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.
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- 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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It's Friday the 13th and it's also 13/12
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element (matrix), shitpost
element should publish a blog post today
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ayo, i figured out what those criminally undersized top shelves in some bombardier double-deckers are for!
@rail_ FWIW this "anti-GMO, anti-chemicals" thing is more or less the Facebook version of anti-capitalism, so all jokes aside, it's often worth engaging with and taking into consideration when doing political stuff, with the understanding that it's based in a lack of knowledge about power dynamics
@eniko I have to restart my Firefox about once a day due to various issues, including mystery slowdowns. The slowdowns do seem to have gotten worse in the past month or so.
Don't mind me, just implementing automatic image hiding and album grouping in my #Matrix client
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All the recent stuff over on Bluesky about them refusing to ban Jesse Singal from the platform, in spite of all the protestations from the trans users that made Bluesky what it is, makes me feel that I was right first time back in 2022: that profit-driven social media is always going to turn out this way, and maybe the Fediverse really is the way ahead for us, despite its many flaws
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bluesky rambling, semi-inflated follow numbers
Some real weird following shit going on over at Bluesky. Because of how feeds are integrated centrally into the app, a lot of folks really only scroll through a specific feed rather than their entire following list.
As a result, tons of folks are mass following folks (I'm talking 25k, 60k, 90k people) just to get their own follower numbers up due to some people following back just because.
But in my experience, engagement is much less there than here. I've even seen people with thousands of followers more than me who get little engagement with their posts, have to repost em a few times, etc.
Real weird behavior. Bluesky tires me out sometimes due to this. I've posted before about how it almost feels charged and the energy is so frenetic. Or maybe I just got used to the fediverse and having no company trying to force me to spend as much time as possible on their platform. Idk
@piegames There's one thing I would disagree with there, and that's implicitly equating "traumaqueers" and "toxic people who should be thrown out".
While it's really important to throw out people who have shown no interest in participating in a healthy way, it's equally important to foster and support improvement in those who are merely *unable* to participate in a healthy way, as is often the case with traumatized folks.
You can't build a healthy community by having exclusion as your only moderation tool either.
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ACAB
uhc ceo, politics
you know, for all my flammability, i am not much of an enjoyer of fights. oh no, gee, of course not. it would be so nice if everything was solved over an honest, vulnerable conversation and a cup of green tea. love, peace, candy cones and all that fluff.
but that's for those who actually listen.
you think we hadn't tried?
people did, and then you ignored them, or slandered them, stomped on their throats even harder for even daring to talk.
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uhc ceo, politics
you know, i find some kind of sinister joy in the way those news anchors are reacting to how we cheer on that leech's death.
"people are really angry and hopeless with the state of things, but violence has never solved anything. nonviolent protest is always better than a violent protest"
ow-ow-ow, не әңгіме? what's the matter, what happened? did our champagne sippers and suit wearers defecate in their silk trousers after realising they're made of meat too? heh. such pity.
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You know that thing where you expect that something is true or will happen, and then it doesn't and that really trips you up? Like maybe you were looking forward to getting a treat from your favourite bakery, and when you get there you find that they closed early for some reason, and you're just not sure how to handle that for a moment? Is there a word for that?
Cool new KDE/Plasma feature: after a file has finished copying (at least from the network) and it shows the "copying finished" notification, the notification has an "Open in <application>" button to immediately open it in the default application for that filetype
@ent You're likely thinking of PoC||GTFO?
journalism, UHC CEO
@maggiejk I had been reading https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/luigi-mangione-gunman-united-healthcare-shooting.html and the first thing that occurred to me was "this sounds like a textbook example of disability struggles and lack of support"
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@maggiejk I imagine that it uniting people is *precisely* why a lot of media outlets are suddenly desperately concerned with "where this leads"
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@joepie91 oh for real if anything it has united people. I was literally giggling about it with my pain management provider as I left the office yesterday after we discussed the uprising that would happen if Dr. Oz took away everyone’s pain medication. We don’t usually giggle about anything, but we were yesterday.
- 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
