Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town

https://mastodon.ie/@detachedspork/114307889002840241

goddess, I'm so fucking lonely lol. It wasn't like I was good at making friends before the covid pandemic, but it's so much harder now trying to meet others to talk to and befriend. I'm really struggling to find covid conscious folks in my area or even my country that isn't some kind of facebook group lol. Currently very socially isolated and really only talk to one person who lives with me, but it's starting to eat away at my soul having so many barriers blocking me from making connections.

I'd appreciate any form of contact from CC folks, despite the fact I'm extremely socially anxious and quite avoidant. It's just getting too much to bear being so isolated from the rest of the world.

#CovidIsNotOver

So something I am just going to keep in mind going forward is that quite a few people only care about oppression if it happens to them. And this can apply to anyone, even sometimes multiply marginalized folks.

For these people, oppression that they experience is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. Oppression that they don't experience gets dismissed as "purity politics" or "leftist purity tests" or the ever popular "idpol".

People who think like this are always easy to spot because they will use the same tools their own oppressors do to dismiss the claims of others, including tone policing, DARVO, gaslighting, and others. And, just like the folks oppressing them, they will never tolerate someone trying to convince them that they're doing harm.

You can come to them nicely, or you can be aggressive with them. You can approach them privately or you can call them out publicly. It doesn't matter because the issues you're trying to bring to their attention, they didn't want to hear about in the first place. It just doesn't matter how you say it when the message was never going to be welcome.

It's this kind of behavior that one might expect from well-known bigots but can be a nasty surprise from the people we're close to. At the end of the day, we don't have the power to make anybody care about someone else. All we can control is our own actions. So the trick is to find people who are actually aligned with our values and keep them close. And that's really all you can do, and that's okay!

Just a reminder.

When it comes to the tariff stuff I think the take that makes me bite my tongue the most is seeing people lament that they can't mass produce merch of their OC/sona anymore.

I get it everyone has to eat but also the fact leftists are more upset they can't exploit foreign workers for cheap crap made of mostly if not completely plastic that's going to end up in a landfill for centuries than just about anything else is uh...

De NVWA vindt 1600 liter illegale bestrijdingsmiddelen bij een aardbeienteler. https://www.nvwa.nl/nieuws-en-media/nieuws/2025/04/09/nvwa-iod-vindt-1600-liter-illegale-bestrijdingsmiddelen-bij-fruitteler

finds open source project
"made by Google"
ask about state of finely aged (stale) 6 months PR
no response

ask around
all people working on the project at Google were fired and its barely maintained
ffs

Op 12 en 19 april houd #RepairCafe weer een #Linux Repair Café in #Amsterdam. Daar zullen ze je helpen Linux te installeren en te gebruiken.

Ben je nog niet zeker? Je kan er ook Linux proberen op een PC van hun alvorens je de keuze maakt het te installeren.

Voor meer info, zie: https://www.repaircafe.org/linux-repair-cafe/

people have been curious about it so here's a short thread about recycling glass for art

Do you experience significant sensory difficulties relating to clothes? Do you, despite that, consistently wear masks to protect yourself from COVID, which is still not over?

Share which #N95-or-better masks you've found to be comfortable for long-time wear. Pictures/links are a bonus.

#CovidIsntOver #ActuallyAutistic #WearARespirator

#Deextinction is a BS scam and a distraction from real conservation work. It's the AI of biology. They are genetically modifying animals to superficially resemble extinct species while vaguely gesturing towards sci-fi ideas about finding/reconstructing entire genomes. We are nowhere near this stage, and it's doubtful we ever will. And guess what, that still wouldn't bring anything back, because living things are much more than their DNA on so many levels.

Voorronde 7 van de #groteKleinLeedVerkiezing. Is het klein leed? Ja. Op het moment zelf ook? Nou…

Wat is het KLEINSTE leed?

Being an artist is a curse.

And no, I mean that as a curse on others, not me.
Been needing a new mug and I've been thinking about designing my own.

Taking a break for now but oh boy, I'm excited to finish this :3

Ugh, Python got over 500 #GSoC applications this year and so many of them are absolutely trash, didn't follow any of the instructions. Most years about half of our applications are like this. But usually we have a lot fewer applicants and the submissions were blank files not plausible AI nonsense.

So I'm stuck reading hundreds of incredibly low quality nonsensical submissions today in hopes to take some workload off my other unpaid volunteer mentors. This is not the volunteer gig I signed up for 15 years ago when it was mostly working with new contributors and not their AI chatbots and I'm grumpy.

#AI #Python #OpenSource