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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- 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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I don't say this with any particular bitterness, more that this seems to be generally how it is, and you should know that your loyalty to your team and the people that employ you is just not worth the damage that you are doing to yourself, because that loyalty will not be there for you at the end of the process, and healing takes a surprising amount of time.
To put it in ecological terms, your health needs to be a sustainable resource for you. There is no safety net.
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PSA: until you've experienced burnout, you are likely to underestimate how long it takes to recover. It's not a couple of months, it's 6-18 months for partial recovery, and maybe 3 years for full recovery (all depending on how bad it gets). The company burning you out will almost never support your recovery, mostly they'll drop you when you stop being productive.
Nobody in business cares about your health but you, so be your own advocate, or suffer the consequences.
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A lot of “thinking” about AI is based on AI’s marketing, rather than what AI does.
re: NixOS, the sponsorship thing, community safety
Anyway I guess I need a "will not collaborate with these people" list for NixOS now
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theres only two genders. Santa claus and the easter bunny are real. These are facts i was taught since childhood therefore are true
NixOS, the sponsorship thing, community safety
Too many people in the #NixOS community are comfortable with enthusiastically defending Murder Machines Inc., and too many other people just see that as a "difference in opinion" rather than being a direct threat to marginalized folks
I think you can probably guess which demographic this people belong to
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-Fanatikerin 
Da unser Fahrgastinformationssystem per Lautsprecher (seit Wochen) kaputt ist, haben wir zur Sicherheit die Verfügbarkeit von Informationen auf dem System, das noch funktioniert, massiv reduziert. Der gelbe Hinweis ist da permanent eingeblendet.
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@CaribenxMarciaX as usual i think it's a case of white people waking up to the fascism that's been there all along, and instructing others who've been dealing with it already for years how they should deal with it... i'm reminded of folks coming here for the first time in november last year and then writing articles about how to behave on mastodon; same fervent + misguided + patronizing energy of the privileged new convert
kidney disease update
So now my potassium levels are *too low*, instead of too high. Huh. What.
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starfield, the sequel to garfield,
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People who keep shouting it's unethical to be on Twitter now I have some fucking questions. You still buying at fast fashion outlets? Driving cars? Flying in airplanes? You eating Tyson Chicken? Do you try to keep slave labor out of your coffee? Or do you just not like evil when it feels a little too in your face?
CW boost: transphobia, Bethesda, Starfield
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today i heard the term "polyworking" for the first time and i want to punch a capitalist in the throat
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I just realized how fucked up it is that lead is in some aluminum alloys for better machining.
Like to they get that out when recycling or is recycled aluminum just always contaminated with a bit of lead?
#aluminum #aluminium #lead #recycling
re: cleaning, positive
For clarification: I mean 'botvac' in the generic sense, I was until today unaware that it is also a brand name 🙃
politics, KOSA, etc.
The problem with stuff like "fighting KOSA" is that even if you manage to somehow keep it from passing (and far more likely it'll just be passed in a reduced-but-still-bad form as a "compromise"), it'll take a few years at most for the next attempt to appear under a different name but with the same (or worse) intentions. As has been happening for at least a decade by this point. Remember SOPA?
This is not to say you shouldn't do anything against it, but you should probably make sure that you don't spend all of your energy on this effort and burn out, so that you're left with no ability to address the structural problems causing these fucking things to respawn on a yearly basis.
If you have limited spoons to spend on activism, I would suggest prioritizing solving this problem at the root, instead of just fighting the individual bills.
And if you're not at that point yet: yes, that's going to mean reckoning with the fundamental corruption in government, and accepting that no, the government does not in fact act in your best interest. If it did, this wouldn't keep happening every year.
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time for some obscure #UltimaOnline #gamepreservation history
back in 1997, there was no such thing as a subscription system for MMOs that didn't require a credit card. the UO team came up with the "Game Time Card" system, which allowed people to buy 30 & 90 day subscriptions from brick & mortar game stores. every MMO afterward, like EQ, WoW and SWG would replicate that system.
since the cards were single-use disposables, 99.99% of gamers tossed these cards out when they were done with them. they were impossible to find after a few years. it took me 15 years to find a couple of these cards, mercifully saved by a gamer in Germany, which just arrived today
a 90-day card was included in the Charter Edition of the game (only available by special order prior to launch), pictured below. it is now back in its rightful place in the box 😅
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High-profile streamers bail on MrBeast-promoted Creator League after learning there are blockchains involved
September 6, 2023
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=high-profile-streamers-bail-on-mrbeast-promoted-creator-league-after-learning-there-are-blockchains-involved
- 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
