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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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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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Flowers are pretty
They come from the ground
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Vanavond even in het Rijksoverheid archief lopen zoeken, nu heb ik alle Miljoenennotaposters bij elkaar vanaf 2003: https://eloydegen.com/miljoenennotaposters/
met hulp van een vriend die een mail had gestuurd naar het Ministerie van Financiën met het verzoek voor de posters van vóór 2012 die niet in het openbare archief staan.
Nu nog een mail gestuurd naar het designbureau Studio Tint of ze toevallig nog de versies hebben van vóór 2003 die zelfs het Ministerie van Financiën niet meer heeft.
decentralization and power dynamics
Probably everyone here can agree that cryptocurrency-based decentralization is a terrible idea, and bound to go wrong.
But I've been trying to formulate for myself *why* that is, beyond just "involving money makes everything worse". And I think the problem is that decentralization has always been about (at least) two things; distributing power, and distributing *accountability*.
But with cryptocurrency-based decentralization, it reintroduces central power through wealth inequality - the wealthier you are, the more control you have, one way or another.
But the *accountability* is still distributed! There's still no central operator to hold accountable for problems; and more specifically, there's now nobody to hold accountable for the problems *introduced by centralized power*.
I feel like for a decentralized network to have any hope of not being a disaster, the distributed accountability *must* come with distributed power as well.
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Politie klopt op de deur – we herinneren het ons nog!
De toestand van de zoon is kritiek, zeggen ze, maar het is een leugen, want hij is al dood – we herinneren het ons nog!
Ziekenhuis, eerste vragen over wat er is gebeurd, maar de politie weet van niets en het zijn er vijftien – we herinneren het ons nog!
🤔 Is speed dating just a neurotype matching exercise?
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i hate capitalism so much
so i am taking the taxi back home right now and if you have been following my posts you probably remember my rant about how i hate that taxi backseats lack the seatbelt ports and that it's really unsafe
well the thing is since i am a college student i always order the economy class taxi cars. but my app today decided it will route a comfort class taxi to me since all other vehicles are not present in my area
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i hate capitalism so much
while i don't have to pay more.
i say "hooray" and wait for my toyota camry to come up and take me
but as soon as the driver pulled up and i took a seat, i took a glance at the backseat and
there were seatbelt ports there.
turns out that premium and comfort class taxis have seatbelt ports.
...
holy mother of god what the fuck
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37c3 meta
like, getting straight up told "nope. we don't care about accomodating folks that can't come without measures by putting measures in place. they are still welcome though :D" is not excellent at all. If you then focus on getting insults hurled at your after you ignore all concerns, you are ignoring that these insults are just a last-ditch thing folks tend to do before deciding to never come to a CCC event again because of your behaviour.
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"Be excellent to each other" doesn't mean that in the face of someone not being excellent to you and ignoring you telling them so, you still have to be excellent to them. It's meant to be reciprocal, not one-sided.
Someone's not excellent to you and you've told them, but nothing's changed? No excellence exercised for them anymore!
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Once again I have no idea who originally created this, but I salute you.
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Working was invented by capitalists to prevent gay furry snugglepiles
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This is a very good time to speak carefully and attend to your language around state versus people.
The STATE of Israel absolutely engages in genocidal behavior.
But a whole lot of antisemites are trying to use that reality to sow hate by pretending that the state and the people there are one and the same.
They are not.
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The page from ProRail (in Dutch) explaining why they think less switches makes a better railway. One-sentence-summary: they want to revert the effects of more than a century of cauliflower-growth of the railways and solve railway spaghetti 😬
https://www.prorail.nl/over-ons/wat-doet-prorail/spoorvernieuwing/minder-wissels-efficienter-spoor
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when traewelling.de is down:
(image (C) robdammers on Flickr, CC 2.0 BY)
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re: 37c3 meta
@joepie91 The last time I was harassed about my mask was... when getting the booster shot last week. (Which I didn't get because I had the appointment wrong in my calendar; I'm getting it next Wednesday)
GGD person: "Sir, masks are no longer mandatory here!"
me: "Sure. But I still think it's a good idea."
GGD person: "Really? Do you really think that?"
And that is the organization that's supposed to protect vulnerable people, for fucks sake.
37c3 meta, but more abstract
Several years ago, at Congress I ended up in a conversation with a bunch of other people, who were comfortable throwing around some pretty problematic beliefs and claims.
You probably know the type; not quite *overtly* bigoted, but the kind of misinformation and problematic framing that's so common from people with one foot in the alt-right sphere.
There was not a trace of discomfort or hesitance in expressing these views. Concerns about them being problematic were laughed away. Reframed as a 'difference in opinion'.
So it does not surprise me to see COVID denier rhetoric and disguised ableism floating around in CCC/orga circles.
There are plenty of great people in the CCC scene, to be clear. But there has also always been a problem of shitty views not being pushed back on enough, and being excused away as "that's just how they are".
And this rarely stays confined to one topic - if shitty views are being expressed about trans folks or migrants, the ableist views usually aren't far removed.
(This is just one specific incident I'm describing, but it hasn't been the only one - and even for that one incident, the comfort in which it occurred is an early warning sign of more systemic issues.)
37c3 meta
"Just wear a mask if you're vulnerable!"
Even leaving aside that air should be filtered at the input *and* output for most effectiveness (ie. everyone should wear a mask, not just vulnerable people)... and that this is an extremely patronizing comment (do you think we don't already know this??)...
Do you realize that being the only one in a crowd to wear a mask today gets you *actively harassed*? It's been two days since this last happened to me. It's also been two days since I last went somewhere.
"Just wear a mask to protect yourself" is not a genuine reply. It's a cop-out, a cheap attempt to shift off your part of the responsibility to vulnerable people because you can't be bothered to tolerate even the slightest of inconveniences to keep other people safe.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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
