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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- 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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De Aziatische hoornaar is een invasieve exoot die bijen en andere bestuiverse bedreigt. Als je een hoornaar ziet, maar een foto waarop je bij voorkeur het achterlijf en de poten goed ziet. Controleer of het een Europeaan of Aziaat is. Als het een Aziaat is meld hem dan met een nauwkeurige locatie en foto op waarneming.nl. Lees meer op https://www.nvwa.nl/onderwerpen/aziatische-hoornaar
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Sometimes, people write to me to tell me that something i've written was helpful.
Lemme tell you, when shit is bringing me down over here, those emails make a world of difference.
Write to people. Connect. Let someone know it mattered.
Demonstranten voor vrijheid hardhandig arresteren op je "dit nooit meer" Bevrijdingsdag terwijl je een fascistische politicus een Dodenherdenking-toespraak laat doen is wel heel erg on the nose, hoor.
@Timo_Micro That matches my experience pretty much every time I travel to another country as well...
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@daedalus
"We are currently experiencing high call volumes like we do every moment our lines are available, but we refuse to employ more staff as this would cut into the profits"
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"Your call is so important to us, we have fired all the humans and replaced them with a terrible automated system that cannot understand you.
Please hold while we pay our executives another bonus for some reason.
Did you know you can use the Internet to discover our website can't answer your question?"
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One of the very odd things about living with a disability or chronic conditions is that the reaction one gets to even just /sharing stories/ even if they’re not heavy or littered with ableism is shock.
Not out of any ill intent, but because our stories are not known.
@domo AFAIK it's entirely the responsibility of the municipality to determine the collection policy, and to communicate how it works, so I wouldn't expect a better source to exist than the municipality's own site, unfortunately.
It's plausible that there's only separate collection in parts of Amsterdam due to the difficulty of retrofitting extra collection infrastructure into existing neighbourhoods, I vaguely recall that being brought up as a rationale for post-collection sorting at one point. Though for newer neighbourhoods I *would* expect separate collection, and if there isn't, that's probably a good reason to complain at the municipality...
@domo There's nothing on an EU level that mandates specific collection/recycling practices AFAIK, but the standard intake requirements for separate plastic waste collection in the Netherlands (which most municipalities seem to follow) do actually include empty detergent containers in the recyclable plastics category (even for stuff like bleach).
How much of that actually gets recycled is anyone's guess. It seems that the actual recycling rate *is* growing as more recycling facilities are being built within the EU, and exports of plastic are increasingly being banned, but I wouldn't be able to name a (credible) percentage, due to the wildly different ways these are calculated in different places.
Some municipalities claim to do post-collection sorting rather than separate collection, but I'm skeptical about the accuracy rate of that. Automatically sorting such a wide variety of trash is very error-prone, and doing it manually seems unrealistically labour-intensive to me.
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Activist en hacker Rop Gonggrijp heeft een zorgwekkende boodschap: in Nederland laten wij niet écht tot ons doordringen hoe snel de Verenigde Staten afglijden in fascisme. ‘Ik weet niet wat er nu nog zou moeten gebeuren om ons tot actie over te laten gaan. Dat vind ik beangstigend.’
Lees hier het nieuwe verhaal van correspondent Maurits Martijn: https://corr.es/ddd074
And like, this is not some obscure change. This is happening *all over the place*. If you are in the EU, and you have eg. some cosmetics or soap for which you have both a recently purchased bottle and also one that's a few years old... compare them.
Chances are you're going to find one of them being LDPE or HDPE, and the other being PET. Regardless of what brand or store it came from. Regardless of price point.
Similar deal with LDPE/HDPE getting swapped over to PP for foil packaging (laundry powder bags, wet wipe packs, that sort of stuff). If you've noticed the plastic getting a bit more 'crispy' and a bit less flexible at some point, this is why.
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this photo came out *so* damn sharp 
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Can anyone recommend a permanent marker that works on the waxy paper of a sticker album? I've heard Edding 780 might be a good choice, but I don't know
Manufacturers have long claimed that it's not really possible to make packaging out of recycled plastic, because the plastic quality degrades with every recycling step.
Now the EU is starting to require many types of plastic packaging to contain at least 30% recycled plastic, and what do you know, suddenly manufacturers are all switching their plastic choices from eg. LDPE to PET, because PET is more recyclable. In some cases with 100% recycled plastic.
Turns out it was possible all along.
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Claims that a team generates 40% of their code "at lightning speed" are, again, never backed up by any verifiable evidence.
And do they specify, test, review and merge that code "at lightning speed"? The quickest way down to the ground floor is to jump out of the window.
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mozilla
@joepie91 I'm not sure anyone has mismanaged that much free money so hard before. They literally wouldn't exist if Google didn't need cover from anti trust lawsuits
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Ik kijk vanavond naar de dodenherdenking van “4 mei inclusief”:
(via de livestream, Den Haag is een beetje te ver voor mij)
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Ik kijk naar de herdenking en voel me droevig en boos, want ondanks al dat herdenken, elk jaar weer, hebben we niets begrepen noch geleerd. Een mooie toespraak die onbegrijpelijk genoeg door de spreker (ja, die) niet in verband wordt gebracht met de huidige toestand in de wereld en in Nederland, en dat er hier iets moet worden gedaan tegen het opkomend fascisme.
If you remember my toot from a while ago, encouraging people to go and support Servo by contributing to it...
Well, this is why I posted that.
- 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
