Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

So, thing I learned today: If you smell ammonia around the back of a Ford hybrid vehicle..... said vehicle needs to go to a dealership to have the battery checked immediately.

That's the smell of the lithium ion battery (NOT LiFePO4, even...) venting!!!

Welp. Guess I don't have to fix it now

So, looks like I might now end up working towards #Eindhoven providing blood-tests for people who have to rely on DIY-HRT. (I now made contact with members of the city-council for that.)

Now, before someone asks: The municipality cannot just decide to provide medication in violation of national guidelines or anything like that; the best they can do their is put pressure on the national assembly to improve the situation.

They can however decide to provide blood-tests. In fact they already provide free STD-tests for gay men and some other risk groups. So my argument is that there is no obvious reason why they couldn’t also provide free tests for trans people who are forced to self-medicate and can’t convince their GPs to provide the necessary tests.

I noticed afterwards that there are even more things on that level that could be done:

* Provide full testing of vials. This is offered in some places for illegal drugs and while there have been people who managed to get assured of the safety of their medication by initially claiming that it was Heroin (when it really was just Estrogen), they apparently didn’t get the actual concentration; this could be something really inexpensive that could make a big difference for a lot of people. And if a municipality does it in place of underground NGOs it’s also much harder to attack them for it.
* Provide instructions on how to safely self-inject and needle-exchanges for those who need them.

All of these can easily be justified as harm-reduction efforts and might make some nationwide waves to put pressure to the Hague and Amsterdam:

Healthcare for trans people is so bad, that the fifth largest city of the Netherlands now feels the need to provide harm-reduction facilities for self-medicating trans people

is a headline that might turn some heads and increase awareness of how bad the situation is and might thereby even create pressure on the national level.

Kzerplt extruded a querysome appendage.

"Professor, why is my report marked as Fail?"

"Clearly, you have just made things up."

"I did not! I found and studied an uncontacted world, and reported truthly!"

"Absurd! A technological yet irrational society? This 'Earth' you dreamed up is nonsense!"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Is there an opensource tool to find ideal frames to loop a video at?

#askfedi #opensource #linux

I don't know who needs to hear this, but:

Legality is a social construct. What is illegal now may be made legal in the future, and things that were illegal in the past have been made legal in the modern day.

When you are criticizing malicious behavior, do not lean on the legality or illegality of the behavior for your critique, because the law cannot stop someone from breaking it - only punish them retroactively. Focus on the harm caused by the behavior in question instead.

Hey unsighted fedi-folx! When it comes to good alt-text...

Please select all that apply.

#Poll #Accessibility #AltText

Oh Brabant, never change.

Is there any open source non-Web fediverse frontend? I wanna look at/learn about something

update: I saw this multifunctional laser scanner with ADF and—crucially—fax and would like to inform that, contra my last poem, I now do, in fact, own a fucking fax maschine. Canon i-SENSYS FAX-L150 for 20€ on ebay and the only extra price I had to pay is to carry it by hand from the other side of the city but hey, free farmer's walk gains

I now have a payback karte, a deutschlandkarte *and* a fax maschine. come on, einbürg me already

:tom_scott: I'm in Chemnitz

Chemnitz Hbf should run a pixelflut server

Today's projects: filling the other raised bed with (mixed) soil, bolting a rack to the wall in the garage, as well as a ledge to hang my long clamps on, and finally the biggest project of the day: putting my table saw on wheels!

(And accidentally generating a sorting challenge, oops)

#gardening #woodworking

you bitches so upset about people causing harm to inanimate objects, when i first read the headlines to what happened in LA they made me think some poor motherfuckers burnt to death in those cars! but no! they were empty the whole time!

why is violence that pigs do to people on a regular basis seems less violent to you than lighting cars on fire? and why can't people strike back?

wrote a toot yesterday that went "we live in a world where people are more upset about cars on fire than kids being killed" and some shitlib responded "i agree palestinian genocide is a big issue but antifa burning cars is wrong and does nothing to stop the ICE"

my dude, we are not hippies. this is a protest and not a damn royal prom. leave your preaching from the ivory tower of white cishet wealth for when you see cops shooting people with beanbag rounds

This video is really cool, about reusing old cardboard boxes to build furniture and construction materials out of, biodegradably waterproof and all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45JhacvmXV8

And it pairs really well with this video, about using 3D-printed molds and paper waste to create strong, new shaped objects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ItPfhx3ulw

(Do consider the comment which advises to let the paper/cardboard soak rather than blending/shredding, to retain the longer fibers and therefore strength)

This could be considered a form of #woodworking, I guess?