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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- 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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can people kindly boost this post so i can try to continue to recover the mutuals i've lost? 
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Auto’s zijn de oorzaak van files. https://mastodon.nl/@volkskrant/113011491070720559
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"Would you prefer if sites were funded by ads instead of paywalls?"
No Mr. Bond, I'd prefer those sites to die.
@phanjam Wait, isn't this the game development studio that tried to do client-side validation in an MMO, of all things?
Because I think that even for a large games company, that pretty clearly shows an exceptionally incompetent management 🙃
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It's always a good evening when you find a new Deviant Ollam video.
Fire codes \o/
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Have you ever wondered how to drink tea in style whilst cruising through the Eurotunnel?
Well, I have answered that question for myself.
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I do like systems that randomly have to come up with underground station designs, only to be used once. In Bergen, this would be Haukeland sjukehus station, which is the only underground station other than the airport station, which is more in a cutting than anything.
Quite a striking design and deeep deeeep underneath the surface (it’s underneath a hill) and connects the university hospital and other health centres with the rest of the city.
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"we have added AI to our product": the 7 magic words to get rid of half your userbase
description of death (figurative), political
@nando161@theblower.au Not shown in the comic: the part where less than a mile out to sea, their crappy raft gets overwhelmed by a wave and they drown and/or starve, when they could have been waiting for a sufficiently well-equipped ship on a safe island with a food source
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“We’ve implemented end-to-end encryption.”
Hurray!
“With OpenPGP.”
Oh no.
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Hey, transfeminine folks! I had a convo with my (very trans-friendly) audiologist, and she asked an interesting question based on some anecdotal observations:
Have any of you noticed a correlation between feminizing HRT and hearing loss?
I'm not a good example, as I had hearing loss long before I started HRT in November 2020, but she's consulted with other audiologists who've noticed a similar trend. This may be a fluke, or confirmation bias, or related to something completely unrelated to HRT, e.g. transfems also tend to listen to really loud noisecore hyperpop or whatever, but I said I'd reach out to get some more anecdotal information. 😊 Thanks!
medical, HRT, hearing loss
@TamsinSays Reports from two people I know (shared with their permission):
One reports no change in hearing. Several years of feminizing HRT now.
The other has experienced a significant increase in earwax production, leading to regular issues with clogged ears that significantly impair hearing, requiring professional ear cleaning to restore hearing. No permanent hearing issues. Likewise, several years of feminizing HRT now - they report that "earwax so bad it needs to get cleaned out" has only started happening since starting HRT, insofar they can remember.
@et_alia@strangeobject.space Importing a bit of advice from tech support land here, that seems relevant to this as well: always mention what you've already tried (to search for) when asking for help.
Both proves that you did the work, and provides a clue on what you got stuck on.
re: dealing with money
@eniko Yeah I was afraid of that :( I figured I'd mention it anyway, in the hope that maybe you could find some way to adapt the same idea to your situation, that I couldn't think of.
I guess you could take a conservative estimate of monthly income and go from there, it may be better than nothing, even if it's not really accurate? In case no better idea comes along, that is.
dealing with money
@eniko Personally I ended up using a trick that a friend mentioned - mentally convert every price to "how many hours do I need to work to pay for this" (based on hourly rate as a freelancer, in my case).
It was originally meant to more easily reason about "is this worth spending money on if it helps me do my work more effectively", but I've also found it to help to ingrain a more accurate idea into my brain of what my *actual* financial situation is.
This does require having some sort of hourly rate to convert to. I guess if you don't work hourly it can be sort of approached by doing (totalMonthlyIncome/hoursWorkedPerWeek) or something like that?
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Muis gaapt altijd drie keer.
Maar hij hield het bij twee. Ik was heel verbaasd.
"Muis? Moet je niet nog een keer gapen? Die 'nu ga ik actie ondernemen'-gaap?"
Hij keek lichtjes om zich heen en vooruit.
"Heb ik dan je middelste gaap gemist?" vroeg ik hem.
Geen antwoord.
Ik wachtte.
Na een minuut kwam De Derde Gaap.
- 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
