Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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.
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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
Ah yes, and at the very last moment Transmission decides to throw a curveball at me by no longer starting, because of course it does
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I'm sharing my 2023-01 Krita brush bundle under CC-0/Public Domain, I hope you'll like them!
Blog post to download: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article953/krita-brushes-2023-01-bundle
Finally fixing my SickGear setup... out with the Transmission, in with the qBittorrent
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Allowlist nothing. Blocklist everything!
If their business model cannot survive without selling advertising, that is not your problem.
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Remember: Everyone in your life needs good adblocking. Help them have good adblocking. End internet ads.
If you auto-close issues with a stalebot, I will not contribute to your project. Stalebots are incredibly disrespectful towards contributors (and yes, that includes people filing issues - they are contributors too).
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Posted this to Twitter today.
You know, human beings really are creatures of habit.
We will put up with so much as long as it comes with a little gratification and validation. Even when the good parts are outweighed by the bad.
Some of the same people who moaned about how "annoying" Mastodon is, are the same who moan about Twitter's many issues.
I'd rather experience some growing pains than slow poisoning.
Thank you to everyone who was willing to make a new start here.
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"You can't recycle your way out of climate change. You can't shop your way out of monopoly. Systemic problems need systemic solutions.
What the individual can do is think of themself as part of a movement. If you join a movement, then you and the people with you can make change. But not you on your own."
—Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
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talking with other leftist coalitions in the area and the way they think about burnout is like this inevitable contagion that just happens when you're leftist enough but like
IDK, is it burnout you're feeling or is it being normal tired from doing regular work, or do people feel aimless and are disillusioned with a nebulous goal, or are beaten down by project failure, or see no example to strive for, or feel no connection and community with the group, or etc etc etc
I feel like there's this tendency towards blaming org issues on burnout because it individualizes the problem, but it's exactly that tendency towards individualizing issues that we're actively fighting as leftists
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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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it takes significantly more bravery, courage, and work to be a sex worker than it does to be a cop or any form of military service member hope this offends
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It’s ok if your life doesn’t look like those of other nonbinary people.
You aren’t “behind” compared to them. You aren’t an embarrassment if your needs and wants are different.
Nonbinary people are defined in part by how we can’t fit in with many people.
You standing out a little more is perfectly fine.
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This is a long read, but it's also entirely necessary: https://immerautonom.noblogs.org/the-elephant-in-the-room/
[From the content warnings at the top: sexual violence, sexual coercion, child sexual assault, rape apologia, pedophilia]
It starts off discussing Andrew Lloyd's recently outed actions (as "Anarqxista Goldman") and continues delving into how the kind of "theory" he wrote and published permeate through anarchist spaces because of the lack of interaction with or curiosity about anarcha-feminism, queer anarchism, and genuine youth liberation (to name a few).
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Customer: GOD HELP ME, I AM TRAPPED IN THE PURGATORIAL INTERDIMENSION WHERE CALIFORNIA VANITY PLATES AWAIT THEIR FINAL JUDGMENT
DMV: AND AWAIT YOU SHALL, TIME WITHOUT END, ETERNITY WILL KNOW THY NAME
Verdict: DENIED
I wish there were more keyboards that are both aesthetically pleasing *and* practical for me (ie. split, and including an F key row)
So this is probably the most important thing I've learned about dealing with marginalized topics: talk *with* marginalized folks, don't talk *over* them.
If you're cis, don't "debate" with another cis person about trans legislation. If you're white, don't "debate" with another white person about whether Black folks experience racism.
Instead, learn from marginalized folks themselves. They're living and breathing creatures, not abstract debate topics.
But don't demand that they educate *you, personally* either (unless you're paying them for it). Start by reading things that have already been written from a marginalized perspective, it's not exactly hard to find with your search engine of choice.
(And if this makes you go "wait, but what's wrong with debating over people, isn't that just how political debate and podcasts work?": you've just discovered why those things are harmful)
You can tell that Twitter is a healthy company by how they're auctioning off their office chairs
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- 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
