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.
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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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In #spoonieTown there are hammoks suspended in every tree, so that anybody can take a nap, or just lie and listen to the birds
@ZeroEcks It needs to be brought in manually; it does not seem to get enabled by default with Plasma enabled (I've created an issue about that earlier today because it probably should be)
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feeling overwhelmed/tired/anxious? got 5 minutes?
find a carpeted area or make a soft spot with a blanket on the floor, next to a chair, couch or ottoman. lay on your back on the floor & set your lower legs on the chair with knees bent.
rest your arms comfortably, maybe making space for chest muscles to open by widening them and letting your palms face up.
breathe and let your body release gravity. set a timer for 5-15 minutes. notice how you feel when you get up again!
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Links bestuur, rechts beleid
Ach ja, een nieuwe linkse partij, daar zitten we op te wachten. Niet zomaar een steeds nauwer samengaan van PvdA en GroenLinks, tot en met fusie. Nee, daadwerkelijk een partij die in de plaats van de twee voorgangers dient te komen. Dat stelt GroenLinks-PvdA Tweede Kamerlid Habtamu de Hoop voor.(1) Aanvoerder van de linkse partijcombinatie Frans Timmermans voelt er wel wat voor en heeft zelfs haast met de uitvoering van het idee(2) Onder zijn leiding, ook dat nog.(3 Wat een vernieuwing zal dat worden!
Ze gaan maar lekker hun gang. Maar een nieuwe linkse lente ervan verwachten? Neuh. Alsof die nieuwe linkse partij iets gaat bieden dat de voorgangers ervan ook niet geboden hebben en vervolgens willens en wetens verwaarloosd of erger. Alsof zo’n nieuwe partij niet eenzelfde treurig traject zal gaan afleggen, maar vermoedelijk wat sneller dan de voorgangers dat deden. Alsof het probleem met parlementair links gelegen is in gebrek aan elan en aan vernieuwing. Alsof links in partijformaat en links aan de regering wezenlijk iets anders kan – en heel vaak zelfs wil! – bieden dan een variant van rechts beleid.
Het hele artikel via...
https://peterstormt.nl/2025/02/05/links-bestuur-rechts-beleid/
CW-boost: uspol, deportations, actionable
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If you are in the US, threatened by the current administration, and need some kind of help with something, send me a DM and I'll see what I can do.
(For reference, I am in the Netherlands)
CW-boost: uspol, actionable
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ndsdoc (https://ndsdoc.gbadev.net/) is a work-in-progress community maintained documentation project detailing the hardware specifications of Nintendo DS and DSi. The project has only recently been launched and is currently looking for contributors! Learn how you can help with adding to and improving the current documentation at https://github.com/gbadev-org/ndsdoc
Any help and/or feedback is highly appreciated!
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TIL that my fav actors david tennant is quite a powerful ally, honestly in an age that a lot of famous persons turn out to be absolute biggots, its a nice refresher
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@varve @RadiantEmber My first chemistry teacher, just before high school, did (on our very first class) one thing that was absolutely fantastic and that I still think about today.
She had a small box wrapped in gift paper, full of assorted things, that she passed around the classroom. We could shake it, move it, feel it, but not open or damage it... and we would try to guess what was inside. She wrote our guesses on the blackboard, and we decided what most people agreed with.
And then she put it away and said we would never open it. This is what science is like, she said; we had created a model based on our observations, and we had some confidence in it, but we could never know for sure, there isn't some perfect, infallible truth. She told us how frustrated she was when her professor had first done it on her college class, and things she had thought she would be able to see and that were impossible.
This single lesson taught me so much about (philosophy of) science.
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@eldaking @RadiantEmber my high school chemistry teacher was quite open about the "lies to children" in what he taught. He would also say stuff like, this thing I'm teaching you right now is simplified because you haven't learned calculus yet. He was a great teacher.
There are far too few of those.
@RadiantEmber The standard excuse I hear for this from teachers is that it's "necessary" because "otherwise students would be overwhelmed with all the nitty-gritty".
Which is bullshit, because it costs nothing to explicitly *tell* students that a model is simplified, and from my own teaching experience I know that this works fine, and reliably avoids this failure mode...
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teachers being shitty about chromosomes and intersex conditions
teachers really just lie to students because it's convenient.
This teacher was teaching that there are no male calico cats because males always have XY chromosomes and females have XX chromosomes.
I looked it up and found that there in fact are male calico cats, usually because they have XXY chromosomes. I brought this up and the teacher was like I know that but we're not talking about that now, don't confuse them.
So you're just purposefully lying to the students?
This kind of shit is responsible for so much erasure and discrimination against intersex and trans people. It makes me angry
Wouldn't it be better to just explain the actual reality to the students? Wouldn't it be better for them to understand what's actually going on instead of teaching them a lie?
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making a crafting UI in a game with persistent online inventories is really scary because if I fuck up and don't realize it someone's gonna destroy their inventory
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#spoonieTown btw is an imaginary community full of slowing down and nourish and taking care of each other vibes. The imagined infrastructure as well as the culture.
Everybody's ideas welcome.
You don't have to be a spoonie to hang out in Spoonie Town, you just need to want to Slow Down and Heal Things.
#solarPunk #hopePunk #intentionalCommunities #dreamingAsResistance #kindnessCulture #community
#spoonies
re: meta, sensitive topics
@vfrmedia @NotThatDeep @puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social FWIW I would tend to distrust anything Mumsnet has to say about moderation, given that that place is rife with transphobia and there seems to be no intention to do anything about it
godot reddit
I really do not like this TheDuriel guy. Posts condescending answers to virtually every question, never with enough detail to actually be usable, seemingly more interested in looking clever than in actually helping people
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USpol, action item, time sensitive
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For the first time in my life, I just declined a keynote invitation, explicitly because I am too afraid to travel to the event's location. I'm quite sad about that.
- 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
