Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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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for international nonbinary day we should abolish borders. it only seems appropriate.
codes of conduct, moderately spicy take
I really dislike how a lot of codes of conduct are written. It often feels like someone is trying to exhaustively enumerate bad behaviours, and it makes me wonder what purpose they think the CoC is supposed to serve.
Is it meant to serve as a legislative document, as a hammer to hit people with, to say "look, you violated rule X in the CoC"? Because that doesn't work, and just invites rule-lawyering (which makes things *worse*, because now there are 'legal' forms of abuse).
Is it meant to inform problematic participants which of their behaviours are not accepted? Because enumerating a bunch of -isms will not help; they very likely already *know* that their behaviour is not okay, they just don't care.
Is it meant to explain to unintentionally-abrasive-or-bigoted participants what they are doing wrong? Because it doesn't do that - it won't contain anywhere near enough detail to usefully learn from it.
Is it meant to keep the vibe in the community good? Because for that, you'll need to talk about the more subtly toxic things that virtually no CoC ever mentions, like debate culture and boundary violations.
Now to be clear, I think a code of conduct is *in and of itself* a good idea - and I think that it can serve legitimate purposes, like signalling to vulnerable folks what they can expect in terms of moderation, or addressing problems like debate culture.
But for deity's sake, you do actually need to think about your goals and write your CoC so that it *actually does that*, and most that I've seen just... don't. There's so much room for improvement here.
(This includes the ready-to-use CoC templates, none of which seem to have a well-defined objective that they actually meet)
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Today, I want you to remember that being #nonBinary even when you suspect that you'll end up being binary (a boat I find myself in) is a valid way to be. The "transitional enby" state is still a real identity. You're not faking it.
People change. I told people I was cis male a couple years ago because that was my truth at the time. Now I say I'm trans femme non-binary because that's true right now. At some point, I suspect I'll be binary trans female. One doesn't invalidate the other.
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*nonbinaries internationally*
Today seemed like an excellent day for finally getting around to this
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Happy #NonBinaryDay to everyone in #OpenStreetMap! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️⚧️☄️
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true crime (murder of a trans woman)
The murderer of Sabrina Houston, a trans woman from Jamaica, has just been convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison, the full amount requested by prosecutor, by a court in Tallinn.
TDOR's page on Sabrina: https://tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/2022/07/09/sabrina-houston_talinn-harju-estonia_96b64fb8
News report on the verdict: https://www.postimees.ee/7814607/kohus-moistis-transsoolise-naise-tapja-12-aastaks-vangi
Reportedly, the perpetrator didn't deny having stabbed Sabria to death, but argued that he did it because she tried to prevent him from leaving a room that they had entered for purpose of sex when he decided to not have sex, but the court ruled that it wasn't plausible, and it was more consistent with the available evidence that he got murderously enraged and stabby upon discovering Sabrina's genital configuration instead, and on that basis, levied the full punishment as requested.
Looks like "trans panic" is an aggravating factor in Estonia, not a get-out-of-jail-free card.
The murder happened on July 9th last year, so it took just over a year to prosecute. The perpetrator has been in jail since July 12th, three days after the murder, though, albeit until now only as a suspect.
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Honestly this is still making me smile, it's such a change from the usual SUPER ANGRY TERMINATOR 8000 messaging I'm used to in gaming hardware, nicely done MSI
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Maybe I should feel insulted but this is just adorable
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you can't build binaries today, no touching gcc
The comments under my ES Modules post continue to be a depressing display of people basically going "fuck you, got mine"
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Oh hey, this is cool, let's check this out (Credit to @drewtoothpaste for the original place).
EDIT: Everyone wanting to be pedantic, please shut up.
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if you're thinking about showing solidarity with striking creatives by canceling subscriptions or not watching stuff, there's two problems with that
1. The strikers haven't asked for that, and
2. They are still getting residual pay for that stuff
there's not a whole lot you can do here, except be vocal about supporting striking workers. That's always a good idea.
Turns out that yeah, there *are* actually legitimate reasons for object creation to be async sometimes
Refactoring the dlayer API *again*
"But in case that wasn’t enough of an iPhone vibe for you, the other big update that comes with this public beta is that you can now put widgets on your desktop. Widgets! They intelligently tint based on the color of your desktop, and they’re available for various Apple apps, including Safari, Contacts, and Podcasts."
lol, Apple reinvented desktop widgets on macOS
Are there any city builder games with a stronger focus on and depth in building public infrastructure for organic cities? So less 'strict perfect zoning' and 'click-and-drag to build subway', and more focus on dealing with the complexities of those, but while still being satisfying to play
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fedi tip about following people and boundaries
#FediTip for new folks: You can make private posts on unlocked accounts and public posts on locked accounts.
Because of this, there is no guarantee that seeing someone's post means you can follow them - check out their bio and see if they have a lock icon next to their username (genuinely no clue if and how it's conveyed to screen readers, and I can't check right now), and if they have any specific boundaries - things like "Don't follow unless I know you", "DM if you want to follow", or "follow requests welcome" are common, and give you an idea of how to interact.
- 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
