Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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Due to the impending collapse of the USA, there seems to be a movement of import substitution brewing in Europe¹. Alright, I can live with that.
But how about, additionally, a really good repair movement? There's a lot of imported hardware in circulation, some of it hampered by secure boot schemes (that need legalized exploits), some by software obsolescence. Microsoft is telling people to throw PCs away when Windows 11 won't run on them, we can do better.
¹: central/western Europe, this time
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it's called a script or a book or a film or a play or a video or god knows what else but it is NOT content, jesus christ.
it's such an odorless colorless word
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"how to turn a boring moment from your life into content" it's called a story. it's called a fucking story
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why don't phones have a passive RFID chip you can write e-tickets to when it's still powered on?
I'll keep using my plastic cards for train tickets :^)
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In Baarn: Grote groep tegen de NVU. Heel veel smeris. Poging tot uitbraak om lopen NVU te verhinderen werd terug geknuppeld. Weglopen aan andere kant verhinderd smeris en romeo's. Nu ingesloten. Ook ME met schilden. Veel leuzen. Nazi scum off our streets!
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Your friendly occasional reminder that, if you want to read an academic paper but it’s paywalled, you can email the author and they are allowed to send you a pdf. You can’t imagine how delighted they will generally be to think that someone actually wants to read their work.
@lnl Ah, hm, that's listed as 2021 in the list on Wikipedia
@domo I'm not sure!
Interesting. From 2007 to 2022, Facebook did not go a single year without making at least one acquisition.
But then in 2023 *and* 2024, nothing. None. Zero.
re: politics, hot take, probably even for this place
@CartyBoston Actually, to bring in a practical example: there has been an absolute torrent of "tiny house" experiments in the Netherlands, some of them awful and some of them good, but there's one I want to highlight in particular.
A municipality (I believe it may have been Dordrecht?) built a bunch of small, quick-to-construct houses. The converted-from-a-shipping-container type, though looking like a fairly conventional holiday house from the outside.
These houses were placed on an empty and disused terrain, outside of any existing residential area, but *just* close enough to it to still provide facilities like supermarkets and doctor's offices. The houses were offered to a number of 'problematic' unhoused folks who had been falling in and out of the system for sometimes over a decade, no approach succeeding.
Turned out, most of them were super happy with their houses in the middle of nowhere. They built up a little local community around that block, almost a small town of their own. They functioned fine. Suddenly, they were no longer 'problematic'.
And then the city decided that the area looked too unruly, it wasn't "safe" enough, it wasn't up to their standards of what a neighbourhood should look like, and they started meddling and trying to institute 'lifestyle rules'. And the whole thing immediately went to shit, and the problems started again.
These people just wanted to be left alone, and build up their own existence, outside of the expectations of conventional society. That's all they needed. They were just never given room to actually do so.
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Gonna need you not to drag the intellectually disabled/delayed into your rants about people who are actually evil.
The intellectually impaired community didn't break the government.
Fascists broke the government.
Call them fascists.
Also, if you want to argue with me about it... don't.
Today is not the day. You may not give a shit about people different than you but if that's true, please block me. Seriously.
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Huh, interesting. Looks like some of the vocabulary downloads from the Library of Congress have shrunk a little bit. Might be nothing, but I have a snapshot of it all from last week and I'm currently downloading a new snapshot so once that's done I'll compare and we shall see what we shall see.
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i have received information that one of my friends who went to Furnal Equinox got their antifa furry patches confiscated because the con director said that they were "promoting antifa" and they nearly got banned from the con.
is there any kind of furry or adjacent press that i can talk to about this to spread the word?
furnal equinox are making a big mistake. they're openly deciding to cozy up to fascism at this point
UPDATE: https://plush.city/@mynameistillian/114211598338661386
re: politics, hot take, probably even for this place
@CartyBoston *Are* those 10% actually "incapable of living with others peacefully"? Or are they, for example, just being expected to live with people they are incompatible with, or in a way that does not fit their needs?
politics, hot take, probably even for this place
I do not think that there exists a single punitive system in any society today, that would pass a sound scientific analysis as to its outcomes - they could not be shown to have the effect that they supposedly have (and for which they were introduced).
What's more, I think that every single punitive system that exists today was introduced based on rhetoric and assumptions that were never actually tested or verified.
This ranges from late fees and fare-dodging fines, to welfare cuts, to policing and prisons and their specific policies. All of them. Every single one of them. Whether recent or very old.
@robinsyl The question is the wrong one anyway. The correct question is "why *would* people return the books on time if there are late fees?"
(And indeed every time a library has actually trialed abolishing them, and looked at the data, they found that the late fees made no noticeable difference. Which doesn't surprise anyone who knows the first thing about welfare systems)
My least favourite part of libraries: the late fees
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i don’t mind people who use “how are you” as filler because, you know, even if they’re expecting a non answer i still have freedom to drive that any direction i want
but people who say “how’s it going” walking by without slowing down
what
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It is disappointing that computers no longer come with quality manuals or documentation.
All of my old computers have manuals that basically say, "wow, look all the cool shit you can do! Colors!"
Now it's just consume, consume, consume.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
