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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Last week I discovered that Akko - the mechanical keyboard manufacturer - had many Pepe stickers in their official Discord. I politely suggested this was an oversight and asked them to address this. I was banned from the Discord a few seconds later.
At that point I emailed support. No answer. I emailed again 2 days ago, asking why I was banned for bringing up their fascist-aligned images in their Discord and still haven't heard back. They were very responsive when I bought their switches a month ago.
At this point I'm not buying any more Akko products.
re: medical-related, sleep discrimination
@skye Ugh :(
re: foss, funding, politics-adjacent
Oh, and to make the implicit explicit here: this is primarily the responsibility of privileged folks to actually make happen. If you have a well-paid tech job, that means you.
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Random people run a Mastodon instance: Bad, they can read DMs and stuff
Random people run an entire platform with zero transparency: Good, obviously better than the former, what could possibly go wrong
medical-related, sleep discrimination
@skye Here's two concrete medical examples of 'sleep discrimination' that I've run into myself:
1. Instructions for medication that erroneously tell you to take it at a specific *time*, when it is actually meant to be taken relative to your wake/sleep cycle (extremely widespread problem)
2. Take-home blood pressure meters that are locked to a specific clock time (eg. 6-9) because they assume you are a morning person and therefore that must be when you wake up / go to sleep
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if you have kids: allow them to skip school to catch up on sleep
if you're an adult: allow yourself to take sick days to catch up on sleep (I know it's not always possible but it SHOULD BE because it is NECESSARY)
if you can't get the sleep you need at night: allow yourself to take copious naps
if you find yourself pushed to the fringes of society by unusual sleep needs or patterns: it's not your fault. I shall talk about temporal accessibility another time
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our society is set up in a way that favours people whose natural circadian rhythm includes an early sleep time.
they are the people who end up in positions of power and influence. everyone else is too sleep deprived to keep up and/or has to carve out spaces in odd jobs that work for them.
so the doctors who end up defining what's "healthy" end up being people who sleep early.
the bosses that define work times too.
the politicians making laws for time management too.
self-reinforcing system
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Flights going to Qatar for the World Cup.
Tell me how climate change is going.
foss, funding, politics-adjacent
So I think I've finally worked out one of the things that annoys me about the FOSS "funding discourse": it's always about how to find money to support current development practices, and which (often severe) tradeoffs to make to that end.
It's never about how FOSS development can be made structurally more accessible such that you don't need huge swathes of time and therefore money for it (that many people cannot afford) to begin with.
And no, I don't mean "building frameworks". I mean much more fundamental changes to the overall process and the community.
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I think one of the funniest things I ever heard was when someone said that electric heaters do nothing, but very inefficiently
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One of the best investments I have ever made is a pill bottle that displays the time that it was last opened on the lid, so if you need to take meds throughout the day and can’t remember if you just did that or not, you have a quick record of it.
This is a PSA for #ADHD folks especially.
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@schratze Not train, but I love when trams get their auto-announcement fucked somewhere along the line.
And it's just... every stop is the same one until someone bothers to tell the driver. Who then has to push a button a few dozen times for it to catch up to the *right* stop, so it's just 5-10 announcements being played in a row.
@jonty@chaos.social Same for many supposedly "offline" applications tbh
It's leafblower season again :|
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It’s important, if you can, to give the new folks a little bit of grace
They’re coming from the most toxic place on earth, a carefully perfected hate engine
They’re expecting everyone to be horrible to them, for many, that’s all they’ve ever known of online interaction. They’re expecting to be manipulated, dogpiled, and abused.
Some folks will slip into their new place and fit right in, others might be a little feral at first
I’m not saying to ignore abuse or bad behavior, I’m just saying, WE can do a lot to show folks how this place works and what we expect from each other
And remember, they’re coming up from the bottom of a cold crushing sea
There’s a lot of nitrogen still dissolved in their blood, and they might need some time to decompress
re: subtwoot
@Kye@tech.lgbt Given that my roughly-yearly reminder of his asshole-ness happened to be in a thread about fedi, I do not have high hopes
subtwoot
Maybe some day I'll actually remember that Alec Muffett is an ass, and not try to start a conversation with him again
@derek Embrace, Extend, Extinguish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
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- 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
