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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I want to see more statements like this from open-source project leaders, please.
It doesn’t go without saying, not today.
https://hachyderm.io/@mattdm/113936362658944850
@mynameistillian Congratulations!! 
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Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be-held-accountable/
Someone built an accurate scale model of Lumbridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4mXwpN-890&list=PL4yFqbssun3svPK_ZVhdvWhaAZQT9QjRm
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So if you've got a solution:
•that's easy to use (for development);
•that's intuitive and easy to use on the front end;
•integrates seamlessly with BookFunnel, BookVault, advertisers, review apps, and e-commerce platforms;
•that isn't run by fascists…
Then I'm all ears. And I suspect I'm not alone.
But it's not going to happen overnight.
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All I'm saying is, just think about who you're punishing when you #BoycottShopify.
Small business like mine are often paid up a year in advance. And moving to a new host is expensive and complicated.
Shopify makes its most of its money from business owners, not from consumers.
re: politics, personal PSA
@bananas It's a very specific kind of (privileged) person who doesn't want their personal comfort to be threatened in any way, and I am very much done spending my spoons on them.
politics, personal PSA (2)
(If you do not engage with US politics at all, then that is fine too of course. But then you're also not going to align with Trump or Musk so it becomes a moot point.)
politics, personal PSA
Just a personal heads-up for everyone I interact with: we've reached a point where if I see you in *any* way aligning with Trump or Musk, you are immediately going on my mental 'fascist' list with no further discussion and I will not speak to you anymore.
I don't care if you "didn't know how bad it is". The time for learning that is well past, so if you still "don't know", then I'm going to conclude that you didn't *want* to know and decide accordingly.
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Crow taking three peanuts at once: haha fuck yeah! Yes!
Crow landing in the same spot a few minutes later to find zero peanuts: Well this sucks. What the fuck.
@virtulis Ah yeah, I recognize the more general form of this, which seems to be 'relieving pressure' - the way I've implemented this is the idea of "declaring a day wasted", where if I feel like I can't focus I immediately drop all obligations for that day and do whatever I feel like.
And often I end up magically being able to focus on the exact same thing I was already doing, just because I'm not pushing myself to do it anymore.
politics meta, "you"
If you "believe in the good of people" but you haven't also developed an intuition for when people *don't* have the best intentions, then you are not "hopeful" - you are just naive, and it will get people hurt.
(If you've been arguing that "people call everything fascism nowadays, it means nothing anymore" then you are in this category.)
@virtulis I don't know if there's a term for this, but I think this may be the same thing I do for software projects?
Where I break them up into lots of small parts that I develop as independent libraries simultaneously, so if I get distracted, I will probably get distracted towards a different part of the same goal. And it means that all of them take a very long time individually but there's a near-constant stream of *something* getting done.
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Is there an #ADHD term for, uh, nominal priority.
Like, I decide I'm going to work on that specific thing with full expectation that I'll get repeatedly derailed.
But I will get derailed in that general direction.
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Trying to get people to join this platform is like all your friends complaining about the restaurant you're in and you try to tell them about this cool place that has amazing, cheap food and the people working there are awesome and it's an ethically run co-op that's been around for ages...and then all your friends decide to go to Applebee's instead.
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ACAB
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i 100% predict the labor void that the immigrants once occupied to be replaced with imprisoned labor.
it is legal in america to use the imprisoned for labor. you can only imagine the conditions and pay.
but for that, of course, they'd need tons of prisoners. workforce ain't gonna fix itself.
so they're probably gonna be itchy for reasons to jail someone now.
stay safe out there
@Stoori *thinks back to the Wheel of Mediocrity on Neopets*
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Reminder that you can criticize bad people by just pointing out that they did something shitty and leave it at that
You extremely don't need to go on to make fun of their physical appearance, sexuality, gender identity, or imply that they are mentally ill or disabled
And in fact if you do it weakens the point you're trying to make and also alienates people who might otherwise be your ally
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long post about ADHD time blindness
This really shouldn't need to be said, but time blindness as is common with ADHD isn't a sign that someone is lying.
I can't reliably place events into years, months, days. I compensate for this by referring to records or specific memorized years of great importance, and then doing calculations based on that.
For example:
I remember that I was in the class of 2011. Therefore, I was a senior in 2010–2011, a junior in 2009–2010, a sophomore in 2008–2009, and a freshman in 2007–2008. The first iPhone came out when I was a freshman, based on the appearance of my Japanese class I remember from the time. Therefore, the first iPhone came out in 2007.
I first used a computer running Windows 3.1 when I was 2. I was born in 1993. Therefore, I must have first used a computer in 1995.
I started HRT when I was working at Taco Bell, kind of during the second half of my employment there, during a time when it was snowy, but snow was melting. My resumé shows that I worked there from 2015 to 2016. Therefore, I must have started HRT sometime in early 2016. I was born in August, 1993. Therefore, I must have been 22 at the time.
I have to do things like this every time, unless a specific date comes up so often that it becomes one of those extremely important dates. It's generally an effective strategy for dealing with my time blindness, but sometimes I have no reference date to use, or I wrongly think I have a reference because of incomplete data that doesn't have enough context to show me that it doesn't work as a reference.
So referencing dates and showing that I got some dates wrong in something I said does not demonstrate lying on my part, and it is, in fact, ableist to assume that it does. I can generally accurately tell you which event came first. But I'm not going to intrinsically notice any particular difference between two year numbers so I can place everything on a timeline. As great of a superpower as that would be, I just can't.
That means I'm going to get dates wrong often, and that needs to be ok, because it just isn't realistic for me to obsessively journal every single insignificant detail of my life and keep those detailed records for all time. It would be, in fact, incredibly unhealthy to do so.
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- 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
