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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the idea of a video game (like an RPG or something) where it tells you "press this button combination to do this thing" but every single thing has a unique button combination and that button combination remains possible to press perpetually after the moment you learn about it
so in the tutorial it says "press X to hug your wife" and that's not teaching you the interact button that's teaching you the hug your wife button and at any point if you press that button your character will uninterruptably go to their wife and hug her
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video game where if you get 100 points you go up a level and by up a level I mean you teleport up one floor in the building you are currently in
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So far today, Google has taken me to a bus stop that doesn't exist, and asked me how crowded i5 is, on a bus that also doesn't exist.
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usually when companies are bought/merged I'm somewhere between "oh no" and "meh", but The Onion buying InfoWars' assets is really hilarious
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Sometimes I feel like therapy needs to be longer. I don't know if I can untangle everything in the span of an episode of House, I need Avengers level of therapy
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uspol, muskrat and Cheeto mention
Yeah DOGE is a sad and absurd name for anything that's connected to a government of any kind, but. Trump using a nongovernmental advisory board to slash the federal government is an important departure from business as usual.
I am anticipating that as he gets more and more frustrated with the checks and balances built into federal office confirmations (having to deal with the Senate, etc) he's going to rely more and more heavily on informal "advisory boards" like the so-called department of governmental efficiency. This is going to be one of the fastest and easiest ways for him to move fast and break things as much as possible.
I'm imagining the entire federal government being run with the same attention to detail as, say, Tesla. All federal regulatory agencies being expected to operate like the company that sells cars that explode and trap people inside is... not encouraging.
And I'm sure that's just the beginning. We are starting to see the actual design of the fascist takeover that's going to happen. Fear is going to be unavoidable, but it's important to anticipate what's coming. And to respond by preparing, organizing, and getting connected to comrades instead of succumbing to despair.
Relatedly, I need to go read project 2025...
kidney transplantation, update
Unfortunately my transplantation will be delayed; they are seeing inexplicable blood values and have no idea what my body is doing (which I suppose is in keeping with the theme) and want to make sure they identify the cause first
death of an abusive asshole
So I just learned that Zimbardo died recently, the "prison experiment" guy.
@Peetz0r Okay so the bread is excellent actually, and I want to know where they are getting this stuff
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Eine autistische Person toleriert ständig Dinge, die sie stören.
Hin und wieder, ist das Maß voll und es kommt zum Nervenzusammenbruch (manchmal inkl Wutausbruch).
Ironischerweise werden wir dann deshalb als "schwierig" eingestuft.
Es ist im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes Wahnsinn, was Autistinnen leisten. Trotzdem gelten wir als unwillig, Kompromisse einzugehen oder uns anzupassen.
Obwohl wir die meiste Zeit unseres Lebens genau das tun .. #AuDHS #autismus #neurodivergenz
reference to abusers in the abstract
@fortyseven IMO the more telling part is how they say they've "apologized" but still don't actually take responsibility; trying to claim that actually the responsible party is the one who reported them, and clearly not looking to repair harm but just to make the problems go away.
This is such a common pattern in abusers, trying to turn the blame on the person holding them to account through a non-apology ("I did everything and you're still complaining, you're the unreasonable one!"), and I wish it was more widely recognized.
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Looking at a neat job listing and AGAIN I am caught off guard by the unparalleled chrome extension: Cloud-to-Butt Plus.
I have had this extension for, I believe, over a decade, from before I ever considered being in tech. It CONSTANTLY gets me.
It used to do one thing: change the word "cloud" to the word "butt". These days it does two things: also the words "the cloud" to the words "my butt".
Unparalleled usefulness and excellence.
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To people who feel like there aren't many people on mastodon/fediverse, please actually try to be social. So often I see "there's nobody here, i'm going to bsky/threads/whatever" and then when I look at the account's profile on the home server (to make sure I can see all posts and replies), I almost always see very few posts in recent past and even fewer replies. The Fediverse's culture (and mastodon's software) is built around more traditional social networking, like we used to do before algos.
The bug is that they handle state incorrectly by the way, and one control system has a toggle whether the other has an explicit open/close, and it does not have a transition state, according to the system it is always either open or closed, and anyone who has ever fixed someone else's bad state management probably knows *exactly* where this is going
You really should not let me near tech that you would like to keep working
Got the automatic curtain control system in the hospital in an invalid state within 2 minutes of touching it, because of course I did
re: health, kidney disease, funny
@bananas Oh I miss it a lot, they just told me to reduce my salt and there was a good reason for it and therefore I did. I'm not sure they expected me to follow the advice that rigorously, to the point of inventing a salt-less bread recipe
health, kidney disease, funny
An abbreviated review of my kidney patient career so far: had 240/something blood pressure with no real symptoms besides a headache and slightly blurry vision (which quickly recovered), walked merrily into the ICU to the astonishment of the nurses (and walked out again a day later), continued living a mostly normal life without dialisys on 8-10% remaining kidney function (ie. end-stage kidney failure) and no meaningful deterioriation over that timespan, managed to reduce salt in my diet so much that the sodium levels in my blood were dangerously low (again with no meaningful symptoms), learned to detect high potassium levels by feel, which once again baffled medical people, and was told today by a nurse that I am the second person they've ever had to pick up for a check-up on foot rather than in a bed, despite having worked there for a while.
I swear, at some point I'm surely going to become a medical research subject
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@smveerman with Lelylijn and Nedersaksenlijn also having been killed this government sure seems to hate trains :/
@marlies @smveerman I'm pretty sure they do, and that would make sense politically, so not much of a surprise unfortunately 😐
- 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
