Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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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.
- 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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usually when companies are bought/merged I'm somewhere between "oh no" and "meh", but The Onion buying InfoWars' assets is really hilarious
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Sometimes I feel like therapy needs to be longer. I don't know if I can untangle everything in the span of an episode of House, I need Avengers level of therapy
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uspol, muskrat and Cheeto mention
Yeah DOGE is a sad and absurd name for anything that's connected to a government of any kind, but. Trump using a nongovernmental advisory board to slash the federal government is an important departure from business as usual.
I am anticipating that as he gets more and more frustrated with the checks and balances built into federal office confirmations (having to deal with the Senate, etc) he's going to rely more and more heavily on informal "advisory boards" like the so-called department of governmental efficiency. This is going to be one of the fastest and easiest ways for him to move fast and break things as much as possible.
I'm imagining the entire federal government being run with the same attention to detail as, say, Tesla. All federal regulatory agencies being expected to operate like the company that sells cars that explode and trap people inside is... not encouraging.
And I'm sure that's just the beginning. We are starting to see the actual design of the fascist takeover that's going to happen. Fear is going to be unavoidable, but it's important to anticipate what's coming. And to respond by preparing, organizing, and getting connected to comrades instead of succumbing to despair.
Relatedly, I need to go read project 2025...
kidney transplantation, update
Unfortunately my transplantation will be delayed; they are seeing inexplicable blood values and have no idea what my body is doing (which I suppose is in keeping with the theme) and want to make sure they identify the cause first
death of an abusive asshole
So I just learned that Zimbardo died recently, the "prison experiment" guy.
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Eine autistische Person toleriert ständig Dinge, die sie stören.
Hin und wieder, ist das Maß voll und es kommt zum Nervenzusammenbruch (manchmal inkl Wutausbruch).
Ironischerweise werden wir dann deshalb als "schwierig" eingestuft.
Es ist im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes Wahnsinn, was Autistinnen leisten. Trotzdem gelten wir als unwillig, Kompromisse einzugehen oder uns anzupassen.
Obwohl wir die meiste Zeit unseres Lebens genau das tun .. #AuDHS #autismus #neurodivergenz
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Looking at a neat job listing and AGAIN I am caught off guard by the unparalleled chrome extension: Cloud-to-Butt Plus.
I have had this extension for, I believe, over a decade, from before I ever considered being in tech. It CONSTANTLY gets me.
It used to do one thing: change the word "cloud" to the word "butt". These days it does two things: also the words "the cloud" to the words "my butt".
Unparalleled usefulness and excellence.
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To people who feel like there aren't many people on mastodon/fediverse, please actually try to be social. So often I see "there's nobody here, i'm going to bsky/threads/whatever" and then when I look at the account's profile on the home server (to make sure I can see all posts and replies), I almost always see very few posts in recent past and even fewer replies. The Fediverse's culture (and mastodon's software) is built around more traditional social networking, like we used to do before algos.
The bug is that they handle state incorrectly by the way, and one control system has a toggle whether the other has an explicit open/close, and it does not have a transition state, according to the system it is always either open or closed, and anyone who has ever fixed someone else's bad state management probably knows *exactly* where this is going
You really should not let me near tech that you would like to keep working
Got the automatic curtain control system in the hospital in an invalid state within 2 minutes of touching it, because of course I did
health, kidney disease, funny
An abbreviated review of my kidney patient career so far: had 240/something blood pressure with no real symptoms besides a headache and slightly blurry vision (which quickly recovered), walked merrily into the ICU to the astonishment of the nurses (and walked out again a day later), continued living a mostly normal life without dialisys on 8-10% remaining kidney function (ie. end-stage kidney failure) and no meaningful deterioriation over that timespan, managed to reduce salt in my diet so much that the sodium levels in my blood were dangerously low (again with no meaningful symptoms), learned to detect high potassium levels by feel, which once again baffled medical people, and was told today by a nurse that I am the second person they've ever had to pick up for a check-up on foot rather than in a bed, despite having worked there for a while.
I swear, at some point I'm surely going to become a medical research subject
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@smveerman with Lelylijn and Nedersaksenlijn also having been killed this government sure seems to hate trains :/
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The Dutch government and the province of Limburg have decided that, with the investment budget originally meant for the Hasselt - Maastricht tramline the following actions will be taken:
* Demolishing the railway bridge across the Maas in Maastricht.
* Improve railroad crossing safety between Maastricht and Eijsden for a second Maastricht - Liège service, making that half hourly.
* Buying unused land from ProRail around Maastricht to be used as construction grounds.
* Building a new bicycle bridge across the Maas near the location of the old railway bridge, but only when the demolition of the railway bridge is approved before 2027.
So, that's it then. A possible train service between Maastricht and Flemish Limburg will now forever not be possible.
Source: MIRT Brief Najaar 2024.
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The age-old question: "Do I hate MY job or do I just hate having to have A Job?"
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Who's interested in being part of a chill "reply when you can" penpal club?
No deadlines unless you want to set yourself one (which is totally legit).
No minimum requirement (send a postcard with a doodle).
It will mean sharing a physical mailing address, but it doesn't have to be your house - maybe a local coffee shop or friend is willing to be your address.
I can make a Signal group for folks who don't want to share here.
[EDIT: ask for my address!]
Tag #FediPenPals 
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So I am in a local-ish book circle with friends here in Sweden, we are reading kind, queer, feel-goody sff mainly. It'll be my time to pick a book in a few months, and I am thinking maybe A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark, to tug the group out of its whiteness for a while. I'd love some suggestions for other books that loosely fill the criteria that are not set in a european-ish/western setting with white people, by poc authors, if you guys have read anything good?
#bookrecs please
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I will be spending more time supporting and promoting mutual aid posts I see.
I offer no guarantees and any boosts/likes does not mean I vouch for the account. I don’t research or dig deep into these things and take them at face value.
Help however you can or see fit. With these dark times upon us I find it important to just help people without thinking, this is my mentality right now.
Much love to everybody! Stay safe, hopeful, and united!
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Ableism, neurospicies, reading difficulties
Judging someone for their inability to read and comprehend something as easily as *you* might be able to read and comprehend something is ableist.
Attacking someone for making a mistake because they mis-read something is ableist.
Expecting someone with autism to present in the same way that *your* autism (or whatever other neurospicy) presents is ableist.
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Spotify just reported record-breaking profits.
In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)
- 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
