Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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Like seriously what was I thinking owning a vintage unwifi'd ereader and not using it, just using my phone instead
🦝 Let's settle down and have a nice read of a long book! Gee, I sure hope I don't get distracted from this book, for example by a distraction machine, much like the one that I'm holding in my hand right now, and staring at,
That's only partly a shitpost by the way, yes, your SIM card probably has a JVM or some other kind of Java environment
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I gotta do like a Big Thread about this sometime on my blog that I don't have, but for now I've gotta say, Actually Making The Effort to use the e-reader rather than my phone for reading books has paid me dividends in Chill
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Oh dang! So many good memories circa 2009.
Add it to the graveyard of stuff Microsoft destroyed. :P
I mean, Google has a graveyard of things they removed/discontinued, and things that never caught on.
But only Microsnot could spend billions to buy something that was thriving and then just smear it into the asphalt like that.
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@joepie91 at a rate of around 1 device running java per year,
Also most of those devices are probably SIM cards
2.7 billion years ago, life came to exist on this planet. 3 billion devices run Java. Coincidence?
Probably, honestly
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Time to reshare I think. “I don’t want my portraits to hang in your offices, because the president is not an icon or an idol. Hang pictures of your children there and look them in the eyes before every decision” – Volodymyr Zelensky
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@joepie91 with the power of virtual reality, you can view this anywhere within the confines of this room
quote of ableist term
@serge @josh0 Right, yeah, part of my interpretation of that tweet was in the context of the other tweets.
Part of it was also the specific phrasing - I've personally found there to be a pretty clear dividing line between people speaking about this in terms of ideologies/"extremism", vs. speaking about it in terms of harm/safety. The former pretty much always seems to be about "both sides" rhetoric.
(The "insane" vs. "normal" phrasing is additionally suspicious to me - that's a very specific choice of words that I pretty much only see used in this context by people who try to normalize fascism)
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Remember when it comes to cops Shut the Fuck Up.
Yes, you may still get arrested but cops can basically arrest anyone for any reason, shutting the fuck protects yourself so when the cop has to actually prove something you haven't hurt yourself.
Also don't consent to a search.
@clarfonthey I'm reminded of how the Dutch railways invited people on their survey panel to come preview a new train interior in a VR setup. At a specific train station, in person.
You had to pay for your train ticket there yourself...
@serge @josh0 A selection from a quick scroll:
https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1891821254870466732
https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1891431451091943581
https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1890867924140781967 (the specific phrasing is important here)
https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1889283764368368111
And a bonus sketchy post in a somewhat different theme: https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1890041930995961875
re: coffee, food
@mynameistillian I've noticed that for me it really depends on when I drink caffeine; if I'm doing badly or am feeling tired, it amplifies my anxiety, but if I'm doing something productive (like working on a project) then it makes me feel more calm and focused.
What I've also found to help is to take, like, a single can of energy drink, and drink it over the span of hours; taking individual sips every once in a while.
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US politics, war in Ukraine
so what would happen if a leader of another country punched the president of the United States in the face? is the Secret Service trained to respond with deadly force in this scenario? would there be a shootout between the two security details?
@nomis@chaos.social Oof :( Good luck!
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US Politics
If you're feeling helpless right now watching the country collapse around us, this video by @adamconover might bring you some hope.
It's time for some of us to leave our comfort zones and get loud.
Here's a quote from it that I absolutely loved:
"Average people have been getting squashed by bullies like Trump and Musk since the founding of this country and the only way we ever stopped them was by kicking their asses. But we didn't do that by keeping small, and staying safe, and playing Stardew Valley while we waited for our next chance to vote in four years, we did it by fucking shit up."
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wat een prachtige website: https://pentestvinkje.nl/
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:rabiesPride: 
World pol, general neg, death mentioned
I’m so fucking done with all of this. The worst part is that I have no privilege to close my eyes and walk away, as my family is under constant shelling for the past 3 years, with 1 person already taken by the ruzzian aggression that the west is so impotent to stop.
No idea what to do. Of course I have no choice but to continue what I’m doing, continue to support my people and my family, continue to oppose the terrorist state of ruzzia, and all of that.
But I wish I had options. I wish the states of burgerreich and ruzzia would fucking implode with as much riots and violence in the government buildings as possible so they never pose any threat to anybody.
World order is no more, UN means nothing, NATO means nothing, international laws mean nothing.
All I can do at this point is to wish, and to hope.
No idea what to do. Of course I have no choice but to continue what I’m doing, continue to support my people and my family, continue to oppose the terrorist state of ruzzia, and all of that.
But I wish I had options. I wish the states of burgerreich and ruzzia would fucking implode with as much riots and violence in the government buildings as possible so they never pose any threat to anybody.
World order is no more, UN means nothing, NATO means nothing, international laws mean nothing.
All I can do at this point is to wish, and to hope.
@serge @josh0 I'd recommend looking through his Twitter feed for a bit. It doesn't take long to run into "no politics", "no CoCs" and "free speech" rants, and all the other right-wing 'cancel culture' rhetoric.
It's also not a single incident; I've seen various complaints about Kling floating around for a long time now (but have not kept active track of them), which altogether paint a picture of someone who is not safe to be around, and not to be trusted with the safety of vulnerable people.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
