Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

"I’ve watched this simple act, which protects the health of the wearer and everyone around them, get politicized and distorted into a sign of mental illness or criminal behavior. Anti-mask rhetoric that was met with disdain when it came from the fringe, alt-right in 2020 has made its way across the political spectrum and is now being promoted among even the most left “radical” groups. If there isn’t straight up hostility and vitriol, there’s often avoidance, annoyance, and refusal to accommodate mask requirements that would make spaces and gatherings accessible."

https://misfitmentalhealth.substack.com/p/why-are-people-wearing-masks-in-2025

For anyone who actually watched the exchange between the us government and President Zelenskyy.

I'm just one man in a sea of eight billion, not a war hero. But some little kid inside me needs it seen: that's how my malignant narcissist parents treated me. I know how it feels to sit in a room like that. Alone, with your own sense of ethics twisted against you. Wondering in some small part of you where the child still lives, if anything is worth it at all.

Just without the tv cameras and the huge responsibility and the world watching, which makes it infinitely worse for Zelenskyy.

I cut my parents off in 2016, three years after they last treated me that way. And it was as soon as I could make it happen. I hope some similar justice happens to the people in charge of america -- that the world goes No Contact.

I hope the entire world order remakes itself into something that destroys the possibility of people like that existing.

I will do what I can to help. Now you know a bit more about why. Slava Ukraini.

Aan alle schoonmakers die voor de NS werken dit weekend (inclusief maandagochtend): sterkte, en alvast bedankt.

it's also useful to correlate the financial trends and any notices of appointment or termination of directors against other sources of information like Glassdoor reviews.

couple examples:

- if someone mentions problems relating to a new director, you can go find out who that director was and see if they still work there

- if reviews mention high workload or turnover, you can see if that correlates with poor financial performance at that time. if so, maybe not an ongoing problem? if not... hmm

tip: if you interview for a company in the UK you can look them up on Companies House online and read their accounting records.

main metrics:

- look for the "profit and loss account" line, that'll tell you how much they made or lost in that year.

- look for the "cash at bank and in hand" line, that tells you how solvent they were in that year.

- the records also usually include an average staff count for the year.

useful for figuring out how business has been trending for them.

Motie tegen het gebruik van generatieve AI bij de BIJ1 ALV is met 45 voor, 40 tegen aangenomen.

Ja, het is erdoor gekomen, maar er is nog veel werk aan de winkel.

We moeten BIJ1 echt educaten over AI-modellen en hoe schadelijk de ontwikkeling, implementatie en gebruik ervan is binnen het kapitalisme en discriminatoire status quo.

Ik voel een nieuw werkgroepje aankomen voor ICT BIJ1-leden en anderen die betrokken willen zijn.

The SAVE Act will require "proving citizenship" to vote, and looks like it could tie in with the same "having changed your name and gender marker is identity fraud" stuff, possibly blocking many trans people from participating in US democracy https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-could-keep-millions-of-transgender-americans-from-voting/

🙏 always good to know it’s isn’t just techy fediverse-using people who hate AI lol

I was recently introduced to the concept of “hypernormalization” coined to describe the Soviet Union.

Hypernormalization is when the economic and social system is obviously broken, but instead of fixing it, people just accept it as normal because the truth is too complex or inconvenient to change.

So politicians and citizens alike are resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society.

Hello there. I'm a visual artist, printmaker and author from The Netherlands (Ulft, Rotterdam, Hilversum).

I'm interested in how parts make wholes, late Romanesque / Early Gothic manuscript illumination, and long-form black metal. Maybe you have seen my bird prints?
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#introduction #art #letterpress #printmaking #LEGOletterpress #hilversum #birds

These tall tales we see of complex apps being generated entirely LLMs, or legacy codebases being ported to new platforms in just a few hours... If they're not accompanied by actual code we can look at, or working software we can test, you can safely conclude it didn't happen.

So far, it never has. Not a single verifiable example.

train ticketing is a joke

this is your monthly reminder that if you have built a nice community on mastodon and enjoy being here, you should really setup a monthly sub to help pay your instance admin for their work.

If you're able too, having a majority of users pay a few bucks a month makes it far less likely your admin is gonna get burnt out or your instance is going to randomly shut down one day.

this is real labor right