Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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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- 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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Its a weird antisemitic trope that's long running. There's never any logic in antisemitic tropes, so it doesn't make sense. It just is.
Zuckerberg will never see your federated posts using this trope, but Jews will, so please don't. I know its a meme, but not everybody making memes is a comrade.
health update, transplantation
@mynameistillian Thanks!
@jonny ☑️ I would like to learn more about this
health update, transplantation
Transplantation day today! Here's to hoping it all goes well.
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Love it when journalists provide context when reporting news.
"Mastodon’s announcement comes at a time when the WordPress open-source project and its cofounder have been embroiled in a months-long legal feud, and Meta’s Zuckerberg has made headlines for stripping back Facebook and Instagram’s fact-checking and content moderation before lying about it to Joe Rogan."
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko
re: "smart" hospital adventures
@Peetz0r It would be a very good integration then
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As I was lazily contemplating the yellow enamelled kettle, which was boiling water, I noticed its bottom was darker yellow, it was more orange. It was actually clearly orange, one could even call it red. A dark red, bordering on purple. In fact, the entire kettle was more orange than I had realised.
Only then did it dawn on me that yes, I had put the kettle on, but forgot to fill it with water.
"smart" hospital adventures
Also the TV runs an Android(?) TV app but has Windows scrollbars
"smart" hospital adventures
My IoT app crashed when I tried to close the curtains and @Peetz0r's room tablet seems to be a hand-me-down from an entirely different hospital - coincidentally, the hospital I normally go to
health update, transplantation
As things are looking right now, I will be getting a new kidney tomorrow!
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The picture vs how it was created, part 2
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Ugh, I'm not a fan of this current wave of genai proponents positioning people who see through the hype as trying to keep the rest of the team from being successful, and themselves as the Reasonable Adults who don't want your Negative Energy 🙄
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beseeching small businesses to post their hours on their websites. not their facebooks. you have a website. please. use it
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“Why Agile Is Losing Steam - by Charles Lambdin”
https://thelaterallens.substack.com/p/why-agile-is-losing-steam
> Clients do not want you to maximize value as much as they want you to make them look successful—and those are often two completely different things.
I say 'inspiring' but really I am just looking for literally anything at all
Does anyone have any inspiring menu bar designs for UI toolkits that are *not* flat design?
@anthropy (Taking into account especially that many forms of violence are not easily recognizable if you are not the affected party)
@anthropy Aggression is definitely a thing to use wisely. But even with the 'violence evokes violence' issue, there are still situations where it is strategically the best option; particularly those where (some form of) violence is already the known outcome regardless of what you do. There's no extra cost to aggression in those cases, and often quite a bit of effect to be gained.
That's not all situations either, but it does apply to depressingly many of them when you are marginalized...
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if photomatt ever calls you trying to get someone fired you are required to go interrupt him and into the most over the top “do you have any idea who the fuck I am dickwad” routine you can manage and then tell him to go whine to someone else and hang up on him. that’s the gig. don’t let me down.
@anthropy I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't take this approach, to be clear! If you feel that you can afford the time and energy to do so, that is completely fine and I encourage it.
The background for my response here is the long-running problem where marginalized folks, who have often been organizing and campaigning for years or decades, are being constantly tone-policed by (mostly privileged) folks with no skin in the game and no experience, telling them that they are being "too aggressive, you won't achieve anything that way" (when they have very good reason to believe otherwise).
And that tone-policing is basically always backed by exactly these beliefs, and an "everybody knows that..." insinuation to go along with it. That is not the fault of any one specific person, but it does make it necessary to provide some pushback against this belief where it pops up.
- 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
