Notices by thomholwerda (thomholwerda@social.tchncs.de)

@hrefna Alright, I'll ignore the concerns of the trans and queer folk I follow about the relationship between TBS and Nivenly, then, since it seems relaying and amplifying these concerns is not something I'm supposed to do!

I'm genuinely sorry for this.

The US is a colonial empire. Just because you're American doesn't mean you're not a coloniser.

@yassie_j Sucks for the smart people in Britain, but I personally find English pensioner Brexiteers living in Spain complaining about passport queues and sudden roaming charges to be a very tasty kind of "sucks to be you".

Release QNX as open source, you Canadian cowards.

Punch Nazis. Fight Nazis. Kill Nazis. Do not tolerate intolerance, lest our society will be destroyed.

As I always say - the only good nazi is a dead nazi.

Her sisters and her brother, of which many have sadly passed away due to cancer, never made amends. Didn't attend each other's funerals. Still don't talk to each other. It has caused lasting psychological scars in my mom - that I can see even today.

So no, 1940-1945 is not "long ago", and we were just a regular white Catholic family. I can't even fucking imagine what Jewish families, Roma families, and the various other targeted groups are still going through today at the hands of the Nazis.

My grandfather - my mom's father - was taken by the Nazis and used for slave labour in Germany. After the war, he had to find his way back home alone, on foot. His experiences fucked him up, and is one of the reasons my mother's upbringing was so difficult she effectively had to flee her parents at age 16, after having spent time in an abusive Catholic nunnery - unheard of in '60s Netherlands for a woman so young to strike out alone. It all destroyed the family.

Our education, media, family oral histories - it's drenched in what the Nazis and their Dutch collaborators did to my country. My parents took me and my older brothers to visit a concentration camp when I was like 7 - too young? Fuck no. I already understood damn well where I was, and the memories I made that day are still vivid today, more than 30 years later.

Hate for Nazism wasn't something I only read about in books - I was societally injected with hate for Nazis from the day I was born.

So what I'm seeing happening to my fellow human beings who happen to be trans? I recognise this shit. I know the patterns. I hear the dog whistles, loud and clear. I've studied the vocabulary, the propaganda tricks, the methods they use to dehumanize trans people.

And I'm not fucking standing for it. I'm just some regular dude, but it's been instilled in me that once the Nazis invaded, there were only two kinds of people: those that resisted, and everyone else.

I will not be everyone else.

I'm vocal about trans rights because I grew up in a country that was absolutely devastated by the Nazis. The Netherlands had the highest per-capita death rate of any of the occupied countries in western Europe - 2.36% of all inhabitants were killed in the Holocaust, executed as resistance fighters, during uprisings, or during the Hunger Winter, which is exactly what it sounds like.

1940-1945 seems long ago, especially for Americans. But for someone born in 1984 in NL? It permeated everything.

Gamers: "Games were so much less buggy and broken in the past!"

Speedrunners:

I don't want to sound alarmist, but is Red Hat starting to divest from GNOME?

https://www.hadess.net/2023/08/new-responsibilities.html?m=1

Content warnings are overused on Mastodon to the point of insanity.

There, I said it.

...mother of god. The Google Maps app for PalmOS still works. Fully. Including navigation.

In 2023, if you want to be free of corporate control over your computing, you can be. It's not hard.

Prediction: Facebook is never going to turn on federation. Why would they? They've got tons of logins, they've got the annoying, airheaded brands and influencers - what do they need us for?

This is actually the best outcome. Like I said before, let them have all the annoying loudmouths. We'll keep building our own better community here.

@feditips @osc @ThePlant I'm curious - what platforms do you use? Unless it's like Linux or BSD or whatever, you're using a mass surveillance platform. Apple, too, collects vast amounts of data about its users, and lets the CCP control all of Apple users' data in China.

Both Twitter and BlueSky - backed by untold amounts of money and white tech bros - are down.

Mastodon - run by trans furries and femboys high on anxiety - is running just fine.

The ASUS ROG Ally ships with McAfee preinstalled.

Jesus fucking Christ people pushing this thing are insane.

Wake up to the new reality, people. Gaming on Linux is better than gaming on Windows.

Just accept it. Stop fighting it.