Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@joepie91 same, i was really disappointed about how much of the program was “ai” related, and not in a critical way. not to mention that so-called “ai” is also deeply anti-hacker. they are closed systems owned by corporations. the only “ai” talks i want to see at something like ccc are about how to burn it to the ground.

is me being into older stronger men somehow connected to the fact that my father is a cold abusive authoritarian asshole and thus i need to compensate with a figure that would actually love me or is it just speculative bs that pathologizes kinks

I felt a tingling in my toes. I looked down and my toenails were bright red.

Uh, what. I pushed the game controller stick the other way. Back to normal.

I looked up at the TV. The character editor in “Battle Shell” lets you change *everything* from species to earring length, but I had never noticed the “player” checkbox in the edit screen before; I’d reflexively toggled it to see what it did. To be fair I skipped reading the release notes for the update that downloaded overnight.

I adjusted the hair slider. Oooh that felt weird. I sat forward and long red hair fell down my chest, from where it had been bunched up behind my head. Hmmn, chest… could it be?

It could. I am gonna be here for the /day/.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

@joepie91 I have had similar interactions with so many people doing web development professionally, all who should know better, so many times.

And the worst part: most of the time these situations can be avoided entirely by "just not doing" something. And for most of the similar situations: with literally no drawbacks.

We are in an abusive relationship with technology.

So, yes, give it a name. Explain it. Notice it. Be outraged by it.

But also, at every opportunity we have, we have to reject it. (I noted, as I read the original article that I was accosted and asked for my email address twice, the second time while reading a section about how invasive and useless that is)

There are places that the Rot has not yet reached. We must identify them, share them, and embrace them.

(Linux and BSD, the fediverse in general, peertube, physical media, jellyfin/kodi)

When The Rot comes to places that should have been safe, we have to destroy them. Starve them of the users that power them or actually burn them to the ground. If you don't sanitize the area, the Rot will spread.

That means Ubuntu. That means bluesky. That means, in many ways, mastodon as a software platform.

Car drivers and illegal parking that blocks an emergency road

Name a more iconic duo

OPINION: "Heavy" websites which pile on the megabytes with pages bloated far beyond their useful contents are hit hard when shared on Mastodon. A moment for reflection? No. https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/?hehehehe

The life of a Trans person who has lived in the closet is a life of violence. I need to make space for this today for myself.

I don’t want to talk about the physical and sexual violence some of us experience, but the emotional violence we all do, and then, a specific manifestation of this violence.

🧵

honestly i want a crime drama/police show that actually does the inverse of copaganda and has the main character realize that they are a pawn in the system which is designed to enact violence on people for financial and political gain and they were lied to their entire life. they try to change it from the inside but then realize that they can't do it and the only way to do so is destroy it.

also could apply to a war movie tbh

4 years ago I convinced the HOA board to leave the leaf litter for the insects to winter in.

Now every summer we have so many fireflies.

New guy just moved in and asked if he should rake up the common areas.

A literal child stood up to say that he shouldn't because they will not have summer fireflies if he does.

So proud of the little one starting to advocate for the world they want to live in.

6 years told and already learning how to get things done.

The leaves will stay.