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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- 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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the problem when all the things it does to enjoy itself are either physically or mentally intensive and thus even when it is "resting" it never actually rests it is just applying too much energy to fun things instead of unfun things it has to do
it needs shit it enjoys doing that is actually restful for its body and brain...
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Don't bring your phone to the protest
Wear your most generic, mass-produced, non-identifiable clothes
Wear running shoes
N95's are a good idea for many reasons
Water in a bottle with no stickers
Don't RSVP with anyone beforehand
Tell a friend when you expect to be back
Be safe, don't get hurt, don't let them put you in the cop car
Give them hell
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And like, I would also be fine with maintenance work on something open-source that's already useful, but it's surprisingly hard to find a project that fits the bill there?
Like, I'd want to work *with* someone, without a hard scheduling commitment (because ADHD), using tools that I am comfortable (even if not familiar) with, which mostly means non-monolithic JS, and be confident that the project doesn't veer off to something miserable like "AI" or cryptocurrency.
And those constraints filter down the available options way more than they should, honestly.
personal, programming
Aside from generally feeling miserable about the software industry and who it serves, I've also been struggling with a lot of programming just being... *boring*.
Like, this is definitely the ADHD brain talking, but a lot of new software development is just the wrong kind of routine work for me. It's not novel and it's also not caring for something that people already use and rely on. And I understand programming too well to still find much enjoyment in it.
So I've been needing something novel, something I don't understand yet and which I can work on in an exploratory way, where I *don't* know where I'll end up yet. And I think I've found it? It seems like (inclusive) malleable software fits the bill - it's both exploratory and practically useful.
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good morning fediverse. 
lots of folks planning on heading out to various sorts of protests today.
if that’s you, while you’re out there, spend a little time networking with the other members of your communities that are also there.
it’s good to loudly protest the bullshit being done in your name and with your taxes. it’s great to also build resilient community-led groups to reduce dependence on the systems that oppress us.
be safe out there.
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When people think of direct action, the mind often goes to anarchists in bloc doing cool acts of sabotage. And that's an example, yes.
But direct action just means that you're acting directly to accomplish something. You're not begging, you're not bargaining, you're not voting in favour, you're just doing it. It's much simpler, and it's a lot more effective than the gaggle of intermediaries want you to realize.
Go do the thing.
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we want to privately chat with an expert about handling speciesism and racism in TTRPG settings.
we're be happy to pay for this, in particular with a black, queer, and disabled expert, but would also be happy to be sent links to read or books to buy written by someone with experience and perspective that we can't have.
if you're the person for us, reply, mentions, DM, etc are all fine, but you also can email us at tabletopsocial@chaosfae.com
please boost!
#TTRPG #TTRPGDesign #black #racism #speciesism #DND #writing
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"Extremely homosexual non-compliance" is the most beautiful word combination I've read on the internet this week.
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This is a graphic from a paper on ants but it looks like something I drew in a boring meeting.
(The point it's making is an interesting one, all ants can do all jobs, and you don't need to inject them to make it happen, they will just switch if the job isn't being done. But, I think they found a way to trigger this switch in the paper which would be ... huge, honestly. )
I will not comment on the "ant muscles"
Is everyone interested in ants just... weird?
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Open source/Free software projects are global by default (even by definition). Open to everyone. So please stop this nonsense about „european“ Open source that „we“ should invest in. Digital sovereignty with open source means global upstream, global cooperation and local implementation. But nationalist open source thinking simply isn’t the software freedom we are fighting for since many years.
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Before discussing politics, I like to administer The Test.
The Test is simple, and should be easy to pass:
"Which is more important:
1. Human Rights
2. Property Rights"
There is one unambiguous, simple, correct answer. If they fail The Test, I don't talk politics with them.
"Not every corporation!" they said, as every FOSS project with an LLC behind it continuously explodes in a fireworks show for the ages
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🤔 what kind of limitations are the ones that breed creativity, and what kind of limitations are the ones that are annoying? Is this question entirely subjective? Are there specific qualities that make something generally more creatively inspiring in its limitations?
It would love to hear others thoughts on this, this randomly popped into its head but it is too eepy to contemplate it further and is crowdsourcing this contemplation from any that wish to accept it
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Bird's nest fungi popped up in one of our outdoor potted plants
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RIP AdventureGamers 1998 – 2025 https://virtualmoose.org/2025/06/13/rip-adventuregamers-1998-2025/
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Garden update
@researchfairy That's not a plant!
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There's these competing beliefs, "turn your hobby into a job and you'll never work a day in your life" vs. "turn your hobby into a job and you'll never enjoy it again"...
And I think I've finally worked out where the disconnect is: it's all about the agency you have in your work. Whether one or the other is true depends on whether you can make a living doing the thing you wanted to do anyway, or whether you're dragged along in a maelstrom of industry misery.
By this point I feel pretty safe concluding that for me and tech, it's mostly the latter, especially in more recent years.
- 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
