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
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Thursday I met another trans friend for coffee and catching up when a customer at the shop did a transphobia, angrily yelling slurs at us.
The staff was quick on it, kicking him out, banning him, sharing security camera footage of him with the other employees to make sure he didn’t return on a different shift, and apologizing. Thank you, staff.
Another customer got up to stand near us in case things got worse. Thank you, random dude.
This is how you ally. With actions. Thank you, allies.
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Just got back from the circus that's in town: https://www.magicalworldofcircus.com/
It was quite good! I was kind of surprised at how good it was, given how cheap the tickets were... I'm not really sure how they're making this work financially, to be completely honest
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being chronically ill sucks because when stuff goes wrong you never know if this is just normal "everything sucks" or new "everything sucks"
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Norwegian people are always out there trying to trick me into reading Norwegian. I get like 20% of the way though a post before I go "wait a minute, this isn't Danish AT ALL"
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(I jest of course.. the inspirational disabled people held up to show us we can achieve our dreams are held up to make abled folk feel better, not us. No shade to the disabled folk who have achieved their dreams, that's fricking awesome 🤘🏻
But when I see content created by disabled folk for disabled folk it's much more likely to be about rights and access, not the 'inspirational' stuff typical of content created by abled folk)
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Honestly kinda wish people would lay off on telling disabled folk that they can achieve their dreams and what not and just focus on removing all the fighting disabled folk have to do to just survive. Make survival easier (secure housing, secure income, safe and accessible healthcare) and then maybe we can do the inspirational chit chat about achieving dreams and shit like that?
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Reminder that nobody should be using "mom" or "grandma" or "girlfriend" as a generic non-technical person example. It is hugely problematic and sexist (and can even be ageist too for "grandma").
This is *especially* important to keep in mind in communities where there's already a huge bias of boys and men (like FOSS, gaming, and tech in general).
Finally, a good write-up of a malware campaign, it's been a long time since I've seen a proper one that isn't just some self-serving marketing drivel: https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2025/06/04/the-strange-tale-of-ischhfd83-when-cybercriminals-eat-their-own/
Details about the techniques, the context in which the investigation happened, references to other researchers' work... *this* is what a public analysis is supposed to look like!
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Element killed the room description, so what happened is that people are putting the relevant info in a pinned message instead.
YouTube has been treating video descriptions badly, and I've seen channels paste the entire description down in a pinned comment.
The design churn treadmill must go on
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@jon This is why train travel in Germany is great: high stakes gambling with limited information.
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i was looking through a parts catalogue for ideas and i liked them having to explain what a mug is
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"redesign" aka "how the software you use daily is gonna get slightly more annoying to use because they moved the icon you use a dozen times a day into a hamburger menu"
that sounds cynical but that's more often the case than not in my experience over the past decade or so of interacting with computer tech
@spaf ...yeah, that one hits close to home.
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"Denny, what are you doing? You should be asleep by now, not reading. Didn't you think I would hear it, you're reading out loud?"
"But, mum. There's a monster under the bed and one in the closet."
"There is no such thing as monsters. Give me that book, and go to sleep."
"But, mum, I promised. Please, just to finish the chapter?"
"Promised?"
"Guys, tell her!"
"Sorry, mrs Denny's mum. Could Denny please read some more to us? He promised."
"..."
"I think she fainted. Read, Denny."
#MicroFiction
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nazi mention, politics
Nazis in the sense of people who bought into a fascist government out of fear and insecurity and personal weakness and are likely to commit atrocities based on that fear and insecurity.
Not Nazis in the sense of some mythological evil that must be destroyed at all costs and cannot be understood.
I take issue with people conflating the two, not in calling something what it is.
One is human and can be overcome. The other is reactionary bullshit.
grumbling about un-CWed politics posts
*sighs and wanders off to add 'muskrat' to the filter list*
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@ireneista @jrose i liked the way that cohost reposts put the reposter's content *below* the original rather than above. it's not a perfect solution against directing unwanted attention, but it seemed like it set up the interaction as the reposter adding to a conversation, rather than setting up a post to be gawked at by taking the first word
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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.
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
