It's kind of infuriating how, as soon as you try to do good, you're held to impossible standards.

People are shit and companies are shit all the time and nobody bats an eye. But do volunteer work for your FOSS community, start a project that tries to do things more ethically, just be visibly not shit, and people left and right come out of the woodwork to point out all the ways in which you are not being absolutely flawless and perfect, and all the work that needs doing that you're not yet taking upon you.

The people actually doing the work are also the people who are being asked to do even more, and who are being critised the most. It's a really insiduous pattern and we all need to be better at recognising it and squashing it.

@cell average fedi-meet I heard

Made it home.

(Also is my 10.350th post )

@susankayequinn
It reminds me of this:
(don't know original source)

Last train for today S-Bahn Home.

@CatboyCody For today yes. But on Tuesday it was a bigger adventure.

Hahaha the staff for the Train is late so we will leave a few minutes later

reached my train in Basel. Now its off to Freiburg for the very last hop indeed for today. Towards home with the Light Train

@cell I should try more solo travelling But I also did just have a magnificent time traveling to visit friends in france

@aetios Aety at customs:

Do you have anything to declare?

aety: Yeah about a 100 Model-Trains...

Off to Basel SBB. So far the trains have been very much on time

Lets See how Deutsche Bahn will do from Basel to Freiburg

Heute wohl Zugfahren mit der Schweizer Armee (off-duty)

Next hop: in Bern.

@snow I think someone got hands on your Pharmacy Ouverte

@aetios prost!

@aetios She said though she was interested!

I have entered ze Puni-Land! (Now in Genf for my next hop; first swiss train today)

Die Gefahr besteht nicht darin, dass „KI“ die Macht übernimmt, sondern darin, dass Menschen ihre Verantwortung an sie und die Tech-Bros abgeben https://evangelische-zeitung.de/chaos-computer-club-zu-ki-maschinenherrschaft-steht-wohl-nicht-bevor/

In the 1990s punk band Green Day were going on tour with their friends Pansy Division, an openly gay punk band. Because of the excessive homophobia of the era, venues did not want a gay band performing at the tour.

So Green Day told the venues to fuck off. They weren’t playing without Pansy Division. The venues gave in and the tour went ahead, and now Pansy Division got the tour they needed.

Here’s the thing: Green Day did not have the clout that they had in the 00s and now. They were fresh, sure, but they certainly didn’t have the clout Ed Sheeran does. And yet, they were willing to sacrifice the dream of any young band — their first, big, domestic tour after a hit album — because they did not want to be complicit in homophobic rhetoric by kicking their friends off the tour.

You see the parallels here? Friends stick up for their friends, even if it materially affects them. Green Day would have rather get kicked back into obscurity than become a household name on the backs of the oppressed. Green Day had literally everything to lose if the venues didn’t back down, whereas Ed Sheeran has nothing to lose.

time for some gaming.