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

FWIW, my Mom is a nerd, yes. But she's most definitely not a computer nerd. She wouldn't touch a computer with a ten feet pole if she could avoid them. She always hated them, because they never worked the way she imagined they should.

And until today, I was not able to help her, because a part of the puzzle was always missing.

We needed the combination of niri, Emacs, Org mode & org roam, notmuch, and a couple of other tools to exist at the same time, and I needed to be familiar with all of them. This lets me build a system tailored for my Mom, one she won't hate using.

I could not build that with any of these tools missing.

this is the dang truth

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> Of course, we don’t want you to burn out. That’s why we have a No Burning Out policy. You must work every hour of every day, but you also need to take care of yourself. Otherwise, you might become less efficient — in which case you will have broken our No Burning Out policy

https://mas.to/@carnage4life/114203779183206217

Mom played around a bit with #GNOME and #niri, and she'll be switching to #niri, because she concluded that tiling is awesome.

She's in the "some floating is okay" camp, though, so I'll let niri decide what to float and what not. But she'll be tiled-by-default, with tabbed columns.

AND ON TOP OF ALL THAT: She decided that notmuch, Org Roam, and Emacs are all incredible tools, and she wants to learn them.

What have I done.

found a pretty cursed PDF with an object that did NOT want to be ungrouped and after repeatedly pressing ctrl+shift+g to ungroup it turned into this

Finally, a large protest against the far-right and racism in the Netherlands. Amsterdam, right now.

Stay safe, stay healthy, destroy dangerous police equipment.

#acab #allcopsarebastards #police #healthrisk #staysafe #protest #activist #activism #riotpolice #lrad #sabotage #policebrutality

Ok folks! #hopePunk weekend challenge!

Take some time to ponder, and add your own toots to two of my favourite visioning projects:

#spoonieTown an imaginary place where we've already solved all the problems - what's life like there? What's kind of infrastructure is used? How do we take care of each other? What's a day like?

#tonicMasculinity - share your favourite examples from pop culture, your real life moments, or men you admire and why. There's so much good to celebrate. 🎉

in #SpoonieTown, the abbreviated terms "Lo-Mo" and "Lo-Fo" are understood to mean "low motivation" and "low focus" and describe those particular challenges a person can struggle with in their day to day. so, when someone says they are having a lomo kind of day, everyone gets exactly how that person is feeling and can instantly relate.

#HopePunk

I’m confused.

Can you use petrol with Teslas or not?

oh yeah i forgot normal people also use these words together

it's called a script or a book or a film or a play or a video or god knows what else but it is NOT content, jesus christ.

it's such an odorless colorless word

"how to turn a boring moment from your life into content" it's called a story. it's called a fucking story

why don't phones have a passive RFID chip you can write e-tickets to when it's still powered on?

I'll keep using my plastic cards for train tickets :^)

In Baarn: Grote groep tegen de NVU. Heel veel smeris. Poging tot uitbraak om lopen NVU te verhinderen werd terug geknuppeld. Weglopen aan andere kant verhinderd smeris en romeo's. Nu ingesloten. Ook ME met schilden. Veel leuzen. Nazi scum off our streets!

Your friendly occasional reminder that, if you want to read an academic paper but it’s paywalled, you can email the author and they are allowed to send you a pdf. You can’t imagine how delighted they will generally be to think that someone actually wants to read their work.