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
grumbling about environmental discussions
If you bring up India or China right away in a conversation about the environment and sustainability, you are automatically disqualified from the conversation and get reassigned to janitorial duty
@bananas That'll happen pretty quickly over time anyway :) The more wealth you hoard, the more you put yourself at risk of losing it all
It's redistribution of wealth, it doesn't rely on the government being a good steward of the money (like it would if it were put into a government fund), and unlike wealth taxes any argument of "it makes it not worth it to invest into anything" is automatically and obviously bullshit (not that it wasn't already, but now it's harder to claim). What's not to love?
Proposal: every million dollars in wealth gets you a ticket in the anti-lottery. Every month, there's a draw, and whoever's ticket is drawn has all of their wealth except 800k confiscated, and redistributed evenly across all citizens.
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Garbage Danish journalism
It seriously has to be illegal to be this complicit. Denmarks radio has a breaking story on the US attacks on Iran nuclear facilities and it doesn't mention any of the words "illegal", "international", or "law".
It was fucking illegal you can't just skip that part.
@elilla (Saw your edit with requirements, and it ticks all those boxes, insofar the relevant transport providers are supported anyway because not all have available open datasets)
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YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures
Over the past few months, YouTube has been trying another round of anti-adblock measures. Currently the anti-adblock stuff is being A/B tested, and one of my accounts is in the experimental group. I wrote a filter that partially avoids one of the anti-adblock measures, fake buffering, on uBlock Origin (and Brave browser, since it uses the same filter rules). (It’s
https://www.osnews.com/story/142624/youtubes-new-anti-adblock-measures/
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@osnews lol I had this buffering thing and my first thought was "is YouTube doing a fake buffering thing to fuck with people with adblock" and now here we are with confirmation
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a moment from a conversation i had
- hey T, is everything gucci with you?
- my man, it's h&m at best
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basic human empathy gotta make a comeback ngl
@elilla KDE Itinerary is open-source and supports real-time data (which means accounting for delays and changes etc.) but I'm not sure if it supports specifically the realtime API *for DB*. It does seem likely though, I think some of the developers are German?
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sex, sex work
This is fun :)
@jon (The Megabus policy was "one large piece of luggage guaranteed, anything more than that only if there is space left" and there were basically always copious amounts of space left)
@jon Depending on the bus, there can definitely be reasons. Back in the Megabus days, they were extremely relaxed on luggage quantities and so this made it easy to carry a lot of stuff across the Channel.
And the atmosphere is usually pretty different too; trains tend to be very quiet, isolated, individualist whereas long-distance buses are often more lively, with passengers being more open to conversations and general horsing around. Especially in the front of the bus! If that's your thing, a long-distance bus can be a great option.
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@smveerman @nordkommission @wrzlbrnft@troet.cafe Ah, hier hebben we ook zo iemand met zelfgemaakte chilisaus op de markt staan, met een loempiakraam, pittige sauzen zijn niet mijn ding maar partner is er helemaal blij mee en blijkbaar is het ook erg populair in de buurt want de flessen zijn niet aan te slepen
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On the topic of diy hrt, & who’s often left out of the conversation :boost_requested:
@kingdomcome i was lucky and privileged enough to manage getting on diy T without getting caught (glory to no customs within EU, so no one really caught on with the contents of the packages)
t's not entirely impossible if you are in similar circumstances, but it does fucking suck, doubly or even triply so for trans men especially in the Global South who barely can access hrt the "legal" way in the first place.
but it sucks we are always omitted in discussions of transness in general, so people don't know shit about us. hell, some people in 2025 still have no idea that it's possible to be a trans man (while being full well aware that trans women exist, and they aren't completely sheltered and isolated from accessing the internet and talking to people...)
ETA: not to mention that even if you, by a miracle, can access diy T, it's only injections that are somewhat affordable. gel is insanely expensive which leaves out majority of transmasc people interested in hrt.
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On the topic of diy hrt, & who’s often left out of the conversation 
Hi hi. This pride month, can there be actual convos about how fucked it is that people interested in testosterone replacement therapy, & other androgens, can’t obtain it without a prescription unless they wanna go to jail for a minimum of 4 years?
I know it’s bleak & grim. But it’s very important to discuss, imo, if we want actual trans rights. T should be descheduled. We should be saying this loudly, even if you personally don’t want it or have nothing to do with it. & this should be kept in mind when saying “just do diy hrt.” To be able to do such without majorly risking your entire livelihood is a privilege. A major one. Please try to think abt those who can’t risk it.
& in the meantime, TALK ABOUT IT!!! Inform people that T is a controlled substance, bc a shocking amount of folks don’t know this. Make a slogan, openly voice that ur in favor of people having bodily autonomy including when it comes to using anabolic steroids, tell someone you know who’s on a 5 year long waitlist with an endocrinologist just to avoid a prison sentence that u love them & wish the world was better to them.
( anyone arguing abt how risky other forms of hrt are to diy please fuck off. I’m well aware of this, & you’re not the center of this conversation. transmasc & intersex people get talked over & ignored entirely in far too many conversations for me to let my replies be another one of those instances. )
( fuck it, tags for visibility, this is an issue I care deeply abt. #diyhrt #hrt #trans #transmasc )
- 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
