Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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So, who else is going to #WHY2025 and wants to meet up?
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politics, personal PSA
Just a personal heads-up for everyone I interact with: we've reached a point where if I see you in *any* way aligning with Trump or Musk, you are immediately going on my mental 'fascist' list with no further discussion and I will not speak to you anymore.
I don't care if you "didn't know how bad it is". The time for learning that is well past, so if you still "don't know", then I'm going to conclude that you didn't *want* to know and decide accordingly.
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Why I do not like hanging around liberals anymore
Because they're like oppression lootboxes.
The liberal viewpoint is not one of intersectionality; they might sound very progressive and recognize one or more types of oppression, but do not (wish to) recognize the way these interact, or the structure and patterns that underlie all of them.
This means that it's only a matter of time before I hear them say some extremely shitty and/or bigoted stuff about a topic that they don't recognize as a form of oppression, but I can't know upfront which topic it will be, or when it'll happen.
With my intersectional friends, I could then just point out that it's a form of oppression, and they will take it seriously, introspect, and work (over time) to understand it. Mistakes happen, but they will try to learn. All I need to do, is remind them.
With liberals, however... they do not recognize it as another occurrence of the same thing, and so I am left having to "prove" from whole cloth that yes, it really is a form of oppression, before they are even willing to put in *any* effort to understand the problem.
Every time this happens, it takes hours of my time, and energy that I do not have to spare.
I am already running on fumes most of the time, and I honestly just don't really want to hang around people who put that sort of price on not being shitty.
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I've actually been here for a while already, though mostly inactive! The Birdsite Situation prompted me to pop in here again. And I'm terrible at writing introductions, so I usually just say "I do stuff on the internet".
But uh, I do all sorts of activist-y stuff, work on radical FOSS (see http://cryto.net/~joepie91/manifesto.html), write (educational) stuff, am more or less a lonely polyamorous gender blob of indeterminate sexuality who likes both cuddles and kinky things, and I always have 10 times as many projects as I have time for, as is customary with ADHD brain :) Sometimes I even finish some of them!
While I'm an introvert and need plenty of time to myself, I *am* happy to meet like-minded people and spend time with them, and as long as you're not a bigot or apologist, you should feel free to interact with me and/or follow me!
Also, I live in Rosmalen (near Den Bosch) in the Netherlands, and honestly would like to get to know more local folks, and I also have some vague intention to start a queer hackerspace around here if I can find enough interested people. Eventually!
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Packing for #why2025 @why2025camp
Yes it's early but I also need to pack all the camping gear, pack an order of magnitude more things for Team:Warehouse, write half of a talk, make 75% of the slides, pick up deliveries (personal and Warehouse), get groceries, and more.
And I leave extra early for the earliest of build-up.
And also somehow eat, sleep, survive, repeat.
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would anyone who's driving to #why2025 and/or #nixcon with their car be up for giving me a ride from somewhere near Berlin? i'm currently dealing with a dire financial and legal situation due to my landlord illegally trading me to another landlord which means i now have like 30 EUR left and need 5000 EUR in a month or have sued them until then
alternatively give me money so i can afford food at https://liberapay.com/alina/ but dont feel pressured, i'm trying to find a way to not become homeless again on my own and dont mean to stress others with this,,,
boosts appreciated 
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@so_treu it's so sad that ignoring this part--where it started--lets people declare victory if the thing that affected them is overturned but sex workers still can't get paid.
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I'm sorry but it's getting to the point that I'm started to get irritated because sex workers for YEARS have been trying to raise the alarm about these payment processors and their censorship and how it wasn't going to stop at them, like a solid decade now or damn near
But a bunch of civvies suddenly can't jack off to whatever not based in reality piece of media AND SUDDENLY.
😒
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if you use an "ai" code review bot, you deserve all the shit "ai"-fueled pull requests you ever receive imo: live by the sword, die by the sword
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Den Haag HS implies the existence of Den Haag LS, Den Haag FS, and so on, all the way up to Den Haag SS+Gen2x2
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discussion of mh, kink/sex
as a long-time depressive, I've always disliked the idea that consent has to be enthusiastic. if I only ever did something if I was enthusiastic about it I would spend all my time in bed
similarly I dislike when people are so focused on my pleasure. I can't make any guarantees that I'm going to enjoy a thing. sorry! I've got the brain worms.
I am grateful when I can have people around me that trust me enough that they will help push me into doing things, and believe me when I say that I consent to whatever the thing is, knowing full well that probably within the first half hour to an hour or so my brain will finally start behaving and start to enjoy whatever is happening. but it does mean having to push through and just do a thing despite not enjoying it to begin with
(AS ALWAYS, this discussion of consent is solely about me and should not be taken as an argument to erode other people's boundaries or requirements for consent.)
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ah
that feeling
that feeling when you've been diligently figuring out how to work within the constraints of a plugin API...
... but you concluded it doesn't let you do what you want ...
... so you patched the upstream source code. you know, to help your plugin out a bit.
complaining about sex toys and online shops
I swear, the cishetnormativity of some places... 'online drugstore' sells sex toys.
The cockrings are in the "for him" category. The dildos are in the "for her" category. And the anal toys are in... the "for couples" category.
What is wrong with these people?! Just use normal fucking categories that actually describe what the things are!
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When I was in trade school, we had a half-semester homeroom course called "workplace safety and unions" and given all the red flags in the software industry, it should be mandatory for more than just electricians.
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🪭the strategy they employed, and which our queer elders and ancestors in the US copied, was to focus on local battles and organizing, but to fight those fights in parallel through the nation.
Big wins are built off of small wins. Change starts small.
I would sort of agree with the assessment that one of the failures of the queer rights movement broadly, though not of the trans rights movement specifically, since the 2000s was to overly focus on procedural wins at a national level.
It made sense at the time, but those victories were built off of thousands upon thousands of small, local victories.
And ofc, once gay marriage was legalized, a bunch of people I think started to believe the fight was simply “won” Forever.
But it wasn’t.
If you only watch national news you are missing the real struggle. That struggle is happening just down the street, right now
If you help get a trans person out of an abusive home or get them the hormones they need, that is you winning against fascism
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🪭A new cis friend I made on BlueSky found this article on the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot after I told them about it.
We had a good conversation about the ways in which the black Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s informed queer activists in the 1960s and 1970s
We talk about how Marsha Johnson threw the first brick at #stonewall , which is good symbolism, but I think vastly undersells how much our rights are built off of the success of the fight in the US against segregation, as well as off of the fight for Indian independence
#trans #transhistory #lgbtqhistory #queer
https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/comptons-cafeteria-riot
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People are no less chronically ill or disabled if they do these things:
- Are working
- Are studying
- Are out shopping
- Are wearing makeup
- Are wearing a nice outfit
- Are enjoying hobbies
- Are making jokes
- Are posting online
- Are texting more often
- Are smiling and laughing
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There's a conservative idea that if you provide free services people will mob you and steal all your stuff.
Just go to the library. It's full of free services that accept everyone, and yet the library is anything but overrun with people. It's kind of empty. There's always fresh food in the community pantry near the front doors. There's classes every day. Clinic on Thursdays. Come on down.
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@Byte taxes, holiday, sick leave, insurance, unpaid time on admin and business development, equipment, utility bills, professional services... it all adds up!
This is a useful website for working out how a given annual salary converts into an hourly/daily rate https://dayratecalculator.co.uk/ (UK tax and cost assumptions)
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By the way, they offered $160 per hour. Which is less than what I normally charge for expert work!
Chances are low that this will get the message across, but maybe they'll at least stop bothering me with this garbage.
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Welp, it's official.
I had to let go of a client today because they are *all-in* on the slop machines…Claude to be precise. They intend for it to be integral to all code going forward.
I told them I can't do it. I won't do it!
Which leaves me in a real bind because the one major client I have left simply isn't able to pay all of the bills. A real strain on my finances…yikes. 😕
Anyhoo…good news is I'm ready to contribute real senior Web Dev expertise to your next project! 😅 #FediHire
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Do folks know good options for learning Dutch?
Ik spreek een beetje Nederlands.
Buuuut I'm more than fed up with duolingo and would like to look into proper lessons.
Being able to do it from home is required.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
