Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Quick poll:

Whether you are one or not, do you know what a "spoonie" is?

Boosts appreciated for broader sample size. Danka!

faschist saying "checkmate, liberal" won't work on me because:

1. im not liberal, im anarchist
2. im not playing chess, im playing piñata with fascist's body

Wetenschappelijke data redden is simpeler dan je denkt (en ook jij kunt iets doen)

delta.tudelft.nl/article/wetenschappelijke-data-redden-is-simpeler-dan-je-denkt-en-ook-jij-kunt-iets-doen

Nu in Amerika belangrijke wetenschappelijke data dreigen te verdwijnen, is een grote groep Europese wetenschappers begonnen met het dupliceren en opnieuw verspreiden van die data. Initiatiefnemer Henrik Schönemann richt zijn blik zelfs verder:…

@psychicparrot42 not masking in hospitals is completely absurd. literally killing people for emotional comfort

Poor guy fell, went to hospital for an injured arm, and that's where he caught Covid. The Covid caused pneumonia and killed him. Could have been avoided if people were wearing masks. Who knows how many more go like this because of the unmasked / capitalism / useless governments. In some countries these Covid-related deaths aren't being tracked at all, but in the UK I'm told Covid will appear on the cause of death certificate and in stats.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xv50jnwngo?&utm_content=BBCNews%2Fmagazine%2FEntertainment+and+Arts

#covidisnotover

A lotta mutuals seem to be having a bad time, so before I go to bed, I'm gonna post this baby wombat in hopes that it helps a little.

#wombat

I think young people can start hitting "functioning adult" or even "advanced functioning adult" levels of expertise in topics they have special interest or exposure much earlier than older people want to admit

like, a teenage climate activist probably has studied more climatology than a random 40y/o. it's not that impressive to know more math than your philosophy teacher or more political science than your math teacher.

so it's a mistake to treat young people as less developed than adults in every measure, b/c that's simply not true

but it's also a mistake to look at the topics someone (such as yourself) is strongest in, see that they're more advanced in those areas than most adults, and figure they're probably at or above adult average more generally — b/c there are *so many* aspects of life and ppl don't know what they don't know. people and especially young people have more gaps in their knowledge than they realize. kids with adult-like competencies still need scaffolding everywhere else.

okay but consider: LLMs in the workplace as the perfect tool for a saboteur who wishes to retain plausible deniability.

lots of ppl want to see their shitty (evil, destructive, anti-democracy, etc) workplaces fail, few are willing to risk drawing attention to themselves. working sloppily & priotizing the appearance of productivity over maintenance are real and accessible sabotage techniques. even if nothing goes boom, soaking up resources and introducing sources of error adds up.

accepting that everything is political, I think the "political" posts that people have in mind when asking for cw: politics tags have the commonality that they are

asking the reader to have an emotion or form an opinion (or even asking the reader to take action) about something

and I think it's reasonable to want to be able to use social media and retain agency in when you're positioned as a game piece to be knocked around by someone's pinball bumpers and flippers

(the other category being "current events related to political entities")

it's true that everything is political in ways that cannot be escaped

even "look at this cool thing I made" embeds either "…which I could do b/c politics hasn't [yet] outlawed me existing or making things" or the very pointed negation of that

but I don't think that's what people are asking for when they ask for content warnings / notes / subject lines on "politics" ?

(or maybe they are, I think a difficulty w/ this debate is that different people ask for the same thing for different reasons, and different people assume different motivations for the same request)

I think for a lot of folks it has to do with a *hypervigilance* about the political — not the privileged wish to be secure in ignorance, but the folks who can't be ignorant or secure trying to manage the when & how & how much of their anxiety intake in order to remain functional, to protect their ability to take action to protect themselves & others.

the autism/ADHD/AuDHD thing is important to know b/c ADHD is a much easier/clearer diagnosis to get — being *outwardly* divergent in ways that annoy teachers can get one put in front of a psych faster than being quietly divergent in ways that impair yourself much more significantly

so there's a lot of ppl with an ADHD diagnosis who "coincidentally" have a bunch of sensory processing issues, difficulty intuiting emotion or intent (of self or others!), muscle pain/damage from too-flexible joints…

aperiodic reminder (hi new followers) that probably everyone who follows me is some flavor of autistic (imo ADHD / executive disfunction impairments are a color in the autism spectrum) just in case you've been struggling in a way it seems like most people you went to school with aren't and you don't have a name for what's up with that

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It's so funny in games when you move between two areas and you see the colour grading change before your eyes, and then you turn back and the place you were just in now looks completely different