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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One of the things I think is interesting about cultural change is that (and I totally recognize that globally, this is still a transitional thing, still contested) in my social circles, normative entitlement is waning.
By which I mean, people who are in roles traditionally associated with privilege are slowly losing their grip on entitlement.
And by that I mean, they are slowly losing the absolute certainty that everything is their business. To question, to comment on, to give knowing side glances to their friends about, to post on Nextdoor about, to presume they know, or ought to know, other people's business.
It certainly is still contested, and a lot of white, privileged people still do performative meltdowns and performative incompetence to sidestep having to be responsible to us, the marginalized, the queer, the deviant, the heretical, the different.
But their grip is slipping, and I celebrate every time I get a friend to see the sham of privilege and entitlement and start doing the work to decolonize themselves.
re: death, politics
Whoever it was that proposed last night to temporarily suspend the "do not speak ill of the dead" rule in honor of Kissinger, I think your proposal has been accepted
death, politics
Can't help but notice that Kissinger was so hated that even a lot of more liberal circles now seem to be celebrating his death, not just the radical ones
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open source maintainers should tell entitled corporate users to fuck off more often
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my entire timeline, the entire local timeline, the entire federated timeline, and every post on the list i titled "better federated" are all united around one thing tonight and i am HERE FOR IT
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re: health advice
@hosford42@techhub.social Then yeah, I would definitely strongly recommend seeing a doctor if that is an option available to you (they will likely also do an oxygen saturation test, as pretty much the first thing).
Given that I'm not a doctor, there's probably not much more I can contribute here, sorry :( Besides the standard advice of "take rest, don't force yourself to 'work through it'", that is...
I do hope you will find a speedy recovery!
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In honor of #HenryKissinger, the traditional rule to not speak ill of the dead is hereby suspended for the next 10 days.
re: health advice
@hosford42@techhub.social Oof :(
The test that I got a while ago from a doctor for "do I need to show up for a check-up" was basically "can you walk a single flight of stairs without being out of breath?" - if not, I would have to schedule a doctor's visit to assess whether treatment was needed.
I don't know if that metric still applies, but absent any better information, it seems like a good place to start.
re: health advice
@hosford42@techhub.social (If a COVID test turns out negative, then I would recommend talking to a doctor if possible, since this can be many things, ranging from relatively harmless to serious - but I also realize that that's not an option available to everybody)
health advice
@hosford42@techhub.social Pulse oximeter? They generally cost anywhere between "a few bucks" and $20 depending on where you are, where you buy it from, and how fast you need it.
If possible, I would recommend getting a COVID test as well - there are many ways in which it can manifest it, and it doesn't necessarily need to manifest as a lowered blood oxygen level.
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Oh hey also as a reminder:
Laughing at shitty people dying is great! What's better is paying attention to the communities hurt by those people and listening to their voices above all. Don't let your partying overshadow their strife and their reparations.
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friendly reminder to add alt text to your images so the visually impaired can also celebrate kissinger's death
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Wikipedia editor "Asticky" edited Henry Kissinger's article at 8:46 ET and then changed her userpage to this (with the edit summary "lmao")
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wow a Rolling Stone gathers no moss and pulls no punches
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
(archive link in case they're forced to soften/edit it: https://web.archive.org/web/20231130015817/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/)
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if you want to modify your body and medicine allows it, you should just be able to do that
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Can we please all agree that COP is now just an excuse for rich bastards and world leaders to fly somewhere to sit around tables and agree that the climate is fucked, sign a bunch of inconsequential paperwork that nobody takes seriously, promise to do better, then fly back home to carry on business as normal? #COP28
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I wish there was a "digital divide simulator" which takes your existing computer and makes it work slightly less well, each click/response takes a bit longer, each application loads more slowly, each tab opened gradually slows down the machine, newer apps (Slack) don't work at all. Wifi iffy.
I'm using a machine exactly like this, and even being totally savvy and being able to make good choices, it's still wild having to suddenly be this parsimonious and economical with my tech use. Educational
- 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
