Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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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@serapath It can certainly be a start, I'm just trying to avoid recommendations of platforms whose idea of mutual aid starts *and ends* with sending money to others, because more is needed 🙂
@serapath Mutual aid can take many forms - offering or asking for help with doing something, but also donations of things, money, and so on.
The core idea is that someone who has something to spare (time, money, stuff, ...) gives it to someone who is in need, and gradually setting up a mutual support network of people doing so, so that those who are having a bad time are supported by those doing better and vice versa, whatever people's current situation is.
The exact thing being given or received doesn't really matter, as long as it fits that idea 🙂
not really answering the question
@alive That's more or less the conclusion I'd come to, yeah. I have some ideas about how this problem could be approached, but I wanted to check first whether someone else had already done it, before accumulating Yet Another Project...
@serapath Mutual aid is, crucially, a selfless act by default, so payment should not really be a factor to begin with
(I have nothing against financial mutual aid to be clear, but "sending the same dollar around fifty times among mostly-all-poor folks" is not a sustainable revolutionary strategy, even if in the short term it is certainly helpful)
Is there some kind of mutual aid matchmaking platform, preferably decentralized in some way?
Commercially run platforms do not qualify, nor do "you can technically do mutual aid here" platforms, I'm really looking for something with an ideological basis in mutual aid that actively encourages it.
Note that "mutual aid" here is not a euphemism for just "people asking for / offering money", I mean mutual aid in the broader sense, including doing stuff for people that they need
@schratze Also I just found out this thing costs several hundred euros and I am somewhat surprised at the landlord going through such expense
@schratze Favourite faucet so far (yes I have one), which I happen to have in the kitchen:
@schratze Ah, landlord sinks.
@gsuberland@chaos.social I have a special frustration with software that does this automatically for crash recovery, but when you manually exit it, it forces you to choose between save/discard.
Like, the functionality is *right there*, give me a button to use it that doesn't involve force-killing the process!
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ableism, games
When someone refuses to add accessibility features because "it's a game of skill" then it's a good idea to wonder what exactly that "skill" is, because very often the "skill" ends up being "not having any impairments"
tangentially related to wordpress shitshow
A truly staggering number of people in tech seem to be entirely unfamiliar with "conflict of interest" as a concept, and unable to recognize that "someone chooses what role they represent depending on what is convenient to them at the time" is like, a textbook signal of a conflict of interest existing
@petrichor Regardless. There are not a lot of ways to end up on this particular shitlist of mine, but they've managed it.
So with the latest shit that Automattic pulled, they are now permanently on my shitlist and will not get a second chance ever. Fuck them.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
