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.
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- 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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I miss the feeling of hearing rumors and myths about games. It was super common before everyone had quick access to information about games, and when data mining was not as much of a thing.
Like, how to get that damn ice key in Banjo Kazooie, or a 70 page gamefaqs forums thread on what was up with the moon and the kids on it in Majora's Mask, or if there was a way to bring back Aerith. The mystery that someone hid a hippo which was incredibly deadly in Halo, and people spent months looking for it (the hippo is a logo on the shotgun shell, which you only see for a few frames during reloading).
I think the closest thing to me that feels similar to that mystery and excitement is Undertale/Deltarune. It really seems like Gaster and such was really drawing on that vibe. I think the slow, episodic release of Deltarune has also worked in favor of that, with so much speculation and rumors.
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Just thinking about the Florida shit actually killing Pride celebrations there, and
this is the first Pride in I don't know how many years where it feels relevant again, instead of just an event to be hijacked by corporate interests? So that's gonna make next month interesting.
(remember kids, the first Pride was a riot, and it probably should be again, and you've got 2 weeks to buy uh, Pride supplies)
EDIT: hope everyone bought their pride supplies! have fun!
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“Women didn’t get the right to vote ...by voting.”
Sticker spotted in Paris
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sorry to keep sharing bummer news, but if you have EzriCare eye drops, get rid of them right now:
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/05/4th-death-in-eye-drop-outbreak-now-81-cases-14-blinded-and-4-lost-eyeballs
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not only did wordperfect 5.1 for windows 3.0 come in two massive folios, but it came with a hologrammes certificate of ownership worthy of framing on a wall in a lonely cubicle of accounts receivable
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Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same.
Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.
"Since its introduction over 20 years ago, the Intel® 64 architecture became the dominant operating mode."
That sure is an interesting way to write "AMD64", Intel
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if someone has to make a public-facing workaround this brazen for your service "where open source communities live", you have truly fucked up (and i say this as someone who worked on a public linux distro with repositories blocked outside of EC2 for two years)
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bandcamp won their union! bandcamp won their union!!
i'm so fucking happy for them, and also for the possible knock-on effects of some of epic game's holdings unionizing
their full statement - https://blog.bandcamp.com/2023/05/19/bandcamp-and-bandcamp-united-release-joint-statement-on-union-vote/
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A friend recently made a good point:
In 20 years the only people that will remember how much overtime you did will be your kids
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sending special bad vibes to everyone's landlords today
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y'know there should probably be a way to defederate software automatically based on what it is
like for example there are literally absolutely NO good soapbox instances because it's TERF software
so a tool to defederate those automatically would come in handy when facebook/meta/whatever try rearing their ugly head here
that way, when they arrive, we can block them en-masse simply and swiftly
A non-obvious problem in FOSS project management
When you have enough contributors to handle the easy issues but not the complex ones, but you also cannot attract new contributors because there are no easy issues for them to get their feet wet with anymore - the project has progressed too far
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A reminder this agender pride day that you don't have to have a gender if you don't want to. You can literally just opt out altogether if you think it would be more comfortable for you. 
re: nieuwsmedia
En nee, "ze krijgen de tijd niet om het goed te doen" is echt geen excuus meer. Journalisten hebben jarenlang de tijd gehad om zich te organiseren tegen dat soort bullshit, maar hebben er grotendeels voor gekozen om de kop in het zand te steken en te doen alsof het allemaal wel meevalt, terwijl ze hun maatschappelijke rol compleet verzaken met desastreuze gevolgen voor de maatschappij als geheel.
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Ik word toch zo moe van dat eindeloze gebrek aan kritische blik vanuit de nieuwsmedia...
"Geweldsincidenten nemen toe, gemeentes willen panden sneller kunnen sluiten om het tegen te gaan"
Geen woord over of dat wel werkt (antwoord: nee), geen moment wordt er stilgestaan bij de vraag *waarom* die incidenten dan toenemen, geen enkele kritische introspectie.
Gewoon copypasten wat gemeente/politie zeggen alsof de zaak daarmee is afgedaan. Vooral geen kritische vragen stellen over of de toename niet juist een gevolg is van dit soort beleid.
Echt, journalisten, als je wilt dat mensen je vak serieus nemen, doe dan ook eens je fucking werk?
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it's kind of funny to me how much the Legend of Zelda fandom clings to insisting that the games in the series can be assembled into any kind of coherent overarching narrative
I wish there were some way Nintendo could signal that the series is meant to operate on the logic of, like, a folklore tradition, not a historical textbook
Like, maybe, there's some word that they could use. They could put in the title of the series? or maybe that would be going too far idk
TIL that in Firefox, you can open a new tab in the middle of the tab list instead of at the end, by right-clicking an existing tab and clicking "New tab" there, instead of the new-tab button on the right.
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hey does anyone in england have any spare progesterone and cyproterone ?
need someone to post some to me kinda urgently
i cant afford prog until next month and without it my mood is hella unstable and bpd bad
please boost,,
- 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
