Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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
OH: "Can I do pulse width modulation on the mandarin orange purchases?"
why people do not trust "allies", long
You know why marginalized folks like me so often don't trust "allies"? Because they are not bound by their plight.
Marginalized folks *live* their oppression; they can never opt out from it, they cannot choose to escape it. They need to either fight it, or drown in its consequences. Every consequence of their oppression is one that they will experience personally.
They will be in the fight for however long it exists; that is a guarantee. And that means you can rely on them being there to have your back, as they are able to.
Allies, however, have no such plight. As an ally, you have a price. It may be high, it may be paid in something like safety or convenience rather than money, but you have a price.
There will be a point where you have the opportunity to leave marginalized folks and their plight behind, for your own benefit or comfort. You will have the opportunity to opt out. Sooner or later, you are likely to take it.
You will convince yourself that it is "better for everyone this way". That you have "changed perspectives". That you have "discovered more nuance". That ultimately, you made the right choice by leaving behind the most vulnerable in society, when the price for doing so is high enough.
Depending on what you do to support marginalized folks, we may appreciate it. It may be genuinely helpful. But we will never be able to *trust* you. Because when the stakes are highest, you are going to be the first ones to leave.
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"If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions"
I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today with the Cass Review fallout. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance.
Why? I'll tell you why
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NixOS, subtoot
(If you don't already know what this is about, an explanation is unlikely to clarify it any further.)
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HSE at the company I work for has been talking a lot over the past years about our Stop Work Authority. If we encounter a situation that is a danger to our physical health, we have full authority to immediately stop our work, no matter the consequences, until the safety issue is resolved.
HSE in Belgium has now explicitly extended this to include situations that endanger your mental health, such as discrimination, racism, sexism, transphobia, etc.
So if you're in an important meeting with a big client and they say something racist, sexist, transphobic, etc., my Belgian colleagues now have full authority to just drop the meeting and walk out. Even if that would cost like a million euro contract.
NixOS, subtoot
See, this kind of shit is exactly the reason that marginalized folks generally do not and cannot trust "allies" to have their backs. Those "allies" have a price.
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A quick follow up to my previous post about the SpotPass Archival Project. Even if we are a few days after the 8th, you can still upload SpotPass dumps as Nintendo hasn't yet shut down the SpotPass servers! 
They are especially searching for Asian dumps, as said on their Discord server, but any other SpotPass dumps are good too.
Please take a look at my previous post on how to quickly upload yours!
hot take, the dlink backdoor story
Companies should be legally required to fix structural security issues in still-functioning devices regardless of their age or "EOL" status, actually
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How cruel it is for people who claim to have liberatory politics to turn around and tell kids that all the things in their life that oppress them and make them feel constantly horrible are fundamentally unserious concerns. How it must feel to, as a kid, search for a political framework that legitimizes your own feelings of being trapped in systems that don't really care about your well being only to be told by the most radical, rebellious adults you can find that they find your concerns about your present material conditions laughable and you need to just put up with it all. Anyway children's liberation now and forever
venting, NixOS
This toot addressed to the people holding up the solutions by endlessly concern-trolling and "seeking compromise" and JAQing off and generally not wanting to hear the truth that some assholes just need to be removed from the community
venting, NixOS
All this political maneuvering bullshit is so fucking exhausting, just fix the problems already, the solutions are *right there*
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There’s this weird notion that autistic people don’t function well with group work, but this is only true if there’s one autistic person thrust into a group of neurotypical people
Put one neurotypical person into a group of all autistic people and now let’s see who has a hard time with working in groups
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If you ever leave a community - any community - because of (systemic) problems with it, *please* post the reasons publicly if you are able to.
You don't need to engage with people questioning your reasons or asking you things, or any other replies - merely state your motivation for leaving, what led up to it.
It may sound like a small thing, but it is *immensely* helpful to the people staying behind fighting to fix the community's issues, who will have a concrete thing to point towards to show that other people are not tolerating it either.
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Anyone here with any experience of #RucksackRepair #OutdoorRepair #HikingKitRepair? I want to replace the zip on my rucksack which is now so old the teeth keep opening up unpredictably. I've replaced zips on clothes before but never outdoor kit. Am I looking for a specific type of especially strong zip, or will any do?
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#WestSeattle street-name planning has, uh, incurred a persistent cognitive load tax on pedestrian and automotive street users alike
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Be especially kind to trans/agender/non-binary people in the UK today
Lots of news sites and people are going to be discussing a high profile report into the UK’s NHS and gender identity.
One of the report’s conclusions is around the toxicity of the “debate”, which is no surprises and is borne out by some of the headlines I’ve seen in papers today,
Anticipate plenty of anti-trans comments and sentiment today so please be extra kind and supportive to people in your life who could be affected.
If you ever leave a community - any community - because of (systemic) problems with it, *please* post the reasons publicly if you are able to.
You don't need to engage with people questioning your reasons or asking you things, or any other replies - merely state your motivation for leaving, what led up to it.
It may sound like a small thing, but it is *immensely* helpful to the people staying behind fighting to fix the community's issues, who will have a concrete thing to point towards to show that other people are not tolerating it either.
Sven Slootweg
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Hey nerds! What's a good way to get a number that can receive SMS messages and just forward them to an e-mail address with no need for an actual physical phone to be involved?
Sven Slootweg
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Can't believe some people need to be told that everyone has ideology like everyone has culture like everyone has an accent. I always roll my eyes at people who act like ideology is when you're too stubborn about your beliefs, that everyone has ideology but me, the one true social scientist!
frustrated
Argh, Mastodon, stop bugging out
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
