Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- Pronouns
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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
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"we have added AI to our product": the 7 magic words to get rid of half your userbase
description of death (figurative), political
@nando161@theblower.au Not shown in the comic: the part where less than a mile out to sea, their crappy raft gets overwhelmed by a wave and they drown and/or starve, when they could have been waiting for a sufficiently well-equipped ship on a safe island with a food source
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“We’ve implemented end-to-end encryption.”
Hurray!
“With OpenPGP.”
Oh no.
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Hey, transfeminine folks! I had a convo with my (very trans-friendly) audiologist, and she asked an interesting question based on some anecdotal observations:
Have any of you noticed a correlation between feminizing HRT and hearing loss?
I'm not a good example, as I had hearing loss long before I started HRT in November 2020, but she's consulted with other audiologists who've noticed a similar trend. This may be a fluke, or confirmation bias, or related to something completely unrelated to HRT, e.g. transfems also tend to listen to really loud noisecore hyperpop or whatever, but I said I'd reach out to get some more anecdotal information. 😊 Thanks!
medical, HRT, hearing loss
@TamsinSays Reports from two people I know (shared with their permission):
One reports no change in hearing. Several years of feminizing HRT now.
The other has experienced a significant increase in earwax production, leading to regular issues with clogged ears that significantly impair hearing, requiring professional ear cleaning to restore hearing. No permanent hearing issues. Likewise, several years of feminizing HRT now - they report that "earwax so bad it needs to get cleaned out" has only started happening since starting HRT, insofar they can remember.
@et_alia@strangeobject.space Importing a bit of advice from tech support land here, that seems relevant to this as well: always mention what you've already tried (to search for) when asking for help.
Both proves that you did the work, and provides a clue on what you got stuck on.
re: dealing with money
@eniko Yeah I was afraid of that :( I figured I'd mention it anyway, in the hope that maybe you could find some way to adapt the same idea to your situation, that I couldn't think of.
I guess you could take a conservative estimate of monthly income and go from there, it may be better than nothing, even if it's not really accurate? In case no better idea comes along, that is.
dealing with money
@eniko Personally I ended up using a trick that a friend mentioned - mentally convert every price to "how many hours do I need to work to pay for this" (based on hourly rate as a freelancer, in my case).
It was originally meant to more easily reason about "is this worth spending money on if it helps me do my work more effectively", but I've also found it to help to ingrain a more accurate idea into my brain of what my *actual* financial situation is.
This does require having some sort of hourly rate to convert to. I guess if you don't work hourly it can be sort of approached by doing (totalMonthlyIncome/hoursWorkedPerWeek) or something like that?
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Muis gaapt altijd drie keer.
Maar hij hield het bij twee. Ik was heel verbaasd.
"Muis? Moet je niet nog een keer gapen? Die 'nu ga ik actie ondernemen'-gaap?"
Hij keek lichtjes om zich heen en vooruit.
"Heb ik dan je middelste gaap gemist?" vroeg ik hem.
Geen antwoord.
Ik wachtte.
Na een minuut kwam De Derde Gaap.
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Holy shit y'all
There's a black-crowned night heron at the pond
These are supposed to be nearly extinct in Germany but I'm looking right at one
@woodlandcat obligatory addendum: coffee is not water, and monster is also not water
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Wait no, postcards are FREE while the app is in beta
Dude. No. You shouldn’t have told me about your app. This is like when they didn’t have ordering limits on USPS flat rate boxes so as a teen I ordered 10,000 flat rate boxes to my house and the local post office in my rural Iowa town had to shut down for the day to process them all. Something like that might happen.
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Plurality question, 
Fedi has a bunch of plural critters, so let me ask here:
How would I, as one part of a system, unambiguously refer to a pre-plural self? Both "I" or "we" seem off there, and writing it out all the time sucks.
Context: System is a split with two headmates.
Links to external resources are also welcome.
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politics, 'calling the cops'
@sterophonick I guess this ultimately just boils down to "do your best to get it right, but don't expect everything to be perfect", like many things in life
politics, 'calling the cops'
@sterophonick I have mixed feelings about this. Feel like it would depend on a lot of factors - personal situation, whether you have alternative means of dealing with the situation, what the local cops are like, what risks are involved, and so on.
"Don't call the cops and sort it out on a community level in a constructive way" would be the ideal outcome but you do need to actually *have* a community to sort it out with, for that to work.
"Calling the cops" shouldn't be your *first* response, probably, but sometimes it's the one option you have.
- 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
