Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I remember David Graeber's insight into #voting being a big 'Aha' moment for me:

"Majoritarian democracy was, in its origins, essentially a military institution. . . .

"It is of obvious relevance that Ancient Greece was one of the most competitive societies known to history. It was a society that tended to make everything into a public contest . . . So it might not seem entirely surprising that they made political decision-making into a public contest as well. Even more crucial though was the fact that decisions were made by a populace in arms. . . . [I]f a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. . . . [E]ven if the vote was 60/40, everyone could see the balance of forces and what would happen if things actually came to blows. Every vote was, in a real sense, a conquest." #history #politics #democracy

- Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-fragments-of-an-anarchist-anthropology

A multiplayer game where the gameplay is entirely serverside and you connect to the game via what appears to be an unsecured vnc connection (like the sort that VNC Resolver picks up). However, there is no vnc server, the vnc client is talking directly to the game server. The playable characters in game are persistent, and the player is assigned temporary control of one at random when they log in.

i found this on tumblr, so accurate tbh


#ableism #disabled #chronicallyill #chronicpain #chronicfatigue #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

i am 'not disabled enough' for the judicial system but for my doctors i am 'too disabled', no wonder i had to find a lawyer

Hey, everyone. Many of you have been sharing "Lawyer, Passport, Locksmith, Gun" a lot more recently...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihrGNGesfI

... a few folk have inquired about whether I can add transcription/subtitles to that whole talk for greater accessibility.

So now I'm asking: do I know anyone who does this as a service and would you like to hit me up with your rates and availability?

(NOTE: i'd prefer to give my money to LGBTQ+ folk right now, so please feel free to specify that if you're OK with doing so)

Speaking as someone living in Hungary, to friends in the #USA:

The greatest weapon the system has is outrage fatigue. Doing so many unimaginable things at the same time that people just sigh and go on. Having so many things to protest that you run out of days and hours. Piling on so you start focusing on surviving with your bare mental health day to day.

Pick your cause and stick to it. Support others who focus on different causes. Don't try to do everything at once.

I cleaned my whole place this weekend and the universe is rewarding me by making it somehow smell like fresh pine needles despite no such plant existing anywhere near me. I am like some kind of depression deity where having conquered physical space I created an entirely new smell universe

The brilliance of authoritarian movements politicizing scholarship & higher education is that any moves that universities take to defend themselves are instantly framed as “being too political” and universities loathe to be seen as being political.

bingo !!!

Uhh reply on my kernel patch. Did not yet get a reply because the reviewer is currently learning rust for proper review. That sounds actually very very good, and as I still have to write the other parts it’s fine to take some time

When people ask what it's like to work in gamedev I'm going to show them this post from now on.

My Fediverse Advice:

* Follow more people. No, even more people than that. Basically, if you find a real person and their posts are good follow 'em
* If you get a good reply to a post boost it. If you make a good reply to a post boost it. Replies are not visible in the feed unless you do this. As long as the post is an OK start to a conversation or interesting boost it.
* Write thoughtful replies. And if you put effort into a reply boost it or probably only the people tagged will see it.

Does anyone here know about the name change process in Oklahoma?

I want to change my name, but when looking at paperwork I found online... it asked for my parents location/contact info.

I don't want the court to contact my parents. I don't even know what their address is.

I'm in my 30s. They should have no place in this process. Especially because my birth name is a subject of PTSD for me....

Help?

Seeing a lot of posts wondering what a white person can do to signal to people that they didn’t vote for Trump. This isn’t my idea, and I’m sorry I didn’t bookmark the original, but the absolute easiest thing is wear a mask 😷

A Trump voter wouldn’t be caught dead in one, and even if the right wing co-opts it (like they did with safety pins) it’s win-win - they’ll still be protecting community

A t-shirt that reads ‘Bring Back iOS 7’ in the thinnest possible Helvetica Neue, light grey on a slightly darker light grey shirt.