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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
@sterophonick Most likely not; sites can't access any data about other sites by design (they're isolated for security reasons) so there's not really a way for one site to know whether stuff is playing elsewhere.
It *is* possible to synchronize such information between different pages on the same site; I believe that's usually done through service workers. And if you're the one embedding the YT player on your own page, I think it has some events you can listen to too, though it's been ages since I've looked at that.
@domo Who said art can't be practical, I guess 😅
(I don't have a car and the nearest Action is over in Den Bosch, so I regularly have to resort to trickery like this!)
@StroomAfwaarts It *was* very easy to knock over 😅 But as long as you concentrate all the weight in the bike bags, that helps quite a lot to keep things reasonably stable, by moving down the center of mass
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@joepie91 I think you win a medal for most plastic bins at once on a bike this month! 🏅
I think I have enough planting boxes for now. Probably.
I'm still kind of surprised to find locally-manufactured(!), 100%-recycled-plastic planting boxes at a discount store for this little money. Apparently it *is* financially possible after all.
@ai6yr (In this case, the orange bungee cord that runs through the center between the blue ones, uses that trick to attach to the *other* orange bungee cord that goes horizontally, and prevents it from slipping under the bin, which would have made it useless for holding stuff in place)
@ai6yr Oh, it was no problem at all! I cycled for about 45 minutes with this setup, from Den Bosch to Rosmalen, overal several steep bridges and messy city center traffic layouts, with plenty of bumps in the road along the way. It never even threatened to fall off 🙂
There's a surprisingly amount of stability you can achieve with criss-crossing bungee cords! A particularly useful trick is to hook the end of one bungee cord onto the middle of another; that way you permanently tension the other one while also pulling it towards a particular direction, so you get a very robust sort of triangle arrangement.
@oblomov I'm aware of the claim that automatic-parity salaries will cause inflation spirals and/or have been to blame for past instances of such.
I have never seen a believable explanation as to why that would be, and it doesn't make any sense when you think about it - the available amount of labour doesn't change, and so neither should the purchasing power. So it's something else.
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Politici van de BoerBurgerBeweging waarschuwen dat krimp van de veestapel de (internationale) voedselzekerheid bedreigt. Klopt dat wel? Uit een analyse van Follow the Money blijkt het tegenovergestelde: de Nederlandse vee-industrie vormt juist een grote bedreiging om de simpele reden dat dieren meer calorieën eten dan ze produceren. https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/hoe-nederland-miljoenen-extra-mensen-kan-voeden
It's kind of absurd that salaries don't automatically grow along with inflation, actually.
@dumpsterqueer I wish more projects explicitly stated their opposition to these sorts of events, perhaps that would tear some strips off the (unwarranted) credibility that those events still have to journalists, other people not very familiar with the community, etc.
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anyway it's also always quite funny to look at the fedi profiles of the folks organizing such events because you often find, as in this case, that they posted like ten toots a few years ago and then fucked off - https://mas.to/@Identitywoman - and yet they purport to have sufficient expertise in "the fediverse" to organize a conference on the topic 🤡
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in case anyone's wondering why GtS never bothers with these kinds of daft events it's prettymuch because a) we can't be arsed, b) we're allergic to corpo-speak LinkedIn bollocks and don't want to be around it because it makes us too sad to write code, and c) it almost always seems to turn out that one or more of the organizers are shitheads like this 
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Transphobia
Evidence that Kaliya Identity Woman has promoted dangerous transphobic ideas.
https://x.com/search?q=gender%20(from%3Aidentitywoman)&src=typed_query
I'm attaching a screenshot from the top of that search.
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"why not just use SWAT hand signs or the like"
- a sign language is literally infinitely expressive so you can expand it to fit any needs you might have
- you don't need to learn the whole language to benefit from knowing some signs so it's not significantly harder than learning a domain-specific code
- the number system of sign languages is way superior :p
- many cops probably know SWAT-type codes, maybe also the type of enemy who's into milsim etc. but unless there's Deaf ppl in their family or s/t, it's very low chance that they bother learning it for accessibility
- *you* are increasing your accessibility
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concept: a core vocab list like
- numbers
- a few, many, none, gone
- ally, enemy, rando, cop, sus
- behind, front, left, right etc. (+o'clock number inflections)
- coming, going away, staying
- caution, don't look, followed, clear, quiet, hang on, stand up, act natural, look out for, scout, talk (out loud), change topic
- train, tram, car, taxi, bicycle, motorcycle, scooter
- people, adult, child, old, young, male, female, androgyn, PoC, white
- ultra, skinhead, querdenker, nazi
- go, run, call, text, encircle, mace, weapon, spray, bash
learn to sign to fluency, practice regularly with your crew. hm I already know 70%+ of these signs 
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There is a toddler on this tram and he's so excited to be here. He was excited about his ticket (which he held very carefully in his own hand), he was excited to see the tram coming (but stayed behind the tactile paving as his grownup reminded him to), he's excited now that we've gotten to his destination...
Such an ordinary journey for me, makes me smile to think that this is such a big adventure at the same time.
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@joepie91 En tegelijk ook nog aan het eind van het artikel
> Op deze controledag blijft het ook in de trein rustig en komen de controleurs van de NS alleen maar voorbeeldige reizigers tegen.
Dus ze zitten alleen maar van belastingcenten machtsvertoon uit te voeren. Hij kwam helemaal geen bedelaars of daklozen tegen, maar noemt het lekker toch nog wel even als ‘ie met de media babbelt, en die nemen het kritiekloos over.
Zou moeten “Politie controleert met honderden agenten treinen, vindt niks”
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Okay, it's time. Which linux is the one where it's easiest to install a theme that makes it look like windows 9x? #linux
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
