Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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- 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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Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*
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It's great that there are instances like mastodon.art that push back against the "growth at all costs" toxicity that instances like universeodon are poisoning the fedi with.
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Okay we're back! What I did instead of working today: Fedi-dynamics, the phenomena of mastodon.art, and against my best efforts, talking about facebook.
https://heat-shield.space/mastodon_two_camps.html
Inside of every fediverse, there are two wolves...
re: Universeodon meta
And like, I don't mean that metaphorically. I mean the actual tactics that abusers use to maintain and extend abusive relationships.
Universeodon meta
So everybody realizes that Byron (the Universeodon admin) is straight-up using abuser tactics, yeah?
Apparently you can now buy vinyl records at Lidl???
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It's funny watching a white admin meltdown because they got defederated from another instance.
It's really not that big a deal, and if your behavior improves, it can be rescinded.
But this whole song and dance about how BAD defederation is revolves around a glaring lack of self-reflection and why one felt the need to invoke that tactic.
You're not a victim. You just need to do better. Your inability to see the distinction is probably what got you blocked.
But hey, do you.
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when a person of a marginalized group asks "where are my people?" on a site
the absolute wrong thing for someone not of that group to do is to start tagging people willy nilly, without their consent or awareness of whether they want to be hypervisible in that way
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Facebook has devrels, they pay people to do the simping. You don't have to simp for free.
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so we can all just fediblock universeodon now right? simping for Facebook is bad for the fedi, right?
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transition has taught me that big long-term goals aren't insurmountable
and that you can take them one day at a time
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Ok I had an epiphany I felt like sharing. I think I've figured out why the "You must be high-functioning!" response pisses me off when I tell someone I'm autistic.
It's because they always mean it as a compliment. "Oh, you're high-functioning, you're not like those BAD autistics who don't/can't/won't mask! You're one of the good ones!"
No, I'm not better than anyone else. I don't have more value than an autistic person who appears more autistic than I do. Stop it.
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rant about abusing metaphors
It's so wild that so many adults still believe that if you can draw a comparison between two things in some aspect you can create an infallible, deep metaphor from it.
Just because two things are alike in one way doesn't mean they're alike in more ways! Just because you *can* create a metaphor that seems to kinda make sense on a surface level DOESN'T mean that you discovered some deep truth or connection!
Why is this shit so common? We live in a super complicated world where it's really hard two find two different things that follow the exact same logic.
I mean stuff like "LGBTQ+ is like a pandemic because more and more people identify as such THEREFORE it's infectious". That doesn't make any sense if you give it ANY thought.
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If you ever feel like you're not competent enough, just consider that yesterday I ran across an "engineering consulting" company with major corporations as their customer, whose "technical reference" entry for stepper motors was a straight copy-paste from a random WordPress blog from 2011
reference to tweet, datacenters, "cloud providers"
Several years ago, if you were a reputable datacenter and you told your customer "nope, we won't tell you which facility/rack your server is located in", you'd lose that customer, it would be considered a mark of serious unprofessionalism
But if you're a cloudycloud provider like Google or Amazon, apparently people just shrug and accept that
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Eco-travel company We Are Bamboo loses millions of customer funds gambling on crypto
June 26, 2023
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=eco-travel-company-we-are-bamboo-loses-millions-of-customer-funds-gambling-on-crypto
The greatest trick the devil (ie. privileged assholes) ever pulled was to convince people that intentions are unknowable, and so we must assume that they are good at all times
Can't help but notice the amount of casual racism, sexism, etc. on YouTube Shorts...
health -
Going to the shops directly after a doctor visit was a mistake, nearly collapsing from exhaustion now
- 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
