Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

anyone have opinions on projectors for home use? i looked around and they go from 230 euros to 2,300 euros and uh, that's a big spread

EDIT: Fwiw we can position it pretty far from the screen (about 3 meters I'd guess) and we have blinds that we can use to darken the room very effectively

An escaped scarlet ibis is hanging around in a polder near Dordrecht, and it makes for some incredible photos. The animal looks like it came straight from one of Audubon's books.

#birds #birding

Question for pagans and/or Christmas-music avoiders: I’ve been told I have to play holiday music next week at the bookshop. I protested fruitlessly but am allowed to play “witchy solstice” music (an idea I threw out there) as long as it’s “festive holiday” music. Any thoughts on a Pandora station that might pass muster? What’s “festive” and lends itself to peaceful bookshop browsing—maybe folk, instrumental (like harp??), Celtic, Scandinavian, ancient Germanic . . . ?

#PaganMusic #SolsticeMusic

My mother’s union just secured a 40% raise and 7 weeks parental leave for its workers after walking off the job (in an illegal strike no less).

Don’t let people tell you unions aren’t worth fighting for

Putting the new iOS18 “vehicle motion cues” to the test in the passenger seat on today’s windy roads down the Oregon Coast to reduce motion sickness potential. So simply clever, so unexpectedly effective, and barely distracting once you get used to it.

The only downside is that it’s impossible to remember how to search for that very specific name in settings search, but there’s a control center widget for toggling it that makes that moot.

anyone else keep redundant pieces of furniture around cause the cat likes em?

#CatsOfMastodon

Imprisonment is a form of torture, no matter how 'humane' it is on paper, and should be treated as such from an ethical perspective.

And when you argue for imprisoning people as a form of 'justice', you are arguing for torture as a form of 'justice', with all of the implications that that has.

It's just a form of torture that's easy to rationalize if you don't want to confront those implications.

Oh my FUCKING GOD

I finished dumping 99.99% of a very old, damaged, backup CDROM that was previously unreadable. It took 3 days and I was super excited to find out what old data I put on it. The disc had UDF sessions, because that was common at the time for just Adding Files to non-rewritable media.

So I mount that shit in my Windows 98SE box, and lo and behold, this is all that was on it.

I would be absolutely upset if it wasn't so fucking funny

#cdrom #DataArchival #retrocomputing

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Info & training: https://a12blokkade.nl/

so recently i found out about that morrowind mod that adds a complete recreation of emba-5 (a real small military town that was built in kazakhstan during the ussr times). the mod was made by a person who lived there and i thought it was kind of cute until it turned out the mod maker is a russian religious quack nazbol guy who says that it's a "uniquely russian" town and believes kazakh people cursed it and bastardized it after ussr fell. wack.

can this post be boosted around im trying to find more to follow in this realm and in this instance

#otherkin #punk #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #leftist #leftists #queer #xenogender

My SECOND overt transphobia ever! Dang, they're coming often now!

I'm walking down the street, minding my business, some kid, he wasn't even twenty probably gives me a weird look. Then another. Then another.

Don't judge a book by its cover, but this guy is not winning any Nobel Prizes anytime soon. He doesn't have a very... thoughtful expression. Even though he's clearly puzzled.

I don't bother, I do look... striking today, and I've been given looks before. We stop at a red light. I don't look at him because who gives a fuck.

"What's that you're wearing?", I hear. The verb "wearing" genders me as a guy.

I look at the guy "pardon me?"

"What're you wearing? Why'd you leave the house like this?"

He's still gendering me make. I repeat the verb at him in the correct gender to correct him. He repeats the incorrect verb. It goes back and forth like this two times. I smirk.

"You're a boy", he says accusingly. He's about half my age but he uses the familiar "you". It's a bit rude in Polish to address a stranger like that. Also, "boy"? Fucker, I could be your mother, lmfao.

I smile. "Nope, I'm a girl".

"You're a boy". He's very angry.

I laugh a little. "Whatever you say." The light is green. I cross the street.

"Faggot.", I hear behind me. I turn sharply and take just one step towards him. I'm a good deal bigger and taller than him.

He scurries away like the rat he is. He taunts me, implying he wants to get violent. But curiously, whenever I take one step towards him, he takes two steps back.

He keeps acting "tough". I'm losing my patience, so I calmly but menacingly invite him to show me what he's got. He moves even further away, all the way talking shit.

"You're running away that easily? That was quick", I comment and move on.

Transphobes are weak spineless bitches. So are homophobes. I'm pissed off, but also very satisfied with this encounter. Those shits are weak. Even the ones who are physically strong.