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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- 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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I've updated our little list of queer and kink-friendly instances with a few new ones. Let me know if you'd like your instance added to the list! #admin https://blog.woof.group/docs/see-also
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@zens *thirty years later*
26: our makeshift photolithography table can now etch up to three photovoltaic modules and one FPGA per ounce of crushed sea glass, now that our vegan photoresist recipe has been adapted to use with saltwater. Soon we won't have to barter with the atoll's magistrate anymore for e-waste
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Does anyone remember the end of The Truman Show? Where he finally leaves the set and everyone's left staring at blank TVs and wondering what to do with their lives?
No reason.
@Rachel_Thorn (The "misleading report dialog" issue comes to mind)
@Rachel_Thorn Well, mostly. There's certainly some problems built into the Mastodon software. But at least you're not required *to* use that software.
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I like myself much better since I quit Twitter. And, yes, I understand that many marginalized people found community there, but it's like making a home in a sewer. The people you live with may be wonderful, but your enironment is poisonous. The thing about Mastodon is that, unlike a big corporation, it's what the users make it. Come here and make a racket until the problems here are fixed. Is there toxicity here? Yes, but at least the toxicity isn't built into the software, as it is on Twitter.
re: euro truck simulator
@f0x Living that underpaid contractor life
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#FediTips for new arrivals: Now is a great time to review who you're following, especially anyone whom you used to follow back on the birdsite, and decide whether you _still_ feel like following them.
Seriously, how do you _feel_ about each account that you're following? Check in with your gut. It may be time to let go of that account you hate- or dread-follow, not to mention the accounts you only follow out of inertia or guilt.
Now's the perfect time to clear house and make room on your feed for constructive voices, marginalized voices, future voices, and your friends' voices. Do what the algorithm couldn't and make your feed your own. Heck yeah!
meta, personal struggles, long
So when I created this account, I originally intended to use it as a quieter, semi-private place for self-discovery - especially getting more used to expressing myself emotionally again; with a stretch goal of becoming comfortable with talking about my sexuality in public again, as I once was.
This is a really big thing for me - years of Very Serious And Professional masking for activist purposes has made it more and more difficult for me to express myself as a person, because it's hard to shake the role once you're used to it, and easy to become worried about how it'll affect whether people take your words seriously. My forms of activism *do* often involve talking to non-radical folks, after all.
This has become... increasingly challenging, as Twitter is on fire, everybody is moving here, and many followers on Twitter have started auto-following me here - probably not aware that I may be considerably more personal here. And likely coming from a very different and more 'professional' background.
And that's become a problem. Because I wasn't really done with that process of self-discovery yet, and I'm now becoming less and less comfortable with expressing myself fully, for (mostly irrational) social pressure reasons.
At the same time, I don't want to lock my account, because my activism work *does* continue to be a big part of my life, and for that to work, it needs to be easily accessible and followable.
But compartmentalizing into different accounts *also* sucks, because I am a whole person, and the activist and the personal (*including* the sexual) are inextricably connected to each other, even if it might not be immediately obvious to many people why. I don't really want to separate them out.
So... now what the hell do I do?
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it's entirely possible that the ex twitter employee mastodon instance now does in fact have more active users than twitter has employees left
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supporting the fediverse financially
This is a topic again, and it should be, but some of our newer neighbors aren’t aware of all the dynamics involved.
the primary developer of the mastodon software has a patreon. it generates tens of thousands of dollars monthly for him and supports his two enormous poorly moderated servers and development of mainline mastodon.
there are thousands of other servers and dozens of other projects that make the fediverse the fediverse.
your support there would be far more meaningful and effective than Eugen’s patreon.
it’s the difference between donating to a multi-national charity that pays execs big bucks from your donation and donating to the group of folks watching out for our unhoused neighbors in our local communities.
please look around this place and see where the hard work is being done and toss your support there.
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Ableism, Neurodivergence
From a partner's CBT and ADHD workbook:
"Regarding the long-range management of ADHD, it is important to point out that the relapse rate for ADHD is 100%. "
What in the neurotypical ableist nonsense framing is this?!?
re: Quick explainer about GoToSocial for people who've heard of it but aren't sure what it is
@dumpsterqueer Is this the new "please stop building your critical infrastructure on my alpha software" anti-marketing strategy?
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Don’t look for heroes.
Look for people who build community by making space for people to care for each other and raise one another up.
@selfawaresoup@chaos.social I'd imagine there will be quite a few folks like that on scholar.social?
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Protip if you have ADHD: If you break a task down into steps, and create a deadline for each step, then you get to feel even more stress as you watch more deadlines sail past you.
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Finally decided to give Mastodon a go. Here are some samples of my work and where to find me!
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you're reading that right - fun levels are at 100%
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- 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
