Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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Y'all got any suggestions for a decent set of bluetooth headphones (over the ear please) that are very good at noise canceling, under $100 and will stand up to a goof who would most def sleep in them?
As long as they fit a good build quality and sound and the setup won't make me want to eat it in frustration, I'm good.
Thinking about using some extra funds to get some finally to mainly replace my old set since it's literally falling apart and I want something that I can possibly use with my fire stick and iPad so I can watch tv in peace at night
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Just a reminder that the idea of a personal carbon footprint is propaganda invented by British Petroleum (BP) to distract from corporate responsibility for climate change by implying that changes to personal behavior are all we need to prevent global warming.
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to clarify it seems to have expired a decade ago so it's not a problem *now*, but it explains why nobody did anything with it in the 3-5 year window where that tech was actually relevant
fucking love software patents
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oh, the voxel scape engine was under patent huh? that would explain why nobody ever did anything with similar tech
fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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im just a smol bean whom loves to have mental health, creativity, increasing our nation's warfighting capacity, and feelings
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Klussen valt niet mee als je ziek bent en steeds maar een klein beetje gedaan krijgt. Ik heb een week gedaan over een klusje van normaal 2 uur maar... Het werkt!
Ik heb een Quooker kokendwaterboiler aangesloten op mijn Grohe Red kokendwaterkraan. Voor deze Frankenquooker heb ik hoogst ongebruikelijke adapterfittingen uit China besteld omdat je ze hier nergens kan krijgen. En zelfs dan heb ik 2 adapters moeten combineren omdat de rechtstreekse niet bestaat.
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michigan, nazis, trans genocide, call for help
I contacted the bookstore that's under attack this weekend, and this is what they said:
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We are looking to center and protect the kids who come to hear Drag Queen Story time. We are a small store so making sure the protest stays outside is very helpful. You can also direct friends who cannot be present in person to our website: https://www.sidetrackbooks.com/
Thank you so much for your support!
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Washing machine reached it's final destination and enjoys sunset in France 🌇.
#WashingMachineChallenge2023 was :
- two busses 
- five 
trains
- six changes
- way too many stairs
- 363 km by public transport
- many confused faces
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Okay, the bus driver really didn't want me to enter their bus, but finally agreed. Final part of the #WashingMachineChallange2023 journey in a blue bus back to France 🇫🇷.
I stand corrected, apparently you can use an airfryer *and* a microwave on Flemish trains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVHODzAIO4s
The reason that the Stadler FLIRT is the best train, is of course that you can fry some snacks in an airfryer on your way to work
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Media literacy as government propaganda
Most "media literacy" courses or lessons that are solely focused on "is the source reliable yes or no" are just encouraging people to get their information from government and other "official" sources.
It's not actually teaching people how to critique and examine media it's teaching them to defer to authority. It's maintaining the status quo
They act like media literacy is going "this centrist newspaper is the most reliable source so I'll only listen to what it says"
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@thufie borders?? the only borders I support are the bright red ones around uncaptioned media
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After meeting @marhei and @_Hemmschuh in #RM, #WashingMachineChallenge2023 goes on in a SÜWEX 
FLIRT 3 🚂.
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Wieso steht hier eigentlich eine Waschmaschine im SÜWEX?
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Echt ik ben er nog steeds boos over. Hoe kan het zijn dat een paar transfoben Wikipedia-artikelen over trans personen al jarenlang gijzelen? En als er dan een queer persoon iets van durft te zeggen, dan krijgt die queer persoon een perma-ban want o wee als je de transfobe fossielen een onveilig gevoel geeft. De zelfde reactie als organisaties die klokkenluiders ontslaan, mannen die zich onveilig voelen omdat ze niet meer zonder repercussies een vrouw bij de kont kunnen grijpen, enfin, een achterhoedegevecht dus, maar niet minder naar als je erin meegezogen wordt. #wikipedia #transfobia #SocialJustice
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Dear younger queers:
It isn't a generational thing
You can't sit back and wait for justice to inevitably come
That's what they want you to do
You will be betrayed by how regressive and reactionary your own generation is
fediblock, long-ish
Heads-up: an official Microsoft account has appeared at https://dotnet.social/@dotnet
Microsoft has a long and continuing(!) history of "embrace, extend, extinguish", ie. taking over the control and governance of community projects while pretending to be contributing to them out of the good of their hearts.
This strategy is described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish -- although nowadays variations of this strategy are also used.
Some recent examples of problematic behaviour from Microsoft:
- WSL, which aims to draw developers away from Linux to re-establish their OS monopoly through a one-way 'compatibility layer'
- Their huge investment into OpenAI and its exploitative AI model
- Their monopoly over the FOSS community through Github, a proprietary platform
- Less well-known, Microsoft's previous venture in "exploiting the public commons for AI stuff" actually predates OpenAI; https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/intellicode/issues/201
Consider blocking accordingly. #FediBlock
To reiterate some of the issues with conferences:
- An entry fee keeps out poor people
- A scheduled conference time keeps out anyone who does not have much spare time (again, especially poor people) or who cannot just decide to do something at a specific time (eg. neurodiverse people)
- Video/audio calls exclude people with auditory processing issues or hearing impairments
- A physical conference excludes both disabled and poor people (for accessibility and travel cost reasons respectively)
- A conference on a proprietary platform excludes anyone who for whatever reason cannot use the proprietary client; this ranges from OS support issues to accessibility issues
- Not to mention all the safety concerns for marginalized people when being forced to interact with others in real-time
Centering your project decisionmaking around conferences means that the only people who can fully participate (and therefore be represented) will be able-bodied, well-off, sufficiently neurotypical, and otherwise privileged.
- 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
