Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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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Why do we always say happy Sunday, instead of "I’m sorry it’s Sunday and you work tomorrow"?
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actually, shit, here's a few very basic changes you can make for better #GameDev #Accessibility :
1) please explain the graphics settings in language that people who barely know what a GPU is can understand, and in terms that aren't just about performance.
2) you know how Minecraft has a bunch of really specific audio sliders and not just "music" and "sound effects"? that's really helpful! you can even make it an advanced toggle or something.
3) for the love of god just let me drag resize your window. "fullscreen" vs. "borderless fullscreen" will not cut it. there are seriously so many more games that I could play without motion sickness if I could just make it not take up the entire screen. I cannot emphasize how confused I am that this is a problem to implement.
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I like alt text because it lets me understand memes that are 7 levels removed from any reference I had any chance of getting
re: kagi but more meta
@Byte Reference to an older meme, where something that initially seems cool turns out to be tacitly (or sometimes not so tacitly) racist and kind of spoils the whole thing
re: kagi but more meta
@Byte Subscription search engine service that did a milkshake duck
(This isn't really a stand-alone thing; it's meant to be used as a component of a bigger schema, potentially combined with other non-database data sources, using dlayer which is a sort of GraphQL-esque system but much less complex)
Today's project: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dlayer-knex
It even has some documentation!
(Although the documentation for the thing which it is built for is still incomplete...)
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Ok mastodon, (or at least the part of it currently going through a big freeze), show me your strange ice pictures, your weird ice spikes, needle ice, hair ice and frazil ice, your beautiful ice crystals.
Is #icetodon a thing yet? It should be. I'll start.
#NeedleIce in the park today.. typically forms.when ground is warm (above zero) and air temperature cold (well below zero).
re: kagi but more meta
(There are definitely more supposedly "small web" things that this applies to than just Kagi, they're just less obvious about it so far)
kagi but more meta
I guess the whole thing with Kagi is a good example of how something proclaiming itself "small web" is not automatically ethical
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The violence of erotic language and why it is dangerous, sexual violence, thread
This is not to say there is not room for such situations where we can experiment or where folks can express this with consent and aftercare etc, I just think that the normalisation and widespread usage of it is harmful because then we tend to think of it as the way to be.
It also leads into larger discussions around patriarchy/kyriarchy and how certain groups of people are taught to suppress their emotions/softer sides else they look 'weak' etc.
In conclusion, I am not saying that this language should never be allowed or some such, just that its normalisation and thus setting it up as the expected way to talk about such things can have a chilling effect upon how we do certain things and what we expect and sexualisation of people in situations that shouldn't be.
I think we need more connection, potentially normalisation of softer language and more of a promotion of consent and caring, whatever these things might look like. 2/2
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The violence of erotic language and why it is dangerous, sexual violence, thread
I am watching a video about someone being a prison abolitionist and one point she brings up is that in court when she tried to talk about the violence that happened to her in an emotional and violent way rather than straight forward one is she felt herself being sexualised.
She says this is because a lot of the language we have around erotic situations is already violent and I wholeheartedly concur with this sentiment. I have heard and seen it in various media, person-to-person situations and spaces set up to be 'erotic'.
I have a strong distaste for this being the norm around erotica and erotic situations etc. Not just because it leads to this normalisation but because it then also possibly leads to the softer and potentially what might be thought of as the more mundane side of erotic language and situations around this as either not being seen as interesting, or folks not knowing what to do with such language or in such situations. 1/2
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🇵🇸 
"De verhalen die ik hoorde waren verbijsterend: vrouwen die gepest en ontslagen worden wanneer ze de avances van hun chef afwijzen, afschuwelijke huisvesting waar de ratten rondlopen, schijnconstructies om mensen geen loonsverhoging of contract te geven. Gedwongen doorwerken tijdens ziekte. Potige medewerkers van uitzendbureaus die mensen intimideren of in elkaar slaan, levensgevaarlijke werkomstandigheden, werkgevers die zwaargewonde arbeidsmigranten voor hun woningen dumpen."
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/01/05/onderbetaald-bespuugd-en-zelfs-aangerand-de-arbeidsmigrant-wordt-niet-gezien-als-mens-a4186092
@sindarina FWIW, there seem to be a couple of critical comments on PubPeer for this one: https://pubpeer.com/publications/CC52948B43670BCD51E1B617E7BDAC
(I have no idea whether those comments have merit, this is not my area of competence)
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Every part of this is good news
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/travel/europe-new-trains.html
#climate #travel #trains
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I've discovered a very odd service that runs from Reading all the way through to Salisbury.
So I've decided to take it!
Why is it odd?
- It's SWR. Usually trains from Exeter and Salisbury would run through to Waterloo, not to Reading.
- It only runs both ways throughout the day on weekends
- On weekdays it does something even more odd, and only runs one way (Salisbury to Reading) twice in the evening!
- I don't think this existed before
If anyone knows why this exists I'd love to know 😅
- 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
