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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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
We got a new corner couch (listed 'free' on Marktplaats) and I'm so happy with it, so much comfier and especially roomier than our old couch 😄 Way more polycule-compatible.
On which note, anyone in NL want our old couch, also for free? It's an EKTORP two-seater from IKEA, so while the main fabric is very damaged (cat...) you can still buy brand new covers for it and make it look like new. The pillow fabric is still fine. Couch itself is in good shape. Free for pickup in Rosmalen, just let me know. It's currently disassembled so should be easy-ish to transport in a normal car.
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The striking @NYTGuildTech have asked people not to play Wordle or other NYT games (https://www.polygon.com/news/474209/new-york-times-strike-wordle-connections). Instead, may I suggest #Metazooa? It's an animal guessing game where the clues are the taxonomic group containing both your guess and the animal of the day!
P. S. like Wordle, the sharing message includes a lot of emoji, so use a CW so you don't barrage screenreader users lol
@alda Thanks, that clarifies it a lot for me 🙂
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I wrote down some thoughts on community moderation:
"Enablers of abuse in online communities" – https://piegames.de/dumps/enablers-of-abuse/
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@alda Right. So does Festinger Vault then provide, like, alternative update servers? Or is it basically just "we stripped out the license check for you, good luck"?
@alda Festinger Vault claims to be GPL-compliant, and I only know nulled plugins from definitely-not-GPL plugins for eg. forum software.
I guess the scheme is that some WP plugins are GPL (... to fit in the Wordpress license...?) and then build in a 'support license' check and integration which it is entirely legal to remove or replace, which Festinger Vault does, if I understand correctly?
@ifixcoinops Truly baffling quantities of stuff can be carried on a bike with some of those bags. With mine I regularly move an entire shopping cart worth of groceries.
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NY Times tech union has asked users not to play Wordle or other Times games while they are on strike. It's a really easy way to support them. https://www.polygon.com/news/474209/new-york-times-strike-wordle-connections
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I mean it about touching bikes being calming
There's something very reassuring about a machine that doesn't need petrol or electricity but can still take you 100km in a day
Got some spare tubes, a patching kit and some basic tools, maybe $20 worth, all fits in the bottom quarter of the saddlebags no problem leaving room for lots of snacks, and with that much it'll just Keep Going
As long as my legs work, this machine works, and there's enormous comfort in that.
@alda (Do you have a brief summary of what Festinger Vault does exactly? I'm having a lot of trouble finding a description of what it is, that isn't editorialized to the point of uselessness...)
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weird gendered leg discussion re: bikes
Bikes make you aware of the power of your legs.
Weird gendered thing about the top versus bottom halves of your body: most women I know are aware of how strong their legs are, whereas when a bloke thinks about his strength, like he's gonna try and move something heavy, he tends to think of his arms and chest and back. I've seen many fresh new trans lads suddenly becoming more aware of their shoulders or biceps for example.
Which, like, even a really strong person's arms don't have nearly as much torque or endurance as the most thoroughly ordinary leg. So after a couple of times of looking down at my little ten-dollar Sunding speedo/odometer and seeing Just How Far I'd gone, I think it kinda altered my relationship with my legs? Like now, when I have to do something that needs a lot of strength, even like unscrewing a big rusted bolt, I keep thinking of how this would be much easier if I could let my legs do it instead of my arms? I move differently, I stand differently, I'm more aware of this whole half of my body I've been under-using
And I say this to the women and femme and AFAB people in my life and they're like ??? you didn't know??, and the not-bike-riding cis blokes I talk to about it go ??? oh huh yeah I guess, wild???
It's almost as if modern american carcentric life has hidden my whole entire legs from me lol
(Unclear exactly which HRT options that encompasses)
Today I learned that HRT is available over-the-counter without a prescription in Spain, apparently?
o.a. advies qua koffie drinken en gezondheid
@pascaline Ja hoor, de transplantatie komt helemaal goed denk ik 🙂 We bereiden ons er al maanden op voor als huishouden en inmiddels kan zo'n beetje alles zonder mij gedaan worden (behalve inkomen, dat was een kwestie van sparen). De donor is iemand die ik ken (@Peetz0r) dus dat maakt het allemaal een stuk makkelijker en sneller om te regelen!
En ja, als je het niet durft zou ik zeker eerst even met de arts praten. Het kan trouwens wel hoor, dat koffie je bloeddruk verhoogt, maar het is geen zekerheid 🙂 Bij mij is het doorgaans pas bij 2-3 kopjes maar ik merk vanzelf wanneer mijn limiet bereikt is, dan word ik zenuwachtig, dus voldoende waarschuwing vooraf zeg maar.
o.a. advies qua koffie drinken en gezondheid
@pascaline Nierfalen, dus mijn nieren verwerken kalium niet goed meer; na de transplantatie (later deze maand!) mag het weer, maar nu is het even beperkt (en heb ik ook kaliumbinders in mijn medicatie, naar spul, net of je zand drinkt).
Qua harttoestanden, tja, moeilijk. De algemene bewering is dat koffie je bloeddruk verhoogt en dat dat hartproblemen kan verergeren, maar uit eigen ervaring weet ik dat dat niet altijd zo is - waarschijnlijk heeft het met ADHD te maken, maar in beperkte hoeveelheden verlaagt het mijn bloeddruk juist iets, zolang het maar niet teveel is. Vergelijkbare verhalen hoor ik ook van anderen met o.a. ADHD. Lijkt dus per persoon te verschillen, misschien zijn er meer factoren.
Als ik jou was, maar je moet het uiteindelijk zelf beslissen natuurlijk, zou ik aan de arts vragen of je koffie mag en zo nee, wat de reden is - als het om bloeddruk gaat, dan zou ik het gewoon eens met een kopje proberen, kijken wat het na een uurtje met de bloeddruk doet (heb je al een bloeddrukmeter?), en dan vanuit daar bepalen of koffie drinken 'veilig' is. De reden is wel belangrijk, kan ook zijn dat het i.v.m. medicatie niet mag, en dan zou ik het niet wagen.
@pascaline Best een hoop goede effecten, maar is wel afhankelijk van je gezondheid en beperkingen enzo (ik mag het bijvoorbeeld maar heel beperkt i.v.m. kaliumbeperking). Ik heb misschien even iets gemist, maar is er een specifieke reden dat je geen koffie kunt/wilt drinken?
@venite Doet me denken aan een uitspraak van iemand die ik ken: "sommigen groenten zijn 'vergeten groenten' met een reden"
health, positive
Asked the hospital whether I could have another blood test for potassium to make sure I am balancing it correctly for the transplantation, even though no tests were scheduled until going into hospital; somewhat pleasantly surprised to find a blood test form in my e-mail inbox within the hour, without any questioning or arguing, on my way to the testing place now
- 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
