Sven Slootweg @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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- 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
accident analysis
Looks like the accident report for the Jetline accident at Grona Lund came out - and there's a Coaster College video going over it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMh0imnNGck
(For those unfamiliar, Coaster College is pretty much the one channel that does in-depth and accurate analysis videos about ride accidents, with none of the sensationalism and hyperbole that you see on other channels)
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@mynameistillian
So true! My family love to buy me three thousand gift packs of sledgehammer ice shower gel and burning factory deodorant each christmas.
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ACAB
why deodorant marketed towards men always has to have some unpleasant sharp scent. "feminine" sticks are like "cherry blossom" or "papaya delight" or "lavender breeze" and "masculine" sticks be like RAW CONCRETE. ELECTRIFIED CEDARWOOD. CAFFEINATED ARMOR-PIERCING AMMUNITION
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A Very Good Thing I've started doing is writing down all the stuff I need to do next week on Friday afternoon and then CLOSING THE NOTEBOOK AND DELETING IT ALL FROM MY BRAIN UNTIL MONDAY MORNING
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We hebben van de @gemeentelv een paardekastanje gekregen en ze wilden er graag een bank uit hebben. Vandaag hebben we die stam gezaagd. Één van onze vrijwilligers gaat hem verder bewerken.
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Hi, I'm Sharon and I care about de-shitting the world. My contribution to that effort: my anti-racism newsletter where I share my experiences of racism around the globe and platform Black founders and activists trying to redress inequality. I'm a former trade journalist, journalism lecturer and freelance writer. I have lived and worked in many places, and am currently in Barbados. I love reading (and no, it doesn't have to be highbrow), words, Star Trek and learning new things. #introduction
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Houd fascisten van onze straten!
Op de dag na de Internationale Dag tegen #Racisme van 21 maart willen de neo-nazi’s door de straten van Baarn marcheren. Dat mogen we niet laten gebeuren, zeker niet nu we ook met een #extreemrechts kabinet zitten. Samen met andere organisaties organiseren we een tegenprotest en zeggen we: Geen haat in onze straat! Demonstreer mee!
https://www.platformstopracisme.nl/22-maart-in-baarn-geen-haat-in-onze-straten
(initiatief van o.a. AFA Utrecht, @Internationale_Socialisten, @PSRF, ROOD en de @VrijeBond)
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)
- 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
