Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

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

for ppl who wanna protect themselves properly at #38C3 : i'm selling/giving away ffp3 masks at a pay what you want basis. they cost me originally 30ct a piece, but i dont need them anymore

just tell me how many you need at which day, i'll take them along and we can meet and i'll give them to you.

they have bands going around the back of the head, fyi

dm here or on signal (schrottkatze.42) :3

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.

I am begging people to think structurally about these things. There's assholes here, and there need to be more structural ways of mitigating the harm that they can do, but you can't build that if you're bound *at a structural level* to the decisions of a singular moderation team.

Expecting any one group of moderators to always make the right decision, especially when there's funding incentives involved, is simply too high a bar to meet in practice.

Saw a post the other day rolling their eyes at reactions on the fediverse to the whole Bluesky/Singal fiasco... after all, there's assholes here, too, right?

That's not the point, though: it's that the core Bluesky moderation team *endorsed* Singal, and there's no meaningful way *at a structural level* to dissent from their decision to do so.

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.

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