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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De verantwoordelijkheid geen Covid op te lopen, wordt nu helemaal bij de persoon zelf gelegd.
Maar wat is de rol van de persoon die zonder masker rondloopt en moeilijk doet over jouw masker?
Zouden we de verantwoordelijkheid niet eigenlijk bij de verspreider moeten leggen?
Of bij de overheid die het verspreiden mogelijk maakt, of zelfs aanmoedigt?
https://www.okdoomer.io/someone-infected-neil-gaiman-with-covid-19/
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Al vanaf het begin van de pandemie werden veel mensen gedwongen risico's te nemen die ze niet wilden nemen.
Kinderen die verplicht naar school moesten. Werknemers die verplicht naar hun werk moesten.
De overheid die geen goede voorlichting gaf over FFP2 en niet hielp deze beschikbaar te maken.
Hoeveel van deze mensen zijn inmiddels overleden? Hoeveel hebben langdurige klachten? Hoeveel hebben gezondheidsschade waar ze zich nog niet van bewust zijn?
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"They might still announce measures in the next few months!"
That is functionally equivalent to not doing so. *Especially* vulnerable people often really need the time to plan and prepare for events, so if you don't specify the safety measures ahead of time, that means they must assume there will be none, and therefore cannot come.
Safety measures should be near the top of the priority list, not a "maybe we'll get around to it eventually".
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"If we required COVID safety measures, we would lose a bunch of volunteers that we need to make the event happen"
You know how you'll also lose your volunteers? By infecting them with a highly contagious disease that can lead to death or chronic disability, and amplify the negative effects of existing disabilities
I really don't like this overly deliberating style that a lot of anarchist literature is written in - it reads like it's just trying to sound smart, and just *assumes* that you are already interested and along for the ride.
IMO a much better writing style for activist/political things is one that actively tries to draw the reader in, catch their interest even if they didn't have it before.
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“Ik ben een transpersoon, ik heb geleefd in de Sovjet Unie – je kon in die tijd celstraf krijgen voor trans zijn en lhbti in het algemeen. En deze mensen zwaaien met een transvlag in combinatie met vlaggen van Lenin en de Sovjet-Unie?”
https://www.doorbraak.eu/waarom-in-voormalige-communistische-landen-vreemd-wordt-aangekeken-tegen-westerse-lhbti-ers-met-sovjetsymbolen/
sort of 37C3 meta, but also not really
If you're about to tell someone "I don't see why, but <opinion>", then STOP. Take a step back. Ask yourself why you feel qualified to cast an opinion about something you've *just* indicated you don't understand (yet), and what it is going to add to the conversation.
Chances are that you will either
a) talk over someone who *does* understand it,
b) exhaust the people who have to deal with this topic every day, or
c) spread misinformation and gut feelings as fact.
Especially the 'default dudes' (ie. those who are many/all of cis, white, male, abled, and well-paid) need to watch this more closely, since you're especially likely to be just *assuming* that your opinion will add value to the conversation.
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@brion makes me wonder if it could be fun to write fixes for ancient yet prevalent bugs, as a hobby. not sure if I will, but the idea is curious. Also there is no pressure: the bug has been there for 20 years, you can take a year of occasionally looking at code to fix it and people will likely still enjoy :3
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Many of the shows you go to (likely unmasked) are run by #techs who are struggling with #LongCovid. Trust me. I'm one of them. And I'm not the only one of them in this room.
Please, if you go into crowded public spaces like #concerts and #films, #WearAMask.
It's a nightly devastation to be one of only a handful of masked people at a sold-out show.
The artists you love and your fellow fans deserve better. YOU deserve better.
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war, nationalism
sick and fucking tired of wars starting and Germans flying the flag of one of the countries involved everywhere, as if they were cheering for their favorite football team
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I'm looking forward to 1993
Edit: some context:
- This wasn't a proposal for a european rail network, it's a rough transfer of the London Underground map to Europe
- It does show that the eurostar would go from a lot of UK stations, a plan that was sadly cancelled
- image borrowed from @rhodri
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It took me ages to realise OH stands for “overheard” and not “other half”, but the secret is sometimes it’s both
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Reminder:
During crisis events, uninformed and ill-informed “opinions” only exacerbate and perpetuate harm
It’s best to (1) seek the insight of those with expertise, preferably gained through lived experience and (2) remain quiet because your ignorance is an unnecessary distraction
re: gaza
I have always found it difficult to fully understand the situation behind the conflict, so I may not know what the right answer is, but I sure *do* know what some of the *clearly wrong* answers are, and they include the narrative from several governments around here, including the Dutch one
gaza
I guess this is one of those things where people's response to events tells you a lot about their internal politics...
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oh yeah I created a map thing of all the train lines I traveled on, for train fedi street cred or something?
https://waarisflimpie.nl (still need to make it slightly better however)
People complaining about narrow roads / protests / bike paths / etc. impeding fire trucks have clearly never actually watched fire department people drive
Turns out the answer is "use JGR's patchset", which is packaged in nixpkgs
- 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
