Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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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pro tip hepa filters work at reduced efficiency when they are mostly cat hair
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Why have people not learned to cough in their fucking arm instead of their fist ffs
Also wear a mask instead of coughing at me dipshit
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@travissouthard There's two things I'm missing from it, personally: a mention of the exploitation of moderators underlying the training process, and some concrete links to places where artists to commission can be found.
Were those left out for a specific reason, or just overlooked? (Genuine question)
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@afewbugs @b_cavello "there are already systems in place to verify expertise" -- this is nominally true, but like with any systems, it's important to consider how competent those systems are, and who they serve. That is true for economic and political systems, but just as much for medical systems.
Perhaps the clearest illustration of this for me would be my recent(!) experience with a licensed psychiatrist in a large healthcare institution in NL, who was nominally 'specialized in ADHD' and point blank told me "well, autistic people don't have empathy", which has never been true and for at least a decade now has even been disputed in mainstream psychiatry here.
So I don't personally have much faith in those existing systems of verification, or their willingness to improve, and I don't think that such faith is required either, to recognize the risks of providing care and protect/validate against them appropriately.
I would much rather learn and understand what those systems are meant to protect from and how, and apply those same principles in a contextually appropriate way.
@alda ... I just realized that Bluelink has an English-language version of their shop, and they also ship outside of NL. Maybe it's an option then? If it's not on their site, I think you can just e-mail them and ask them about the thing you need.
@afewbugs This is a complicated subject to me. I certainly recognize the risks, but at the same time I am painfully aware that those same risks exist in the licensed therapy world - I've lost count of how many stories I've heard of licensed therapists who have told (especially marginalized) folks similarly damaging things. Hell, I have a few stories of my own.
From my perspective, there seem to be a lot of people in marginalized and activist circles who need therapy, but for whom it is not accessible; not just for financial reasons, but also simply because therapists do not have their lived experience and are neither cognizant nor respectful of it.
That's essentially the context in which I'm asking - if the 'proper' (by some definition anyway) psychological care is not available, accessible or suitable... is it better for people to have *unlicensed* therapy, or to have *no* therapy? I realize that that the answer to that isn't a clear "yes", but it also isn't a clear "no", and that is the space I want to explore here, with an understanding of the care needed to do so responsibly (not too dissimilar to DIY HRT, really).
@alda As far as I know, Lenovo itself doesn't do this with such flexibility, but many of their 'authorized resellers' (like Bluelink in NL) do.
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This is a graph from a Dutch news article about changes in revenue (blue) and sales volume (red) in the Dutch retail industry. Above 0 means it went up, below 0 means it went down, compared to the previous year. The massive dip in volume are the years in which there were COVID measures.
But I want to draw your attention to the "revenue" line. Notice how it doesn't meaningfully dip compared to previous years, and revenues continued to climb, *even though* the sales volume decreased?
Next time someone tells you that ever-increasing consumerism is necessary to keep the economy running, remember this graph.
(The CBS, which is the data source for this graph, is the Dutch governmental statistics agency.)
Is (free, voluntary) therapy for marginalized folks and activists something that people would find useful? This would be informal and, importantly, *not* medically licensed, but provided as a form of mutual aid.
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as an anarchist, we're, like, really annoyed about this proposed US legislation that would make it possible for the White House to revoke non-profit status due to ideological disagreement
but not for the reason you may think
no, we're annoyed because so many organizations over the years took the route of accepting something from the state, a special tax status, without adequate recognition that this makes them dependent on the state
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we're pleasantly surprised how many people are reading this thread despite it being behind a CW. thank you very much for that! we're committed to CW'ing this topic no matter what it costs in visibility, because to do otherwise would be to be willfully oblivious to harm; it's a relief to know the cost is bearable.
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statism is an empty world view because it postulates a world that is not about people. preserving the institution is the highest ideal, no matter how much murder is required to do that. anyway, yeah.
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these concerns seem super abstract, to the point that most people, if pressed, will argue loudly that they're not worth worrying about, not worth taking a stand over, not worth changing anything material to account for
until the moment they are suddenly very concrete and far too late to do anything about
@sinbad Not even eBay? That's usually where I go for hard-to-find miscellania
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I hate just chucking perfectly good stuff away, that’s why I have a huge stockpile of electronic junk that is worthless up to precisely 3 seconds after I dispose of it, at which point a perfect use for it emerges
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Look. I use two spaces after every period. It's what I do. It's who I am. It's how I space my sentences.
If your software 'automagically' hides/erases that second space while I'm typing, I just assume my keyboard is breaking. This is good for no one.
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I’m thrilled that Healthy Debate picked up my Disabled Ginger article on masks in healthcare.
“A Plea to Maskless Healthcare Workers from Vulnerable Patients” is a personal appeal to each and every HCW.
Until we mandate masks in healthcare - do the right thing & put one on.
This publication is read by many HCWs - so fingers crossed some of them start masking again!
I will be publishing the next 2 parts (patient stories and HCW stories) with Healthy Debate & on Disabled Ginger.
Never forget that you don’t need a mandate to do the right thing. Wear a mask and show you care about keeping patients safe from COVID.
https://healthydebate.ca/2024/11/topic/plea-maskless-health-care-workers-vulnerable-patients/
If you missed the original article in Disabled Ginger - it was dedicated to @Tinu who passed away a little over a month ago. You can read here: https://www.disabledginger.com/p/a-plea-to-maskless-healthcare-workers
#keepmasksinhealthcare #CovidIsNotOver #CovidisAirborne #SARSCov2 #maskup #wearamask #N95 #ableism #disability
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OH: i don't care what neurotypicals do!! normal people do this, yes?!
- 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
