Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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custom filters that give me the option of displaying them continues to be one of my favorite recent mastodon features.
Something stresses me out? I can just silence it myself, but I can still see that it's happening so when I'm ready I can crack it open. Or in this case, ignore it entirely because AI generated stuff is fucking bullshit and you bet to hell I'm judging all y'all for going gaga over statistical machines based on plagiarism.
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subtoot about this meme of "first they came for the journalists"
Maybe if journalists had covered all the marginalized groups with violence directed at them as if it weren't a debate with two sides they wouldn't suddenly think that they're the people the gov't "came for first" because god damn that meme is insulting.
Y'all are *not* the people they came for first, and you'd know that if you treated the previous victims as worthy of overwhelming and unambiguous coverage.
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basically if you say “well, it’s not for me to determine whether abuse has occurred, so you and your abuser will just have to share space” that’s a red flag
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@alison Reply's Believe It or Not
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Lützerath, Klima, Polizei
#Lützerath ist ein Symbol dafür dass es keine Klimagerechtigkeit ohne Police Abolishment geben kann
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🏳️⚧️
Bizarres Bild von #Lutzerath:
Eine #Kolonne von #Polizei-Autos schützt die #KohleIndustrie.
#CO2 -Schleudern gegen Klimaschutz
#1312 #Luetzerathbleibt #LutziBleibt #Luetzerath #KlimakriseIstJetzt
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@Rubz @notjustbikes it's still easier to live here without using a car all the time than is the case in most other countries (I've written about that as well, see below) but we're not heading in a good direction.
https://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2019/08/the-car-free-myth-netherlands-is-great.html?m=1
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@Rubz @notjustbikes Unfortunately we Dutch are not only buying and using cars more and more, but at the same time our bicycle sales are falling off a cliff. This is the inevitable outcome of our right wing politics. We have policies which reward car usage while we've done little over the last two decades to encourage people to travel by other modes, and this is very bad for our country.
http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2022/03/the-challenge-of-declining-bicycle.html
Am I imagining things, or has Lidl been removing animal-derived ingredients from a lot of their products lately?
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Microsoft folks: we’re not evil.
Also Microsoft folks: …
(Hey @EU_Commission, mind forwarding this to @EC_Commissioner_Vestager for me? She doesn’t seem to be active here but something tells me this might interest her.)
#competition #antitrust #eu #microsoft #edge #bing #mozilla #firefox
re: debts, poverty is expensive
To clarify, I am no longer in debt, and I'm doing okay now, at least financially (mentally is a different story - also partly because of poverty).
I'm just sharing this to show, with a first-hand example, just how much poor people get fucked over.
debts, poverty is expensive
About a decade ago, I was in poverty and, more importantly, deeply in debt. Here's an excerpt from just one of the many, *many* letters I got from debt collectors at the time.
The original debt was 750.25 EUR, racked up because I couldn't afford the (legally mandated!) private health insurance.
(Which, by the way, results in additionally getting fined by the government, but that's a whole separate story.)
After adding debt collection charges, the total came out to owing the health insurer 1971.46 EUR, almost three times(!) as much as the original debt.
Poverty is expensive. 
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Kacey
Next time someone complains about singular "they" I'll point them to this 17th century rant against singular "you"
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We have a new study out!
The short version is this: "Car Brain" - the cultural blind spot that makes people apply double standards when they think about driving - is real, measurable and pervasive.
Read on for more details... 1/14 @SwanseaUni@twitter.com @UWEBristol@twitter.com @EdNapierTRI@twitter.com
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grumbling, activism
If you feel that radical folks are "too radical" and "scaring off others", but "you agree with them in principle", why aren't you volunteering to do the job of explaining this to liberals/centrists/etc.?
Why are you instead demanding that the radical folks moderate their speech, look friendly, and generally shut up about the incredibly taxing and frustrating experience of constantly getting the same milquetoast subtly-bigoted shit thrown at them masquerading as progressive politics?
Why are you expecting the people who are *already* bearing the brunt of abuse and doing most of the work for social change, to do *even more* work to look less scary and more appealing? Why aren't *you* the one doing that?
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Just saw Servo is getting full time developers again in 2023! https://servo.org/blog/2023/01/16/servo-2023/
Servo is the "write a browser in Rust" project Mozilla started in 2012 (and which created the whole Rust language as part of the work) - they stopped working on it a few years ago
The new development looks like it's backed by Igalia - "a private, worker-owned, employee-run cooperative model consultancy focused on open source software" based in Spain: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igalia
More: https://people.igalia.com/mrego/servo/igalia-servo-tsc-2022/
- 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
