Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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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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Things are pretty bleak these days. I have curated my TL pretty tightly but the bad news is still unrelenting.
This is maybe a good time to remind folks YOU are the algorithm.
Instead of amplifying outrage (and there is plenty to be mad about, I get it. Holy fuck I get it) consider prioritizing the boosting of: resources, solutions, hope, even humour, and definitely anything that celebrates folks stepping up to make things better.
Huh. So apparently those battery-powered trains that Stadler were testing in Germany last year, are destined for Merseyrail. Which is interesting, I didn't realize it'd gotten beyond the proof-of-concept stage already!
health -
Love being sick... body be like "no food, only hunger >:c"
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having ADHD is rapidly oscillating between wanting to do 37 different things all at the same time and wanting to do absolutely nothing
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Cannabis should be legal, all convictions for possession expunged, and all opportunities for legal licensure offered to the most harmed and marginalized, first.
But until then, here's a portal to get your fed-level simple possession convictions pardoned:
https://www.justice.gov/iqextranet/EForm.aspx?__cid=Pardon_prod&__fid=5&link_id=3&can_id=9353bf9204555509ae8c9aed63a01b16
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third rail to USB-PD adapter
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please share this around
I'm looking for a contract + relocation outside of my country before Jan 2024.
My skillset revolves around programming (bit over a year of professional experience, bit over 4 years of personal experience), and a little bit of devops. But really, I'm willing to wash dishes if it means I can leave for good. I have enough money to kickstart my stay in any country, it's at least double the usual amount required by work visas I looked at.
It's not safe for people like me to stay here, I've been laying low for years to avoid harm (either by the govt or my social circle), and it's really starting to get to me. One by one, people who are close to me are showing signs of being unsafe. I can't be myself around so many of the people I would've normally run to in case of trouble. It's a crushing feeling.
If 2023 passes, I'll be stuck (legally speaking) and denied travel until I reach the age of 30 (2028). I don't want to imagine living this life for another 5 years.
Feel free to DM for details on the legal part, on my experience & skills, or anything else. My legal record is spotless, not even a parking ticket, this is just how my country operates.
I don't want to say more details publicly—this already narrows down on me more than I'm comfortable with, but time is running out and I'm grasping at straws.
I'm looking for a contract + relocation outside of my country before Jan 2024.
My skillset revolves around programming (bit over a year of professional experience, bit over 4 years of personal experience), and a little bit of devops. But really, I'm willing to wash dishes if it means I can leave for good. I have enough money to kickstart my stay in any country, it's at least double the usual amount required by work visas I looked at.
It's not safe for people like me to stay here, I've been laying low for years to avoid harm (either by the govt or my social circle), and it's really starting to get to me. One by one, people who are close to me are showing signs of being unsafe. I can't be myself around so many of the people I would've normally run to in case of trouble. It's a crushing feeling.
If 2023 passes, I'll be stuck (legally speaking) and denied travel until I reach the age of 30 (2028). I don't want to imagine living this life for another 5 years.
Feel free to DM for details on the legal part, on my experience & skills, or anything else. My legal record is spotless, not even a parking ticket, this is just how my country operates.
I don't want to say more details publicly—this already narrows down on me more than I'm comfortable with, but time is running out and I'm grasping at straws.
I kinda have an itch to resurrect my old community platform thing project, that lets people create their own 'community' with a forum and photo gallery and articles and stuff, but that lets you use HTML and design customizations etc.
This is something I built back in 2009 or thereabouts, but unfortunately it went under due to personal issues :(
And I've kinda felt like it wouldn't be worth resurrecting because social media have moved on (though admittedly even back then it was an outlier), but lately I've been reconsidering that... maybe there *is* a place for that sort of thing?
Wow. Avast, AVG, Avira, CCleaner, LifeLock, and Norton are now apparently all owned by *the same company*.
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alt text should answer the questions "what the hell is this" and "why the hell are you showing me this"
So yeah, all those people calling for "reform" and "change from the inside" and "work within the system to improve it"? *This* is what that leads to, and why we do not care for reforms - all it ended up doing was laundering Facebook's reputation
abortion, facebook
Actually, as a bit of backstory for those who weren't there for this: Stamos, as the newly hired CSO, was the Weirdly Defensive Nerd jumping in front of Facebook to defend it from public criticism about how Facebook was a danger to privacy and safety.
He was insistent that there was nothing fundamentally wrong with Facebook, it just needed the right person to safeguard that safety, and the people criticizing Facebook were just alarmists/extremists (paraphrased, it's been a few years).
And well, here we are, this is what you get, an unavoidable megacorp snitching on people who are trying to get an abortion
I sure wonder what Alex Stamos and friends have to say now about how Facebook isn't evil, and how it's very important to shore up privacy from the inside
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uspol, growing us fascism
PSA: when you are committing crimes against any government at any level, please don’t use commercial internet services to talk about doing so or planning to do so.
Don’t post about specific actions you’re taking, because those services WILL turn you in.
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Hey all, I'm looking to get a weighted blanket, and I have no idea where to start.
Does anyone, anyone at all, have resources for buying from a good reputable seller?
I'm in Texas, if shipping is a thing to keep in mind.
Please boost! 
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Being LGBTQIA does not indemnify you against racism, ableism, patriarchy, imperialism, sexism, or any of the host of other bigotries woven into the fabric of majoritarian Euro-tradition/US culture.
It is not anti queer to say that queer people (white queer people in particular) can have harmful politics. You have to pick whether you want queer friendly white supremacy or actual liberation.
And if it’s the latter you simply have to stop being shitty.
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You don’t need to appropriate the word “tribe” to talk about creating a sense of belonging.
You have “found family”, “affinity spaces”, and a whole lot of other terminology that don’t require erasing global indigeneities through shallow trendiness.
White queers once again, begging you to clear the low low bar of simply not doing bigotry as you self advocate.
Knock it off.
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They said "Live with the virus" because "Die for Capitalism" performed poorly on the focus group.
I need to have a... conversation with the person who invented artificial 'grape' flavouring
The hardest problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and Doctor Who special episode numbering
- 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
