Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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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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- 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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Ik zie dat de cliniclowns weer om donaties vragen. Weten jullie wel dat zo’n clown meer verdient dan een verpleegkundige? Als verpleegkundigen nou wat meer tijd krijgen dan maken wij de mensen ook graag aan het lachen.
substack nazi shit
@laurenshof "We believe that the best way to strip these ideas of their power is open discourse" is a belief that *might* be justifiable if you're just a random person on the street, and you don't deal with publishing on a daily basis
But anyone who runs a publishing outlet this big has absolutely *no excuse* to still believe that myth and to fail to understand how fascism propagates, so I'm just going to assume that they understand this perfectly well and are okay with it
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What is the longest chain of consecutive night trains you can take?
Rules:
- Each city may only be visited once
- Changing City during the day is allowed
- The train routes may not intersect
- only regular scheduled trains count
- only trains with at least one couchettes car count
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Sometimes you just get an email with "undisclosed breach" vibes.
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I didn't specify, but this was a journalistic pitch about some sketchy stuff #FossilFuel companies are doing in the area I live. I guess I should be neutral to the industry that's waged a half-century information war against the public and intimidated journalists & activists 🙄
If anyone knows of publications / editors that are more in alignment with #MovementJournalism and cover #Climate issues, let me know.
About Movement #Journalism:
https://rjionline.org/reporting/what-does-movement-journalism-mean-for-journalism-as-a-whole/
and
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo29172094.html
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Just got a pitch rejected because I'm an "activist"
Things that have required "activism" in recent years:
- believing that reproductive rights are human rights
- believing that civil rights are... good
- believing that Palestinians and LGBTQ folks are human
- believing that judges should be held to a standard of ethics
- believing that destroying our only livable environment is bad
So they want to filter out any people who act on these beliefs, bc everyone else is unfit to inform the public.
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capitalist realism & the fediverse
like now it's become clear to me that the issue with the fediverse and its understanding isn't really about onboarding, Mastodon development being shit, or anything like that
it's about capitalist realism
people literally cannot comprehend social media being in any other shape than that of Twitter
and so people will propose literally contradictory solutions, like that we should have a government-run public good for "socialmedia.gov" while simultaneously breaking up big social media sites so they compete
we can't simultaneously have one social media site, and several competing social media sites, and have those all be the same thing
basically, whenever people propose a replacement, they think of the fediverse, where you can post on Twitter and be seen on Threads. maybe a government-run social media is also available for anyone to join. but in their heads, each one of these "social media platforms" has to be competing to Become Twitter, and the only thing stopping them is this mysterious market force of competition, or the invisible hand of the government, or whatever
that's literally capitalist realism
this idea that no possible economic system can exist besides capitalism. it's this idea that infects everyone's minds when they try to think of a better world. it's so hard to imagine what the world would look like without capitalism, and this is just an example of it
the idea of a "social media site" being run by anyone besides some minority of "weird" people isolated in their own little groups is not only foreign, but categorically impossible in these people's minds
and that's the issue with the fediverse for a lot of people. their vision of social media involves this rugged individualism of everyone going to the marketplace of social media and choosing the one that offers them the best value, rather than there just being a bunch of communities around and they have to actually socially interact with people and become a part of one
and with that in mind, I feel like completely redoing my approach to explaining this, starting with capitalist realism. people genuinely can't see social media as anything besides Twitter-shaped, and unpacking that first is what's necessary to get people on board
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The most frustrating part is, it's so easy to say "take that shit somewhere else" when you run a bar or a website or any other group. That's literally your job when you create a space like that. I've seen people do it. I've done it. It's so fucking easy. You just go, "get out." And then they do. They have to. It's your place!
Anyone who says it's not easy is lying, and it's usually because they don't want it taken someplace else. They like it right where it is.
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People who say they don’t like nazis, but turn around and take money from nazis, and give money to nazis, do in fact like nazis.
#Substack
what Substack is, snark edition
@researchfairy It's Blogger but on the 2020's VC funding cycle
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-> yassie_j@labyrinth.zone
You can tell Privacy Badger was designed for websites chock full of trackers, because instead of saying “no trackers found”, it says “no trackers blocked”. I think that alone is a stunning indictment of the contemporary web.
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ACAB
why does my food delivery app have a wrapped. tf you wanna show me, the most popular ingredient i ordered from the grocery store???
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Mocking "responsible AI" people
The Torment Nexus has been invented, and you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, it's here to stay
The more important question to ask now is: How do we use the Torment Nexus responsibly?
You don't want to be left behind
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The language on the box for the charger is extremely cursed. So far I’ve found:
* Language names are English abbreviations
* French description continues in German
* German description continues in French
* Length in Italian is in freedom units
* Length in Dutch is approximately
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Can we retire the word 'misinformation' for 2024 and bring back the original term of "LIES"
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parental rights?
parental rights to do what, motherfucker?
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Seems like a lot of people in this world survive a game of russian roulette and are like, "Oh, it's no big deal. Stop being a chicken and take your turn."
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windows just deprecated windows mixed reality. thousands of headsets are going to become bricked. open source drivers (monado) do not fully support WMR. they are still selling WMR headsets like the Reverb G2. there is no refund policy. the only way to use WMR is to never upgrade your windows install. fuck microsoft.
edit: consider donating to https://github.com/sponsors/thaytan who is working on open source WMR support :)
edit: we have official word from m$ that support will be dropped on november 1, 2026
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please, for the love of all that is holy, do not get bunnies on a whim.
It's the season of 'Sophia my friend needs help! they got a bunny and...' and everything after that can be summarised as 'had done little to research on what they'd just committed to and are having The Regret'
- 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
