Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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Cw boost: de pol, money
uspol, long
@pascaline Right, I see where you're coming from, but I still don't feel that the motivations are too important even in that context.
I personally think the structures and mechanisms are more important to understand than the motivations; there are plenty of people who are power-hungry, and they all have their own strategies, but what made them *succeed*? How could they turn their (unspecified) motivations into actual power?
Looking at historical fascist governments in democracies, the picture looks roughly the same every time - there is heavily centralized power in a government that's nominally benign, there's a culture of "listen to all sides no matter what" that fascists exploit to manipulate people emotionally, and eventually the fascists gain power over those centralized power structures in a nominally legitimate way (by the rules of the democracy anyway), and immediately turn it on the people and tear down the democracy.
From that perspective, there are two main problems:
1. "Listen to all people no matter what", basically the centrist view that treats all opinions as equally politically valid no matter what. Even if that opinion is oppressive or outright genocidal.
2. Central government with a lot of power; lots of institutions, laws and processes that can be used as weapons if they were to ever fall into malicious hands. This is and always will be a juicy target for power-hungry people.
I think the problem can be addressed through either of those two points, but I suspect that solving the latter is the more durable option, because it's harder to undo with propaganda. Either approach would solve the problem by removing (one of) the critical angles that fascists exploit.
(As a sidenote, the rise of the nazis before WWII happened in pretty much the exact same way. Exploiting the apathy of existing systems of power to gain a lot of power very quickly. So this definitely isn't the first time.)
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i just discovered https://openinframap.org/ and i'm very autistically interested
uspol, long-ish
@pascaline Honestly, I don't think he has a coherent plan. Keep in mind that he's extremely arrogant; he may well believe that he can somehow magically convince everyone to do his bidding no matter what he does.
His past history doesn't make it very likely that this is all part of some grand scheme on his part either; perhaps other party members may be scheming and Trump is being convinced to do their bidding, but I think Trump himself is simply someone who has a lot of power but no idea what to do with it, and so he just does *something* that sounds vaguely right.
It's something you see all too often at a smaller scale with middle managers in companies. They hear about some new idea, and they must do *something*, and that new idea is something, and therefore they do it. That's the end of the reasoning. And everyone else is left to pick up the pieces of whatever business process they destroyed.
(I also think it's not too helpful to try and find a grand scheme; it mostly just ends up distracting from concrete steps that people can make today to interfere with his power trip regardless of the underlying motivations)
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ACAB
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:ms_deminonbinary_flag: (pending return to service)
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mental health; covid
goddess, I'm so fucking lonely lol. It wasn't like I was good at making friends before the covid pandemic, but it's so much harder now trying to meet others to talk to and befriend. I'm really struggling to find covid conscious folks in my area or even my country that isn't some kind of facebook group lol. Currently very socially isolated and really only talk to one person who lives with me, but it's starting to eat away at my soul having so many barriers blocking me from making connections.
I'd appreciate any form of contact from CC folks, despite the fact I'm extremely socially anxious and quite avoidant. It's just getting too much to bear being so isolated from the rest of the world.
#CovidIsNotOver
I'd appreciate any form of contact from CC folks, despite the fact I'm extremely socially anxious and quite avoidant. It's just getting too much to bear being so isolated from the rest of the world.
#CovidIsNotOver
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Note to myself moving forward, maybe helpful reminders for everyone, light meta commentary
So something I am just going to keep in mind going forward is that quite a few people only care about oppression if it happens to them. And this can apply to anyone, even sometimes multiply marginalized folks.
For these people, oppression that they experience is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. Oppression that they don't experience gets dismissed as "purity politics" or "leftist purity tests" or the ever popular "idpol".
People who think like this are always easy to spot because they will use the same tools their own oppressors do to dismiss the claims of others, including tone policing, DARVO, gaslighting, and others. And, just like the folks oppressing them, they will never tolerate someone trying to convince them that they're doing harm.
You can come to them nicely, or you can be aggressive with them. You can approach them privately or you can call them out publicly. It doesn't matter because the issues you're trying to bring to their attention, they didn't want to hear about in the first place. It just doesn't matter how you say it when the message was never going to be welcome.
It's this kind of behavior that one might expect from well-known bigots but can be a nasty surprise from the people we're close to. At the end of the day, we don't have the power to make anybody care about someone else. All we can control is our own actions. So the trick is to find people who are actually aligned with our values and keep them close. And that's really all you can do, and that's okay!
Just a reminder.
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@AgathaSorceress only slightly related but I just found out the latest status on my DHL package is DESTROYED. That can’t be good!
Waarom is huismerk-ceylonthee plotseling overal verdwenen? Lidl, AH, Jumbo hebben het allemaal niet meer...
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Possibly very controversial opinion?, US poil
When it comes to the tariff stuff I think the take that makes me bite my tongue the most is seeing people lament that they can't mass produce merch of their OC/sona anymore.
I get it everyone has to eat but also the fact leftists are more upset they can't exploit foreign workers for cheap crap made of mostly if not completely plastic that's going to end up in a landfill for centuries than just about anything else is uh... 
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De NVWA vindt 1600 liter illegale bestrijdingsmiddelen bij een aardbeienteler. https://www.nvwa.nl/nieuws-en-media/nieuws/2025/04/09/nvwa-iod-vindt-1600-liter-illegale-bestrijdingsmiddelen-bij-fruitteler
@rune That sounds like there's a story behind it
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finds open source project
"made by Google"
ask about state of finely aged (stale) 6 months PR
no response
ask around
all people working on the project at Google were fired and its barely maintained
ffs
"made by Google"
ask about state of finely aged (stale) 6 months PR
no response
ask around
all people working on the project at Google were fired and its barely maintained
ffs
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Op 12 en 19 april houd #RepairCafe weer een #Linux Repair Café in #Amsterdam. Daar zullen ze je helpen Linux te installeren en te gebruiken.
Ben je nog niet zeker? Je kan er ook Linux proberen op een PC van hun alvorens je de keuze maakt het te installeren.
Voor meer info, zie: https://www.repaircafe.org/linux-repair-cafe/
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did you know that the WH-1000XM5 headphones very faintly picks up AM frequencies? :DDDDDD
(bottom of build quality at https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/sony/wh-1000xm5-wireless#test_288)
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people have been curious about it so here's a short thread about recycling glass for art
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Do you experience significant sensory difficulties relating to clothes? Do you, despite that, consistently wear masks to protect yourself from COVID, which is still not over?
Share which #N95-or-better masks you've found to be comfortable for long-time wear. Pictures/links are a bonus.
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#Deextinction is a BS scam and a distraction from real conservation work. It's the AI of biology. They are genetically modifying animals to superficially resemble extinct species while vaguely gesturing towards sci-fi ideas about finding/reconstructing entire genomes. We are nowhere near this stage, and it's doubtful we ever will. And guess what, that still wouldn't bring anything back, because living things are much more than their DNA on so many levels.
- 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
