Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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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Neurodiversity discrimination
@cassolotl it drives me batshit the way people treat "normal" as good no matter what the situation is. It's subjective, but even if it wasn't it wouldn't be about being normal. Sociopaths are hated on for having less empathy and being more selfish than NTs, but then when it turns out autistics are more moral, they get hated on too. Double standards.
@kaasiand @duidingd@mstdn.social Yep, ik vermoed dat dat best een belangrijk onderdeel is van waarom de sfeer hier zo chill is, geen brigading enzo
Long rambly post about tech pol
@GLaDTheresCake IMO there's a big 'cultural inertia' component to this - I've been beating this drum in the Node.js IRC channel for years, and something that really stood out to me was that a lot of people didn't *decide* not to care, they simply never even were exposed to the idea that your design choices might have real-world consequences. It's just not part of the cultural fabric.
So yeah, I feel like this is one of those cases where 'awareness' is actually an important thing to work on, with accessible explanations as to how and why this matters (I often link people to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ucEt-La9w but it's not particularly comprehensive), and really insistently spreading the idea that you hold responsibility for what you build.
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when you're a lawyer every morning you have to put on a lawsuit
@rando_khan Yeah - I also do freelance code review, and pretty much the only working "customer acquisition" model I've found is to get actual employees to recommend me to their manager, the same way that they would expense a piece of office equipment or subscription to a service
@welshpixie @schratze There's even a whole pixie town
@petrichor (If reading on a mobile device, try https://iomfats.cryto.net/storyshelf/hosted/geron-kees/ instead, which is my proxy that strips all site layout)
@petrichor I've been reading Chilling Effect (or well, by now the second book) by Valerie Valdes lately - maybe a bit more thriller-y than cozy, but a pretty easy read!
I can also *strongly* recommend pretty much everything by Geron Kees: https://iomfats.org/storyshelf/hosted/geron-kees/ -- especially the Charlie Boone series. It's more written for YA in some ways, but it's very intricate and comfy worldbuilding pretty much across the board, and also an easy read!
CW for mild sexuality, though. But their stories always make me feel better! Also they have a very particular writing style, where most stories start out reading like a 'normal' story without sci-fi/fantasy elements, but I can assure you that it doesn't stay that way :)
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Something to consider when posting hashtags:
For people using screen readers, they know when to separate words either by spaces, or uppercase letters. 'mastoart' will try to be pronounced as one word, whereas 'MastoArt' will be pronounced as 'Masto Art'. It just makes life a little bit easier for those who rely on screen readers to interact with the fediverse 
@kaasiand The temaki is calling youuuuu
@rando_khan Honestly, same. This is one of the few things I'd actually *want* to do as a job, but unfortunately it's also nearly impossible to find paying customers for it, particularly with an "I will only work on FOSS code" requirement :/
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i absolutely love deleting code.
replacing things that are complicated and difficult with things that are simple and maintainable is such a nice way to spend time.
@aral Huh? I thought Firefox used system UI for input boxes and such.
killing animals
@schratze Oh wow, I had no idea! Apparently not all laundry detergents are vegan either?
neurodiversity discrimination
@cassolotl I'm so, so exhausted by this kind of neurotypical-normative bullshit :( This is just bigotry in science-y packaging...
killing animals
@schratze Wait. Really? What are they made of?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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fuck de koning etc
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
