Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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The biggest obstacle to our getting housed has been unemployment. My wife graduated with a Master's of Science in Library and information Sciences last year, and we have been homeless since January. Looking for viable jobs; currently she works in a call centern for minimum wage with a sideline in selling plasma.
@katievm @mynameistillian I don't know of any off the top of my head (finding a job seems to be pretty difficult in general right now), but I could certainly boost a job-seeking post for you if you want? Just let me know which post to boost basically
CW-boost: US politics, and its relation to tech/data companies
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/113435767996347318
I can also confirm that I have had the exact same experience, consistently, in talking to such people.
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Seriously, folks, check in with the people that go quiet, in the days to come.
Also, if you feel like going quiet, because it all feels hopeless to you, talk to others. Find the helpers. Use the network you have on here.
Organising is how we get through this, by banding together. Form up.
DMs are open, if you feel the need to rage or cry a bit more privately. Just remember that it's not encrypted.
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Please try to turn your anger and spite into support for the most vulnerable around you, instead of turning it into angry posts.
If you're in the US and need help with something right now, please let me know. I'll do what I can to help.
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Folks, its daytime in a lot of the world right now. Can we please CW stuff for the benefit of people who are outside this mess? They didn't cause it and had no say. Let's not drown them in it.
ietwat gerelateerd aan de verkiezingen in de VS
Dus nu we de consequenties in de VS zien, gaan we ook allemaal in Nederland aan de slag om te voorkomen dat dit overwaait via fascisten als Wilders. Toch? TOCH?
Of gaat iedereen weer zijn kop in het zand steken met "dit zou hier nooit kunnen gebeuren"?
@ben (See also: people expecting moderators for a project or community to practically uphold a nation-state judicial system in terms of checks and balances)
@ben I mean, if you teach people that you get things done in life through a popularity vote... they're gonna be following that assumption for other things too
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"We don't need to visit Egypt, we've got Suez at home."
Suez at home:
uspol, question
I'm looking to read the thoughts of other folks, *specifically* non-white folks, on the outcome of the US elections and what that means about the way forward. Something blogpost-shaped would be ideal. Does anyone have any suggestions?
(Importantly, I'm looking to *read* and absorb, not argue. And I realize that it's early to ask this question, so feel free to recommend something a few days from now when you run across it.)
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grief requires tending, a form of labor, but the advantage of social/political grief is that we have many hands to make light work -- there are millions of us on this planet to help hold it. even when we feel so alone in the absurdity of loss, we can breathe and remember how many wanted the same world as we do, and that that world is very much alive in our hearts and collective imagination
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Please can we all use CW (Content Warnings) and hashtag the heck out of posts/toots for the foreseeable future. Some folks will vanish if they can’t filter out recent developments.
Please boost this message far and wide. ☮️
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I have been living homeless for the last few months, here are some things I have learned:
- Every time I have gone up to a house, knocked on the door and asked to fill up a water bottle, people have always said yes
- There is a big difference in people’s minds between “travellers” and “homeless”. If you say you are travelling/exploring you will be treated a lot nicer than if you say you are homeless.
- You can ask big shops or restaurants if they have any spare/nearly out of date food and they may give you some. The worst they have said is no.
- People care a lot less than I thought. I have been cleaning my boots in a canal and no one even looked.
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@mindpersephone Sometimes, rarely, when the stars and moons align and the weather and degree of light coming through the window and the volume of birdsong filtering into the house is *just right*
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And taking TER trains in most of France is a disheartening experience
The vast majority of passengers are too young or too poor to have cars - they’re only here because they have no other choice
Many stations are knackered and run down
Most of the trains are modern-ish, but information provision is poor
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uspol adjacent but relevant anywhere at anytime
reminder to use Signal or another encrypted messenger to talk to your friends. especially about sensitive topics that might be under heavy fire from politicians, but the more you use it for normal talk the harder it is to censor or use as a control mechanism
@pingiun Ah, I see Whitaker is still concern-trolling, towards the Haskell community this time...
- 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
