Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@morachbeag Yeah, this always bothers me. It always comes from the most from hardcore marxists, but like... Marx was racist. Yeah, class is important to focus on, and I'm for a balanced socialist society, but Marx also said Mexicans were lazy, despite not having actually lived in Mexico to understand why you would take a nap in the middle of the day: the same reason mid-day naps are common in Vietnam, the heat will kill you. He just broadly attached the concept of "lazy" to any people of color he didn't feel like "worked hard enough".

Mexico isn't/wasn't poorer because the people there are "lazy". There's something else, and that something else is important to note: colonization and resource extraction from wealthy white people, mostly from other countries, particularly Europe.

Sorry to tangent. This just really bothers me when people say to "set aside racial differences" and focus on class. Black people were literally not allowed in white unions until relatively recently in history. You can't simply ignore that.

What Happened Yonder? My @why2025camp talk: 'Consent for Hackers, negotiating consent based on HTTP status codes' has been accepted and confirmed.

Let's talk to people about negotiating consent before engaging in personal and physical interactions. Your browser does it with every webserver, so why shouldn't you do the same with people?

#WHY2025

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Succes voor actiegroepen tegen medeplichtigheid aan genocide in Gaza: schip Maersk Izmir met F35-vleugels mijdt Rotterdamse haven
#DoorbraakEu

https://www.doorbraak.eu/succes-voor-actiegroepen-tegen-medeplichtigheid-aan-genocide-in-gaza-schip-maersk-izmir-met-f35-vleugels-mijdt-rotterdamse-haven/

Wij begonnen allemaal ons leven op dezelfde manier als mijn piepkleine dochter nu: hopeloos afhankelijk. En niemand van ons ontgroeit dat echt, ook al wordt ons geleerd net te doen alsof. Dit is namelijk de centrale leugen van het liberalisme: dat we onafhankelijk zijn, zelf ons eigen leven opbouwen, en dat we los staan van anderen. Maar het conservatisme is niet minder bedrieglijk. Het prijst het gezin aan als de ideale eenheid van het sociale leven, maar dan een gezin dat hiërarchisch opgebouwd is en zich afsluit voor buren, vreemden en mensen in nood. Het pleit zogenaamd voor orde en persoonlijke verantwoordelijkheid, terwijl het stiekem de banden van solidariteit, die het zelf romantiseert, doorsnijdt. Het resultaat is een wreedheid die zich voordoet als stabiliteit, een cultuur van ongeïnteresseerdheid, verpakt in de taal van traditie. https://www.doorbraak.eu/nu-de-wereld-in-brand-staat/

I learned something. Tent pegs are named after fish in Western Europe, but a different fish in every language.

Dutch: haring (herring)
French: sardine (sardines)
German: aal (eel)

Another round of Amsterdam public comment on the war machine.

#AmsterdamPublicComment #StopNATO #gaza #palestine #abolishNATO #freepalestine #iran #pspol #AmsterdamGraffiti #eupol

Save future videogames from planned obsolescence!

There is an initiative asking the EU to regulate or at least clarify video games being made inaccessible remotely by publishers.

The initiative is on an official channel provided by the EU itself, if it reaches one million signatures the European Commission will have to look into the matter and provide a response, there is still a month until 31 July.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

#stopdestroyinggames
#stopkillinggames #retrogaming #gaming

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One thing I kinda miss from twitter is the notification when someone liked something I boosted.
On here, boosts feel like they end up in the void, unseen, on twitter I could see that others appreciated the things I boosted, which made me more likely to do it.
Thoughts like "oh $person would really like this post" don't really occur to me much anymore.