Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
ADHD meds
Found a Ritalin cheat code: drinking a cup of tea alongside the first dose of the day (ie. before it kicks in) makes the effect of the Ritalin throughout the day *much* more consistent, even after taking it for a long time
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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protip: joining the fediverse may lead to gender stuff
What's the general consensus on when to boost unlisted toots?
@rorik@tech.lgbt Definitely have a look at the #feditips hashtag, lots of good tips being posted there
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every single platform that has an "about me" field that has a character limit of less than like 5000 is doing queerphobia
normative people are so boring and theyre like "oh okay so we only need to let people write like 300 characters in their bio" FUCK you
normative people are so boring and theyre like "oh okay so we only need to let people write like 300 characters in their bio" FUCK you
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Mastodon tip: you can customize a column to list multiple hashtags (and block-list some of them too). It's a good way to discover all the posts gravitating around the topics you like (eg. for art, #mastoart is a popular one). That's really a feature I love here and wanted to share it to newcomers.
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Long rambly post about tech pol
I feel like there's two groups in tech, and sadly the one I am in is way smaller. There's the silicon valley tech cowboys who love new tech and make things to see how they break things, impact be damned. And the people like me who think tech is cool, but maybe we should think about the ramifications of what we create before making it? And not make things that enforce capitalist norms on society etc.
I'm glad to work in a place where I don't need to juggle these concepts, and am free to create free and open software and data. And that mastodon is a place filled with more of my people than the other (though the others are here too to my dismay). I just really wish the field of tech contained more ethics and philosophy instead of just being treated as a purely scientific or mechanical endeavor, all engineering is highly political and we need to consider how it is and what impact we have.
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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 
- 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
