Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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.
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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
@denmanrooke As a freelance software developer, I've seen companies do this so often. I eventually got tired of having to argue about the non-competes every time and just paid to have my own (actually reasonable) T&C drafted and now I offer them that instead of signing whatever garbage 'contractor agreement' customers come up with.
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if any programmers want to know what chronic pain or sensory issues feel like, set your compiler to "treat all warnings as errors" and to be as pedantic as possible.
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anyway, empathy is an ideology according to capitalism instead of essential
all because it couldn't be commodified until charities came along
but is that commodified empathy, or commodified guilt?
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lewd, piracy
netflix and chill 
jellyfin and fuck
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"[M]ost people don’t know what Pride is about. The anguish, and the hurt, and the reason why Pride started in the first place—it was an anti-cop event. Look, yes—I know there are trans police officers. You have Black people who are police officers, and women police officers. All that’s cute, but guess what: It’s blue first, your other allegiances second. Once you get on that blue, child, it goes straight through to your brain, dyes your brain blue, and you’re no longer whoever the fuck you were before. So no, they don’t need to be there. That’s where their loyalty lies. So stay the fuck away from me."
—Miss Major
["Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary" by Toshio Meronek]
#queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism #policing #LGBTIQA #PrideProtest #FirstPrideWasARiot #MarshaPJohnson #MissMajor #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #NoCopsAtPride
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July is Queer Wrath Month, but it is also Disability Pride Month, and this month marks a special pride flag that many of us might not realize we get to fly.
Disabilities come in all forms, but the one that affects me most is an invisible one up in my brain: ADHD.
Executive Dysfunction, short term memory issues, and auditory processing disorder, are among the most pronounced symptoms that impact my ability to function at a normal level.
Image source:
https://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/post/july-disability-pride-month
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it's one of the hard to swallow truths that at my age and with my background, if I'm ever at war for the revolution I'd be more useful as a comms officer than as a fighter. that was why I tried to get into amateur radio last year. but I was sidetracked by 1) my distaste for technology generally, and 2) my special distaste for "gearhead moneysink" type of consumption-based subcultures.
not even getting to the part where the hobby is dominated by cis white middle-class men or how you're forced to attach your login name to your real life name and address
food (vegan), negative
The local fruit-and-vegetable market stall folks apparently retired 😔
Really nice people, really good fruit (far better than I can get anywhere else) and the retirement seems pretty sudden so it's a bit concerning
@daedalus Oh yeah, for sure. Where 'urgent' is defined as "this is getting in the way of doing the thing that I, personally, want to do", of course.
food (not vegan)
The local weird cheese shop has rapidly become one of my favourite shops; they have a really interesting mix of decent-and-affordable cheese, heavily discounted (>50%) miscellanous food products from overstock, and unusual stuff like weird flavours of candy.
It's technically a chain of stores, but it sure doesn't feel like it either.
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They said they wanted a fairytale wedding, but when I show up and place a curse on their firstborn, suddenly I’m an asshole!
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the amazing thing for me is not just google search but how useless _youtube_ search has become.
the "smarter" they try to make the searches, the more useless
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Music festivals are now so important for 
that they don’t show intermediate stops when the trains goes along a music festival…
@daedalus It makes a lot more sense once you realize that a lot of software developers mainly value the "making a thing and being able to say you made it" part and not really the "solving someone else's problem" part.
It's like someone making a crappy table in their garage, which would be fine except now the crappy table is mandatorily deployed to every home at scale.
There's no intent to maintain or fix anything to begin with.
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As I keep trying to gently point out: successful, useful software spends most of its time being maintained. Maintaining something you don't understand is really hard to do well.
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I am struggling to be kind when tech folks are speaking positively of vibe coding something and planning to put it into production but neither they nor any of the people expected to support it know anything about how the code is structured or works.
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1873
hoezo 1873
Als een van de laatste Europese landen schafte Nederland in 1863 de slavernij alsnog officieel af. Het staatstoezicht’ dat daarop volgde duurde tot 1873 en gold voor vrijwel alle tot slaaf gemaakten. Hoewel op papier ze vrij waren moest er nog 10 jaar gedwongen onbetaald op de plantages doorgewerkt worden. De tien jaar regel gold overigens alleen voor Suriname.
Perez Loy Apakanaike 1954-2019
Is de bedenker van deze button, hij heeft er zijn levenswerk van gemaakt om het jaar 1873 bekendheid te geven!
#1873 #Perezloy #afschaffingslavernij #anticommercieleactiebeweging #button #acab #brandalism #ketikoti #diadiabolishom #emancipationday
Glad to see that the cup deposit scheme in Lisbon also supports payment cards, and not just (proprietary-OS-only) smartphone apps like a bunch of other such schemes I've seen...
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Deposit, drink, return: Lisbon is the first European capital with a citywide reusable cup scheme
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/07/03/deposit-drink-return-lisbon-is-the-first-european-capital-with-a-citywide-reusable-cup-sch?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Green news @green-news-euronewsgreen
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Het park ligt naast het nieuwe migratiemuseum. De stakers gaan proberen het museum een spandoek aan te bieden waarop ze hun namen hebben geschreven. Want met deze staking schrijven ze geschiedenis, en over een tijdje zal dat spandoek een museumwaardig stuk zijn. https://www.doorbraak.eu/4-juli-rotterdam-rotterdam-actie-van-stakende-poolse-uitzenders-van-ah-distributiecentra/
- 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.
- 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
