Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
boosted
I will be spending more time supporting and promoting mutual aid posts I see.
I offer no guarantees and any boosts/likes does not mean I vouch for the account. I don’t research or dig deep into these things and take them at face value.
Help however you can or see fit. With these dark times upon us I find it important to just help people without thinking, this is my mentality right now.
Much love to everybody! Stay safe, hopeful, and united!
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
boosted
Ableism, neurospicies, reading difficulties
Judging someone for their inability to read and comprehend something as easily as *you* might be able to read and comprehend something is ableist.
Attacking someone for making a mistake because they mis-read something is ableist.
Expecting someone with autism to present in the same way that *your* autism (or whatever other neurospicy) presents is ableist.
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
boosted
Spotify just reported record-breaking profits.
In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)
hospital, covid related
(Some background; I indicated that I would prefer for staff to wear a mask, they mentioned that they weren't sure if they could *require* it as per policy, I said "oh it doesn't have to be a requirement, a request is probably good enough" so that's what was put on the sign and it's working as expected)
@Peetz0r It is... alright. It's definitely not as nice as the JBZ but in fairness I'm not sure any hospital is, and it's definitely also not the stereotypical unidentifiable microwaved nutrient paste that hospitals are famous for, though it *is* on a fixed schedule
hospital, covid related
There is now a sign outside my room with "please wear a mask" (and also "reduce stimuli") and despite it not being a requirement, it is being followed quite well by staff! Once again shows that you do not actually need to *require* it to have a significant impact #CovidIsNotOver
medical
@freakazoid I sure hope it isn't my brain they're replacing 😅
medical, surgery
@silvermoon82 Sort of; taken into hospital today, adjusting stuff to get the calcium levels in my blood right, and then the surgery is on friday
@freakazoid Scheduled hospital for transplantation :) Will be here for a while
Hello from hospital!
unsolicited advice, re: household management, spoons
@JennyFluff Understandable 😔 I remember how badly things went here when our dishwasher broke
unsolicited advice, re: household management, spoons
@JennyFluff (If it seems like other things are not getting clean either, then there's probably a dishwasher issue; most likely either a) the spray-arm was blocked by something, b) the little dishwasher tablet door was blocked by something, or c) the filter needs cleaning - all of these can be fixed without tools or equipment)
unsolicited advice, re: household management, spoons
@JennyFluff If something doesn't get clean in the dishwasher, and there's no reason to believe the dishwasher has problems (eg. other things are clean), then it's usually one of two issues:
1. Solidified clumps of organic matter; fixed by letting it soak in slightly warm water for a while, rinsing it off, and then dishwashing it, so the clumps are softened, or
2. Excessive grease to a point that the detergent in the dishwasher can't deal with it; in the worst case you can spray some degreaser on it and then *very thoroughly* rinse it afterwards and run it in the dishwasher again
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
boosted
once you realize that the core dream of language model AI proponents is “owning a slave” you really can’t unsee it.
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
boosted
uspol
I'm concerned to still see so many posts attempting to dunk on fascists for being hypocritical.
They don't care and won't care. Why are you reading their posts, and worse, amplifying what they said? There are better things to do with your time, almost anything in fact, unless you think that your takes are so good that it will realistically move people to change.
Point out hypocrisy to people and organizations that see being consistent as a value, they might actually change their behavior!
re: amsterdam politics, questions for the major, antisemitism, palestina, israel
@wmd@chaos.social The problem I have with "did the best they could do" is that several folks on here were already aware of what was about to happen well before the football match even started - warnings to be careful on the streets were already being shared.
Sure, they might not magically know everything, but if it's apparently already something people are concerned enough for that they start spreading warnings ahead of time, and the city *still* doesn't see it coming and isn't prepared for it, that suggests to me that they have failed *somewhere* along the way; they knew and didn't prep, they were not reachable for people to express their concerns, whatever the cause, something clearly was wrong with their preparation.
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
boosted
Pls boost: Oregon has paid leave for victims of SA, DV, harassment, bias crimes, or stalking
TIL that Oregon's Family Paid Medical Leave includes paying for lost days of work due to sexual assault, domestic violence, harassment, bias crimes, or stalking.
Please boost so that other Oregonians know that paid "safe leave" is available.
https://paidleave.oregon.gov/employees/applying-for-safe-leave.html
I hope other states adopt similar paid leave policies.
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
boosted
Today I am thinking about the fire marshals who have to deal with the customer service hell that is enforcing fire code at large cons. Like, imagine trying to keep a straight face while explaining to someone in a guy fawkes mask that, no, room occupancy limits are not a social construct, the building will literally cave in on itself if everybody attends this panel on macOS malware
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
boosted
Hello All!
As of this month, we are officially short of the amount of money we need in order to cover hosting costs and pay our mods. Our total monthly expenses are about $120 ($50 for each of our two mods and $20 for managed hosting services). Before Open Collective Foundation (our previous fiscal host) went under earlier this year, we had these expenses completely covered. Since we had to transition to self-hosting, we have never hit that mark again.
Over the previous months as we have been using Ko-Fi, I have been working behind the scenes to get us to be able to use Open Collective again because of how many different types of donations they accept (we have only been using PayPal with Ko-Fi which is...not ideal).
And as of today, I am happy to announce that we can once again accept payments through Open Collective at https://opencollective.com/blackqueerlife
For the first time, you will be able to make donations through Stripe, PayPal, or direct bank transfer. Our hope is that we can once again have our costs covered fully by donations.
I can't tell you how many times in the past year and change that I have been running this server that I have thought about giving up and moving off of the fediverse. Our mod team constantly has to deal with white supremacist harassment, transmisia, transmisogynoir, ableism, etc from other users and instances. We are making it work, but I'd be lying if I said it was not taking a toll. And with fascism on the rise globally, things are only going to get worse in that department.
So if you don't agree with that and want to help support us in maintaining a space on this network, any amount helps. Seriously.
-eva
@blackfedi #BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse #MutualAid #BlackFedi #BlackQueerLife #QTPOC
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
boosted
What are some good SBCs that aren't raspberry pi?
- 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
