Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I don't know who needs to hear this but Gilette Venus Smooth and Gilette Mach 3 blades and handles are interchangeable 🪄

Mach 3 blades are anywhere between 50c and €1 cheaper per blade than even most basic Venus blades and they are WAY sharper and give a smoother shave with a little extra care.

Venus handles are WAY more comfortable to hold, especially when wet.

Do with this information what you will.

something that bluesky does that I think other platforms should adopt is not leaving alt text in a tooltip. if you click on an image with alt text in bluesky, it puts the text in a box below the image. this is extremely handy if you want to do things like copy alt text easily for, say, translation purposes

Vandaag zijn we begonnen op molen "de Vlieger", een poldermolen in de buurt. Één van onze molenaars is in de Vlieger geboren en heeft er in gewoond.

Het smeren van de kaprollen is een klusje wat je het best met meerdere personen kunt doen, dus helpen we elkaar.

Het was zonnig winterweer, dus dat leverde ook nog een mooie #weerfoto op.

It's weird seeing how people in online communities eventually develop this near-hostile copy-pasta way of answering questions. It often stems from an advice being correct in some cases, but becomes insanely frustrating when it's offered as a solution to something that sounds bit like the original problem but isn't and now the original poster gets ridiculed for not taking the obvious right answer.

People from IT may recognise this as "It's always DNS" or "sfc /scannow".

Pinball people might recognise "Replace BR2 and C5".

Debugging mysterious problems and just talking about it online in the hopes of fresh perspectives seems to just cause a flood of this copy-pasta, with people getting offended when told this wasn't it.

#frustration

My former housemate in #Amsterdam got the extension of her #visa refused. She needs a renewal every year and has to prove her contribution to the Dutch art community. Her contribution and renown has grown in the past year, and she still didn't get a new visa.
It's the different interpretation of the same rules under the new, right wing government. Something most Dutch people seemed sure wouldn't happen.

‘If a billionaire disappears, does the world lose a scientist? No.
An artist? No.
A healer? No.
A teacher? No.
A farmer a horticulturist? No
The world loses nothing of value.
Because #billionaires produce nothing.
They consume.
They extract.
They pollute.
They destroy #nature
They build empires on suffering.
Their existence is not a triumph of the system.
It is proof of its failure.’ of Economic Growth (GDP)

There’s a vital alternative system it’s called a #WellbeingEconomy

#economics #usa #EU

So if you are at #FOSDEM, we hope you're vaccinated, wearing an appropriate mask, opting not to enter rooms that are simply too crowded, and taking the range of other precautions that are necessary to avoid catching any number of infections that circulate in Europe this time of year.

The aim of #fluConf is to provide an on alternative for the many people who are already disabled by #covid, or are immune-compromised, or living with those who are vulnerable, or just hold the reasonable position of not wanting to be infected with a potentially deadly or debilitating illness.

So, if you're reading this, welcome to #fluConf2025 !

The white house website has finished purging all mention of trans and nonbinary people (aside from the EOs themselves), e.g. from the travel guidance page, which now warns LGB travelers that some other countries don't recognize same-sex marriage.

They've moved on to NIH, CDC and similar. The entire CDC database of 1.4k datasets is temporarily offline while they "bring it into compliance" with the EO declaring trans people aren't real.

I've noticed that some of the people I'm in contact with via. email have removed the pronouns from their signatures. More than I would have liked to think. No one has TOLD them to do this.

There are some cases where people are being told. But, this isn't that. It's fear at best and something much more ugly at worst.

This is exactly the kind of craven compliance that will lead to all the worst places. No one told you to do that. WHY are you so eager to help?

https://chaos.social/@Aphrodite/113918452626550875

Our local Fediverse timeline is a surreal mix of people happily posting maskless selfies from #FOSDEM while others share alarming measurements of poor air circulation or mention their flu-like symptoms.

This is essentially the exact situation which prompted the idea of #fluConf last February.

#fluConf2025

Microsoft's OS API documentation has deteriorated to the point where the documentation contains links to the Wayback Machine of the documentation.

https://hoosier.social/@thekitmalone/113926960570451459

The president caught his own top level staff by surprise calling for mass detainment of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay. That's a concentration camp, folks. We already have them at the southern border (have for years) and they're inhumane as fuck. Those typically hold people attempting to cross the border (including those seeking asylum). This escalation means rounding up people already living in the country and packing them in an external high security location. It can't get any plainer.

Is there a hashtag, group, chatroom, forum, etc. For data scraping/archival re: US data purge? Specifically talking about raw data like data.gov rather than website crawling which seems to be handled by archiveteam and end of term archive. Like #USDataPurge or something

Edit: #SafeguardingResearch looks like another https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113921816307826784