Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

There is something I want sighted people to understand about blind people. If you see a blind person heading toward a wall, tree, bench, or any other object they might bump into and potentially get injured, it doesn’t necessarily mean you should immediately try to pull them out of the way. It's completely natural to feel concerned, but a better approach would be to just warn them and ask if they need help. While there are times when it's actually needed, it might also be that they are going toward a landmark they use for orientation, and as unfortunate as it is, you might unintentionally get them confused and disorientated. I often purposely look for such objects to better remember the route, and not all places are accessible enough for me to be able to get back on track if I take a wrong turn. Your help and concern are really appreciated a lot, but sometimes things are different from how they seem, and that's why it's always better to ask first.

Related question: given the direction the world is heading, I am looking at possibly going back to running our own hardware in a physical rack within our local jurisdication, instead of renting capacity in the cloud.

I am familiar with the usual suspects, but perhaps there are folks with excess rack space on here, or with good suggestions for new players that started in the past 5-10 years?

Renewable power, in the Netherlands, at least 6-8U.

Boosts welcome 🙏🏻

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Emigration is not a good way of avoiding authoritarian regimes. Sometimes its necessary, especially if the regime is turning violent

But emigrating from one authoritarian state to another will usually leave you genuinely worse off and being a foreigner in even a progressive state is always going to be a very vulnerable position.

Most countries will also outright refuse to give you a work visa if you are too old or disabled.

let's just say: western furries, go fucking clean your garbage inside your fandoms

The justice minister might be VVD but the entire government currently answers to Geert Wilders so the cops know they can get away with pretty much anything

friends, the consent machine for the Amsterdam police beating up people opposing the genocide in Gaza has been running full-speed so maybe avoid going to Amsterdam for the next couple of days if you can and if you must don’t wear a keffiyeh or flag pin and be ready to record video evidence if you encounter police hassling people including yourself

it's medication shortage season again, so I've done a bit more work on hrt-monitor, my hacky command-line solution for finding stock of the drugs you need at your local Boots pharmacy!

in particular, it now has instructions and somewhat of an actual interface! go take a look if you're in need of HRT (or anything else!) but can't find it :)

There’s still thousands of CS undergrads who have no idea their complicated feelings about gender they feel super alone in are so common in their field of study it’s become a cliche

If you buy a gun, find or make a group to train with asap. A gun you don't know how to use safely and effectively is worse than useless.

Talking about polarisation today at Friends of Europe

It reminds me of friends’ reaction when I went to Seifhennersdorf. And polite German friends of mine said “why would you ever go to Seifhennersdorf? And will you be safe?” https://jonworth.eu/the-personal-is-political-have-you-ever-been-to-seifhennersdorf-zgorzelec-or-ormenio/

“The tech industry is about to get a lot worse | Go Make Things”

https://gomakethings.com/the-tech-industry-is-about-to-get-a-lot-worse/

This.

Pirate everything. Who gives a fuck anymore? Steal some joy from the abyss.

Good article on the @internetarchive and "library" in the 21st century.

https://insidestory.org.au/what-is-a-library/