Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@gnomon I'm not sure how long it will take before it stops being funny to me but the novelty is already lasting longer than I expected

This will be the final time that my kidneys will travel home together (@ IC 2984 ➜ Utrecht Centraal) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/4164491

Hi, ik ben nieuw hier. Ik ben benieuwd wat ik hier aantref. Ik ben vooral geïnteresseerd in contact met #nonbinaire personen.

me: i’ve single-handedly written software used by tens of millions of people, you can see it right over at github.com/april

prospective employers: sorry, but unfortunately you did poorly in a high-stress 40-minute coding exercise, writing code with no time to think about how to solve a problem you’ve never seen before, in a terrible dev environment, while someone stares at you the whole time

Whenever people tell me to 'have more reasonable expectations from people', by which they really mean "don't expect more from people than others do", I can't help but think...

Look at the world around you. Does it really look like a desirable outcome to you? How 'reasonable' is the standard set of expectations really, if this is what it results in? Why *aren't you* setting higher expectations from your peers?

So that's enough about #Meta, #Facebook and #Zuckerberg for now. There are more things going on on this planet and beyond.

Facebook/Meta has been a problem since their start. I'm trying, helping and fighting for better Facebook alternatives since I think 2012. It's not fun that people do not take you serious, only because they are the ones vulnerable to peer pressure and commercial propaganda. It's also not fun being right all the time and then seeing everyone return to their big tech overlords after a while over and over again.

#meme #memes #homeless #unhoused #housingcrisis #costofliving #capitalism

I'm sharing my new 2025-01 Krita brush bundle under CC-0/Public Domain, I hope you'll like them!
Blog post to download: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1060/krita-brushes-2025-01-bundle

#krita

X and meta are generic terms. When you use them to refer to Twitter and Facebook you evade my filters.

I'm starting to unfollow and mute accounts that do this, which unfortunately includes some of my mutuals.

If you are posting a headline that refers to Facebook as "Meta" please at least put the word Facebook in the post so I don't have to see it.

You're not paid by Musk or Zuckerberg, so please don't do their rebranding work for them.

#X #Meta #Facebook #Twitter

I've resigned to accepting that I must simply be a grandma with an address book, writing letters and sending them off via carrier pigeon in order to stay in contact with human beings in the digital age.

In effort to salvage what connections I can from Meta before fully deleting it all, I've been begrudgingly spending all my free time porting contact info/birthdays/etc from FB and into my own contacts. I am ALARMED at how few phone numbers or e-mail addresses I actually have for people, even family. There's a clear line in 2010 where I just stopped asking for phone numbers and did all communication on apps. I was really out there meeting up with old friends I'd reconnected with on FB, and not once even exchanging a phone number!

So anyway, let this be your reminder not to let your connections with people hinge on one app. Make an effort to actually gather direct contact details for people that are important to you, in a safe place that can't be nuked at the whims of CEOs (or beefing instance admins).

There's a type of reply-guy that crawls out of the woodwork when I post anything that might inspire others to take action, and they're deceptively insidious.

Regardless of the topic, they sound like this:

Alice: I don't own a gun because they're for killing and I'm not a fan of killing.
Bob: Then only the bad guys will have guns.

Alice: I deleted my Facebook account.
Bob: If the good people leave then the bad guys win.

Alice: I'm openly queer so others know they're not alone.
Bob: You'll make yourself a target.

In every instance, they defend the shitty state of things by discouraging action and change. It's a reply that is designed to support the default, the current power structure. It's a type of reply meant to de-fang movements.

I've posted about this before, but apparently it bears repeating. Fighting for something takes energy. Change takes sustained energy and momentum. These types of interactions sap energy. They're not posting anything openly disagreeable, they're just dropping little doubt caltrops, little concern anchors—making it harder to keep fighting, harder to gain momentum.

If you're about to jump into a thread and concern troll, don't. I'm fucking sick of it. The rest of us don't have the time or energy to drag your dead weight along.

#ReplyGuys #Concern #Trolling #Change

Stop using Telegram for organizing!

(and for anything else too)

https://www.404media.co/telegram-hands-u-s-authorities-data-on-thousands-of-users/

Hoe vaak moet een theemok vervangen/gewassen worden?

#annaWilGraagWeten