Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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- 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
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Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑
If you use AI generated crap to illustrate something: STOP.
If you care about the environment AT ALL, stop using AI.
If you care about artists of any kind, stop using AI.
serious answer: personal, mh
@mynameistillian Which is to say, that it takes long doesn't mean it won't happen
serious answer: personal, mh
@mynameistillian For what it's worth, for me it took until my 30s to really 'have something to live for' in this sense. Which isn't how it should have been, but.
@xgranade@wandering.shop Taking "at least it's not the YouTube comments" a bit too literally, I guess
meta, journalists, fedi/bluesky
When you publish an article going "Bluesky has overtaken the fediverse", then really all you are reporting on is your complete ignorance as a journalist as to what the purpose of fedi is
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Not every fight is your fight and your peace is your peace. Don't feel guilty for that. Your first duty is to be a healthy functioning you.
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"EULAs of Despair"
https://www.pilotlab.org/eulas-of-despair
As an example, the first three tiers of the Amazon EULA terms total over 642,000 words of text, which translates into OVER 53 HOURS of reading at the rate of 200 words a minute.
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Discord EULA is 5.63 Tolstoys
Google EULA is 9.33 Tolstoys
Reddit EULA is 11.58 Tolstoys
Twitter EULA is 15.83 Tolstoys
Snapchat is 17.10 Tolstoys
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The Amazon EULA is 1.09 Tolstoys
"A Tolstoy is the metric we are using to emphasize just how large these EULA webs can become. One Tolstoy is the length of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, or 587,287 words."
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remember when the sparkle emoji was an actual symbol of queerness and not corporate propaganda
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Bluesky is the Microsoft Word of social media, which I mean in the derogatory sense, as the fediverse is the LaTeX of social media, which I also mean in the derogatory sense
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Serious question: what's the appropriate/respectful reaction, as a non-Māori, to witnessing a Haka? Cause, like, my first instinct is to cheer/woop, but that doesn't sound right, and it's not appropriate for me to join in. But just standing around looking serious seems like I disapprove? #aotearoa
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I'm glad a critical mass of Black folks finally got their ass up and left twitter. Been past time for awhile now. So yes I'll be vacationing there de temps en temps when the mayo gets too intense around here, it'll be nice to be around more Black folks again.
The wave should have come here, but y'all fucked it all the way up for that. Well, hopefully we can get our fedi shit together so that in a few years when the corporate overlords put the money squeeze on bluesky, we've got a better setup on here.
Am I optimistic about that? Not so much. But we'll see.
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My coworker apparently has a "no agendy no attendy" policy and I'm stealing that phrase 😆
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yknow, it would be pretty cool if libraries let the public mirror their digital collections.
more floating copies of things some authoritarians would rather be buried
@elilla I hope you're at least broke in German now?
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Rare ‘hidden’ trans archives to be digitized to bridge generations - University of Victoria https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2024+hidden-trans-digital-archives+media-release
TIL: The UVic Libraries’ Transgender Archives is the largest collection of original materials chronicling Trans+ history and activism in the world.
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For trans visibility week, I'm wearing a shirt that says "mh-" on it.
hospital update, Onion version
Guy Who Makes Doctors Go "Huh, That's Weird", Makes Doctor Go "Huh, That's Weird"
- 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
