Sven Slootweg @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
health, kidney disease, funny
An abbreviated review of my kidney patient career so far: had 240/something blood pressure with no real symptoms besides a headache and slightly blurry vision (which quickly recovered), walked merrily into the ICU to the astonishment of the nurses (and walked out again a day later), continued living a mostly normal life without dialisys on 8-10% remaining kidney function (ie. end-stage kidney failure) and no meaningful deterioriation over that timespan, managed to reduce salt in my diet so much that the sodium levels in my blood were dangerously low (again with no meaningful symptoms), learned to detect high potassium levels by feel, which once again baffled medical people, and was told today by a nurse that I am the second person they've ever had to pick up for a check-up on foot rather than in a bed, despite having worked there for a while.
I swear, at some point I'm surely going to become a medical research subject
Sven Slootweg
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@smveerman with Lelylijn and Nedersaksenlijn also having been killed this government sure seems to hate trains :/
@marlies @smveerman I'm pretty sure they do, and that would make sense politically, so not much of a surprise unfortunately 😐
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The Dutch government and the province of Limburg have decided that, with the investment budget originally meant for the Hasselt - Maastricht tramline the following actions will be taken:
* Demolishing the railway bridge across the Maas in Maastricht.
* Improve railroad crossing safety between Maastricht and Eijsden for a second Maastricht - Liège service, making that half hourly.
* Buying unused land from ProRail around Maastricht to be used as construction grounds.
* Building a new bicycle bridge across the Maas near the location of the old railway bridge, but only when the demolition of the railway bridge is approved before 2027.
So, that's it then. A possible train service between Maastricht and Flemish Limburg will now forever not be possible.
Source: MIRT Brief Najaar 2024.
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The age-old question: "Do I hate MY job or do I just hate having to have A Job?"
Sven Slootweg
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Who's interested in being part of a chill "reply when you can" penpal club?
No deadlines unless you want to set yourself one (which is totally legit).
No minimum requirement (send a postcard with a doodle).
It will mean sharing a physical mailing address, but it doesn't have to be your house - maybe a local coffee shop or friend is willing to be your address.
I can make a Signal group for folks who don't want to share here.
[EDIT: ask for my address!]
Tag #FediPenPals 
Sven Slootweg
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So I am in a local-ish book circle with friends here in Sweden, we are reading kind, queer, feel-goody sff mainly. It'll be my time to pick a book in a few months, and I am thinking maybe A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark, to tug the group out of its whiteness for a while. I'd love some suggestions for other books that loosely fill the criteria that are not set in a european-ish/western setting with white people, by poc authors, if you guys have read anything good?
#bookrecs please
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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!
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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.
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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
- 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
