Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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
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“Basically, men need to start mansplaining sexism to other men.”
@Saupreiss @jon This is exactly it (and this has really always been the reason, border checks have never been effective)
@clacksee@wandering.shop (Which often do keyword matching)
@clacksee@wandering.shop Perhaps it's an attempt to get past the automated review filters that a lot of places use now?
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Perennial favorite…because this is clearly the case
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capitalism
*wet eyes, trembling lip* i-if i'm such a good girl, why are my basic needs constantly under implicit threat?
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What I send: Flirting
What they see: Could not decrypt mesaage
What they see: Could not decrypt mesaage
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Another #PixelArt daily done! :) The clock never stops.
You can grab the full-quality versions (for free) here: https://ko-fi.com/i/IU7U0160GAB
ENJOY!
You can grab the full-quality versions (for free) here: https://ko-fi.com/i/IU7U0160GAB
ENJOY!
Today I learned that there is a theme park in the US specifically tailored towards disabled folks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27pkOKYBptI
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Dear authors, and if Netflix or whoever is listening, you too:
If you're out of fun ideas for historical drama, alternate history or the like, how about this: an all-female gang in a European capital, renowned for coming up on top against male gangs and taking good care of their members, and one which may have endured for generations. You don't even need to invent most of it if you don't want to. This gang really existed and they were known as the 40 thieves or the 40 elephants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Elephants
Please write something in this setting. Please!
@rail_ Oh yeah it's not *super* common here either for them to be split, but that seems to mostly be because it doesn't provide much advantage planning-wise (which would make sense on a rail network this dense...) because the actual process is very fast, usually only takes a minute or so
@rail_ It's *technically* two trains but it's very very common for short EMUs in NL to be run in connected pairs, and somewhat common for them to split/pair at different points in the route
Why are the battery controllers in my Thinkpad such absolute garbage...?
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Can anyone recommend small independent sources of information/news, either about tech, world facts, or both, that are in a similar ballpark as kottke and 404media, but they're not US-centric?
Anything interesting in Europe or elsewhere?
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if you're feeling like going on the offensive, but not like, smashy smashy offensive, an easy fun thing you can do is to put up posters around your neighborhood warning of CPCs, aka fake clinics that espouse misinfo about reproductive health and deliver religious nonsense instead of real choices.
(this post sponsored by me seeing such a poster from a weird local org - try not to be part of a weird org - covering up an acab sticker - try not to cover up acab stickers when you do this)
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Stoppen zeg, met politici 'onnozel' of 'naief' noemen. Jemig, echt, dat zijn ze niet. Dat maakt het juist zo erg.
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The greater point being made here was that voting is not synonymous with or inevitable in democracy, and in fact majoritarian (voting) democracy is an anomalous institution that purports to be a democracy while imposing coercive control backed by violence, unlike democracies by consensus like the Iroquois Confederation or Berbers that Western scholars refuse to call democracies. Per Graeber:
"Majority democracy, we might say, can only emerge when two factors coincide:
"a feeling that people should have equal say in making group decisions, and
"a coercive apparatus capable of enforcing those decisions.
"For most of human history, it has been extremely unusual to have both at the same time. Where egalitarian societies exist, it is also usually considered wrong to impose systematic coercion. Where a machinery of coercion did exist, it did not even occur to those wielding it that they were enforcing any sort of popular will."
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I remember David Graeber's insight into #voting being a big 'Aha' moment for me:
"Majoritarian democracy was, in its origins, essentially a military institution. . . .
"It is of obvious relevance that Ancient Greece was one of the most competitive societies known to history. It was a society that tended to make everything into a public contest . . . So it might not seem entirely surprising that they made political decision-making into a public contest as well. Even more crucial though was the fact that decisions were made by a populace in arms. . . . [I]f a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. . . . [E]ven if the vote was 60/40, everyone could see the balance of forces and what would happen if things actually came to blows. Every vote was, in a real sense, a conquest." #history #politics #democracy
- Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-fragments-of-an-anarchist-anthropology
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free idea
A multiplayer game where the gameplay is entirely serverside and you connect to the game via what appears to be an unsecured vnc connection (like the sort that VNC Resolver picks up). However, there is no vnc server, the vnc client is talking directly to the game server. The playable characters in game are persistent, and the player is assigned temporary control of one at random when they log in.
- 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
