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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- 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
re: meta, CN, venting, undirected harsh language
@ki@chaos.social While I realize that the question at the end is a rhetorical question, I do have an answer: yes, I've unfortunately noticed a significant overlap between anti-maskers and people yelling "censorship" about CNs... :/
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@JeanMarcvanTol Mogelijk is dit een oplossing voor de momenten waar het even niet lukt? https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109279041824961297
Echter geen idee of er ook een vergelijkbare Nederlandse tag is.
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Twitter was not invented by hotshot entrepreneurs. It was modeled on TXTmob, a tool activists designed for the protests at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Real innovation comes from participatory experimentation, not profiteering.
Billionaires ruin everything they touch.
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soapbox, transphobia, etc
people really need to research who makes the software they are using when deploying it for something like fediverse integration. and if you weren't aware before, you are now
fact: Alex Gleason, the developer of Soapbox, is a massive transphobe who wrote an article titled "Why I don't support transgender ideology" where he says in so many words that he is against transgender people and spends an awful lot of time minimizing all of the suffering trans people are subjected to. it's not hard to find this if you look, right on his blog. i do not care if he claims its about "ideology, not people" - you cannot separate these two
is it any wonder that spinster.xyz, a notable transphobic gender critical instance, uses Soapbox?
do not use soapbox and do not support or give alex gleason the time of day if you care about trans people
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Do people know of any literature that talks about unintentionally recreating systems of oppression in leftist spaces and how to prevent it?
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My favorite part of gamedevs masto is seeing all the indies experimenting in limited format games.
There's something incredibly cool about people experimenting with making brand new games that could run on a Gameboy color or an NES.
It feels akin to choosing to use oil paints and canvas when Photoshop is available. Art can be found in the techniques unique to the medium and there's a shitload of people out here proving that out.
politics, "civility"
As a bit of context for those who are unfamiliar: "civility" is a tool of oppression. It doesn't consider whether any harm is done at all, only whether the (pretty much arbitrary) requirements of decorum and appearances are met.
In other words: it explicitly permits any harmful behaviour as long as it appears superficially polite and 'professional' enough. As long as it's plausibly deniable enough.
And it punishes those who speak out loudly or emotionally about being harmed, because that doesn't meet the standards of decorum.
It's a favourite staple of conservatives, as well as naive "reach across the aisle" centrists.
And when someone's view on moderation is all about "civility", also a pretty damn reliable signal that they *cannot* be trusted to protect vulnerable and marginalized folks.
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only deutsche bahn could cause a delay so bad the train is delayed a entire season
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Chocolate letters with my class: wooden model, vacuform mold, and the final product!
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Seeing a lot of takes that assume that big instances on Fedi should exist and idk that seems like a mistake
You know, if journalists had actually paid any attention at all to what marginalized folks have been saying for years, they could've immediately spotted how sketchy Post News is by how the founder keeps going on about "civility". Alas.
@echedeylr@catcatnya.com Yep, kind of the predictable result when an industry consists almost entirely of those kind of people, unfortunately... :/
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it's actually really wild that the story of a black guy who somehow managed to deracialize klan members by befriending them is still being used as a positive example of.....anything?
the way that story, and variations like it, continue to circulate around the internet as a good example of anything is truly.....dark comedy
a perfect example of the failures of antiracism, specifically self-styled white antiracism, as a political project
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to the people who reply to any- and everything with random, uncommented YouTube links:
would you click on an uncommented tiktok or Facebook link sent to you by a random stranger?
let me guess, you don't have auditory processing disorder and the sound in videos doesn't physically hurt you?
let me guess, you're not on mobile and opening another app doesn't immediately reset the memory of the one you're currently using?
please just stop. I am NEVER gonna click that. I WILL eventually mute you.
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The problem with the infosec industry is actually pretty easy to summarize. In the infosec industry, there are roughly three things you can do:
1. Sell people reactive patchwork fixes for problems that have already happened. Good business, you'll have customers forever.
2. Put work into fixing security problems on a structural, worldwide level so that they just can't happen anymore. Years of work on the public commons, and no one company can profit from it. Therefore nobody will pay for this.
3. Do lucrative contracting work for the government. Sometimes reactive, sometimes structural. But whatever it is will always advance specifically *their* nation state interests.
Well, guess what the industry works on.
... paid work, that is.
There's plenty of genuinely important structural work that isn't getting done because it's not profitable, of course.
- 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
