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.
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- 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
advice, managing volunteer work, anarchism
Running a volunteer project in an anarchist way doesn't just mean that you declare everyone "equal" and let people sort things out by themselves with no guidance. That gets you debate club, not anarchism.
Far more important is that you balance responsibility and authority - do not give people authority without the corresponding responsibility, and do not give people responsibility without the corresponding authority.
Why? Because people usually need some degree of 'ownership' over the tasks that they take on, otherwise you will get nothing but endless arguments and it's not clear how the outcome is going to be decided, or by whom.
Once you have that balanced correctly, it becomes a matter of keeping tasks (and areas of responsibility) small, and ensuring that nobody has an outsized amount of them - people should not take on more than they can reasonably handle, even if that means that some things don't get done.
Beyond that, you need the usual things in any collective project - a safe, constructive and supportive environment, people to go to for help if you get stuck, and a whole lot of conflict resolution work and training.
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pol, boundaries (afk, my feed is nice, i just unfollowed or muted everyone not using cws a long time ago)
"have you heard what that nazi said!!!"
yeah i actually have. my media consumption habits are questionable some mornings. i know, i know.
but you know what? i would never even consider shoving that piece of news onto other people. especially not marginalized people who know perfectly well how shitty nazis are, and don't need anyone to tell them the latest details. like who even does that. what the fuck.
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The official #pixelfed app for android has a google advert tracker in it
Edit to add: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.pixelfed/latest/#trackers
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Na een bizarre maand vol Big Tech wentelingen in de VS, is nog maar eens gebleken dat Big Tech geen passende platformen biedt voor culturele en maatschappelijke organisaties. Zeker X is een slangenkuil, maar hoe stap je over naar het alternatief Mastodon?
Voor de organisaties die het ook te heet onder de voeten wordt, hebben we een handige eXit folder ontworpen.
Download 'm op onze website! https://publicspaces.net/2025/01/23/in-5-stappen-van-x-naar-mastodon-het-publicspaces-stappenplan/
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Every time I see someone bring up "IQ scores" I feel the need to repeat: IQ scores were literally invented by eugenicists and they've always been biased towards privilege
Also if you haven't noticed, once someone starts to believe they're a genius, they start to think a lot less clearly.
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Ah yes, graphics programming, where you stare into darkness and try to discern patterns in the shadows
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Amazon is so afraid of unions that it's willing to eat the loss on 7 entire warehouses, just to cauterize itself.
Wow.
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Someone just “recommended” I feed my medical records into ChatGPT and ask it to help parse out the most important information.
Just in case anyone needs to hear this… do not give your medical records to AI.
Don’t do it. No good can come from giving all your private & personal info away like that
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Brick Layer Post-Processor, Promising Stronger 3D Prints, Now Available
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ACAB
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The wild thing about the tech oligarchs is that if they stopped offering their services tomorrow, most of us would be at a loss for maybe a week, then replace them with the dozens of other, smaller alternatives that they keep beating down below the fold.
They're nothing like the robber barons, who could *materially fuck you up* just by like, losing a shipment on their railroad or forgetting to ship you steel or cutting you off from oil.
These people bottle and sell the air like it's gold.
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ticket gates on the metro make absolutely no fucking sense, never did and never will
they only artificially boost the operational cost of the infrastructure because they break all the fucking time and need constant maintenance, upgrades, inspections
they reduce accessibility and easy of use of the basic transportation infrastructure
it's just a shit idea overall
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Your regular stream of caro socialist commentary to counter the constant capitalist propaganda we are all under all of the time
Fare dodgers, petty thieves and low scale drug dealing (which is most drug dealing) is only a crime when you think not having enough money in a system where anyone not working themselves to death or born lucky enough to nor need to and not subscribing your life to retiring later and later to make someone that already has more than you richer is a crime. There is real tax money spent towards investigating these 'crimes'. Tax money that can be spent towards making public transport free or more affordable, better free education and other really ways to actually and provably prevent crime
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politics
by "overriding agency" i mean the situations where fear overtakes your ability to think clearly, to act of your own will. situations where it disrupts organization and makes you give up, shut up and comply with fascism.
it's okay to be afraid. it's okay to cry. it's okay to feel angry and devastated. absolutely.
but once we have processed these emotions, we have to stand up, wipe our tears and fight. together.
we won't let them win.
Ah yes, Matrix. Taking over a minute to clear a client-side notification counter for a message that has already been seen. Completely normal and functioning messaging protocol.
Who on earth came up with the idea to have the server exclusively track notification counts?!?
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politics
a lot of people myself included are afraid, but i believe we must not let it overtake us.
fear puts you into an inherently defensive, disarming, passive position. unchecked, it allows the enemy to dictate you the terms on which you fight. it kills your spirit, it throws you off balance, it makes you pliable and malleable.
it is a completely normal, healthy emotion we must not resent, but like with all emotions, we must not let it override our agency.
recast your fear into resilience.
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health update, post-transplantation
Day 9 after transplantation.
Continuing to become more mobile and agile every day, I can make almost all of my normal movements again, and most of the time I can bend over too! Walking speed seems to have restored to my usual "nobody can keep up with me" levels.
Had some issues with leg cramps keeping me awake, that seemed to be a side-effect of the fluvastatine; discussed with doctor, temporarily paused those meds for a bit to see if that was indeed the cause. If so, they may get replaced by other medication.
Weirdly, sitting in a chair is still one of the most tiring things for me, and I usually need to lay down on the couch for a bit near the end of the day.
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Wir haben Kaltgerätekabel gegen Versand abzugeben. Gerne auch komplette Pakete. 
UPDATE: @Exellent nimmt bis Dienstag Wünsche entgegen
- 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
