Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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There will come a point where you ask internet-oracle-of-choice "how do I self-host a Netflix alternative" and they will intentionally give you bad advice in order to discourage you.
That point is coming sooner rather than later, and we need to train *an entire generation* of internet users how to get out of this trap.
That's *our* work to do, RIGHT NOW.
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Learn to host your own services now. Because in the future you might not be able to discover how.
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this is going to be increasingly relevant from now (July '24) until November of this year. please, fellow white people, *check your sources* and be especially careful about what you say--and what you repeat. there is nuanced debate to be had, but you *must* understand the nuances *before* you speak up. this is a very important time to *listen* to BIPOC, *think* about what they say, and *not make assumptions*.
we all have a lot of learning, and unlearning, to do, especially right now. it's an excellent time and opportunity for *all of us* to sit down, shut up, pay attention, and think carefully.
adventures in game development
Just implemented rudimentary hot-reloading for my game engine in like 15 minutes 😁 This sort of thing is why I am excited about doing (non-web) game development with JS
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New idea to ponder:
Try replacing the word 'smart' with the word 'cruel' in regards to technology.
See how accurately it fits, and adjust choices accordingly.
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Humans invented art 40,000 years before we invented money
We’ve never needed monetary motivation to do beautiful things
and we never will
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@robinhood *495,000 years before the invention of currency
Just to really drive home the incredibly tiny amount of time money has existed. And that's giving a very generous 5,000 years where money in some form kind of existed at all (which is, itself, an overestimation of how long money has existed).
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US Politics, Tech, VC
At the top of The Verge, a tech reporting outfit that I thought lost its voice a few years back, is an absolute BANGER of a take down of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
A worthy read about how two of Silicon Valley's most famous VCs have fully thrown in with Trump. #USpol
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations
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@KaraLG84 @jscholes @BorrisInABox I once heard about a boxed frozen tiramisu dessert. On the box was the instruction, "Do not turn upside down." That particular instruction was printed…on the bottom of the box…where you'd have to turn the box upside down to read it.
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From the text about the collective defense against the J20 charges:
"Let us pause in awe at the stupefying hypocrisy of those who profess to believe in the 'rule of law.' How can it be that the prosecutor, the court bureaucracy, and two grand juries were permitted to terrorize two hundred defendants with multiple nonexistent felony charges for nearly a year? Surely, if anyone is still naïve enough to earnestly believe in the rule of law, they should consider those who are complicit in pressing nonexistent charges to be the number one threat to civil society. Prosecutors, police, and judges neither believe in nor uphold the rule of law any more than the most iconoclastic anarchist does. The difference is that anarchists are honest about this and propose an ethical alternative, whereas the professionals of the justice industry shamelessly pursue personal gain and little else."
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more detail on nonconsensual genital surgeries and the fucked up language we describe them with
I explicitly avoid the term circumcision here because in addition to describing the procedure instead of the result (foreskin removal), the usage of a banal medical term across (generally american) culture to describe people is super fucked
like, oh, is this person cut or uncut? what absolutely fucked up language to describe people with. there's a reason why people who get genital surgery intentionally as adults avoid using terms like "neovagina" or "neopenis" non-sarcastically, because we shouldn't be fucking describing body types by how they were surgically altered.
and also, it's worth pointing out that everyone has foreskin, but foreskin removal of the labia specifically is generally outlawed under the cis bullshit term of "female genital mutilation"
and yeah. performing surgery on the genitals of a toddler without any medical reason is genital mutilation. imagine if routinely we just decided to chop off every kid's little toe for absolutely no reason. most people won't care, and yeah, it'll heal, sure. but also, what the fuck? that's mutilation.
I'm going into the more routine version because that applies to more people, but yes, it's worth saying that so many intersex people get even more complicated, riskier surgeries done to them intentionally because we want to act like they were always "normal" in the first place. and that's fucked up. there is basically never a reason to perform surgery on a toddler's genitals, and especially no reason to conceal that they had surgery done from them. fuck that.
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trans-hater rhetoric, feat. nonconsensual genital surgery
you abso fucking lutely cannot argue against trans procedures being "irreversible" when unnecessary, irreversible genital surgery on infants is common. oh, I can't take HRT because I might be unable to ungrow my boobs, but you're allowed to cut off part of my dick as a child just because you think that's good for me?
like, routinely, cis people will perform nonconsensual genital surgery on minors to push their unrealistic expectations of genitals, onto children, to ensure everyone has explicitly only has one of two genital configurations, where (at least among Americans, and others) one of those configurations is completely unnatural.
and like, you're not okay with people choosing to change their genitals, or their body in general, later in life, just because they might regret it?
maybe, you're just spewing bad faith nonsense and don't want to believe that people can make choices for themselves, which is why you make choices for them
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dear furry fandom,
we wouldn't have the very concept of fursonas without Ken Sample, a Black man, being the first to popularize the idea.
so can we all agree to metaphorically whup the ass of any of our own who even jokingly bring up DEI policies as a reason for a business behaving badly towards its workers and/or customers?
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"Google is now the only search engine that can surface results from Reddit, making one of the web’s most valuable repositories of user generated content exclusive to the internet’s already dominant search engine.
If you use Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Qwant or any other alternative search engine that doesn’t rely on Google’s indexing and search Reddit by using “site:reddit.com,” you will not see any results from the last week."
https://www.404media.co/google-is-the-only-search-engine-that-works-on-reddit-now-thanks-to-ai-deal/
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Minor tech-adjacent gripe today: please don't assume folks have a license to Times New Roman.
sexism, description of injury
So in a park in Austria named Area 47 there's a water slide that is "men-only". According to the park, the reason has nothing to do with sexism, it's because it has a history of causing vaginal injuries, and so people with a vagina (or, in their words, "women"), cannot slide down it safely, and therefore they are not allowed to.
While I'm sure that this was legitimately their reasoning, here's the thing - that actually *is* an issue of sexism. Because why wasn't the design safety-tested against this when it was built? They're almost certainly using a testing methodology that doesn't take into account anatomy differences. That's *exactly* the sort of problem you get from systemic sexism (and it mirrors how eg. medical testing procedures often work).
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@PacificNic I think covid lockdowns were a vivid illustration of this. Most people who lost their jobs or were furloughed immediately started offering free art, shopping for their neighbours, sewing PPE or organising food shares
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@0xabad1dea Ethan Zuckerman (@ethanz on here) noted this way back in the 20th century when he worked at Tripod. In 2008 he wrote "Porn is a weak test for the success of participatory media — it’s like tapping a mike and asking, “Is it on?” If you’re not getting porn in your system, it doesn’t work. Activism is a stronger test — if activists are using your tools, it’s a pretty good indication that your tools are useful and usable."
Links/cites/context at: https://www.erosblog.com/2013/05/01/the-pornocalypse-comes-for-us-all/
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@tillshadeisgone if anyone is "looking" and "cant find" people who could actually use that money to live, here's a list of Black and Indigenous friends who really need it:
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So I see that in one day, folks organizing through a hashtag on Mastodon have successfully collected almost $100,000 in donations for Kamala Harris' campaign. This is pretty impressive, in my opinion.
Now, I'm not going to discourage you from voting or from participating in electoral politics. But I am going to just point out that Black queer and trans folks' mutual aid fundraisers on this platform routinely go underfunded and even the boosts are sparse.
When considering donating money, I want us to ask ourselves: whose needs are centered? Who benefits? Why donate to a politician but ignore a poor person? What are my politics really and how do they show up in my spending habits?
These are just suggestions, but I think the implications are pretty important.
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
