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

"There are protests, your majesty."

"Good," said the Emperor. "What are they protesting?"

"Grain prices. But why are protests good?"

"What would you call a society with no protests?"

"Happy, your majesty."

"I would call it oppressed. Prepare a report on their grievances."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Reminder that if you like a website you should probably click on the "contact" link and tell the author you like their website

🐰 Oh I bet they get lots of email every day saying their website is cool, I'd just annoy them
🦝 Nope. I have a donations button and I'm not exaggerating when I say it gets hit a hundred times more often than my email address. People will literally transfer ten dollars from their bank account before saying "Hey cool website btw."

🐀 Wouldn't it be weird though
🦝 My learned friend, why do you think there's a "Contact" page on the website in the first place, it's so that you can say "Hey cool website btw."

🐴 This site hasn't been updated in ages, I bet they're not even interested anymore
🦝 Or maybe they stopped updating it because they had ten thousand people reading it every day but it felt empty and unfulfilling like shouting into a hole because only two of them ever emailed to say "Hey cool website btw."

🐹 But what do I even say
🦝 You say "Hey cool website btw."

#liberatedmemes #memes #degrowth

Remember when the Internet was awesome and your phone wasn't a tracking device?

You're probably wondering if there was a proud Dalek at Portsmouth Pride and I'm here to let you know that yes, there was a proud Dalek at Portsmouth Pride.

#Pride #LGBTQIA #Portsmouth #PortsmouthPride #UKPride #Dalek #DoctorWho #Photography

I have finally finished my raised beds (aka plant tables)! This isn't the first woodworking project I've finished, but it's the first that I *started*, back in 2020. Plenty of setbacks in health and circumstance delayed the project, but I got there eventually 🙂

Now all that remains is to put some permeable plastic in there to help keep the dirt and roots inside while still allowing drainages between the planks, and filling it with soil and plants!

#gardening #woodworking

who decided to call it a "coalition" instead of the much more descriptive "politicule"? #shittyPortmanteaux

UPDATE 2: We're carefully back online again, with a few exceptions:

https://mapstodon.space/@lokjo/114657821935053517

Can we have a lill boost please? The fediverse is the only place we're on.

We're a replacement for googlemaps.

European, non-commercial, pro-local.

https://www.lokjo.com

Thanks for sharing 😊

#golocal #maps #EU

At the furry breakcore rave this shit fucking rules

Never felt safer in a crowd, never felt more alive, never felt more euphoric sober, music rules, everybody’s outfits are peak, so many creatures just enjoying life and existing together in this wild experience

it's perfectly reasonable for capitalists to be arguing for AI-driven software. "reducing labor costs" is the thing capitalists do. but being an AI stan as a worker is some serious class traitor shit. this isn't gonna advance your career, buddy.

sitting with the AI apologist take of "you may like the craft of traditional japanese hand woodworking but it's not what will make a profit anymore, so save that for your hobby"… the thing is, old-school joinery produces higher-quality products and uses less (& more sustainable) materials. The reason it's "not profitable" is that the labor is more specialized and expensive. So what they're saying is "I want to get paid less to make worse software".

Veel gehoord ‘rechts’ argument: Links jaagt bedrijven NL uit. Bedrijven die echt vertokken deden dat vanwege ‘beperkt beschikbare fysieke ruimte; onvoldoende elektrische net- capaciteit; onvoldoende aanbod van talent en huisvestingsmogelijkheden voor talent’.
Kortom door korten op onderwijs, stikstofprobleem niet oplossen en niet investeren in duurzame infrastructuur. Rechts beleid jaagt bedrijven weg.
https://open.overheid.nl/documenten/fbf98bf3-234c-432d-bc3b-7adfb7b6a52f/file

I hate that people will "rescue" a wild animal and then just kind of adopt it as a pet. The cute videos of "woman rescues owl" or some nonsense always bother me because they encourage bad behavior, especially from colonizers who wanted an excuse to keep a protected animal as a pet anyway.

If you encounter a baby animal that is not doing well, it is your responsibility to locate a certified wild life rescuer in your area and follow their instructions for either bringing the animal to that rescuer, or preferably, keeping the animal safe till they can come and get the animal themselves.

Stop stealing wild animals. They're not yours :angry_heart: