Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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.
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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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Trying to get people to join this platform is like all your friends complaining about the restaurant you're in and you try to tell them about this cool place that has amazing, cheap food and the people working there are awesome and it's an ethically run co-op that's been around for ages...and then all your friends decide to go to Applebee's instead.
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i 100% predict the labor void that the immigrants once occupied to be replaced with imprisoned labor.
it is legal in america to use the imprisoned for labor. you can only imagine the conditions and pay.
but for that, of course, they'd need tons of prisoners. workforce ain't gonna fix itself.
so they're probably gonna be itchy for reasons to jail someone now.
stay safe out there
@Stoori *thinks back to the Wheel of Mediocrity on Neopets*
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Reminder that you can criticize bad people by just pointing out that they did something shitty and leave it at that
You extremely don't need to go on to make fun of their physical appearance, sexuality, gender identity, or imply that they are mentally ill or disabled
And in fact if you do it weakens the point you're trying to make and also alienates people who might otherwise be your ally
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long post about ADHD time blindness
This really shouldn't need to be said, but time blindness as is common with ADHD isn't a sign that someone is lying.
I can't reliably place events into years, months, days. I compensate for this by referring to records or specific memorized years of great importance, and then doing calculations based on that.
For example:
I remember that I was in the class of 2011. Therefore, I was a senior in 2010–2011, a junior in 2009–2010, a sophomore in 2008–2009, and a freshman in 2007–2008. The first iPhone came out when I was a freshman, based on the appearance of my Japanese class I remember from the time. Therefore, the first iPhone came out in 2007.
I first used a computer running Windows 3.1 when I was 2. I was born in 1993. Therefore, I must have first used a computer in 1995.
I started HRT when I was working at Taco Bell, kind of during the second half of my employment there, during a time when it was snowy, but snow was melting. My resumé shows that I worked there from 2015 to 2016. Therefore, I must have started HRT sometime in early 2016. I was born in August, 1993. Therefore, I must have been 22 at the time.
I have to do things like this every time, unless a specific date comes up so often that it becomes one of those extremely important dates. It's generally an effective strategy for dealing with my time blindness, but sometimes I have no reference date to use, or I wrongly think I have a reference because of incomplete data that doesn't have enough context to show me that it doesn't work as a reference.
So referencing dates and showing that I got some dates wrong in something I said does not demonstrate lying on my part, and it is, in fact, ableist to assume that it does. I can generally accurately tell you which event came first. But I'm not going to intrinsically notice any particular difference between two year numbers so I can place everything on a timeline. As great of a superpower as that would be, I just can't.
That means I'm going to get dates wrong often, and that needs to be ok, because it just isn't realistic for me to obsessively journal every single insignificant detail of my life and keep those detailed records for all time. It would be, in fact, incredibly unhealthy to do so.
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wishing a very "don't ever speak to me again" to every apologist that ever told me the word "fascist" gets used too readily
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I deliberately blocked out all US-adjacent news for the past few days while I was working on organizing fluconf.
Now that I'm catching up a bit... wow...fuck.
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When people ask you to CW posts about politics, it's not necessarily because they want to avoid it. It could be that they just want a heads up so they can prepare mentally before they read it. I know this is the case for me.
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i think i've said this before on here but i always think about an old ceramics teacher who insisted on any vessel that could potentially hold food, to be food safe since ceramic items can last for such a long time no one in the future will know if its toxic to eat from. these things stick around, some for loooong after anyone we know is gone. i also think about the kind of care to think of someone that far into the future. i think a lot of us here are thinking of those far off folks alongside ourselves and wanting better for both, i hope we can get that, and ensure it for them
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Hot take: having nostr in your bio is a huge fucking red flag
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some of the beseeching in this issue is really leaning a lot on concepts like "network respectability" which aren't explained or unpacked in any meaningful way: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/3723 I find it really interesting how gts setting some randomized stats to baffle crawlers is highlighting some long-standing tensions here between people who want a "respectable network" and people who just want to talk shit with their friends. It's also very interesting how the "respectable network" / "honor system" side of the argument has to paper over the fact that robots.txt is being ignored, which is pretty ironic given that disobeying robots.txt is explicitly breaking some rules
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Also a special mention of a game that isn't out yet, but that I am extremely looking forward to: Junxions seems to be the traffic engineering game that I was hoping for in Cities Skylines but didn't get.
Some neat games that you may not have heard of:
Flotsam - The world has drowned, and everything is underwater. Your task is to help a handful of Drifters build a floating town around a tugboat, using scrap you find in the water and on what remains of the land, and then rescue others.
Project Hospital - A very satisfying-to-play hospital building and management game, with quite a bit more depth than most games in the 'hospital tycoon' genre, and a rather unusual artstyle.
Airport CEO - Design and run your own airport. Gameplay mechanics are more or less what you would expect from a game of this type, but the building system just felt so *nice* to work with that I keep coming back to it, even though there isn't a lot of variation in things to build. Also lets you schedule the flights yourself.
Software Inc. - You build up a software (and hardware!) company in the early days of home computing, with a frankly absurd amount of simulation depth and mechanics. Also a very satisfying building system - it feels a bit like The Sims, but far more responsive.
Galacticare - Also a hospital management game, with more shallow gameplay this time; but also with a lot of soul and funny writing!
STATIONflow - You're responsible for laying out a metro station in the most efficient configuration. Surprisingly challenging!
SimCasino - Again a management game, a casino this time. But with a lot more content and gameplay than you might expect, and a building system that feels quite good.
Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop - It's like a service manual simulator; you are a spaceship mechanic, and you'll have to carefully consult an extensive in-game manual to complete your repairs correctly and in time. Funny writing, neat and very tactile gameplay, time pressure optional, though note that there is a roguelite mechanic that a lot of people seem to dislike the implementation of.
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me every time someone says unalive: ngghhhhhh words are subjective...language is descriptive...grrhhhh euphemisms existed in all times and eras....shhkkhshs people are allowed to have their own lingo...ghrhhhh ghshsb *scrapes table with claws*
Amazing, the WinMXWorld site is still up
CW-boost: uspol, journalism
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- 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
