Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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- 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
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"we just need to prompt it better" is the 2025 version of yelling "ENHANCE" at a photo
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it's actually really interesting - and really *bad* - that the general public feels that database software that a huge number of organizations use is so arcane and so boring that it's not worth a two-sentence explainer in a mainstream newspaper. it's a clear sign of the formation of a priesthood, in my opinion
i feel similarly about the lack of interest people tend to show in, say, water treatment, waste management, and manufacturing processes. it's good and important to know and care about the way your life is built and maintained
and especially for us middle-class white people in the imperial core - we have more power than most in re: these systems, and it's incumbent upon us to understand them to at least some degree for that reason
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i am begging journalists to become even a little bit interested in the systems of organization that are rapidly becoming the underpinning of our entire society
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uspol, passports
given the recent shitshow i think we really should stop pushing for X gender markers and start pushing to strip all gender markers from ID documents in general, the netherlands was weighing it recently-ish, not sure where thats gone. anyway all it does is give bigoted officials a free pass to go "well you don't look like insert gender here" or worse
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Ask yourself this: will fares in self-driving cabs be cheaper? Will subscriptions to vibe-coded SaaS cost less? Will tickets to see model-generated movies be a fraction of the current price?
Or do all these technologies just solve the problem of having to pay people, with no benefit to anyone else except shareholders?
And then ask yourself this: if nobody's getting paid, who's hailing the taxis, using the SaaS and watching the movies?
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my union rep* says it's time to clock out of work
*my cat who wants dinner
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"Burnout, I’ve come to believe, isn’t just about time or tasks. It’s about purpose, alignment, and whether you believe the system you work in deserves your sacrifice."
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on furnal equinox and their fascist bs
and like let’s be fucking real lol - this was always going to happen because we kept pretending the fandom wasn’t political. in many spaces i have been in there's an air of politics being this unspoken taboo that nobody talks about. as a result we have chosen to willingly commodify and gentrify ourselves.
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on furnal equinox and their fascist bs
fascists and bigots, unlike many assert, *thrive* here. yes, they fucking do, and many of them do not wear the "furry raiders" type beat pawprint badges. people in this fucking community are so afraid of conflict and politics that they let everyone walk over them. the white, cis, male, abled majority refuses to take a stand, dismissing every attempt to call this out as "drama" or "discourse." it’s cowardice dressed up as neutrality, and it’s killing us.
Wat is dat toch, dat als je kritiek uit over het bestaan van politie/defensie e.d., dat mensen er gelijk van uitgaan dat je gewoon "naief" bent en "niet snapt waarom het bestaat"? Echt vermoeiend, zo kun je nooit eens een fatsoenlijk gesprek erover voeren.
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thinking shit like "i will forget if i dont remember"
Surely the Eurotunnel has got to be the train line with the most road surface per train
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OH: SAP Community Edition
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🦝 ugh what am I going to do with all these websites
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🦝: starts another website
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Uspol rant
"who would have thought that building a militarized police state that outdoes stalinist Russia would end up being used to oppress people?"
Almost everyone.
The socialists saw it from a mile away. Everyone from anarchists to tankies to social democrats all realized it. Left liberals also mostly got the memo as well, to their credit.
The GOP intended to use the police state for their authoritarian capitalist pet project, and they were among its architects. Of course they fucking knew, they're far right freakazoids who get a hardon from killing Black people and Middle Easterners.
The only people who didn't get the hint were centrist liberals who thought it was for "public safety" and "fighting drugs" and "eliminating terror". The Democratic leadership is generally high on official US propaganda, and really they've politically suffered for it.
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i want an indestructible flipphone running modern android and i want it to not be made by a company complicit in crimes against humanity
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polyamory v. mononormativity
framing it as "ethical non-monogamy" means it is still framed as abnormal
The idea that some tech company is being benevolent by "giving you a platform for your community" while pocketing the ad money themselves to supposedly "keep the servers running"...
... really isn't any meaningfully different from the myth that employers are benevolent by "giving you a job" and you should be glad to have it, when in reality it's *your* labour that sustains them.
The 'platform economy', especially where it involves people voluntarily creating media and content on those platforms, is just the same old worker exploitation with a new coat of paint.
If it were truly about 'supporting communities', then the platform wouldn't be run by a for-profit company.
- 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
