Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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A stranger’s rude question left me in fear of one word
"All this, I later learned, meant I technically qualified as disabled, but I never thought of myself that way.
I remember having this preconceived idea of what being disabled looked like: either you were a wheelchair user or someone who was hard of hearing and that was it. There was no in-between, no grey area."
https://metro.co.uk/2025/07/28/a-strangers-rude-question-left-fear-one-word-23732702/ #Ableism #DisabilityPrideMonth #Disability @disability
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shocking: unit who has a soft word mute expands a muted post, only to find exactly the type of content that the mute was meant to hide 
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never call anything by its marketing name as this gives them power over you
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World’s least believable phishing email subject line:
Your Amazon Prime Membership has been cancelled.
CW-boost: "AI", iNaturalist
@emilyenco ... or well, I told Mastodon to do it. Whether that actually pinned it or not seems to generally depend on the phase of the moon and a few other variables, if past experience is any indication
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To all the babytranses concerned about passing:
At some point passing will stop to matter to you as much as it did before. Because your self-worth is not determined by how other people perceive you, I hope you'll cone to that realisation. You are the architect of your own life.
(Secretly this post and its replies are a todo list for me that I can easily find again 
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Let's hope this is sufficient to prevent Incidents(tm) #WHY2025
@psneeze Earlier today I saw a news headline (in Dutch) about some country "not wanting to recognize Palestine until it exists", and like, how exactly do they think "exists" is defined in international relations?!
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touch grass ❌
itchy, generic, perpetuates lawn culture
pet moss ✅
soft, novel, embraces natural environments
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everyone has mental categories of "stuff that is too important to compromise", "stuff that matters but you can bargain about it", and "stuff that doesn't matter that much". it's rare to see different attitudes about "purity" in any meaningful way. people put different beliefs and values in the different categories mostly because of what they think matters (not because of metadiscursive values) and then reason accordingly.
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Putting out the call: if you own or have ever seen one of the following children's CD-ROM games, I could use your help with something I'm researching. The English versions were mainly released in southeast Asia.
* Around the World with Willy Wabbit
* Willy Wabbit Math Adventure
* Willy Wabbit Goes Green
I think we all know by now that "if you're not paying, you are the product" is false - because whether you pay or not, you get exploited either way.
So I propose a different phrase: "if you don't own the platform, you are the product".
CW request: medical topics, especially COVID
@skyfaller @schratze This doesn't actually fix anything. Any tagging convention consistent and agreed-upon enough to actually work as a CW substitute, would de facto become *equivalent to* CWs and thus inherit its associations
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CW request: medical topics, especially COVID
Can everyone please CW their posts about medical topics, particularly COVID?
I have somatic symptom disorder and an anxiety disorder around health. I worry so much about my own health that it makes me sick
I need to be in the right mindset for engaging with medical topics, so I would appreciate it if you could use content warnings for them 
CW-boost: payment processors, sex work, actionable
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Hey OpenStreetMap people! I am looking for a specific tool/service:
- preferably self hostable
- stores a part of the OSM map (the size would be a 100k city)
- allows adding points and other additional data
- has an admin panel for user management
- is easy to use for non technical people
The background is that my dad is a historian and I had this idea to give him a tool that would allow him to create a map of historical places of our city.
I would handle the technical stuff and just give him admin access to edit the map.
#openstreetmap
- 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
