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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
@selfisekai I think they've all migrated to here, it's been sounding like dec 31st for the past week here
re: capitalism bootlickers
@hazelnot Like, for me it's quite simple, if your intention is not to identify and address the problem, then you have no place in the conversation
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capitalism bootlickers
Every criticism of a company or product made on the internet eventually degenerates in bootlickers derailing the conversation and turning it into a le debate about whether the scummy and often evil shit the company pulled was justified or not and I'm fucking sick of it 💀
re: capitalism bootlickers
@hazelnot I've started just saying "I don't care" to people trying to justify this shit, just cutting them off entirely, rejecting their participation in the conversation
It works wonders, much of the time
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tired of goty lists that are like "you know the popular games from this year? those are my favourites" instead of anyone trying to share games that flew under everyone's radar
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🏆 🥇 🎆
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: baby steps ✅ 🎮
you did your first fedi moderation action ever against a spammer on mastodon.social
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As the effervescent and wonderful Jason Hickel said over at Muskville; "Thanks to a lot of tech bros and economists getting Very Upset about degrowth, this article is now the number one trending publication at Nature."
@eisfunke A couple tips on living location in particular:
- Transport-wise it tends not to matter too much where you live, we don't really have 'rural' here
- Anything in the Randstad is likely to have good public transport connectivity, including towns you've never heard of
- However, there is a *huge* difference in how easy it is to deal with different municipalities; eg. Dordrecht is always being super difficult and rigid about everything, whereas Den Bosch is very easy-going on the bureaucracy
I'd definitely recommend centering your choice of place to live around "what has the good vibes to you?" and cost-of-living first and foremost, and then just double-checking afterwards that you can get everywhere you need to get, because it will most likely be Fine(tm)
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also, if you're ever talking to a stranger who doesn't speak the same language as you via email or whatever, write to them in your language, not theirs. It is infinitely easier to figure out what a bad machine translation of good text should say than it is to do that without having access to the good text.
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how can we help restaurants use HTML to share menus online challenge 2024
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Website that lists all known #AI agents (including autonomous chatbots and data scrapers) on the internet, in case you want to update your robots.txt.
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I’ve had more interaction in about an hour on my toot about my recent experience regarding no masks in health care settings, and #longCovid, than I have from my friends in a week on two FB posts on my wall about long Covid.
I’ve been absent from mastodon for a while and I’d forgotten how good it feels to be validated (outside of a dedicated long Covid group on FB) and not dismissed for daring to say the C word.
As I type this my support worker is out picking up medical supplies for me as I’m crashing hard after going out for the first time in six months on xmas day somewhere that wasn’t a medical appointment or rental open house (we have to move).
I’m just as sick as I was when I actually had Covid. Congested, coughing, really sore throat, aching all over, weak, no appetite (I’ve tested negative three days straight). All because I spent a few incredibly chilled hours with 3 other people, none of whom were visibly or audibly sick at the time. This is my life now and my nearest and dearest can’t even be bothered to pretend they read a post or an article and hit the like button to show support. So thank you for reminding me that there are people out there who do still care about it and are taking it seriously.
unsolicited advice, re: mh---
@nek0@chaos.social It may be worth checking out c3auti, I expect you're not the only one feeling like this - it's something that I've definitely seen come up repeatedly every year
At one past Congress, an 'introvert assembly' got set up ad-hoc (by a bunch of folks), basically just claiming an unused table where we invited people who found the interaction too much so they could sit around and weren't expected to interact... it ended up being a very nice place where people could alternately chat and retreat in their laptop, it turned out that all that was needed was removing the *expectation* of social interaction
I'm not 100% certain how c3auti is set up but I wouldn't be surprised if they're doing something similar; they do at least have a quiet cube, according to c3nav
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ACAB
i think i had just figured out why i have a hard time starting friendships and romance with people who are overly edgy and try to be offensive or ironic for shock/lulz value or are not taking anything seriously in general
it's the lack of emotional sincerity i think
like i cannot connect to you if the "you" i get is just a cardboard cutout or a bunch of soyjak/trollface masks slapped on your face
how am i supposed to invest into something that requires honesty with someone like you
re: hot take, FOSS development
To make it more explicit; that individualist understanding of 'collaboration' is the belief that people will contribute to scratch their own itch and that this will somehow magically convert into a public good at scale, and you will find this assumption embedded *everywhere* in the design decisions of popular FOSS project management software
Of course in practice this isn't how anything works, and it just means that lots of people submit often low-effort "patches" and then a few people burn out having to review tons of patches from people they have never talked to, whose motivations they do not understand, with zero guarantee of a response to a review, and with little chance of them sticking around in the long term, meaning that core maintainers have to repeat the onboarding process over and over again with every new patch
hot take, FOSS development
The "hit-and-run PR" model is a completely unsustainable model for FOSS development, because it shifts the majority of the labour to a handful of core maintainers, and is the outcome of a hopelessly individualist and capitalist understanding of what "collaboration" means
Project management systems should instead be primarily focused on building trust and retaining contributors at varying levels of commitment, and giving them room to breathe without becoming detached from the project
re: geklaag over journalisme, drugsproductie
@StroomAfwaarts Ik zou vermoeden dat het samenhangt met de onduurzame groei van de landbouwsector (en o.a. het hele verhaal met de Rabobank), ook qua stimulans vanuit overheid, waardoor er nu plotseling een hoop wanhopige boeren met ruimte maar geen inkomen zitten
(Dat zal vast niet de hele reden zijn, maar ik vermoed wel een factor)
- 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
