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
Today's project was clearing out and reorganizing the garage, so that it is actually usable for projects again, and I can actually reach my tools and supplies properly. Pictures forthcoming, probably tomorrow! Battery too empty to make them now.
Yesterday's project was trying to finish my plant table - basically a large table that'll sit in front of the living room window, so I can put seedlings and such there so that they get a lot of sun.
It's made from some reused wood from old (no longer usable) shelving units, and some garbage-tier hardware store wood for the frame; the new hardware store wood is actually *worse* than the reused wood in many ways...
Anyway, I've almost finished it; I just had to wait for the glue to dry, then flipped it upside down, and now I still need paint the top... and then it's completed!
(It doesn't look particularly nice but that's okay - this is more a practice project than anything, to try out different techniques and see what works, and if something doesn't work, oh well - it's just a plant table anyway)
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Ik twijfel of ik de Gamma uberhaupt wel een bouwmarkt kan noemen, eigenlijk. Ze lijken vooral graag *producten* te verkopen i.p.v. materialen...
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When a building site labourer needs to look busy, they pick up a broom. When an executive needs to look busy, they call a meeting.
The advantage of the broom is that it doesn't use up the time of people who actually are busy.
We should give executives brooms.
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for the record before SRS I took 5mg every 2 days and my T was *nuked*, like it was lower than the cis girl reference minimum. I know trans women who took 2.5mg every 2 days and were fully in the cis girl range, but you definitely shouldn't take this thing for life, please go read transfemscience until you learn to fear it.
https://transfemscience.org/articles/cpa-dosage/
https://transfemscience.org/articles/cpa-meningioma/
and stop taking 50mg ,100mg per day my Gods. 50mg at only 20 days/month gives you a 20× increase in meningioma risk. (same goes for medroxy—it's probably not going to kill you but please keep your usage of it time-limited or it *might*)
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I do think LLMs capture the zeitgeist in one way: that we’re all supposed to just accept that things are a bit shite all the time, in tech and otherwise. That it’s just how things are & we shouldn’t expect better. Shut up, accept the slop, things getting worse, the enshittification. It’s just the way things are.
No, piss off. Things can be better, we’ve done it before. Just because some people can’t or won’t remember, doesn’t mean we all have to accept their low standards.
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@HeavenlyPossum A thing some folks have a hard time grasping is that
A stateless society does not have to be a not-organized society.
You can still have services, still have societal stability and still have security against the much feared feudal warlords and what have you.
Because assuming people stop existing and organizing the moment the state ceases to exist is actually silly.
re: serious answer
@ben I've found that the people who moderate like this tend to have a very different perspective of what constitutes 'a conflict', unfortunately, shit-flinging doesn't usually qualify but people being directly told they are wrong does
serious answer
@ben Because the "devolved into non-productive discussion" usually doesn't mean "there is bigotry", it means "there is overt conflict", which is a different way to view "someone called out the bigotry".
It's not a coincidence that this so often happens (in many places, not just on Steam) *just* after people start pushing back on the bigotry. It's what you get when a place is moderated by people who care more about avoiding conflict than they do about creating a safe and inclusive environment.
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Terugkoppeling van de filmavond vanavond. Een van ons had de filmavond georganiseerd, maar niet expliciet vanuit AK-Utrecht. Tevreden kijkt ie terug op vanavond. tussen de 30 en 40 mensen waren aanwezig en het gros bleef voor het panel discussie. In het panel zaten, Jan Korff de gidts, Jos Kloppenborg, Merel en onze activist.
De insteek van deze avond was de verscheidenheid van groepen en tactieken. Om mensen een idee te geven wat er kan, dat er voor iedereen een plek en dat je de tactiek kan kiezen die het beste bij je past.
Op een vraag vanuit het publiek over meer positieve acties, antwoordden onze activist:
Ik leer mensen bomen knuffelen op hoogte.
Ook goed om nog te melden is de dodo excursie op 1 april. Daar naast hoorden we iets over asfaltbevers en een grote dassenburcht.
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In the 15+ years people have been promoting blockchains, this flowchart remains undefeated.
@elilla This happens for me when my battery has fully depleted itself; it seems to be a problem with the battery controller's firmware.
Usually fixed for me by letting it sit on the charger for a few hours to trickle-charge and then re-plugging it to switch to proper charging mode.
Don't know if you have the same cause for the problem, but hopefully it helps?
@shebang@chaos.social @domi I'm curious to see the competition now :p
@vxo Ah, this is a city bike so it basically has no rear suspension at all beyond the rubber tire 😅
I did specifically buy a (second-hand) bike with an old-style steel luggage rack - the newer aluminium ones tend to be rated for quite low loads and probably wouldn't fare as well with this kind of thing, and since I don't have a car, it kind of needs to... although the total *weight* of this stack wasn't that high, it was mostly just bulky.
I did notice it being loaded quite heavily! Bumps in the road were... not particularly pleasant.
subtoot, racism
@necrophcodr It is racist. Racism isn't just about ethnicity in a direct sense, particularly when systemic racism gets involved.
And the two claims (about Americans vs. Chinese people) are not comparable at all to begin with; because the root of racism is a power imbalance, and Americans are absolutely on the 'powerful' side of that imbalance.
language stuff
@domo I'm surprised you didn't mention the d/t thing as the problem, as that's the one that trips up even most Dutch people for their entire lives 🙂
There are some other 'fun' ones, like the two different articles: eg. "de krat" vs. "het krat" which are both correct, but for most words, only one of the two is correct!
I'm curious what specific issue you have with the past tense? I'm a native Dutch speaker, so possibly there's something there that I never noticed.
(Aside, the water thing would be "geen water", rather than "green water" :p)
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trans, death, nlpol
Dit blijft maar gebeuren, en je hoort er bijna nooit iemand over
Rust zacht lieve Alice, moge je herinnering tot zegen zijn
En fuck het Nederlandse asielstelsel en alles en iedereen die het heeft leeft laten komen tot wat het nu is
subtoot, racism
@necrophcodr The implication that it's unsafe because it's "from China", rather than because an irresponsible white asshole demanded an impossible set of design constraints and had the power and money to make that other people's problem to figure out
- 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
