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.
- 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
another poll
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Many years ago I saw a few images from a Japanese photographer who would walk and photograph the same route daily, if I recall correctly many of them featured a tall red chimney, perhaps from a bath house. This process - repetition, place and memory - are very interesting to me. Would love to revisit that work. Can anyone help me find the photographer again?
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Can any of you recommend fantasy artwork of arachnids depicted in a positive light? I'm wanting character artwork for a species that are roughly waist-high spiders.
Part of the lore of my game is that, if you can put your prejudices aside, the arachnids and the humans hold a lot of psychology in common, where's the other bipedal races are *quite* psychologically different.
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spent the better part of the day theming my phone's home screen...
covid
"Overseas airlines are having to cancel hundreds of flights as they grapple with coronavirus-related staffing shortages weeks after they ditched rules requiring passengers and staff to mask up in the air."
Gee if only somebody had predicted that
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International Workers' Day.
It's either May 1st, or the first Monday of May.
The eight-hour work-day, the weekend, workers' compensation, living wage laws...
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food q
what confections are there that have a consistency similar to chocolate but don't require imported ingredients? there are so many dessert things where chocolate's thermal properties are just... useful... and its texture is a nice contrast against other things. i want to believe there's a butter-based answer here
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🇵🇸 
Twee bestuursleden met activistisch hart gezocht voor het bestuur van de Vereniging Bond Precaire Woonvormen.
https://bondprecairewoonvormen.nl/2022/04/twee-bestuursleden-met-activistisch-hart-gezocht-voor-bestuur-van-bpw/
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ABA does not put the child’s emotional well-being and quality of life first. ABA therapy assumes that children simply won’t do things and need to be incentivized... doesn't consider that autistic kids can’t do what they are asked, or that it is painful. ABA also rewards autistic children to hide their pain and distress, and rewards autistic children for “fitting in” to neurotypical norms. Autistic masking often leads to poor mental health. #banABA #actuallyautistic
https://autisticscienceperson.com/why-aba-therapy-is-harmful-to-autistic-people/
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The problem with ABA is that “the focus is on changing behaviors to make an autistic child appear non-autistic, instead of trying to figure out why an individual is exhibiting a certain behavior" says Reid... He worries ABA forces children with autism to hide [who they are] in order to fit in.
https://www.spectrumnews.org/features/deep-dive/controversy-autisms-common-therapy/
ABA seems like conversion therapy to me: pathologizing difference, trying to "cure" it. The focus should be on helping autistic ppl live how they want.
Is there a (short) name for:
1. Not defining relationships as eg. "boyfriend" vs. "lover" vs. "friend", etc. but rather just treating them all as "wherever it ends up going that we both feel comfortable with"?
2. Not experiencing 'relationship degradation', ie. if I haven't talked to somebody for 5 years and then talk to them again, it'll be exactly where we left off?
(Boosts welcome!)
There, updated my bio. Now it should be less Twitter-flavoured :)
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"the observable universe is a spherical region centered on the observer. Every location in the universe has its own observable universe"
in a sense, everyone is the center of their own universe
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PSA to newcomers, crossposting
#PSA: to newcomers!
Some of you might be tempted to #crosspost between 🐦 and 🐘. As a general rule of thumb, crossposting is frowned upon.
🐦 ➡️ 🐘: try not to do this, but if you really want to, avoid RTs & limit to personal tweets. Set post visibility on 🐘 as "unlisted", so the local timeline is less noisy.
🐘 ➡️ 🐦: usually fine, but don't crosspost replies or boosts, respect privacy of others.
Welcome again & hope you are here to stay.
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I have a plugin that autoblocks anyone with an NFT profile picture and going into the replies of an elon musk post made it go off like a shitty ape scam themed nuke
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what if gnome app devs worked closely with the big theme devs and like provided pre-release versions so the theme could be verified before the release ships
what if gnome added devtools that detect potential theming issues (just some automated stuff that checks like spacing and contrast)
or a tool that "stress tests" the app under different possible theming extrema so issues can be manually identified
a huge part of why people switch to linux is the customization. we need more support for this, not "don't theme my app" bullshit websites dedicated to being angry at your own users
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"Sorry I didn't answer, I temporarily forgot you existed"
- me to people I love very much that are really important to me
- 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
