Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

the idea of a video game (like an RPG or something) where it tells you "press this button combination to do this thing" but every single thing has a unique button combination and that button combination remains possible to press perpetually after the moment you learn about it

so in the tutorial it says "press X to hug your wife" and that's not teaching you the interact button that's teaching you the hug your wife button and at any point if you press that button your character will uninterruptably go to their wife and hug her

video game where if you get 100 points you go up a level and by up a level I mean you teleport up one floor in the building you are currently in

So far today, Google has taken me to a bus stop that doesn't exist, and asked me how crowded i5 is, on a bus that also doesn't exist.

usually when companies are bought/merged I'm somewhere between "oh no" and "meh", but The Onion buying InfoWars' assets is really hilarious

Sometimes I feel like therapy needs to be longer. I don't know if I can untangle everything in the span of an episode of House, I need Avengers level of therapy

Eine autistische Person toleriert ständig Dinge, die sie stören.
Hin und wieder, ist das Maß voll und es kommt zum Nervenzusammenbruch (manchmal inkl Wutausbruch).
Ironischerweise werden wir dann deshalb als "schwierig" eingestuft.
Es ist im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes Wahnsinn, was Autistinnen leisten. Trotzdem gelten wir als unwillig, Kompromisse einzugehen oder uns anzupassen.
Obwohl wir die meiste Zeit unseres Lebens genau das tun .. #AuDHS #autismus #neurodivergenz

Looking at a neat job listing and AGAIN I am caught off guard by the unparalleled chrome extension: Cloud-to-Butt Plus.

I have had this extension for, I believe, over a decade, from before I ever considered being in tech. It CONSTANTLY gets me.

It used to do one thing: change the word "cloud" to the word "butt". These days it does two things: also the words "the cloud" to the words "my butt".

Unparalleled usefulness and excellence.

To people who feel like there aren't many people on mastodon/fediverse, please actually try to be social. So often I see "there's nobody here, i'm going to bsky/threads/whatever" and then when I look at the account's profile on the home server (to make sure I can see all posts and replies), I almost always see very few posts in recent past and even fewer replies. The Fediverse's culture (and mastodon's software) is built around more traditional social networking, like we used to do before algos.

@smveerman with Lelylijn and Nedersaksenlijn also having been killed this government sure seems to hate trains :/

The Dutch government and the province of Limburg have decided that, with the investment budget originally meant for the Hasselt - Maastricht tramline the following actions will be taken:
* Demolishing the railway bridge across the Maas in Maastricht.
* Improve railroad crossing safety between Maastricht and Eijsden for a second Maastricht - Liège service, making that half hourly.
* Buying unused land from ProRail around Maastricht to be used as construction grounds.
* Building a new bicycle bridge across the Maas near the location of the old railway bridge, but only when the demolition of the railway bridge is approved before 2027.

So, that's it then. A possible train service between Maastricht and Flemish Limburg will now forever not be possible.

Source: MIRT Brief Najaar 2024.

The age-old question: "Do I hate MY job or do I just hate having to have A Job?"

Who's interested in being part of a chill "reply when you can" penpal club?

No deadlines unless you want to set yourself one (which is totally legit).

No minimum requirement (send a postcard with a doodle).

It will mean sharing a physical mailing address, but it doesn't have to be your house - maybe a local coffee shop or friend is willing to be your address.

I can make a Signal group for folks who don't want to share here.

[EDIT: ask for my address!]

Tag #FediPenPals