Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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.
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- 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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Project update! Our living room is multi-use, so we needed an easier way to move the table around. And now it has wheels!
This was somewhat nontrivial - originally the table only had two thin rectangular 'feet' as part of the sideboard's shape, not wide enough to mount wheels too. So I also had to make little feet, screwed to the underside, that can hold the wheel mounts.
The color match isn't *perfect*, but it's pretty good! The feet started as bits of plywood; I glued two layers of it together per foot, sanded the entire stack of 4 feet down as a single block, then manually sanded nice smooth edges all around. Then a few (rapid) coats of wood stain, and finally a coat of varnish.
I also accidentally discovered a new technique in the process; the only varnish I have is glossy, but the table's varnish is matte. Turns out that by repeatedly alternately a) lightly and carefully sanding and b) applying some highly diluted varnish (ie. the water from my brush cleaning pot...), you can turn it into a matte finish!
(Pictures of the wheels installed on the table in next toot)
@oldladyplays I think I would like for such a thing to be on both ends, and then stick around throughout; get used to the environment and get to know some people quietly, then the exciting and high-energy events, and then some quiet again to wind down, chat a bit more with folks, exchange contact details etc.
The closest reference I have would be hacker events (Chaos Communication Congress etc.) which remain open 24 hours a day; hanging out with people in the (quiet) dead of night is often one of the nicest parts
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If you are someone who would go to Pride, and your local Pride celebration included a couple of early hours, in cooler temperatures with minimal environmental noise, maybe called "Quiet Pride", how would you respond?
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@pascaline @sandradejong Of nog erger: dan kom je aan het einde van het artikel en hebben ze inmiddels al geprobeerd om je een kunstplant en een abonnement op flesjes water aan te smeren, en dan blijkt dat de vraag uberhaupt nergens op de pagina beantwoord wordt
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@sandradejong
Speelt al lang; eerst veel automatische teksten die elders ook staan, sinds vorig jaar erg veel websites met futiele Ai-content.
Ook wordt alles enorm uitgemolken. Bv: je wilt iets weten over planten water geven.
Eerst: een ellenlange uitleg over wat water is, wat een plant is, wat de vraag inhoudt, en dat veel mensen dit willen weten om je erin te masseren.
Dan volgt een 'waarom je dit OOK wilt weten', herhaling van bovenstaand, en uiteindelijk de tip 'met gieter en nat water'.
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Ligt het aan mij, of kom je steeds vaker op bagger websites wanneer je iets zoekt? Websites met slechte content en waarbij er voor 600 partners cookies verzameld worden die bijna niet uit te zetten zijn.
Ik word er de laatste tijd zo saggo van dat ik bijna het hele internet (behalve Mastodon) de prullenbak in wil gooien.
En nee: ik hoef geen tips over cookie-blokkers, browsers en zoekmachines (ik doe al veel). Ik wil gewoon dat er niet steeds meer bagger op het internet komt. Grom.
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@joepie91 ultimately one has to wonder where the myth of government/civil-service inefficiency started. Quite possibly with officials taking bribes from same industries who stood to benefit from privatisation.
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rapid deenumeration (pulling the USB cord)
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@mutualaid @disability @MutualAidVisibility @QPtheSnep
Still $0/$550. In full panic now. Preparing to be evicted. Miracle again, please??
It still baffles me that some people actually *believe* the fairy tale that "privatization lowers costs".
Like, how could this ever possibly work?! The equipment, people etc. you need for the task don't change, so those costs are essentially fixed. But now you *also* need to pay a for-profit intermediary on top of that.
You don't exactly need a PhD to understand why this doesn't make an ounce of sense...
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ACAB
cw boost, butterflies
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The Met Office (UK) invites you to suggest names for future storms. Make your own suggestions at https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names
Here are mine.
@vlrny In this situation I do still interact with specific people; like family at home, and I have a separate Matrix account for talking privately to a few low-stress people, that I keep open, but I don't use that account for anything else
@vlrny This is more or less what I've started doing. I don't have the typical 'shutdowns' but I do get overwhelmed at times, and now when I recognize this happening, I close all my chat and social media things, and I remove all clutter (digital and physical) from my environment, and open some kind of project or activity that doesn't require interaction with anyone else.
Especially closing down anything with public/group conversations has helped immensely for regaining my focus and thoughts. Sometimes just for a few hours, sometimes for a literal month.
(Digital clutter is stuff like unused browser tabs, open application windows I'm not currently using, and so on)
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subtooting Dutch culture
@Ember Interestingly, the framing of airco as 'wasteful' has historically mainly been made in the context of the US using so much of it
subtooting Dutch culture
@shine This is almost literally how you pitch approval for an a/c to your landlord: you ask whether you can install a "heat pump with cooling function"
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@bananas Given that it's been decades since we know that typical Dutch ventilation is unhealthy, and this still hasn't changed, I'm not holding my breath
(... or should I)
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"heat pumps" are the fancy new sustainable green heating tech. whereas "airco" is the wasteful energy-intensive cooling system that we "don't need in our kikkerlandje".
- 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
