Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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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- 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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hello fedi, what does one do when there is a "complaint about message from [IP]" email from staff at hotmail dot com, and the email is... a confirmation email for a sign-up to one of your services
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meta; mastodon for harris; US politics; mutual aid meta
this shit is honestly making me feel so sick it is giving me nausea. I'm already in a fucking bad place and now I can barely stand. I've been all day in bed.
people keep asking for money for the most basic necessities for how fucking long. people go fucking starving and get almost nothing. every fucking cent given that way is making actual material difference in the world and even if half of the money given goes towards a scammers (it fucking doesn't), it will still do measurable better good than giving what in the grand scheme of things be fucking pennies to a fucking imperialist party (and take the double meaning).
this is money who could change people's life but it will go down to pay for some pamphlet that will just go to the thrash.
this is conscious laundering to a fucking T. you wanna feel fucking good about yourself. doing shit so can say "I did my part" when shit hits the fan when you in fact, did nothing, because doing something that would actually impact the american politics is too much fucking work (like actually talking to people for once).
and the fucking worse is, it could have made a difference if you gave it to fucking anyone else. we always knew y'all didn't gave a fuck but you're now showing us the receipt.
you're on the wrong side of this. there already are blood on your hands.
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bees entering through the window: hmm. interesting. what is this. huh. ok. cool. i'm out.
flies entering through the window: aaaAAAAA hello hello HI HI HI WHATS UP whatsthisplacewowsomanythingshere oh WOW THERES ANOTHER ROOM ohmygodthisisthebestplaceeverwow i am NEVER leaving
politics meta (not fedi meta), why things never seem to go anywhere
Something that frustrates me is that political discourse and action largely sorts into two buckets:
1. "Everything is fucked and we can't fix it anyway!"
2. "I'm doing my part already by being involved in <some local thing>, what more are you expecting?"
And they are both wrong but for different reasons; "everything is fucked" is a reasonable feeling to have but ultimately doesn't reflect what can *actually* be accomplished with the right organizing, and "I'm already doing my part, I can't do more" is *also* a reasonable feeling but ignores that the idea of a "first step towards progress" only works if you acknowledge that there are many more steps to follow!
And because the second category never ends up achieving large-scale change (because they consider the work done after the first step), the first category never experiences what can be achieved, and so the first category of folks doesn't get involved, and that then causes the second category of folks to keep feeling overextended, and on and on it goes in a circle.
The actual solution here is to start small, with an accessible first step, *and* treat that as a stepping stone towards larger, overarching organization, where you constantly keep pushing for that larger change (even if you personally are not the one doing the work there!).
But both categories of people will tend to reject this idea (often implicitly rather than explicitly), for a different reasons.
How on earth do we resolve this?
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i found this website on accident on the internet.
https://www.betrayingwhiteness.org/
in short, it's a "guided online learning path toward understanding & undermining the constructs of race" and is primarily focused on deconstructing race, class and white supremacy, and is aimed at white folks that wish to do some self-reflection to understand their own bias and work towards a future without white supremacy
i find it useful myself as someone who wants to work on that, so i thought i'd share that w yall
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Imagining toots bragging about the Fediverse contributing a quarter of a million dollars to mutual aid instead of billionaires.
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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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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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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.
- 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
