible to me but it is

Everything catastrophically wrong with the world was done to make some billionaire even richer.

Every town that had to evacuate due to a chemical spill, strip mining, or a never-ending underground fire was done to make some billionaire even richer

Every news article that pits white people against minorities and immigrants is written to distract us from billionaires destroying democracy, human rights and the planet to make themselves even richer.

The billionaires are the problem.

means testing doesn't stop determined fraudsters,

but they're an insignificant minority of applicants to government aid programs to begin with.

what means testing does do is convince people who need help that asking the government for help isn't worth the time or effort, and then provide an excuse to cut funding to said means-tested programs due to an artificially depressed number of applicants.