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.
- 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
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Trans, suicide, nlpol
Helaas hebben we de eerste transgender vluchteling die in Nederland een einde heeft gemaakt aan haar leven van 2024 alweer. Trans vrouwen die in hun thuisland, zoals in dit geval Rusland, niet veilig zijn komen hierheen omdat ze denken dat ze hier wél mogen bestaan. En vervolgens behandelen we ze als oud vuil en bieden we ze geen sprankje hoop.
Slaap zacht, lieve Antonina.
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Trying a new personal position where if a tech company lays people off after posting strong earnings, I don't buy anything new from them and cancel any existing subscriptions (at least in the short term). So there goes Discord Nitro
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OpenAI, Aaron Swartz, suicide
When billionaires ask to do illegal copying of all known works it gets taken seriously.
When a kid simply downloads scientific articles too fast they (lawyers) hound him until he commits suicide.
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@craigmaloney as a [user] i wish to [feel fulfilled and supported by my software, and just sit with it open while wanting for nothing]
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No more piecemeal half-measures that only enrich Elsevier anyway
Abolish copyright on academic publications
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I don't want better funding or whatever for Open Access 
I want copyright on academic material abolished by law
Just legalize Scihub 
for fuck's sake
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This is at least 8cm of ice which is necessary because that’s a field underneath. If you look closely you can see the grass waving in the moving water underneath while you skate.
medical software
Unrelated to my previous toot, just learned that the vendor of my hospital's patient portal went bankrupt late last year (different vendor)
racism, medical
Love (do not love) running into racist shit in medical software...
Fuck you too, Epic Systems Corporation
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PSA:
“if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“
Neither of these claims have any basis in reality. Importance, and caring have no correlation to whether a memory is formed.
These sentences only serve to gaslight people about a chemical, process that they cannot control.
Please spread this knowledge.
Please stop gaslighting people with memory issues.
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Wait, AGDQ got rid of its masking policy? Maybe they should switch charities to some long covid research foundation then, since they think it's okay to have their attendees speedrun Long Covid% category
Lmao I just looked up their covid "policy" and besides recommending but not mandating masks it also talks about handwashing. Because of course it fucking does. Gotta keep up that hygiene theater and pretend that fomite transmission, not a single case of which has been conclusively proven in 4 years of pandemic, is a significant factor in spreading a literal airborne virus
All of this during the worst covid surge since the emergence of omicron, with a new variant that is as different from omicron as omicron was from the initial ancestral version of covid, and which is more severe and immune evasive
So disappointing 😒
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Dit arbeidsconflict gaat in de eerste plaats over onze leefomstandigheden. Ten tweede gaat het ook over goed openbaar vervoer, waar we de tijd hebben om te wachten tot oudere mensen zitten of om de rolstoelgebruiker de bus in te helpen. https://www.doorbraak.eu/wat-hebben-we-aan-elektrische-bussen-als-er-geen-chauffeurs-meer-zijn-ov-reeks-deel-3/
re: Matrix governance shit, rant
To summarize this whole thing: if you're in a crisis, I lend you a helping hand to get you out, and your response boils down to "you didn't file the correct form"... then I don't think you actually want to solve the crisis.
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Sure sucks how capitalism ruins everything it touches, huh?
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@deluisa Yeah, Belgium can fill a museum with these.
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-Fanatikerin 
@smveerman but how many pieces of art like this one do you have, huh?^^
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re: unnecessarily harsh take on alt text that is also a subpost
like I call this "unnecessarily harsh" because I know that people don't just wake up and decide to be ableist, and that in fact, we do live in a society
and that working on your internal oppressions is a nontrivial amount of energy you do have to spend, that people might not have because society is already being shit to them
but like, at least as someone who has spent a lot of time getting over those internalised issues… it feels like people are confusing the energy to actually do the thing, with the energy required to become a better person, and as a result do neither
like… sorry, buddy, but if you're upset about people calling you ableist, they're doing that because you are
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unnecessarily harsh take on alt text that is also a subpost
honestly writing alt text is a lot of work that often gets unnoticed but I do genuinely feel like people don't understand the distinction between
"this is a lot of work I don't have the energy to put in"
and
"performing this work makes me think about how low-vision and low-bandwidth people interact with media and how that must be a shit experience with so few people accommodating them, which makes me feel bad, which I don't like feeling, so, I'm not writing alt text so I don't have to think about it"
like it's one of those cases where people think so rarely about other people's experiences that the act of doing so tires them out, and then they can use that as an excuse for not having energy to do the thing
like again, alt text is difficult, and that is a genuine energy drain for some. as an autistic person, I know all too well how difficult it is to be forced to describe things in multiple ways, and having to make a picture and write text for the picture? sometimes that feels impossible
but sometimes I genuinely don't believe that people are being genuine about their inability to do alt text. like they don't see it as part of the full package of sharing a thing and so they do the visual part and then oops! out of energy, sorry, I'm still gonna post and get all the likes and shares tho~
- 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
