Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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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- 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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Ok folks! #hopePunk weekend challenge!
Take some time to ponder, and add your own toots to two of my favourite visioning projects:
#spoonieTown an imaginary place where we've already solved all the problems - what's life like there? What's kind of infrastructure is used? How do we take care of each other? What's a day like?
#tonicMasculinity - share your favourite examples from pop culture, your real life moments, or men you admire and why. There's so much good to celebrate. 🎉
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in #SpoonieTown, the abbreviated terms "Lo-Mo" and "Lo-Fo" are understood to mean "low motivation" and "low focus" and describe those particular challenges a person can struggle with in their day to day. so, when someone says they are having a lomo kind of day, everyone gets exactly how that person is feeling and can instantly relate.
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The Local Project: A Thread of a Work in Progress
In the interest of exploring "what is to be done" for folks who might be new to activism or feeling hopeless (or overly dependent on electoralism, RIP), I will be using this thread to hint at the strategies & tactics used in a rather small midwest town (5,000-10,000 people).
It's not my town, my activity, or my strategies. *Obviously.*
Think of it as creative nonfiction, if it helps you sleep better at night.
Ready? Let's begin.
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"One of the problems associated with this 'unity fetish' is the idea that only 'big movements' or organizations are worthwhile.
"People think movements fail because not enough people support one party, one org, one demand. After 20 years of activism, I think this perspective is mistaken.
"Here are five reasons why joining or waiting for others to choose a large group is a tactical mistake for activists:
1. Small groups can have huge effects. Light & nimble, it is easier for them to be in the right place at the right time.
2. Small groups can federate with each other or larger ones for events. It's easier to get many small groups into conversation than it is to try to rebuild a large group from scratch every time something new comes up.
3. Big groups have to start somewhere. Even if a big group might be useful, they do not appear overnight. Most of them need a core group anyway.
4. It is demoralizing to think that, because there's no group right in front of you, then there's nothing "worth" doing. If you wait for large groups to appear, you miss out on the smaller goals all around you.
5. Big groups are bigger targets for co-opting tactics from the oligarchs: they're often bought out & toothless. Small groups don't need grant money, staff, & webpages, so they do not need to chase validation from people with money."
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I’m confused.
Can you use petrol with Teslas or not?
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Due to the impending collapse of the USA, there seems to be a movement of import substitution brewing in Europe¹. Alright, I can live with that.
But how about, additionally, a really good repair movement? There's a lot of imported hardware in circulation, some of it hampered by secure boot schemes (that need legalized exploits), some by software obsolescence. Microsoft is telling people to throw PCs away when Windows 11 won't run on them, we can do better.
¹: central/western Europe, this time
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it's called a script or a book or a film or a play or a video or god knows what else but it is NOT content, jesus christ.
it's such an odorless colorless word
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"how to turn a boring moment from your life into content" it's called a story. it's called a fucking story
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why don't phones have a passive RFID chip you can write e-tickets to when it's still powered on?
I'll keep using my plastic cards for train tickets :^)
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In Baarn: Grote groep tegen de NVU. Heel veel smeris. Poging tot uitbraak om lopen NVU te verhinderen werd terug geknuppeld. Weglopen aan andere kant verhinderd smeris en romeo's. Nu ingesloten. Ook ME met schilden. Veel leuzen. Nazi scum off our streets!
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Your friendly occasional reminder that, if you want to read an academic paper but it’s paywalled, you can email the author and they are allowed to send you a pdf. You can’t imagine how delighted they will generally be to think that someone actually wants to read their work.
Interesting. From 2007 to 2022, Facebook did not go a single year without making at least one acquisition.
But then in 2023 *and* 2024, nothing. None. Zero.
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Gonna need you not to drag the intellectually disabled/delayed into your rants about people who are actually evil.
The intellectually impaired community didn't break the government.
Fascists broke the government.
Call them fascists.
Also, if you want to argue with me about it... don't.
Today is not the day. You may not give a shit about people different than you but if that's true, please block me. Seriously.
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Huh, interesting. Looks like some of the vocabulary downloads from the Library of Congress have shrunk a little bit. Might be nothing, but I have a snapshot of it all from last week and I'm currently downloading a new snapshot so once that's done I'll compare and we shall see what we shall see.
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i have received information that one of my friends who went to Furnal Equinox got their antifa furry patches confiscated because the con director said that they were "promoting antifa" and they nearly got banned from the con.
is there any kind of furry or adjacent press that i can talk to about this to spread the word?
furnal equinox are making a big mistake. they're openly deciding to cozy up to fascism at this point
UPDATE: https://plush.city/@mynameistillian/114211598338661386
politics, hot take, probably even for this place
I do not think that there exists a single punitive system in any society today, that would pass a sound scientific analysis as to its outcomes - they could not be shown to have the effect that they supposedly have (and for which they were introduced).
What's more, I think that every single punitive system that exists today was introduced based on rhetoric and assumptions that were never actually tested or verified.
This ranges from late fees and fare-dodging fines, to welfare cuts, to policing and prisons and their specific policies. All of them. Every single one of them. Whether recent or very old.
My least favourite part of libraries: the late fees
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i don’t mind people who use “how are you” as filler because, you know, even if they’re expecting a non answer i still have freedom to drive that any direction i want
but people who say “how’s it going” walking by without slowing down
what
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It is disappointing that computers no longer come with quality manuals or documentation.
All of my old computers have manuals that basically say, "wow, look all the cool shit you can do! Colors!"
Now it's just consume, consume, consume.
- 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
