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
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**So what is this Defaidodon thing that people are talking about today?**
Defaidodon is a bit of a play on words, with the first part being the Welsh word for sheep (defaid - in this case a plural word), plus the second half of Mastodon, to make a new hashtag. It grew out of some silliness on the Welsh instance toot.cymru around the time when lots of people joined up.
uspol, liberals
@KuJoe Unfortunately my experience with past situations like this is that the sort of folks I'm talking about instead "process" it in the sense of "moving on to other, non-political things", and end up treating politics like it's just about elections, completely disappearing from the political map outside of election time. The result is that they end up doing fuck-all for the most vulnerable in society. Keep in mind that this is not the first time the elections went like this, we've been here before.
So I think it's entirely reasonable to expect the people insisting "vote for Harris and everything will be okay" to actually put in the work now of materially helping those people that their campaign and strategy has failed. They will, bluntly put, simply have to learn to manage their emotions like marginalized folks are already forced to do every day. Because marginalized folks don't get that "time to process", and they need help right now (and have not stopped asking for help either).
I've especially seen a lot of Black and Brown folks lament how White democrats and liberals are acting all shocked about a completely predictable outcome that they were warned of many times over the past months, and are centering their own situation instead of that of the people they claim to be supportive of, and I can only say that I fully agree with that assessment, and that that needs to change. Not in a few months, but now.
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@nnedi “The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.” - Ursula Le Guin
@Tak Ah, thanks :)
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Friendly reminder to wait for the remaining 45% of Californian ballots to get reported before trying to draw conclusions about the popular vote total
#AskFedi: Is there a single, concise name for the "./configure, make, make install" build workflow, and variants thereof?
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Suggestions, please, and reposts.
I want to develop a local network of trust for sharing care activities across households and without the intermediation of money.
Local means within a 30-minute walk from my residence.
Network of trust means each participant in the network has clear and reliable expectations about what others in the network can do
Care activities means child care, elder care, tutoring, home and garden care, cooking, household chores, shopping and many other things we tend to think of as internal to each household (or paid service work).
Across households means not bounded by individual residences or family relations.
Without the intermediation of money means no form of monetary compensation, neither directly nor through some assignment of points or other values.
Just people helping each other.
I feel like I am describing something not at all new and yet bewilderingly unknown and complex in the present.
@silvermoon82 Only thing you can do AFAIK is file a police report for tampered mail but for obvious reasons that is not going to do much 🙃
@GLaDTheresCake There have been some wider reports of tampering with these magazines in the mail, and I've had inexplicably delayed issues before, as well - and it's not the first one that's arrived opened either, with the glue strip being sticky but not closed, suggesting it was probably once closed and then steamed open or so.
It seems pretty clear to me that some sort of tampering is happening, and the fact that they are not imperceptibly resealed (which isn't exactly very difficult) suggests that there is very much an intention to communicate "we are watching your mail".
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"A security culture is a set of customs shared by a community whose members may be targeted by the government, designed to minimize risk. Having a security culture in place saves everyone the trouble of having to work out safety measures over and over from scratch, and can help offset paranoia and panic in stressful situations—hell, it might keep you out of prison, too."
— What is Security Culture? | Crimethinc.
https://ru.crimethinc.com/2004/11/01/what-is-security-culture
One would almost think that there's a message being sent here by the authorities
Oh look the anarchist magazine arrived in an open envelope again
uspol, positive
I appreciate all the folks on here who have responded to the situation in the US by sharing advice on how to move away from the US, how to stay and fight, how to protect yourself, and so on.
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US politics data
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It's been many years since I read it but the book White Rage is a good summary of the history of white americans happily hurting themselves if it hurts black americans more
this isn't some new exciting sociological phenomena
it's just the large scale version of an abusive person breaking his own things: getting more out of it in satisfaction than he loses materially
yeah men are harmed by the very toxic masculinity they fund live on stream via superchat, but they're getting a satisfaction that makes the exchange make sense
when people start thinking that way I don't think you win them over by convincing them you'll give them rewards for good behavior
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rather than asking how we've failed young men that they're swinging far-right, ask why so many young men find it appealing to be told that all their problems are because someone with blue hair and pronouns thinks misogyny is real
have we failed them or are many of them, in the face of progress against (trans)misogyny and sexual violence, choosing to fail us and being rewarded for doing so
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there comes a point where people need to grow up and realize that it's not people "voting with their wallets", or young men alienated by feminists who blame them for everything, or middle america abandoned by coastal elites
folks know what trump is and chose him as a weapon to be wielded against the people they want to hurt
remind yourself of the old essay "the only moral abortion is my abortion"
trump voters are exactly these people: they'll take your kindness one second and tell you you're a murderer in the same breath
they're the people who take welfare and then rail about "welfare queens" getting rich off of food stamps
the people who yell about free speech but silence everyone they disagree with
the immigrants who hate immigration
you can't appeal to them because these are, fundamentally, people whose biggest problem is with the very idea of living in a fair society where people who are Not Them are their equals
that's why they target who they target
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Nix drama
@delroth I'm so tired, so so tired. If they had just taken proper action and made the space even vaguely welcoming I'd probably be a lot more involved, I have personally boycotted helping nix in any way with my contributions, and I know a good amount of people who are with me. Can these guys just shut up and listen for once in their miserable soulless lives.
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@davidho This is enraging because I know a lot of blind people who use Trainline because it's the least-inaccessible of the digital purchase options available to them.
I'm so sick of disabled people having to pay more to make up for things being inaccessible. Especially when we tend to have so little money!
- 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
