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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how much are you staying home in order to avoid covid?
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Steeds meer mensen nemen goede doelen op in hun testament. Maar nabestaanden komen soms voor onaangename verrassingen te staan. Goede doelen gaan tot het uiterste om geld te innen. ‘Cees zou deze situatie echt verschrikkelijk hebben gevonden.’ https://www.groene.nl/artikel/pas-op-met-nalatenschappen?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=mastodon
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personal abusee experience, re: some idle thoughts on social boundaries
I can tell you with years of experience in multiple abusive and manipulative relationships that the more you normalize this for yourself, the better off you are and the the better off others are.
Don't let yourself get sucked into feeling like if you leave you're hurting someone, or that if you stand your ground you're being irritating. If you *ever* feel either of those things in a relationship when setting a boundary for yourself, *please* understand that's the definition of abusive behavior. Folks who get better will accept they have done wrong and want to change and create solutions together. Abusers will double down and make you feel like you're the problem. Abusers will see that you are giving them chances and use that to continue their abuse rather than change. If there is no repercussion, why should they stop?
Normalize removing people from your life that harm you. You are doing them a service.
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in advance, i am not sorry for the “drama” i will cause my cis white male “friends” for their lack of convictions
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When a car is repaired after a crash, the GDP goes up.
When a fruit or vegetable is grown only to be thrown out by a supermarket as food waste, the GDP goes up.
When you replace a phone that still works because of planned obsolescence, the GDP goes up.
When you throw out a perfectly good coat because it's no longer fashionable, and buy a new one in this season's style, the GDP goes up.
When a bridge has to be replaced because it wasn't built right, the GDP goes up.
When a piece of packaging is manufactured only to be thrown away straight away, the GDP goes up.
When a site needs to be decontaminated because chemicals weren't stored correctly, the GDP goes up.
In each case, society has no more usable wealth than it would have had if the car didn't crash, the vegetable wasn't grown, the phone wasn't replaced, the old coat was still being worn, there was less packaging, or the chemicals were stored correctly. Yet the GDP goes up.
Meanwhile, most of the wealth that is generated ends up in the top one percent's pockets.
The truth is that GDP isn't a useful measurement. It's just a convenient one.
Since this point apparently still hasn't landed with some people:
Marginalized folks are under *no obligation* to 'educate' you about their situation, the bigotry that is levied against them, and so on. That is *your* job, not theirs.
At the very least, show that you've put in some effort to understand the problem before asking someone else to explain it.
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Found a new way to confront people gendering inanimate objects. Some nerd came into the office and was all "she's a beauty isn't she?!" at the server cabinet behind my desk and I said "actually he's a he". Confusion ensued
@Nezchan@wandering.shop @Sirsquid@toot.io Precisely this. And it's even more of a problem when people are *demanding* that something be explained to them, as if they are somehow entitled to someone else - generally a marginalized person who is *already* disproportionally affected and exhausted by the topic - doing free emotional labour for them without even bothering to do a first pass of research themselves.
This is why "educate me" is an unreasonable demand to make. You can almost certainly afford to do the work more easily, than the person you're demanding to educate you.
@AFriendlyBeagle@toot.site Unfortunately there's a lot of people who believe that "tech is free so overbuilding doesn't matter"... :/
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*squeak*
@ariadne@treehouse.systems padding: 0;
@AFriendlyBeagle@toot.site This, so much this. It's completely absurd how many developers have completely bought into the idea of "the Best Practice is to do whatever big tech companies do"!
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OH: *meowing to the tune of Megalovania*
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To be fair #ChatGPT is a fantastic bullshit detector. 👀
Here's how you can use it: when you see anyone peddling ChatGPT-based "solutions", that right there is almost certainly bullshit. 
You're welcome! 👍
@RyukoRazz They're very good at developer marketing, and basically bought the silence of the tech community by posting neat stuff on their blog and preventatively hiring all of their potental critics.
It's immensely frustrating, and *so many* people fell for it from whom I'd expected better.
re: hogwarts legacy
@Sirsquid@toot.io Stop making excuses and start doing the work.
hogwarts legacy
@Sirsquid@toot.io It's your job to educate yourself, not other people's job to do it for you.
A single Google search for "hogwarts antisemitic" immediately turns up *several* sources exlaining it.
@ben No, I think it's aimed at the folks who like the idea of having 'their own thing' but who don't understand the underlying operational power dynamics.
See also: Discord "servers".
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Do you know why you won't find any mention anywhere on the W3C website of #web3? It does not exist. BOOM! There is one web.
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the thing you don't realize as a child about "when I'm an adult I can go to bed whenever I want" is that sometimes ""whenever I want"" is, like, 9pm
- 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
