Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

"Would you prefer if sites were funded by ads instead of paywalls?"

No Mr. Bond, I'd prefer those sites to die.

It's always a good evening when you find a new Deviant Ollam video.

Fire codes \o/

Have you ever wondered how to drink tea in style whilst cruising through the Eurotunnel?
Well, I have answered that question for myself.

I do like systems that randomly have to come up with underground station designs, only to be used once. In Bergen, this would be Haukeland sjukehus station, which is the only underground station other than the airport station, which is more in a cutting than anything.

Quite a striking design and deeep deeeep underneath the surface (it’s underneath a hill) and connects the university hospital and other health centres with the rest of the city.

Can't stop thinking about the Deckintosh

Finally a keyboard for me and my ADHD!

"we have added AI to our product": the 7 magic words to get rid of half your userbase

“We’ve implemented end-to-end encryption.”

Hurray!

“With OpenPGP.”

Oh no.

Hey, transfeminine folks! I had a convo with my (very trans-friendly) audiologist, and she asked an interesting question based on some anecdotal observations:

Have any of you noticed a correlation between feminizing HRT and hearing loss?

I'm not a good example, as I had hearing loss long before I started HRT in November 2020, but she's consulted with other audiologists who've noticed a similar trend. This may be a fluke, or confirmation bias, or related to something completely unrelated to HRT, e.g. transfems also tend to listen to really loud noisecore hyperpop or whatever, but I said I'd reach out to get some more anecdotal information. 😊 Thanks!

Muis gaapt altijd drie keer.
Maar hij hield het bij twee. Ik was heel verbaasd.

"Muis? Moet je niet nog een keer gapen? Die 'nu ga ik actie ondernemen'-gaap?"
Hij keek lichtjes om zich heen en vooruit.
"Heb ik dan je middelste gaap gemist?" vroeg ik hem.
Geen antwoord.
Ik wachtte.

Na een minuut kwam De Derde Gaap.

if you see this post you must take a sip of water. that's the rules

#pixelart #mastoart #art

Wait no, postcards are FREE while the app is in beta

Dude. No. You shouldn’t have told me about your app. This is like when they didn’t have ordering limits on USPS flat rate boxes so as a teen I ordered 10,000 flat rate boxes to my house and the local post office in my rural Iowa town had to shut down for the day to process them all. Something like that might happen.

Fedi has a bunch of plural critters, so let me ask here:

How would I, as one part of a system, unambiguously refer to a pre-plural self? Both "I" or "we" seem off there, and writing it out all the time sucks.
Context: System is a split with two headmates.

Links to external resources are also welcome.

i think about this image a lot

Did you know it used to be illegal for a company to buy back its own stock? It was understood to be stock price manipulation. (Because it is.)

Reagan's "deregulation" changed the rules in 1982.

Like everything else, companies now pay politicians to keep it the way it is.

#deregulation #reagan #corruption

🎨 today we're doing literature collection for a meeting with my boss to try to get covid protections in the office. if you have articles or especially studies on long covid or on testing false negatives, i would *love* to hear from you