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's a thing that annoys me a lot that I'm going to call the "subtractive fallacy" where whenever you advocate for getting rid of some harmful tech or practice or cultural aspect and the person who wants to pick a fight with you treats it like all you can do is remove: not fix, not replace, not change just leave a gaping hole where something used to be
"abolish the police" => "so we should just let people assault and rob us in our homes and not do anything to stop it"
"end compulsory schooling" => "so children should all be illiterate and never learn anything"
"end car culture" => "so if you can't walk you just won't be able to get anywhere?"
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PSA: if you're in infosec red teaming an evil maid attack and you are not wearing a maid outfit while doing so, you may not be in full compliance with security standards and best practices
do remember that some industry regulators additionally require testing with cat ears for full certification. some organisations opt to further demonstrate protection against against the ‘moe moe kyun~’ blessing of a machine to auditors, but this is not currently mandatory under any scheme
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using a computer with really long fingernails can be hard, but it is absolutely no issue if you're using Unix.
Why? Because on Unix, everything is a file
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Hey! Big big work to do!
This week is a GREAT time to get activated!
How, though?
Read on for a framework and some questions to help you figure out where you need to be in the work-- and to help you remember that another world is possible.
We can only get there when we begin to live into it now, in all the ways our values bring it to us today. 🌱❤️
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This is true of organizations and societies as well as machines. Rules and norms are a kind of technology, in that they have a similar ability to constrain your choices.
Some things are not allowed because of objective, concrete hazards to people and the continued functioning of the whole system.
Some things are not allowed simply because the powerful wish it to be so.
Knowing which is which is crucial to progress.
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It's important to have a good understanding of how technology works.
Not because getting a STEM job is valuable, or because technical knowledge is somehow more important than other types of knowledge.
It's because the powerful will use your ignorance of technology against you.
Systems are designed — out of necessity and intentionally — to constrain your choices. It's important to understand which constraints are technically necessary, and which are just there to exploit or control you.
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does anyone here in Berlin happen to have estrogen gel or pills for me? i forgot mine at home in Karlsruhe and stopping HRT even for a few days makes me feel like shit x.x
helping others as a freelancer 
Are you a freelancer, especially in tech, and you want to help others in need? There's a very easy way to do that sustainably, with very little effort on your part.
Increase your standard rate by $10 (or your equivalent currency) per hour. That's it.
Some clients are going to refuse, you can keep them at the old rate if you want. For all the clients that have accepted the rate (most existing clients will, almost all new clients will), the 'extra' $10/hour is your mutual aid budget.
Every month, you divvy out the budget across the various mutual aid requests you can find at the MutualAid and MutualAidRequest hashtags.
Depending on your exact workload, you can divert hundreds if not thousands of dollars a month towards people in need, and you won't even need to do any extra work for it.
(This only works if you are a genuine freelancer, ie. you maintain your own client relations and it's B2B; it doesn't work for employment-without-benefits scenarios. Outside of western countries you may need to reduce the amount of money, but then this is primarily meant for those in western countries.)
The *reason* this works is because a lot of freelancers under-negotiate their payment terms, and there's plenty of room for rate increases. I forgot who said this, but "the correct price is the one that makes them complain but still pay".
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If you have cash to throw into political campaigns for people who will undoubtedly be receiving huge amounts of monthly from rich people, please consider giving some of that to mutual aid.
The amount of money people on the Fediverse have donated to Kamala Harris’ campaign and others would cover 1000s of mutual aid campaigns posted every day on here that are languishing for months.
This is not to shame you, or tell you not to donate to your favourite politician, it is simply a request that some of that money goes directly to the community that often these future presidents do not serve at all, and never will.
The not-conservatives are in power already, in the US and the UK, and yet my timeline on several social media sites is literally flooded by mutual aid requests every day.
These requests in the last three months have gotten more and more desperate, things are bad.
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ACAB
mastodon for harris
can i just talk to the liberals in the audience please. yall say you are allies, but how am i supposed to trust you when an action as little as a mutual aid donation is something you're not willing to do knowing full well you can? how can you protect someone? how can i trust you that you will stand with me on a protest, or aid when the police starts violence? how can i trust you to risk your privilege for what's right? how can i rely on you?
how?
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mastodon for harris
also, people who make fun of the hashtag, i appreciate your work and yall are hilarious, but please don't go too overboard or try to spice things up by reposting people's fundraisers. i just don't want all of that to get buried under shitposts.
we good?
Do I always have my emotions under perfect control? No - nobody does, we're all human, and that includes me.
Do I mean what I say when I'm direct about my disapproval of someone's words or actions? Yes, absolutely. I fully understand how it will come across, and it is *intended* to be abrasive - it is a warning shot cautioning you to reconsider what you are doing or saying, and usually a friendlier one than you will get from many others if you continue with it.
If I tell you off about something, there is an intention behind that, and I ask that you do not try to wave it off as "they must be responding impulsively", but treat it as seriously as I am conveying it.
I don't normally talk about what/when I've donated to mutual aid fundraisers, because it feels kind of like tooting my own horn.
But I'm starting to think that maybe I should, even if just to create an ambient social expectation.
re: subtoot
You know what the first step of driving real change is? Acknowledging the hardships of the vulnerable folks in your community, and doing work to support them so that they can be included in the process.
You know what it definitely isn't? Endlessly theorizing in a vacuum about the philosophy of a hypothetical better system while not even wanting to acknowledge that not everybody started from the same point in the first place. That's just theorycrafting.
subtoot
If you claim that you've given up on leftist politics because "everybody seems much more interested in being miserable together than in actually driving change", and yet you've never so much as acknowledged people's dire situations with a word of solidarity or empathy, then that tells me an awful lot about what you think "leftism" means, and it's nothing flattering.
Bonus points if you're a well-off white dude who most likely works in tech.
meta, mutual aid
"Don't I get to decide for myself what I spend my money on?"
Sure, you do. But other people are going to see those choices and draw conclusions from that about your true priorities and beliefs.
Folks are not expressing their frustration with your donation choices because they believe they have any sort of authority over them - I think we're all pretty well aware that we don't.
Instead, folks are trying to tell you how they - the marginalized folks you claim to be supporting politically, to be clear - *really* feel about the way you put that into practice. Whether you are actually practicing what you're preaching.
Like with everything else, if you want to be an 'ally', you need to be listening to the people you claim to be an ally of, and follow their guidance on how to improve things for them, even if it is something you personally disagree with.
You have the choice not to do that, and to instead go by your own views of what is the best or most effective solution, but then you are not an ally - you're trying to be a *savior*, which is something very different.
That's your choice to make, but then don't call yourself an ally, and don't claim you 'support' marginalized folks, because you don't.
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Heya fedi folks 👋 
We're looking to reserve a table in some kind of venue that has food, drinks, and toilets for after London Trans+ Pride this Saturday 
Can anyone recommend a suitable pub (or similar) within an easy walk of Wellington Arch OR or reasonable tube journey from Hyde Park Corner?
By suitable, we mean:
Has quieter areas that are a bit more neurodivergent friendly.
Is fully accessible.
Won't be fazed by a bunch of neurospicy, disabled, queer, trans people turning up.
Has a decent variety of food and drink options.
Boosts welcome 
and very much appreciated 🥰
#London #HydeParkCorner #WellingtonArch #LondonTransPride #LondonTransPride2024 #Pride #Pride2024 #queer #LGBTQ+ #trans #transgender #enby #NonBinary #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #neurospicy #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAuDHD #autistic #ADHD #AuDHD #accessibility
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ahem Hello, #MastodonForHarris folks
First of all, can you share my pinned? I think Harris' megadonors will have her more than comfortably covered for the foreseeable future.
Second of all, if you say you care about BIPOC, or queer/trans people, or disabled people, etc., then take a few minutes to browse the #MutualAid and #MutualAidRequest tags. Passing around the same $20 only gets us all so far, you know.
Third of all: I sure hope people understand that Harris will not fix everything. A lot of marginalized people have genuine criticism of her, and - quite understandably - want nothing to do with her. The systems of oppression that govern the lives of said people will remain in place, just with a kinder face/better PR team. She's not the solution. She's not even the stopgap measure. She's just how you slow down the clock ever so slightly.
So act like it, and take action down on the ground, in ignorance of the State. Sure, vote for her. But that can't be all you do.
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I want this to be totally clear. "DEI Hire" isn't just shorthand for Black (or not white.) It contains the assumption that people who aren't white are inherently inferior and, thus, inherently unqualified. Therefore, any person saying this is a white supremacist racist full stop.
re: blockchain shit, caps
Apparently it's causing massive issues for RubyGems and PyPI, too.
- 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
