Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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
subtoot, foss
@sasha Or more accurately, my best interpretation is that they are unhappy that I disagreed that the thing they brought up was actually a problem, and that after several attempts of explaining why not, I ran out of patience and explicitly stated that they were being excessively pedantic about something that does not require it
subtoot, foss
@sasha This was unspecified
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health bs, ableism, disordered eating
I've known for a while that I have some yet to be determined fatigue issue. it's not quite ME/CFS or long COVID (it's been ongoing since before the pandemic) but I have experienced PEM after after particularly exhausting things. at one point I tried a food service job for a day and it basically put me out of commission for a month
like, I've been trying to not fall prey to the internal ableism of it just being my fault- eating vegetarian and not getting the right nutrients, or not eating enough, but recently this has been unequivocally false because after eating more my body is literally unable to, saying nah, I've got enough energy, despite still being tired
I still strongly believe that if we actually, genuinely cared and put the resources into figuring out this entire class of fatigue issues, particularly post-viral fatigue, we'd get it figured out in a year tops. but we don't care and aren't doing that in a show of clear eugenics
I wouldn't be able to survive on disability anyway and it'd actually make my situation far worse, but it's especially frustrating knowing that I'd just be further blamed for my problems: obviously, I should just push through PEM (doesn't work) or I should be better to get a tech job that doesn't require physical work
world is shit, y'all
subtoot, foss
Love it when people start demanding 'professionalism' from me in the context of a volunteer FOSS project.
Buddy, I do not work for you
@jonty@chaos.social If the rest of the startup industry is any indication, that 'waitlist' is definitely some bullshit meant to induce FOMO
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reposting here because someone sent this to me and i realised how much i needed it actually
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Kortom, de wolf is in alle opzichten beter voor een gezonde en diverse natuur.
@pinkflameinthepan Oef, beterschap!
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@schratze good design. Big enough to click on even for mouse challenged people.
Doesn't hide or disappear just when you're about to click it.
Has better contrast than many contemporary designs.
Has dedicated up down buttons for fine control.
Man... we really lost a lot. And for what? For some guy's idea of "thin dark grey on darker grey scroll bars look cooooool - especially when they auto hide after 0.1 sec" (good luck remembering there was a scroll bar that you could actually use...)
One raised bed is now done entirely, soil and planting and all; the other is ready to have soil deposited into it. #garden #woodworking
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Advertising should be banned.
Advertising is an industry whose goal is to manipulate people at a massive scale into spending money on or believing things.
Advertising pollutes our physical and digital landscape visually and serves as an inconvenience.
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Is it just me or is anyone else annoyed by red and black never being next to each other on these ribbon jumper-cables?
I just want them to stay a unit, I solely use black and red to power boards, they shouldn’t need to be split..
The world if policing were actually research-driven instead of based on gut feelings
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Playing the world’s smallest, glassiest violin to honour the death of iOS 7 flat design, where everything looks the same and you can’t distinguish a button from a label
Affordance’s are back baby. They’re good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl)
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So, there's a toot, supposedly from an employee of a company, recommending that folk delete that company's phone apps before going to protest.
First, that company is not the only source of software on your phone that is being used to surveil your participation in civil disobedience. Toot gives impression that by uninstalling that company's products your phone is somehow safe.
Second, that company, in particular, has hooks in the Web pages you visit, and thus tracking you even if you don't have an account (let alone apps) on any of their platforms.
Third, if folk are using apps from that company, they very likely learned of the protest through one of those apps, which means the company already knows they are likely enough "people who want to protest".
You want to avoid being surveilled by your phone at a protest? None of the answers are easy.
But any advice that suggests uninstalling a handful of apps (which may be bloat that can't be removed without tech knowledge) is misleading.
@argumento Serious question: what, exactly, would "stopping their activity to post about this" have achieved? What is the actual goal of expecting everyone to do so?
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If your idea of liberation doesn’t include rest, joy, dumb jokes, shitty movies, and community care, then it’s just another boot with a new logo
People deserve to feel joy, not just survive. #Monsterdon is part of that.
No apologies
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Hong Kong protestors say:
"Do Not Split."
Do not condemn the people on your side who embrace tactics you disagree with.
Do. Not. Split.
#doNotSplit
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And in 1994 I read this:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1994/nov/14/poland.europe
And finally today in 2025 I went to Hel!
And I got back 😀
@marlies Something like this maybe? https://www.reddit.com/r/SodaStream/comments/1cbd4vf/comment/l0xnequ/
(I was trying to find that post I saw a while ago about carbonating water with baking soda but I ran across this instead)
- 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
