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

Advertising should be banned.

Advertising is an industry whose goal is to manipulate people at a massive scale into spending money on or believing things.
Advertising pollutes our physical and digital landscape visually and serves as an inconvenience.

Is it just me or is anyone else annoyed by red and black never being next to each other on these ribbon jumper-cables?
I just want them to stay a unit, I solely use black and red to power boards, they shouldn’t need to be split..

Playing the world’s smallest, glassiest violin to honour the death of iOS 7 flat design, where everything looks the same and you can’t distinguish a button from a label

Affordance’s are back baby. They’re good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl)

So, there's a toot, supposedly from an employee of a company, recommending that folk delete that company's phone apps before going to protest.

First, that company is not the only source of software on your phone that is being used to surveil your participation in civil disobedience. Toot gives impression that by uninstalling that company's products your phone is somehow safe.

Second, that company, in particular, has hooks in the Web pages you visit, and thus tracking you even if you don't have an account (let alone apps) on any of their platforms.

Third, if folk are using apps from that company, they very likely learned of the protest through one of those apps, which means the company already knows they are likely enough "people who want to protest".

You want to avoid being surveilled by your phone at a protest? None of the answers are easy.

But any advice that suggests uninstalling a handful of apps (which may be bloat that can't be removed without tech knowledge) is misleading.

Beware! You have been visited by Irk, the sock stealing jackdaw of desaturation. To continue to enjoy access to the colour in the world, please leave one black sock and one peanut butter sandwich fully unattended in the nearest garden.

#birds #crows #gardening

If your idea of liberation doesn’t include rest, joy, dumb jokes, shitty movies, and community care, then it’s just another boot with a new logo

People deserve to feel joy, not just survive. #Monsterdon is part of that.

No apologies

Hong Kong protestors say:

"Do Not Split."

Do not condemn the people on your side who embrace tactics you disagree with.

Do. Not. Split.
#doNotSplit

And in 1994 I read this:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1994/nov/14/poland.europe

And finally today in 2025 I went to Hel!

And I got back 😀

For a while after the Ottawa occupation a few years back, i carried an airhorn.
I only got to use it twice.
Each time, one of those dipshits started ranting about masking and vaccines and trudeau... whipped it outof my toolbox, pressed the button.... put the fucking horn RIGHT in their stupid faces until they fucked off.
It was quite effective.

Cartoon by Chris Slane @SlaneCartoons
https://www.slanecartoon.com/

#Libraries #bookstadon #books #librarians

IQ is fake. Being "smart" is fake. It's not an identity.

#PublicDomain no AI icons! Meant to look well with the Creative Commons symbols (despite them not being anti-AI, last i looked at least) and yah, feel free to use on your instances or websites or art or wherever!

Here's the source so its easily modifiable too! https://freesvg.org/no-ai-icons

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#openSource #vector #symbol #iconography #noAI #AI #disabledArtist #fediArt

@anon_opin suppose you went home one day, inspired by some books you've read, and you invent a device that automates a repetitive part of your job

suppose you bring this to work one day and your productivity increases by a factor of 20

to your absolute shocking dismay, your pay does not increase by a factor of 20

this state of shock could be accurately described as luddism