Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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- 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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De weggeefwinkel is open! Van nu tot ongeveer 8 uur vanavond. Als je kleding, houdbaar eten, condooms, zwangerschap tests, pijnstillers, mondkapjes, menstruatieproducten, of andere dingen nodig hebt, kom langs om te kijken!
The free shop is open! From now until about 8 o' clock in the evening. If you need clothes, long shelf life food, condoms, pregnancy tests, painkillers, face masks, period products, or other things, swing on by to check it out!
Verlengde hoogravenseweg 254, Utrecht.
Here's a good video about the technology behind trackless dark rides in theme parks and how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfPYeKdItoU (English subtitles are available)
But perhaps more interestingly, it has a dedicated segment about accessibility, and how they've used the trackless tech to improve it! 
climate change
@himbeer Yeah, they're *extremely* shitty. Some cities publish their contracts with them, it's worth a read if you can find one.
climate change
@himbeer Ah, of course it's JCDecaux again. The same company that has extremely sketchy contracts with many cities, where they negotiate *exclusive* outdoor advertising rights in exchange for supplying and maintaining street furniture, essentially creating vendor lock-in for the city because it'll no longer have its own maintenance facilities after a while, so stopping the contract would mean everything would fall apart.
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climate change
But sure, streaming movies is the reason the planet is dying, definitely only individual responsibility at play here /s
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/09/electronic-advertising-boards-manchester-energy-use-consumption
ADHD
@schratze Also you eventually run out of coping mechanisms once all of them have expired
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In more amusing news, yesterday a bunch of tractors blocked a supermarket's distribution center, and in response the supermarket blocked the tractors with a truck
https://www.noordhollandsdagblad.nl/cnt/dmf20220704_86845024
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Apparently cops have now graduated directly to "shooting at tractors" - no people seem to have been hit, clops claim they were "warning shots", video clearly shows otherwise
This is definitely all going very well
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"recognizing trans people diminishes women" is the same shit as "recognizing LGBT marriages diminishes straight marriages" and hearing it isn't any more convincing this time. Just trying to stoke a fake-ass rivalry between people bigots are terrified of facing as a united front
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scrolling to the bottom of the repology repository list only to find out that the codename of the current yiffOS release is Knot
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Hello, @EU_Commission…
EC: Is something troubling you ?
Me: Are you a bot?
EC: Would you prefer if I weren't a bot ?
Me: Yes.
EC: I see.
Me: So…?
EC: Do you feel strongly about discussing such things ?
Me: I do.
EC: You say you do ?
Me: Yes.
EC: I understand.
Me: And about my question?
EC: Your question ?
Me: Yes… are you a bot?
EC: What if I were a bot?
Me: Then you should be labelled as such.
EC: We were discussing you -- not me.
Me: *sigh*
EC: But your question.
nl pol, police violence
Cops are doing nothing again btw
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Farmers are now blocking food distribution infrastructure, leading to empty shelves in stores
https://nos.nl/artikel/2435317-boerenblokkades-leiden-nu-al-tot-lege-schappen-in-de-supermarkt
@lilithium@eldritch.cafe Not that I know of. I tried my best to make a nice community out of PG back when I still was a mod, but with someone "higher up in the hierarchy" (dngray) suddenly deciding to involve themselves in it and Exercise Their Authority, that job was very quickly made impossible...
So I guess the PrivacyGuides (Matrix) community is now definitively a lost cause. It's just endless privacybros yelling absolutist opinions at each other now without any nuance or good faith assumption, pretty much exactly as predicted, with several of the most toxic people holding mod positions.
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@wim_v12e @gargron @EU_Commission
I live in Brexit island (I didn't support or vote for it) so no longer can contact MEPs etc; but the way the Commission have set this up with 0 replies to the public comes across almost like a 1980s propaganda operation (even though I agree with and support a lot of what they are saying and doing!)
It was a perception of Brussels being "unaccountable" and "untouchable" which in part led to Brexit in my country..
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"Child-rearing doesn't have to be authoritarian and oppressive. We can help guide our children, and develop their capacity to advocate for and assert themselves without being coercive. The best way to protect young people is to protect them FROM the institutions that were supposedly set up to protect them, but ended up hurting them the most."
This is an excellent video that expresses what I think better than I could.
@aeva@mastodon.social The distro packager: "sigh, *another* cake?"
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@aeva @efi Unix Express: All passenger bring a piece of the aeroplane and a box of tools with them to the airport. They gather on the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, the passengers split into groups and build several different aircraft, but give them all the same name. Some passengers actually reach their destinations. All passengers believe they got there.
- 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
