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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- 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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I wonder if the people putting those "live" chat nag boxes (with a shitty chatbot) on their online shops, realize that they immediately lose me as a customer the moment something bleeps in my face
@maia Usually followed by 30 minutes of empty threats to arrest me but never actually doing so, because I have *technically* offered to show them my ID, I just didn't have it on me so they'd have to come along to my house, and that technically satisfies my obligation under the law
... with eventually a resigned sigh, going "fine, just tell me your name then"
@maia One of my favourites in NL is the mandatory ID law, which precisely zero cops actually know the contents of, and it's always really funny to watch a cloud come over their face as I recite the contents to them and they realize that shit, I actually know my rights, and they don't know the law well enough to refute it
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i like knowing about laws that let me fuck over authority figures and corporations
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it's also just useful to be informed about laws surrounding the space you're doing activism in, for your own safety and that of others
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I've discovered that you can in fact de-acclimatize yourself to advertising, largely from removing exposure fairly consistently over a long period of time.
The problem with that is the intense sense of alienation and distaste you get when exposed (for whatever reason) again.
Curating your own sensory inputs at the cost of being naturalized to the consensus human experience. Yikes.
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De weggeefwinkel is open! Van nu tot ongeveer 8 uur vanavond. Als je kleding, houdbaar eten, condooms, zwangerschap tests, pijnstillers, mondkapjes, menstruatieproducten, of andere dingen nodig hebt, kom langs om te kijken!
The free shop is open! From now until about 8 o' clock in the evening. If you need clothes, long shelf life food, condoms, pregnancy tests, painkillers, face masks, period products, or other things, swing on by to check it out!
Verlengde hoogravenseweg 254, Utrecht.
Here's a good video about the technology behind trackless dark rides in theme parks and how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfPYeKdItoU (English subtitles are available)
But perhaps more interestingly, it has a dedicated segment about accessibility, and how they've used the trackless tech to improve it! 
climate change
@himbeer Yeah, they're *extremely* shitty. Some cities publish their contracts with them, it's worth a read if you can find one.
climate change
@himbeer Ah, of course it's JCDecaux again. The same company that has extremely sketchy contracts with many cities, where they negotiate *exclusive* outdoor advertising rights in exchange for supplying and maintaining street furniture, essentially creating vendor lock-in for the city because it'll no longer have its own maintenance facilities after a while, so stopping the contract would mean everything would fall apart.
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climate change
But sure, streaming movies is the reason the planet is dying, definitely only individual responsibility at play here /s
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/09/electronic-advertising-boards-manchester-energy-use-consumption
ADHD
@schratze Also you eventually run out of coping mechanisms once all of them have expired
nl pol, police violence
In more amusing news, yesterday a bunch of tractors blocked a supermarket's distribution center, and in response the supermarket blocked the tractors with a truck
https://www.noordhollandsdagblad.nl/cnt/dmf20220704_86845024
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Apparently cops have now graduated directly to "shooting at tractors" - no people seem to have been hit, clops claim they were "warning shots", video clearly shows otherwise
This is definitely all going very well
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"recognizing trans people diminishes women" is the same shit as "recognizing LGBT marriages diminishes straight marriages" and hearing it isn't any more convincing this time. Just trying to stoke a fake-ass rivalry between people bigots are terrified of facing as a united front
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scrolling to the bottom of the repology repository list only to find out that the codename of the current yiffOS release is Knot
- 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
