Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
@whreq (And I understand that this wasn't very clear to many of the newcomers - they mostly just ended up being collateral damage in the conflict, more or less)
digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
@whreq My criticism is not so much towards the newcomers, to be clear, as it is to a specific contingent of people who just stormed ahead and started trying to Grow The Network without talking to anyone else, and basically trying to speak on behalf of the entire network with no acknowledgment whatsoever of the lack of consensus on this.
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What cool historical examples of marginalized people providing medical care to each other outside of the antagonistic system should I be learning about
uspol, advice, tech
In the coming weeks after the election, keep a very close eye on which tech companies mysteriously suddenly decide to expand their services to government and defense. They're fishing for war business, and more specifically fascist business.
You probably want to cut these companies out of your life *before* that happens.
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Klingon lesson
Hat pagh
Nobody is illegal
digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
Like, to be clear, I totally agree that you should be patient and welcoming to newcomers who need time to find their place, when you want to expand that community! It's crucially important, and if you're going to be trying to tempt people over, you also need to do the work of making it work for them.
But we never got to that point! We never even had broad agreement that people *should* be invited to move over here!
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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
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
