Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

re: LB (on community health)

this is something i've been mulling over for a while now, but i think never actually posted. in short: community health is not just an individual responsibility, but also a community one.

there is an individual responsibility to communicate and seek treatment, like the people did in this example. let people you're cuddling with know that you have a weird rash or itch, doctors said it's probably just an allergy but just fyi. and then when someone else starts getting one (like person b and c here), they have an opportunity to connect the dots.

but there's also a community responsibility. to normalize talking about things, like this post, so we can learn from each other. to think about how infectious disease spreads in our community and about ways we can act.

we keep ourselves safe. we keep ourselves healthy.

(more posts to come but i need a break. it's the same with covid etc.)

"You should just immediately know when you got scabies and make sure not to spread it!" You think that's easy? Let me tell you our little tale of woe!

It's February Person A notices some itching and a few spots on their hands. As there's been a few fedi posts about scabies, they panic and think it's scabies, so the next day when they're home they try to contact a Dr. Unfortunately, there's no general practitioner with a quick appointment

June! My favourite month! Summer! Hooray!

Oh.

fire 📉

(equipped my apartment with two fire extinguishers and you, yes *you*, should do the same.)

FUCK YOU y'all are a fucking menace to society

congrats you fucking LLM dipshit asshole techbros, you're making me hate self hosting because now, while my server used to be a few hours of maintenance every half year, it's now a few hours of maintenance every few DAYS

looks so cozy up there

#photography

gendering your baby feels kind of like calling a skein of yarn a "sweater." like, yes, it might turn out to be a sweater, and it's probably gonna look like one at least for a while if you decide to knit it into one.

but ultimately, it could become anything, and even if you shape it into a sweater... it could all unravel someday.

ultimately, we don't control other people. we can observe and support them, or we can push our expectations on them. connect, or set them up to perform for you.

What's up with American food recipes being terrified of measuring stuff by weight? I mean even something like "a tablespoon of flour" can mean a whole range of amounts depending on the size of the spoon and whether you dose the flour flat on the spoon or if you create a mound..

And then there's stuff like measuring raw ginger by length which absolutely baffles me cuz like have you ever seen ginger root?? It's like the most irregular object at the grocery aisle which way am I even supposed to measure out an inch??

Man almost every larger creative person I follow aside from trans & BiPOC artists now starts to promote their masterclass what is this shit.
The vibes are outstandingly rancid in a mlm way.

We deden in oktober een Woo-verzoek en kregen dat na tussenkomst van de rechter na 7,5 maand (!) binnen. Dit proces kost ons niet alleen een overvraagde rechtbank, een dwangsom die we met z'n allen moeten betalen maar ook het verlies van vertrouwen in onze democratische rechtsstaat. Lees meer: https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2025/05/30/de-frustrerende-realiteit-rond-woo-verzoeken/

I’d like to speak to the architect that said “oh let’s place a giant window next to the urinals”

> So Many Stars is an in-depth look at this power source, through interviews with trans and gender-nonconforming elders of color who share mesmerizing stories of survival, resistance and community-building from Havana to Texas to New York to Oklahoma to Buenos Aires to San Francisco, from the 1940s to the present.

New Oral History Captures Decades of Trans Life in the Words of Elders of Color

https://truthout.org/articles/new-oral-history-captures-decades-of-trans-life-in-the-words-of-elders-of-color/

The train I'm in just crossed the border from Spain into France. No announcement and I expect no one else noticed the moment. Freedom to disregard borders is a huge boon to those who have it. Many don't and many more are losing it.

Alter Elbtunnel - Blick nach oben

#Fotovorschlag ‚Unterwelt‘

Hardspace Shipbreaker is a prequel to Space Engineers

Happy pride month y'allemaal 🌈🌌

Or wrath, as feels appropriate.