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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- 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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US politics adjacent; Personal relationships
This post brought to you by an angry American who voted Democrat and counts himself a politics hero because he posted so many pro-Harris memes and did: absolutely nothing else, and now he blames me personally because he read about Trudeau talking about foreign interference in (Canadian) elections, assumed that he was talking about the US (what else could he talk about) and then informed me that Canadians didn't do enough and this is why Trump won
@Dex I use NixOS so this is kind of handled for me now by having a shared configuration, but if I *weren't* using it, I would most likely point (something local-default like) Syncthing at that fonts path in the home directory that I keep forgetting (assuming Linux systems of some sort), and sync them that way.
Could theoretically also work on any other system that has a user-writable fonts directory and that Syncthing works on, but I'm not sure which ones do.
digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
"Bringing in new people without talking to the existing folks" is something you do when you're trying to do a capitalism, not when you're building or fostering a community
digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
The problem with chiding people on "you should be more welcoming to newcomers to fedi" has always been that nobody ever bothered to ask those people whether they actually *wanted* the place to grow bigger, it was just assumed to be okay and then when people objected to this, those objections were immediately paved over
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there was this fedi post from a while ago about how community isn't a party that you show up to, expecting to be served. it's more like a potluck, you're supposed to bring something to the table too. I think about that a lot. it's just really good to remember. everyone wants community but it's so easy to forget to participate in building it. I wish I realized that earlier. now I'm just hoping that I learn how to interact with people better and feel more assertive about my agency over the spaces I occupy.
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uspol & fedi meta
Now that their failing campaign is over here’s to hoping the #Mastodon4Harris libs redirect their funds to mutual aid, especially for marginalized people in the US whose communities have been destroyed by the successive Republican & Democrat administrations 🙃
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"leftists don't even necessarily mean capitalism is bad"
Yeah we do tho. We do mean that.
Yeah we do tho. We do mean that.
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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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uspol
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
- 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
