Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Measles is circulating in the US and has killed someone for the first time in a decade.

You do not want to get measles. Your immune system can be suppressed for two years after a measles infection.

Measles is highly contagious. Exposure events are occurring in places like airports and gyms.

Measles is airborne. A well-fitted, high-quality N95 mask can protect you from measles.

The MMR vaccine is highly effective against measles, but not 100% effective. The more people refuse the vaccine, the more likely it is that vaccinated people can still get infected.

If you don't want to get measles - and you don't - get your vaccine AND wear your mask.
Multiple layers of protection are always best. If one layer fails, another layer can still work.

I complained to Comcast about something via email in 2009. I posted that email on my blog: https://blog.kamens.us/2009/07/02/comcast-still-sending-service-announcements-to-wrong-address/. At the time, I searched for the email addresses of Comcast executives and included them all on the email.
Last night I received email from someone claiming to represent Comcast, trying to bully me into taking down the blog posting.
I responded: "lol no"
Feel free to boost this post for the #StreisandEffect.
#smdh #gtfo #Comcast

@kkavee people here like to think we’re the best in the world in terms of being progressive and equalitarian. This leads them to not see their own biases and behavior and when someone speaks up it leads to “well we treat you so much better here than elsewhere, you really shouldn’t be complaining about these silly insignificant little incidents”

Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.

(Alt at https://pastebin.com/cqLvxX1f)

Dikke plakken veganistische cake van de buurvrouw en nog warme zelfgemaakte hummus van de andere buurvrouw. Ik verklaar het Zeer Lokale Buurvrouwendag.

Here we are cutting another piece of the same trunk with the sawmill. We only use one saw, because we process it further with a bandsaw. The fungi you see here caused the nice colour of the previous toot.

This piece was cut off the larger trunk to make the large trunk fit through the sawframe.

Most people use chisels for creative purposes, but we use them for destructive work.

A large trunk of beech is almost ready to be processed by sawmill De Salamander, but first we must get the iron parts out.

If we don't do this, at best the saw cuts the nails, gets blunt and starts to "wander". At worst it will tear a saw apart with a lot of violence.

The images show how we use a chisel to dig out the nails we found.

We willen allemaal af van Amerikaanse big tech. Er zijn prachtige open (source) initiatieven, vol van prachtige technologie. Maar er is echt veel meer nodig om succesvol te worden. Hier een (pijnlijk) overzicht van wat er beter moet in de open wereld: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/manifest-big-tech-alternatieven/

These are from April 2024.

#AmsterdamPublicComment #AmsterdamGraffiti #AmsterdamStickerArt #palestine

“Achtung, Zug fahrt durch Bahnsteig 2”

Ich hoffe, dass der ÖBB meint durch die Gleis, und nicht der Steig 😅

https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/114123308377405461

I took these in July 2024. A kid left their cute tiny toys under a large trash receptacle in a public park, and I got some shots from their smol perspective.

(I left the toys btw. They were gone the next day, so I hope a kid came back for them )

#amsterdamPhotography #photography #small #smol #quiet

Hello! I watch a lot of YouTube of the format "person with a special interest talks enthusiastically about their special interest".

I've channels for civil engineering, blade sharpening, mortality, fire ignition, knot tying, urban planning, neolithic tech, and more.

However, most of these channels are hosted by men. I would like to fix this!

Have you a favourite YouTube channel that focuses on knowledge transfer, that's not hosted by a man? Please leave a link in the comments below. Thanks!

#Bogusławki, nieopodal Sulęcinka.

Niestety, widać brak dobrego oprogramowania do mielenia HDR-ów — z tych zdjęć zdecydowanie dałoby się wycisnąć więcej.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.12756&mlon=17.33136#map=14/52.12756/17.33136

#las #wędrówki

How much money do you think the United States has spent since 1945 on the Cold War? Sometimes they ask this question then from the back of the audience comes in answer ‘billions and billions‘. A huge underestimate – billions and billions. The amount of money that the United States has spent on the Cold War since 1945 is approximately 10 trillion dollars. Trillion, that’s the big one with the ‘T’. What could you buy with 10 trillion dollars? The answer is: You could buy everything in the United States except the land. Everything. Every building, truck, bus, car, boat, plane, pencil, baby’s diaper. Everything in the United States except the land, that’s what we have spent on the Cold War.

So, now let me ask: How certain was it that the Russians were going to invade? Was it 100% certain? Guess not since they never invaded. What if it was only let say 10% certain? What would advocates of big military buildup have said? We must be prudent. It’s not enough to count on only the most likely circumstance. If the worst happens and it’s really extremely dangerous for us we have to prepare for that. Remote contingencies if there is serious enough have the prepared for. It’s classic military thinking – you prepare for the worst case.

And so now, I ask my friends who are comfortable with that argument, including the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, why doesn’t that same argument apply to Global Warming. You don’t think it’s 100% likely? Fine. You are entitled to think that. If it’s only a small probability of it happening since the consequences are so serious, don’t you have to make some serious investment to prevent it or mitigate it? I think there’s a double standard of argument working and I don’t think we should permit it.

— Carl Sagan, An excerpt of a speech given on the 2nd of September in 1990 at the 5th Emerging Issues Forum at NCSU