Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I just read a post by someone bemoaning the loss of connection to Black and other communities as they shift to allow-list-only instances. I want to share my (slightly edited) reply more widely, because I think this is a thing many white people on here don't understand:

allow-list-only instances can (and likely will) still choose to federate with instances that don't allow unacceptable behavior toward them.

if you're on an instance that is allowing white supremacy to run rampant, then yes, you will lose access to Black and other communities negatively impacted by whiteness. is this an acceptable tradeoff for you? are you willing to push your instance mods to do better, or move to an instance where they will?

and if not, you need to sit with what that says about you. because you are very literally choosing to be part of the problem.

There is passing privilege, but there is also the privilege of not having to pass, it’s way more nuanced than black and white passing bad or passing good

Passing is neither the end all be all of being trans, nor is it simply something you can ignore and trivialize, it’s an important mechanic of the trans experience and the way you deal with the concept is related to your geographical, socio-political and socio-economic realities

Yes maybe passing is “bullshit” if you’re a middle class tech workers in a progressive European Capital, but it absolutely is life or death in regressive countries where being trans is illegal and may result in a death penalty

Passing is like an unequally distributed social lubricant that like conventional beauty can become an obsession to the detriment of your life quality, but it’s also a tool of survival, and I feel most takes on the morality of passing really are way too personal and don’t generalize in the slightest

have physicists determined yet why it is that when you drop a small item it always, always disappears? even when it had a fairly predictable path & you watched it fall & there was no reason for it to bounce or shoot off in a weird direction or anything

yesterday it eeped with a surprisingly good view on the rail infrastructure :3

- Patricia, you ancient programmer, how does one get good at programming, please share your wisdom.

*thinks*

Well, you write a lot of bad code, like a hole shitton of bad code, then you maintain it for a few years and then you look at it again and say holy shit, and that’s when you know you’ve gotten better. Rinse and repeat for ever.

please reply to this with either

a) something that you think would make elon musk upset if someone said it to him
b) a thing about elon musk that happened a while back that you feel like everyone else forgot

I'd sure love to pay a tech co-op $25/month to host and sync a knowledge-workers stack including an open-source read-later + Obsidian or equivalent + Zotero + simple blogging with blot or something

Today's screams brought to you by Omnivore (open source) giving its entire hosted userbase two weeks to get their data out before they exuberantly drown themselves in the service of an Andreessen Horowitz-funded AI voice company co-founded by a Palantir person.

https://blog.omnivore.app/p/omnivore-is-joining-elevenlabs

(The two weeks' notice went to my spam folder, so I'm grateful someone mentioned it here and I happened to see it.)

some of the fog pictures i took

"Het is dit jaar 10 jaar geleden dat actiegroep Kick Out Zwarte Piet (KOZP) haar eerste acties organiseerde. De acties maakten veel los en hebben een belangrijke bijdrage geleverd aan een nieuwe golf van anti-racisme in Nederland.

Dit jaar heeft #KOZP aangekondigd dat ze, na 10 jaar strijden voor bewustwording over racisme in Nederland, de boodschap duidelijk hebben gemaakt dat racistische stereotypes en beeldvorming niet langer normaal zijn. Het wordt tijd om het stokje over te dragen aan de samenleving."

Wanneer? Vrijdag 15 november 2024
Waar? Bijlmerplein 140
Tijd? 19:00 - 22:00 uur
Entree? €7,50 (Opbrengst wordt gedoneerd aan KOZP)

https://www.theblackarchives.nl/10jaar-kozp.html

#BlackArchives #antiracism #Blackface

So you got a vague interest in what might be a new hobby or something that you need some equipment to do, whaddaya do, you check out the various forums for it right?

Save you some time: find the posts from people new to the thing asking what kinda gear to buy, and check the replies. See how long it takes before someone gives the only correct answer

🐿 Hey I'm new to this, what kinda badger comb should I get?
->🐁 BrushBoi 2000. Anything less is trash. You'll waste your money.
-> 🦊 BrushBoi 6000 costs a couple grand but it's well worth it
-> 🐺 Ignore these guys, DapperLad makes WAY better badger brushes
-> 🦌 TBH this is an expensive hobby and most people bail real quick, just get a cheap one off Amazon, it'll suck but you're probably not gonna stick around anyway
-> 🐧 Hi, welcome to the hobby! I'd start by checking the secondhand markets, badger brushes haven't really changed much in the last 30-odd years and you can spend the same money on a really good Tangle-B-Gon from the 90's or on a brand new cheap one that won't be nearly as good but will still basically get the job done. Good luck and happy brushing, show us what you got when you find a deal!

This forum has a Shite Index of 4, that is four awful responses before the only correct answer

LB: (https://botsin.space/@muffinista/113392588900840218)
So, with botsin.space shutting down, what's the next best place for bots to live on Fedi?

FAFO presents: Gardena to ISO KF 16 High Vacuum adapter.