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.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
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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
In the past 10 minutes I've run across two book-sized things I want to read
My problem with fedi is that so much genuinely interesting stuff shows up all the time that there's not enough time in a day to go through all of it 🙃
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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re: 4/shitty tumblr queers, "DNI"
@forestine @elexia if “queer” is a slur then yes please, I want to be called slurs.
on a more serious note, as someone who often helps people figure out or improve their hrt access/dosage/effects, I wish I had similarly good sources of information about transmasc hrt as I do for transfem.
I get where the “t is icky” attitude comes from, for many transfems this is what they see as a substance that “destroyed their bodies” in ways that are either irreversible or require a huge effort and expense to change - but that is, uh, not a great way to process the pain and sense of loss this causes. it keeps people stuck instead of moving on, centers the trans identity around dysphoria instead of euphoria and alienates half of us as the “other side”. yes, half of us.
one of the most amazing experiences I had that helped me find healthy ways of dealing with all kinds of dysphoria was a long, personal conversation with a transmasc enby friend about our pre-transition and transition experiences, including effects of puberty and hrt - on the body, emotions, sexuality, everything.
we spoke of the exact same things, just swapped around on the timeline and associates with entirely opposite feelings. realizing this was, first of all, funny. seeing the same things I hated, described by someone for whom they brought joy and hope, changed the way I think of them - and he felt the same about his sources of dysphoria.
trans people need interactions like that, we need a community where we can have them.
@godotengine I'm not surprised to hear that it happens especially on Mastodon, unfortunately. If I had to guess, a lot of them probably originate from Fosstodon? As there are frequent complaints across fedi of this kind of behaviour from there... (but I've definitely also seen it from other instances.)
Good to hear that there's a layer of insulation, though - just please make sure that you don't burn out either :)
conservatives
What's up with Wikipedia articles (especially around politics and nations) being full of "according to the Heritage Foundation..." comments? Since when is a documented source of deliberate misinformation accepted as a credible source?
re: mastodon meta question
@gsuberland@chaos.social The latter; I've only hit 'block', definitely not 'mute'.
mastodon meta question
@gsuberland@chaos.social I've only ever clicked 'block'. What Mastodon does with that internally, I have no idea.
mastodon meta question
@lnl (...which, ironically, I don't think hides notifications referencing people who have been defederated from?)
mastodon meta question
@lnl I guess I end up using the blocking feature pretty differently because nearly all of the instances full of assholes are blocked on an instance level here
@shauna Far as I understand, the purposes overlap but neither is a subset of the other: a linter might identify problems that cannot be resolved automatically, but doesn't fix anything). So a linter has a bigger detection scope but no fixing capability, and a formatter has a fixing capability but a smaller detection scope.
And then some tools are (or can be) both, and then on top of *that* the terms are used semi-interchangeably depending on what a tool looks like it's made for aesthetically.
(Edited and reposted because my original description really wasn't very clear at all either)
mastodon meta question
@lnl I can understand to some degree for replies that are primarily to person A, yeah, but just muting anything *mentioning* that person seems... like something that should probably be an opt-in thing?
@BIJ1 Mooi artikel. Wel jammer dat dit soort artikelen altijd onder 'opinie' gezet worden, en de artikelen in de rest van de krant altijd de trickle-down ideologie herhalen en onkritisch zijn... (niet alleen bij Trouw, overigens).
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Soms stuit je op een artikel waaraan werkelijk niets is af te dingen. Dit is er zo een. “Rijke mensen zuigen de rest van de bevolking uit.”
Schrijver Jamal Ouariachi draait er geen doekjes om: Nederland is een verzorgingsstaat voor de rijken, gefinancierd door de armen.
Hij prikt door de bullshit van trickle down economics, alsof de rijkdom van een kleine groep op den duur positieve economische effecten oplevert voor een veel grotere groep.
Niet dus: “Oxfam rapporteerde in januari dat de vijf rijkste mensen ter aarde hun fortuin in de afgelopen vier jaar hadden verdubbeld, terwijl de 60 procent armsten ter wereld — bijna vijf miljard mensen — erop achteruitgingen. Er bestaan veel van zulke statistieken, en allemaal laten ze hetzelfde zien: de ongelijkheid neemt toe.”
Om nog maar niet te spreken over hun enorme CO2-uitstoot en energieverbruik versus de omgekeerd minimale belasting die zij betalen: fors minder dan alle andere bevolkingsgroepen.
Extreemrechtse populisten spelen hierin een belangrijke rol als ‘bruikbare idioten’:
“De populist zal nooit naar de werkelijke veroorzaker van de problemen wijzen (rijke mensen!), maar naar een makkelijke zondebok. Zo wordt de ene groep mensen met weinig inkomen opgestookt tegen de andere groep mensen met weinig inkomen: de arme autochtoon versus de arme migrant.”
Migratie is nu de obsessie, terwijl ondertussen het geld van rijke mensen goed bewaakt wordt: “De verhoging van de brandstofaccijns is uitgesteld (rijken gebruiken nu eenmaal meer brandstof dan armen), de vermogensbelasting gaat omlaag, er komt belastingvrije inkoop van eigen aandelen, en zo zijn er nog meer luxe-cadeautjes.”
Meer van dit, please.
https://www.trouw.nl/opinie/nederland-is-een-verzorgingsstaat-voor-de-rijken-gefinancierd-door-de-armen~bdf3d3e0 (https://archive.ph/d4Cj2)
#armoede #rijkdom #kapitalisme #BreekDeKetens #BekenKleur #KomBIJ1
re: mastodon meta question
@jacksonchen666 (and now I'm wondering how many replies I have missed due to this)
re: mastodon meta question
@jacksonchen666 That's... very weird, and unexpected, and I'm not really a fan of it... that seems like an easy way to make people feel like they're getting ignored for no reason :/
meta discussion
@godotengine (Huh. This message somehow never made it into my notifications.)
Right. To explain a bit more where I'm coming from: it was specifically the comment of "I will always be justified to ask for better workflows whenever and wherever I want" (and the sense of entitlement and disregard for others that it implies) that set off red flags for me, up until then I just felt "that's kind of a weird demanding comment to make but probably no ill intent".
mastodon meta question
Huh. If you block person A, and person B then responds to you but also mentions person A somewhere, person B's message never shows up in your mentions either, despite never blocking or muting them?
Is it *supposed* to work this way?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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The software development world needs a serious reconsideration as to its priorities and metrics, honestly.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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The survey also found that remote workers were 23 percent more likely to say they have "a psychologically and emotionally healthy workplace," 19 percent were more likely to cite "high levels of cooperation," and 18 percent were more likely to say that people avoid office politics and backstabbing.
- 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
