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
Today I learned that Servo has an excellent "AI" policy: https://book.servo.org/contributing.html#ai-contributions
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EDIT: Fixed it. Updating my system solved it. 🤦♀️
Plasma broke for me yet again 😖
I had an issue where plasmashell would crash immediately as soon as I logged in, and part of the solution was to delete several Plasma configuration files (in ~/.config and ~/.local/share).
Sadly, this made the Window Decoration I was using completely break (see attached image + alt text). I already tried removing and reinstalling it, to no avail. And it's ONLY that deco that broke - others still work.
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“‘read, write, own’ web” - "Those who don’t remember the web before platforms, tend to believe that for 10 years web users stared at their monitors in anticipation. Actually they were made to believe it. First by Web 2.0 proponents, and nowadays by aggressive Web3 campaigns that rewrite the history by stating that Web1 was a dull, passive, read only place.”
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Happy captain james cook getting what he deserved Day!
british colonizer captain cook was killed by Native Hawaiians on this day in 1779. cook, whose men spread disease & used violence against Native Peoples for rejecting his rule, was stabbed to death for trying to kidnap the ruling chief of Hawai'i, Kalani'ōpu'u.
*Just reminding folks that Native Hawaiians have asked that commercial travel cease to their islands due to environmental disasters brought on by colonialism.*
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Via bsky [https://bsky.app/profile/anamariecox.bsky.social/post/3li5nneht3s2i]:
Alternatives to calling someone or something "crazy" when they're doing fascism.
instead of "crazy" → fascist
instead of "lunatic" → fascist
instead of "schizo" → fascist
instead of "psycho" → fascist
instead of "bipolar" → fascist
instead of "schizo" → fascist
instead of "insane" → fascist
f you must vary your language (and who doesn't want to!), instead of using mental illness diagnoses, say:
erratic
bizarre
weird (a good one!)
ludicrous
outrageous
👇
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I've been thinning out my record collection, and these have to go.
This is mostly easy listening I pulled together for a festival chillout/cafe tent project that never got off the ground.
There's also some 80/90s pop in there, 12" singles, but a few now albums etc, some kids novelty records...
Nothing with much resale value.
Seems a shame to send it to the tip, but splitting/selling it is omgsomuchwork
If anyone wants the whole lot, and can collect from #Bristol (UK) let me know!
Dan plaats je een reactie op een video over fietsongelukken dat de gegevens van het CBS laten zien dat het probleem bij auto's ligt, en dan gaan er meerdere(!) mensen reageren met "het ligt aan de elektrische fietsen", die dus duidelijk zelf niet naar de CBS-data gekeken hebben...
Dat propagandapraatje over hoe gevaarlijk elektrische fietsen wel niet zijn is toch wel heel effectief gebleken, hoor.
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Saved and liberated the books I "bought" at Amazon for my Kindle. Amazon will stop offering the "Download & transfer via USB" option, so I have downloaded all 210 books. After downloading, I hunt them through Calibre and a certain plugin to remove the DRM stuff, convert the books to EPUB format so I have my private backup and can put them on a new ebook reader that is more open than the Amazon walled garden. And in future I will buy my eBooks someplace else. #ByeAmazon
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random talk about religion
so, one of the big reasons why "atheist" is not a religion is because religions are far more than a belief system: they're also a culture and a set of traditions. it's why so many people are proudly Jewish despite not really believing in God
but also, the weird thing about this is that the most popular religion in the US and Europe, Christianity, has replaced most of its culture and traditions… with capitalism. every Christian tradition except Christmas and Easter has been removed completely, and those two are still mostly about buying gifts or chocolate eggs
so, in a very real sense, the primary religion of the US and Europe is capitalism, not Christianity. and this openly tracks with basic Christian morals like "love thy neighbour" being completely omitted in favour of capitalist bullshit
the irony, of course, is that Christianity at its core is very anticapitalist, but that's far from what people believe nowadays
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This guy did something dumb a decade ago and is still living with the consequences. He's a bit desperate financially, but still won't resort to a memecoin, it's too wrong.
https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/interviews/the-man-behind-the-burger-king-foot-lettuce-meme-talks-getting-doxxed-fired-and-tanking-bks-sales-for-stepping-in-lettuce
personal, activism (2)
Oh, there's one more variant: local 'anarchist' meetings that ostensibly exist for organizing and meeting new people to work with, but which have exactly zero COVID safety guidelines and which pretend that the pandemic is over, and so I cannot even safely attend them
personal, activism
It immensely frustrates me that I *want* to get involved in effectively (locally) organizing against fascism, but I cannot do that on my own and almost everyone I talk to either:
1) Is completely politically apathetic and uninterested in doing literally any work to improve things to begin with,
2) Fails to pass even the most basic intersectionality test (usually in the form of holding differently-bigoted beliefs and absolutely refusing to introspect on them),
3) Is completely uninterested in any kind of creative strategizing, insistently sticking to the same three strategies that haven't worked for decades and that just burn out participants, or
4) Just outright doesn't have the energy/spoons to be actively involved, usually due to disability (which I obviously don't blame them for, but from a practical perspective it doesn't help to get things moving).
Like, it shouldn't be this difficult to find even a few people who are genuinely interested in making things happen, and have the energy to do so to at least some degree?
(This is in the Netherlands, to be clear)
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#BlackHistory. Meet Kizzmekia Corbett, leader of the team that gave us the Covid-19 vaccine. Thank you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizzmekia_Corbett
One of the things that continues to baffle me is how willing so many people are to just *believe* the things that corporations tell them unless disproven.
Even if you believe that some corporations are truthful, clearly *many* corporations must be structurally lying (even if you don't know which), otherwise the world couldn't look like it does today.
Isn't that an obvious reason to be more skeptical of corporate claims by default, rather than giving them the benefit of the doubt...?
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@Luczeproblemen Het doet me denken aan een vriendin bij een andere verzekeraar. Alles digitaal, tracking-app op de telefoon. Sport zich in ruil voor wat spiegeltjes en kraaltjes een slag in de rondte, terwijl ze dat eigenlijk niet aankan. Maar het extraatje kan ze wel goed gebruiken…
Dát is wat prijsprikkels doen.
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fuck assimilation. i don't want a slice of your blood pie. i want sustenance that isn't made of suffering.
"Prinsenbeek ligt aan de snelweg A16 [...]. Staat het verkeer ergens rond die wegen vast, dan kiezen automobilisten vaak voor een rit door het dorp. Ook verkeer tussen Zevenbergen/Etten-Leur en Breda ziet het dorp als een makkelijke of kortere route dan het nemen van de snelweg."
Gemiste kans om de rol van navigatiesoftware zoals Google Maps hier aan te stippen, die er nogal een handje van hebben om mensen door sluiproutes te sturen bij files.
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uspol, trans, yikes
Friends, the whole thing with trans erasure is very deeply sinister. Like, they're going to murder us level sinister.
Allies, you need to be super clear that you support trans rights. Your civic organisation, religious group, union, workplace - every organisation needs to be putting out messaging that you support trans people. Issue a statement. Speak from the pulpit. You can do this. It's ok to take initiative. Step back if a trans person wants to lead, but if they can't, you can. If you need help writing a statement, DM me. You can do this.
Put trans stickers on everything. You car, every surface in public spaces. Fly flags. Make support visible. Sew a patch on your jacket.
Put pronouns in your email signature, in your messaging app, in every profile. When you introduce yourself, say your pronouns.
Write letters to government officials, to your local newspaper, to every place that will print a letter. Thank officials doing the right thing.
Find out when demos are and show up. Organise a demo. Get some mates and a few flags and stand on a corner in your town's centre on a weekend afternoon, waving signs saying you support trans rights. You can just do this. You don't need trans people to organise this. You can just do it. Print out some leaflets from trans orgs and hand them to people.
Put a big banner on a freeway overpass.
Donate to trans rights groups. And to clinics that offer care. Give money to planned Parenthood and your city's free clinic.
Have you fantasised about what you would have done in a historical moment? This is that moment.
And I'm not just talking about the actual libraries that run on the target device here, the build tools are just as horrendous
- 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
