Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Gonna promote decentralization by further funneling everyone into my monolithic server that like 1/4 of the network limits or blocks. Instead of giving folks a better server browser with moderation info.

Zojuist heeft Principle 17 (voor goede transzorg vanuit mensenrechtenperspectief) hun visie gepubliceerd op hoe trans zorg er dan wél uit moet zien. Er is al jaren kritiek op wat de Nederlandse zorgaanbieders voor trans zorg doen doorgaan, maar er is nooit een duidelijk alternatief gepubliceerd in het Nederlands.
Omdat Principle 17 zich richt op goede trans zorg vanuit een mensenrechtenperspectief, is het logisch dat wij hier mee komen: de rechten van trans mensen worden continu geschonden in het proces van zorg leveren. Zo moeten trans en gender non-conforme mensen zich in bochten wringen als ze niet passen in het idee van de maatschappij. En de Nederlandse zorg en politiek erkennen de facto niet dat wij ook een *recht* hebben op optimale zorg. Om te laten zien hoe het wel kan en moet, heeft Principle 17 nu deze visie gepubliceerd.
Dit jaar gaan we verder met de gemeenschap en met zorgverleners praten om met ze van gedachten te wisselen en te mobiliseren voor die beter zorg.
Vind rapport en samenvatting op https://lnkd.in/ekN5msN9

Gisteren zelf koffie gebrand. De bonen zijn per zeilschip uit Colombia gekomen en werden door mij in een zonne-oven gebrand. Dit moet de meest ecologisch verantwoorde koffie zijn die maar mogelijk is!

Inductive heating works by first showing that your oven can be made zero degrees above ambient, then, assuming that it's at n degrees, showing how it can be made n+1 degrees

So in conclusion, I think #bluesky is off to a terrible start and that nobody should use it. I get that Jack is persuasive and good at fooling people. As a recovering Twitter user, I also get that people just want those feelings back.

But as things stand now, Bluesky looks like it will be worse than Twitter in terms of abuse, and that will fall disproportionally on marginalized people. Ask yourself if you want to lend your personal slice of credibility to that. Whether you want to generate free content for a billionaire, the same billionaire that fucked this up last time.

How did this happen? Well, you could look at their initial team announcement:

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/2-31-2022-initial-bluesky-team

Or their jobs page (the history of which you can see on the Wayback machine):

https://blueskyweb.xyz/join

Or who LinkedIn thinks is working there:

https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?currentCompany=%5B%2279571598%22%5D&origin=COMPANY_PAGE_CANNED_SEARCH&sid=8VD

I don't see anybody there with expertise in these problems. There's definitely nobody whose job it is to think about this. So we have the classic approach of "build for the comfortable, worry about anybody else later if at all".

(Feel free to distribute this; not just by boosting, but by republishing elsewhere, etc.)

I'll probably do more posts in this theme at some point, but let's start with a pretty common issue: arguing the status quo.

If you see someone complaining about society or the world around them, *do not* reply with an explanation of "how society works" or anything along those lines.

This includes responses talking about "social contracts", "that's how we've decided to ____", "companies have to make money too", and so on, and so forth. Anything that basically repeats the narrative of how society is "supposed" to work.

The person you're talking to is living in the same world as you! They are already aware of how things work, and they experience it first-hand every day; it is very likely the exact thing that they are complaining about!

"Explaining" something to them that they already understand while ignoring their criticism is extremely patronizing, and it communicates that you don't actually care about their issue, you're just looking for a way to convince yourself that it doesn't exist, by repeating how you think it's *supposed* to work.

So, instead of assuming that someone must be clueless and lacking in a basic understanding of society, trade, politics, or whatever... consider that they understand it extremely well, possibly better than you do, and are criticizing it for a very good reason. There's probably some issue with it that you are unaware of.

And if you want to better understand what that issue is, don't challenge them on it, don't debate them on it; just *ask* about it. Ask a good-faith, non-combative, open-ended question. Take the time to learn from someone who has spotted an issue that you didn't.

i cleaned the couch

why are couches so hard to clean

who designed this

this is terrible UX

"I'm a full stack engineer"
❌ boring
❌ corporate
❌ cliched

"I can make computers suffer in myriad ways"
✅ distinctive
✅ mysterious
✅ they deserve it

Being openly horny on the internet is an act of rebellion against the repressive coercions of an ever-more prudish and corporatised mainstream culture, a moral good.

@joepie91 Sometimes the replyguy in my head takes control and I am guilty of many of the points mentioned in this post.

One trick I use to stop the replyguy inside me. Write your reply and then don't post it, instead wait, go do something else, and come back to it after a while, reread it, and then decide if you want to post it or not. I most often end up deleting the reply.

I will never treat a janitor with the same respect as a CEO

No WAY would I disrespect a janitor like that, they work entirely too hard for that level of contempt