Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I find that all of this makes me incredibly angry. Like, what the fuck are we doing here. Why are we doing this? Who are we doing it for?

“You can’t have a take on this if you weren’t using the latest tools last week!” Buddy I _HAVE A DAY JOB_

a lot of even liberal Germans are weirdly defensive about their dysfunctional, openly classist, evil and 100% indefensible education system when you point out that no other country in the world has anything like locking children for life into white or blue collar career paths at ages fucking 10-12 (!!!) and that, therefore, the whole thing with "if you don't improve your grades you'll be kicked down to Realschule" is not just cruel and evil but entirely unnecessary, because, again, nobody else does this 19-century-Prussia-ass class segregation so why do you think only you need it?? nobody else in the world burdens their kids with a lifelong curse like the Abitur why do you think only you need to have such a thing as an Abitur??—it doesn't matter how much evidence you show, it's like hitting a brick wall. They go "yes but it's not meant that way..." "I have an aunt who went to Realschule and she's proud..." "the problem is the lack of money, the teachers are overwhelmed" bitch the teachers are overwhelmed everywhere no, the problem isn't lack of funding the problem is your system is formally sanctioned eugenics.

> Gymnasium children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Hauptschülerin, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Realschule kids. Realschüler*innen are stupid. They all wear green. Oh no, I don't want to play with Realschule students. And Sonderschüler*innen are still worse.

the only difference with Huxley is that you think it's progressive because you abolished uniforms. at least in Brave New World they gave kids drugs to ease the pain, children in a literal dystopia were considerably happier than in the German school system

Met het vallen van kabinet schoof is nederland verlost van de wurggreep van wilders. Het is nu aan andere partijen om zich niet weer te laten gijzelen door fascime, racisme en ego.

Het is tijd dat klimaatnoodtoestand wordt uitgeroepen en dat daarnaar wordt gehandeld, dat israel sancties krijgt voor de genocide die zij pleegt in palestina, fossiele subsidies worden stopgezet. Het is tijd voor een koersverlegging: van een cultuur van haat en dood naar een cultuur van het leven.

Teken de petitie 'Tanks? No Thanks: ik wil vrede en echte veiligheid!'⁠
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Wij willen échte vrede en échte veiligheid. Dit betekent stoppen met alle militaire escalatie en het kopen van steeds meer wapens. Dat maakt ons niet veiliger. Het maakt alleen wapenbedrijven en hun rijke vrienden rijker.⁠
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Iedereen wil veilig leven en in vrede samenleven. Maar grote wapenbedrijven en hun vrienden in de politiek verdienen veel geld aan angst en oorlog. Gewone mensen hier in Nederland, maar ook in Palestina, Oekraïne, Congo en Sudan, wij betalen de rekening. Als je kritiek hebt op meer wapens kopen, word je vaak de mond gesnoerd. Zo zien we niet wie er echt aan verdient.⁠
Kijk naar de feiten: Europa is militair al 3 keer sterker dan Rusland. Rusland is economisch even sterk als de kleine Benelux. Toch wil Rutte dat we gaan bezuinigen op onze pensioenen, op onze zorg en op ons onderwijs, zodat we in Europa 200 miljard kunnen uitgeven aan militarisatie en escalatie. Dat geld gaat vooral naar grote Amerikaanse wapenfabrikanten. ⁠
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Wij zeggen: Tanks? No thanks! Trump en zijn Amerikaanse vrienden worden steeds rijker en machtiger terwijl wij de rekening betalen en straks naar het front worden gestuurd! ⁠
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Deze petitie markeert het begin van onze Tanks? No Thanks! campagne voor vrede en echte veiligheid. Juni staat voor ons in het teken van bevrijding, rechtvaardigheid en solidariteit! Met op 22 juni een grote demonstratie voor vrede en rechtvaardigheid in Den Haag. Samen kunnen we een stem zijn die durft op te komen voor vrede, rechtvaardigheid en échte veiligheid, niet alleen voor enkelen maar voor iedereen!⁠
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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”