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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once you realize that the core dream of language model AI proponents is “owning a slave” you really can’t unsee it.
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I'm concerned to still see so many posts attempting to dunk on fascists for being hypocritical.
They don't care and won't care. Why are you reading their posts, and worse, amplifying what they said? There are better things to do with your time, almost anything in fact, unless you think that your takes are so good that it will realistically move people to change.
Point out hypocrisy to people and organizations that see being consistent as a value, they might actually change their behavior!
re: amsterdam politics, questions for the major, antisemitism, palestina, israel
@wmd@chaos.social The problem I have with "did the best they could do" is that several folks on here were already aware of what was about to happen well before the football match even started - warnings to be careful on the streets were already being shared.
Sure, they might not magically know everything, but if it's apparently already something people are concerned enough for that they start spreading warnings ahead of time, and the city *still* doesn't see it coming and isn't prepared for it, that suggests to me that they have failed *somewhere* along the way; they knew and didn't prep, they were not reachable for people to express their concerns, whatever the cause, something clearly was wrong with their preparation.
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Pls boost: Oregon has paid leave for victims of SA, DV, harassment, bias crimes, or stalking
TIL that Oregon's Family Paid Medical Leave includes paying for lost days of work due to sexual assault, domestic violence, harassment, bias crimes, or stalking.
Please boost so that other Oregonians know that paid "safe leave" is available.
https://paidleave.oregon.gov/employees/applying-for-safe-leave.html
I hope other states adopt similar paid leave policies.
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Today I am thinking about the fire marshals who have to deal with the customer service hell that is enforcing fire code at large cons. Like, imagine trying to keep a straight face while explaining to someone in a guy fawkes mask that, no, room occupancy limits are not a social construct, the building will literally cave in on itself if everybody attends this panel on macOS malware
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Hello All!
As of this month, we are officially short of the amount of money we need in order to cover hosting costs and pay our mods. Our total monthly expenses are about $120 ($50 for each of our two mods and $20 for managed hosting services). Before Open Collective Foundation (our previous fiscal host) went under earlier this year, we had these expenses completely covered. Since we had to transition to self-hosting, we have never hit that mark again.
Over the previous months as we have been using Ko-Fi, I have been working behind the scenes to get us to be able to use Open Collective again because of how many different types of donations they accept (we have only been using PayPal with Ko-Fi which is...not ideal).
And as of today, I am happy to announce that we can once again accept payments through Open Collective at https://opencollective.com/blackqueerlife
For the first time, you will be able to make donations through Stripe, PayPal, or direct bank transfer. Our hope is that we can once again have our costs covered fully by donations.
I can't tell you how many times in the past year and change that I have been running this server that I have thought about giving up and moving off of the fediverse. Our mod team constantly has to deal with white supremacist harassment, transmisia, transmisogynoir, ableism, etc from other users and instances. We are making it work, but I'd be lying if I said it was not taking a toll. And with fascism on the rise globally, things are only going to get worse in that department.
So if you don't agree with that and want to help support us in maintaining a space on this network, any amount helps. Seriously.
-eva
@blackfedi #BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse #MutualAid #BlackFedi #BlackQueerLife #QTPOC
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What are some good SBCs that aren't raspberry pi?
@neil Though I should note that I'm not certain that there don't *exist* other funding methods for the EU, I have just heard claims from quite a few people dealing with EU stuff that this is the easiest way to get it through bureaucracy, so it's possible that it's more convenience than regulatory requirement
@neil (And yes this is a fucking awful model for funding the commons, but you can thank the neoliberals for that)
@neil I'm guessing this is an attempt at integrating it within the EU's weird funding structures where everything must be a public tender to be funded, and therefore creating a project is bureaucratically easier than trying to essentially take over an existing one.
I think this is also part of the reason that eg. FOSS funding was outsourced through organizations like NLNet?
@theresnotime@fox.nexus Oh yeah, absolutely.
NLmedia NLpol somewhat positive
@smveerman Tot mijn verbazing is het niet eens weggestopt in de 'columns'-rubriek, zoals meestal gebeurt.
Doesn't mean that there are never problems or conflicts of course, but it does mean that we have the tools to deal with them in a constructive manner - like a 'voting sheet' of sorts for what's for dinner, and a sheet to claim and track chores being done, as well as constructive house meetings when issues need to be discussed
Just realized today that I have, sort of accidentally, achieved the dream of "living in a peaceful indescribable polycule of queer neurospicy folks"... and I didn't really notice until now
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@joepie91 that's in my city! I've been there several times. They have new stuff this year.
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Every once in a while I see an old Linux screenshot and go "oh yeah, Linux DEs used to be *uglier* than Windows" lmao
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Today I learned that there is a theme park in the US specifically tailored towards disabled folks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27pkOKYBptI
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funny image i think y'all would enjoy
(i didn't censor the author, this is from a random telegram channel and I couldn't find the original post unfortunately)
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hot take all those people who say "utopias are paradoxes you cant make a perfect world" ok bro we cant make the perfect pizza either but chefs are always trying and people are enjoying better slices because of it asshat maybe something doesnt have to be obtainable to be worth trying
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Uh oh guys, I blocked out a big chunk on my calendar tomorrow morning, but now I have no memory of WHAT I blocked it for. Just three hours that I wrote "NO" on
- 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
