Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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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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- 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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today is the day
i will run gotosocial on my car
and make it federate
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re: psa, uspol, immigrant safety
a reminder that ICE is actively arresting and deporting hundreds of people, just since monday.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/24/birthright_citizenship
familiarize yourself with any immigrant rights organizations in your area, so you know who to report sightings of ICE to!
you can help by reporting if you see ICE, by donating to your local volunteer org helping to resist deportations, or even by volunteering if you're able. some may even offer classes or organize protests.
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psa, uspol, immigrant safety
ICE is expected in the #Denver #Colorado area soon, if they're not already there, as well as around the rest of the country.
https://www.denver7.com/news/politics/as-trump-assumes-office-fear-and-uncertainty-grow-for-potential-ice-operations-in-denver-metro-area
Trump has also announced that ICE is allowed to make arrests in previously protected places, such as schools, churches, and hospitals.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10970657/us-immigration-arrests-churches-schools-donald-trump/
Localities have their own stances. For instance, Denver's mayor has spoken about resisting arrests in protected areas, whereas the mayor of Aurora intends to fully cooperate.
If ICE is spotted in #Colorado, please contact the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition!
https://coloradoimmigrant.org/our-work/ice-resistance/
@hyenagirl64 has a similar thread with information about the #Seattle area: https://yiff.life/@hyenagirl64/113862972194549333
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uspol, tactics on the right
just wanted to say like
conservatives don't care about the contradictions
it's not the same as a democrat lying. republicans are about power. if they lie to achieve their goals, that's savviness. if a democrat does it, it's betrayal
if their politician lies to them or keeps their intentions secret, it's probably for the authoritarian ends that the republican either wants or trusts - due to authoritarian leanings - is actually just strength and playing the game well.
uspol, meta
I would like to see more posts talking about actionable things that people can do to fight fascism in the US, and way less posts reporting on what awful thing Musk or Trump has done today, because that is really not at all helpful and tells nobody anything new
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politics, grumbling
a lot of people who said i was crazy, a doomer, etc about stuff currently happening in the US owe me an apology but i don’t think i’ll ever get it
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US politics, positive
Federal workers I know are very encouraged by people flooding the #antiDEI snitch email address with spam. They feel like someone has their backs.
Even small (and perhaps silly) acts of solidarity may have a big impact in ways you don’t think about.
https://newrepublic.com/post/190576/trump-dei-snitch-plan-federal-workers
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In the fediverse, many of us appreciate #RSS to follow blogs and podcasts and such, but I never see anyone talking about using #iCalendar for following event calendars. An open standard of similar age to RSS, it works well and is widely supported by #calendar software—even Google still supports it, unlike RSS. I'd like to see more meetups publishing their event schedules, more apps doing interesting things with calendars, and more investment in the open calendar ecosystem. Wouldn't you?
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A reminder to academics that might think you need to “engage” in “good faith” with blatantly immoral actions taken by hateful people: you super don’t.
Really.
Nothing happens if you don’t take up the role as devil’s advocate. No one is clamoring for that.
You won’t reach the end of your existence and regret having dismissed out of hand the positions of folks that would deprive others of their humanity.
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Normalize bullying individuals and corporations for using AI slop of any kind (imagery, video, voice, LLM).
If the thing you're making or doing can't exist without scraping the internet and stealing everything you see while burning drinkable water and coal like crazy - this thing shouldn't exist, and you should exist in jail after ecocide trial
If the thing you're making or doing can't exist without scraping the internet and stealing everything you see while burning drinkable water and coal like crazy - this thing shouldn't exist, and you should exist in jail after ecocide trial
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Normal queer household activities such as a discussion about linked lists and UTF-16
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A friend added my FOI request feed to their home alerting dashboard, and informed me that every time I harass a government department the house lights flash.
Friend: I am sorry for what is about to happen.
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My friend asks: "I wonder if there are art historians, curators and educators around" fedi. What instances should I point her at?
#AskFedi: Does anyone know of one of those awesome-whatever lists, but for "software (of any kind) that is easy to set up and learn to use"?
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27 years of building web apps and watching my peers build authoritarian surveillance and propaganda systems to support facists and grifters.
politics, nazis, actionable
Something to remember is that nazis and other fascists are, generally, not very courageous. They use fear to oppress others, but they don't usually know how to deal with someone who isn't scared.
One of the most effective things you can do against nazi rhetoric personally, is to openly defy it. To make it clear that you are not intimidated, that their fear isn't working on you. This will leave most fascists with a lack of strategies.
This is not *entirely* zero-risk, of course. But they have way, *way* less bite than their rhetoric would imply.
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looking at two socks, trying to determine if they’re from the same pair, like a biologist trying to figure out if two similar specimens are from the same species
- 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
