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.
- 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
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the reason you don't talk to fascists is because You Are Not Immune To Propaganda
@starfall additional two cents from someone that used to hang out with fascists: you might Think you're Immune To Propaganda. you'll sit in two spaces, and know that you say slurs to fit in with one crowd and know to never say them around the other crowd. you'll know How It Works and think nothing they say is actually slipping into what you think and do
and then you'll spend a disproportionate amount of time later after the fact, untangling a lot of shit you were told that you didn't attribute to a group you knew not to trust, that you didn't know was a dogwhistle, that you thought was Just A Meme but was actually a weird channer way of doing a stereotype joke
(and to a hypothetical reader, if you're one of these ex-channer/ex-cryptofash/ex-all-my-friends-were-nazis-at-one-point-and-i-haven't-examined-that types, this is a starting point for a lot of work ahead of you.)
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the reason you don't talk to fascists is because You Are Not Immune To Propaganda
if i had a functional blog i would be writing a longer post about this, so here's the short version
people who share privileges can and should apply social pressure against bigotry as a one-off thing - i'm thinking of a study of the effectiveness of calling people on their shit while having a cis white guy pfp vs. not
but you will find yourself changing at least as much as the people you hang out with on a regular basis. they won't change at all if you don't have real social ties for them to give a shit about you challenging them on things
if i'm finding casual ableism creeping into my vocabulary from hanging out with my anticapitalist but not explicitly leftist gamer buddies, what more would hanging out with fascists do to warp my norms
politics, nl
@pikachu@toot.site Don't say that out loud, you'll give them ideas
*glances at how the Dutch neolibs have been tearing down student support over the years*
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"Why are so many more kids trans now?"
@SleepyCatten Some people are "worried" because it looks like more and more kids are becoming trans and/or non-binary nowadays. But the simple answer is: it used to be much more repressed. The same thing happened when schools stopped forcing kids to write with their right hand. "Suddenly" more and more kids were lefthanded. But eventually it hit a plateau at 9-10%. It's not that there weren't any lefthanded kids before - they were forced into invisibility.
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I want to make a test on the % reach a post can have in terms of people in other servers. Are you seeing this post on mastodon.gamedev.place or another server? (Appreciate if you can boost this).
re: meta, FediBlock
@kescher Wasn't familiar with that one but yeah, that looks to be about the size of it
re: meta, FediBlock, long 
@untitaker@treehouse.systems https://mew.toot.cat/mw/Qoto.org does seem to exist, at least, but it's not complete
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I am
Once again
Asking academics to not scrape Fedi user info without consent and post that information publicly
Jesus
re: meta, FediBlock, long
@gzt@eldritch.cafe Huh? I think there's a reference I'm not getting there
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Amber Camille Aeonja luci Dawn Ixia Azalea Harmonia
emigration advice, please boost
I’m looking to leave my country (Italy, i live approximately in the middle), my current target is germany, currently the main issue for me is figuring out how I’m supposed to move my stuff from here to there, as moving companies from anywhere i know are extremely shady and usually mishandle things, the amount of stuff i need to move isn’t too large (it’s mostly a subset of the contents of 1 room), probably would fit in a regular car. Does anyone know what sort of service I could use as an alternate
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With new advances in "AI" and "Machine Learning", we can incorrectly assume that correlation equals causation _millions_ of times faster than before!
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As you get older all of the years blur into one: The Year of the Linux Desktop
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Zijn jullie al helemaal klaar voor #Whamageddon?
Dit zijn de spelregels:
1) WHAM's Christmas klassieker; "Last Christmas" niét horen!
2) we beginnen 01/12 en spelen door tot 24/12 🎄
3) Enkel de originele versie telt mee. Geniet van alle mogelijke covers en remixen 
4) zodra je de originele 'Last Christmas' hoort ben je VERLOREN en post je je #whamageddon 💣
re: meta, FediBlock, long
@ailnoth I think it's a bit more nuanced than that - they don't seem to be vying for direct central control exactly, but rather running an influence campaign to discourage defederation.
Those motivations seem credible - from a freeze peach perspective, defederation is a thing to avoid, and to convince others not to do.
@scanlime Hmm. Anything you're looking at in particular? Browsing through their site a bit, it seems a bit more like 'reclaiming the idea of a metaverse to mean an actually interoperable ecosystem', but maybe there's something I'm missing.
re: meta, FediBlock, long
@bram Oh yes, absolutely. I'm also Dutch, so I'm very familiar with that issue... :/
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@erincandescent@queer.af Or in other words, this is basically the equivalent of those guys we all know who are shitty to people in a chat for months, eventually get banned, and then claim "I've been banned for saying one word and that's unfair!" after it being repeatedly explained to them that their pattern of behaviour was the problem.
re: meta, FediBlock, long, added ccontex
@erincandescent@queer.af Right, that's the "single user" I was referring to. And indeed this is not the actual reason why they're fediblocked at all, as has been explained to them over and over.
I can therefore only read his claim as one in bad faith - he has had every opportunity to understand the *actual* reason for the blocks, and taken none of them, instead choosing to perpetuate his own narrative.
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Extracted the butterflies, so now they're separate too. CC0 license, emojify them or whatnot :P #BrynnDraws #Art
- 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
