Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

i've been told my whole life that bugs are weird or scary or gross. i took it to heart, rarely sharing my interest in them. hiding that i find them beautiful and fascinating. but being on here, seeing so many share my excitement has really helped me fully embrace my love for all things creepy and crawly. i love your bug pictures and i love your appreciation for them. thank you for that, even if no one else in your life appreciates bugs, i do.

#bugs #insects #beetles #spiders #invertebrates #bees

@jstevenyork it’s in the interests of the billionaire owned centralised social media to destroy any alternative because it show a different possibility so of course we hear ‘Mastodon is dead’ all the time. #Mastodon doesn’t have to be the biggest to win it just has to exist.

using antivirus software is like if you had a book of all the objects in the world that aren't safe to eat and you walked around putting random objects from the ground into your mouth after checking to make sure they weren't in the book

My mom, who is in her 70s, and not particularly tech savvy, just explained that she hates Google now, because the first results are always AI, which just pulls from other sources and is usually inaccurate.

So let’s stop assuming that non-techies, older people, and mothers and grandmothers are too naive to see through the hype. Mostly it’s the tech bros and finance douches who are too stupid to actually understand what they’re boosting.

I enjoy reading theory and creating new analyses of the world, and the queer experience, and my experience, etc.

But I'm so surprised by how I constantly see people come up with very specific theories (that may or may not be entirely correct! That's not the point here) about e.g. who is and is not allowed to use certain words like transmisogyny to describe their experiences (but this dynamic has happened before in previous discussions)

And they are SO certain, so assured that they're right. And everyone else in the queer community must immediately be onboard with the theory and with its new rules about who is allowed to use what words. Even while there are several other queer people arguing the opposite, in good faith.

What I want to say is this: theory is useful and important. But also, don't use it as a bludgeon to create rifts in the queer community.

Queer and trans people of all kinds (transfems, transmascs, non-binary people, furries, etc) are my siblings, fighting my same fight. Specific details about how they experience their oppression may be different, and it's useful (and fun!) to think about that. What's not useful is to argue about those details, or what the best name for them may be, in a way that further divides our communities.

If that starts happening, maybe it's time to reconsider, if not the theory itself, then at least your communication strategy.

can you immediately recognize the difference between ❤️ and ♥️ in your emoji font of choice, or are you normal

Kinda wild that “no one should die for shareholder profits” isn’t a universal belief.

(Der Wagen ist wegen defekter Heizung gesperrt)

/cc @BahnAnsagen

Apparently one of my skills is "mimicking the sounds of inanimate objects", like rusty playground swings, rubber duckies, and powertools.

(And a full range of cat sounds, but those are not 'inanimate')

Visual Artists:

Has knowing about #AI generated art had an impact on your art?

That is, have you shifted the focus or style of your work? Have you felt the need to make "making of" or process gifs/videos/image sequences to show how your work is created (to make it clear it is human made?)

Do you now use (or not use) certain elements/tools to distance your work from AI images? (For example, switching back to pen and paper.)

Check all that apply:

#aiart #art #artists #drawing

Laziness does not exist

https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/laziness-does-not-exist

From the archive earlier this month: For the GRP 127 Tour du Brabant Wallon in Belgium SGR at multiple locations had difficulties finding locations for placing waymarkers, because of a lack of fences and trees. They solved that with those handmade wood carved maps before a section without signposts. This is the one near Chapelle du Rond Chêne in Tourinnes-la-Grosse.

🦊 🍁

Thank you for your interest!
We brought over 2000 #catears to #38C3 but are now completely out of stock.
See you at the next event

PSA: Bitte nutzt unsere taktilen Karten am #38c3 nicht als Ablagefläche. Nicht lang, nicht kurz mal was abstellen, einfach gar nicht.
Wenn ihr etwas auf einem Tisch seht, helft bitte mit es zu entfernen damit die Karten benutzbar bleiben!
Danke!
#a11y #accessibility

“Casual Viewing | Issue 49 | n+1 | Will Tavlin”

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/

> According to Netflix’s rubric, two users who watch the first half of Sweet Girl and close their laptops equal one full “view” — as do 110 users who each watch a single minute.

Good, if depressing, read.

Hotel 'security' has been defeated once again.

I wonder how universal the password for the Mifare Ultralight is? Specific to the hotel, or across the entire chain?

#38c3

Ready to tackle big math problems.