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
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[enters the room] "I have some bad news, the printer is haunted"
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Layoffs are yet another area where companies refuse to follow the science. Here's what the science says.
Layoffs:
- don't save money
- don't improve company performance
- don't increase stock pricess
- destroy trust
- have huge impacts on health, well-being, and income of employees
So why do layoffs? It's a network effect: execs lay people off because other companies are doing it
Stanford Biz School article: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/
Harvard Biz Review:
https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about-layoffs
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us economy
@phire it sure does seem like large corporations can excuse a lot of activity under the fear of the recession we've been hearing about for over a year but never manages to arrive.
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Meta, transphobia, journalism
I've now seen THREE journalism-focused servers (journa.host, bylines.social, newsie.social) have Incidents of failing to moderate transphobia and then poorly responding to criticism of it
the industry has a bit of a problem…
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homophobia, nazism
Further update - oof this one's a rollercoaster XD You may want to keep a block in place for this instance.
https://soc.ua-fediland.de/@wiler/109689922553648953
'pidaras' is a homophobic slur in slavic languages.
The red black flag also has a nationalist and nazi-adjacent history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banderite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army
(See the reply below re. the flag)
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Update on ua-fediland.de :
One of their moderators got back to my email. They're in Ukraine and can't moderate during the blackouts (understandably!), and the bots/spammers take advantage of the power outages (they're Russian) to sign up when they know they'll have maximum time to stay on the instance before getting moderated.
I've suggested they might want to close sign ups before the outages to try to prevent it.
Please also see the reply to this toot, however. #Fediblock
dear journalists 
I'd like to share an excerpt from the e-mail here that I sent to the journa.host admin, back when they were asking for people to explain why they were getting defederated. (I never did get a response, disappointingly.)
I think it explains pretty well why your journalist instances *keep* getting defederated on here.
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What it essentially boils down to: the fediverse as we know it today has pretty much been built by marginalized and vulnerable folks - whether due to sexuality, gender identity, disability, or whatever other reason. They've built this place because nobody cared about their needs on any of the other platforms, to serve as a safe social space for them. And all of these people have been significantly harmed by widespread journalistic malpractice over the years - the recent wave of transphobic reporting is just one example, but far from the only one.
This means that a bunch of journalists joining the network feels essentially equivalent (and in many cases, rightfully so) to hostile actors invading their (and my) community. There may well be individual journalists who are careful about how they interact with and represent marginalized folks, but the harsh reality is that the vast, vast majority of journalists have a history of doing the exact opposite - whether it be through deliberately harmful reporting, or the infamous "neutral journalism" (which doesn't exist, and in practice boils down to a strong bias towards the status quo, ie. one that marginalizes people).
The result: the marginalized folks running large swathes of the network simply do not want journalists in their spaces. There is absolutely no relationship of trust towards journalists, quite the opposite, and they are - rightfully - concerned that journalists will act unethically, not just in the form of pushing sensationalist news, but also by eg. intruding into close-knit/semi-private conversations with their journalist hat on, essentially serving as a permanent threat to publicize private conversation. It's like walking into a local bar unannounced with an army of journalists, and this distresses people accordingly. Nobody knows how their words are going to be twisted or decontextualized.
I do not think that this is possible to fully solve with different instance policy. Following community CW norms is certainly helpful, and for some instances it will be enough if you're all staying within the community norms of marginalized communities. However, I expect that for many other instances this will not be enough - because the problem isn't just with fedi policy, but with the journalistic apparatus in general. The journalistic community needs to reckon with the harm that it has caused to marginalized folks for many decades through irresponsible reporting, faux neutrality, and platforming of fascist rhetoric, while ignoring warning calls from the marginalized folks threatened by it - and likewise, hold fellow journalists accountable when they are not doing the same. Until that happens, journalists as a group will simply not be welcome in many spaces
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transphobia, newsie.social is still listed joinmastodon.org
Does someone want to get newsie.social delisted from joinmastodon.org? Because I'm pretty sure their admin's recent acceptance of transphobia is against what is required to be listed there. After all, it got some instances delisted from there, too.
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Meet the #rainboweucalyptus.
These #gums are unbeliebable.
When a rainbow eucalyptus sheds its bark it reveals a neon green inner layer. Over time, as this layer is exposed to air, it ages into different colors. They display bright reds, oranges, blues, pinks and purples.
The different colours appear as different layers fall off, while other exposed areas begin aging.
Rainbow eucalyptus is the only eucalyptus tree native to the #northernhemisphere.
It’s found mainly in the Philippines, New Guinea, and Indonesia.
And funny enough, it is not native to #Australia!
📷 sources;
thespruce.com
oneearth.com
#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #aesthetichedonist #januaryjoy #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #godmustbeabotanist #makesmehappy
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FediBlock rec
context: https://github.com/sgrigson/oliphant/issues/9
the user (aeris) who opened this GitHub issue seems likely to harass other blocklist maintainers in the same way (demanding their domain be removed, citing the GDPR, threatening legal action and action from their country's data protection authority).
#FediBlock imirhil.fr / social.imirhil.fr
(plenty of pile-on from other users in that thread whining about illegal censorship. might want to see if any of them can be identified as admins too…)
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new rule: if a ceo wants to take “full responsibility” for a layoff, they must contribute at least 1 month of their own compensation to the impacted employees for every percent of the company laid off — responsibility without consequences is meaningless and insulting
politics, prisons
A life sentence without parole is not remotely a "humane alternative" for the death sentence. It's just a death sentence with a long period of torture preceding it. They'll never see the outside of a prison before their death ever again.
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@f0x This cat is riding an invisible penny farthing
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name a more iconic duo
journos
being transphobic
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Capitalists understand collective action.
The current layoffs *are* collective action. They're collective action *by the Capitalists* to suppress wages/rights.
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an unstoppable force (adhd hyperfixation) meets an immovable object (autistic special interest)
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Vanuit Woonopstand zijn we nog steeds bezig met de afhandeling van het excessieve en gewelddadige politieoptreden tijdens onze demonstratie in Rotterdam op 17 oktober 2021. Burgemeester en meerderheid gemeenteraad wilden geen onafhankelijk onderzoek, maar wel een 'dialoog'. Wij willen nog steeds een behoorlijke verantwoording van de driehoek. Het gesprek wordt inmiddels voorbereid. Fijn dat ombudsman Reinier van Zutphen heeft toegezegd de gesprekken te willen begeleiden.
https://woonopstand.nl/gesprek-tussen-woonopstand-en-rotterdamse-driehoek-in-voorbereiding/
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Hey just a smol reminder... Don't boost non-cw'ed screenshots of bad, hateful takes. It's not funny to me and I think I can speak for a lot of people who just don't want to see that on their feed.
I just unfollowed a couple of people because I'm seeing the same homophobic shit boosted multiple times and it's upsetting.
Thank you for understanding!
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ogl; queer/trans
I have zero stake in the #OGL meta going around, but I'm reading through WotC's 1.2 draft right now and it still feels like a pretty raw deal.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1432-starting-the-ogl-playtest
In one point among many others: As a queer polyamorous trans person I can't afford to trust any corporation with the unilateral, unchallengeable right to terminate my license if I "engage in conduct that is... obscene," with their sole right to define that. There are CEOs today who define my existence as obscene.
- 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
