Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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The reduction of all human activity to transaction trades is dehumanizing. As is reducing all human activity to materialistic economic exchanges.
I talk about it this way, I reduce what is in fact “being decent to your fellow person” to “economics” because in this society we operate with the false and destructive assumption that if a thing does not provide a quantifiable profit, if it cannot be quantified, if it cannot be bought or sold, then it is without meaning or value.
if it has value anyways, then we presume that it *should* be transactionalized in order for somebody, somewhere, to be able to make money off of it.
This is extremely dehumanizing. It is not an accurate understanding of real life human behavior.
It is, by the literal definition of the word, extremely idealistic, even if the neo-liberal ideals are framed as if they are cynical and “realistic”
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the core assumption of neo-liberalism is that relying on other people makes us weak and feckless. That providing for others makes us exploited.
But that isn’t how humans actually behave. We are social creatures. In a group, we will naturally tend to specialize towards the tasks we are best suited for that the group we are in needs. The person who cooks, cooks for the group while the one who makes horseshoes shoes their horses.
It is useful to have mediums of exchange to facilitate *transactional* exchanges because if I am visiting a distant land I still need to be able to give something in return for what I need so I can contribute to their society as well.
But money isn’t the economy. Trading money for things or things for things aren’t the only kinds of economic exchange.
Humans do not give birth to children as a form of economic investment, but as a means to ensure the continuation of their community. It’s an “investment” in the common welfare, not a financial “investment”
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politiek
We roepen nu wel allemaal heel hard hoe de VS een fascistische staat geworden is, maar ook in Nederland gaat het hard de verkeerde kant op.
Zoals bijvoorbeeld Faber (PVV) die ageert om 'overlastgevende asielzoekers' op te sluiten in een gevangenis. Zonder juridisch proces dus, want het gaat niet om veroordelingen. Zo'n beleid is niet noemenswaardig anders dan wat Trump nastreeft, en is net zo racistisch.
Always promising when I manage to crash a game in the tutorial
uspol, vent
Journalists need to grow a fucking spine and actually say "Trump and Musk lie" out loud instead of repeating their claims as if there is even a remote intention of truth in there
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LB I didn't wanna derail that thread but if you're looking for sewing patterns and you have the measurements of who you're making something for (and tbh a size chart might work too), please check out https://freesewing.org where patterns cost exactly how much it costs you to print them! Unless you have a projector because they also have a mode for that, so you can save paper and spend $0 more than what you already paid for the projector
#sewing #freeSewing #freeSewingPatterns
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I'm ending this debate on this point and, honestly, this last entry is more for myself than for Robin Sloan. It's a reminder to myself that "AI" is part and parcel of the ongoing right-wing political project.
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Now I'm disappointed.
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/now-im-disappointed/
I've already put way more effort into this than I should have
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@zacwest For any readers who go "huh": It is possible to download all your Amazon ebooks, remove their DRM with DeDRM, make some backups and, if desired, delete your Amazon account. Well, until February 26th it is possible, so do it now before they are lost forever.
https://umatechnology.org/how-to-de-drm-kindle-books-using-calibre-2024/
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Amazon is removing the ability to download purchased Kindle content, which is the only way to read it on my Kobo or elsewhere. What this means is I will no longer be purchasing (“a license to”–ick) any books by the mostly independent authors who exclusively publish there; just cancelled preorders.
uspol meta, "look at what Trump did today"
Once again, endlessly reporting on the awful shit that Trump does is going to do absolutely jack shit.
Anyone who cares already knows what the guy is doing, the cruelty is the point, and all you're doing by constantly posting bad news is to depress people into inaction because it seems hopeless. It doesn't *matter* what specific actions Trump takes.
Post about what you're doing to oppose it instead, about what resistance is happening in your area, about what support you can offer *or what you need from others* to mount an effective resistance.
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So you want to fight fascism and make a difference right now? Do this:
Join Codeberg e.V. – become part of the organisation; part of the resistance – and actively support this valuable and ethical EU-based anti-fascist¹ git hosting alternative that’s under attack by fascists as we speak:
Seriously, do it now.²
Volunteer and/or donate if you can.
Let’s send Codeberg’s membership through the roof and show these fucking fascists that when they push we push back twice as hard.
When you do, please add your voice to this thread so others can see.
I rarely ask this but please repost this far and wide.
¹ https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html
² If you’re having trouble reaching the server, it might also be under attack. You can check the current status of all Codeberg’s servers from https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg
#Codeberg #CodebergUnderAttack #SupportCodeberg #antifascist #EU #european #FOSS #freeSoftware #git #hosting #fediverse #mastodon #community #callToAction
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i joined verdi (one of the big unions in germany) (eventhough i don't really agree with them politically on many levels, they do some important stuff and there aren't many other options) and now I'm finding out they offer a lot of useful services to members that i didn't really know about before.
For example they have consulting on doing your taxes or on dealing with landlords, and help you with your communications with Jobcenter/Arbeitsagentur when you're unemployed.
I said "huh they really should advertize this stuff more" and then ellie told me that i should post about it so maybe others who don't know about this stuff can be helped by it so here we are
join a union, they're useful and good for you, and if you don't need the services then your money helps to provide them for those who do!
CW meta, a subtoot I guess
And to make that explicit: "forcing people to engage with what I, personally, currently believe to be important, regardless of context or mental well-being, is a good thing" 100% is a fascist belief, whether one wants to acknowledge it as such or not
CW meta, a subtoot I guess
Not understanding the request for CWs or having different beliefs about their consequences is one thing, but if you're trying to argue that requesting CWs equals "suppression of speech" then I'm honestly just going to assume that you hold fascist beliefs
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Statement from the CGT-CSVI union branch at UBISOFT BARCELONA
#ubisoft #strike #videogames
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Seriously, open source people, name one of your variables "transgender_marxism" and name one of your functions "green_new_deal".
You don't want your software used in weapons? This will help ensure it isn't.
Oh look, Disney has been ripping off artists again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylKLIjlDEi8
food dyes, ADHD
So I keep seeing this claim of "synthetic food dyes cause ADHD". Does anyone know what the *actual* science says?
Because this sounds an awful lot like the usual ableist pattern of "tiny study regarding ADHD/autism correlation gets extrapolated into sweeping and wild claims to support someone's pet peeve or financial interest".
- 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
