Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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 frustrating thing about the #fosstodon drama has been that instead of stepping down and throwing a hissy fit about being called out, the admins could have, when presented with evidence of the fascist views of their mod, said "oh, we didn't know, thanks for bringing it to our attention", and then removed the mod.
It's as easy as that, and none of the drama would have happened.
Looopings is bijzonder vaag over de exploitant van de kermisattractie Energizer waarmee een ernstig ongeluk is gebeurd (Niek Moonen dus).
Looopings verkoopt ook Energizer-merch in hun webshop, en dat roept toch wel wat vragen op, zeker aangezien er geen enkele disclosure in het artikel staat over hun samenwerking met de exploitant...
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If you're someone aligning yourself with those particular views then I really don't give a damn if you end up being given that label, even if you're not going full sieg heil.
You know damn well why it is you got called one, you know damn well what your politics are, and you know damn well that they're somewhere in the realm of those that you don't want to be grouped in with.
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Nazis were monstered to such a degree that we've completely dehumanised then. Like they're all heinous jew killers walking around wearing swastikas, you can spot them a mile off, and their ilk get relegated to the fringes of our now decent society.
While I agree with the argument that the term 'nazi' gets banded around a lot in arguments and isn't always applicable, it's easy to forget the vast majority of actual nazis were ordinary people who were aligned with certain political views.
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@schratze ah yes, a definition of the working class characterized by machismo aesthetics rather than material conditions and economic power relationships, where have I heard this before
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my father in law recently told me that I'm not a member of the working class. I don't remember his exact argument, but it boiled down to I don't work in a factory or on a construction site, so I'm not a working person.
And that's nonsense. The work you do has nothing to do with your social class. The question is whether you make your living by working (selling your labor) or by owning things (real estate, money, stocks, etc.)
I doesn't matter whether you're a mechanic, a miner, an office worker, a journalist, a sex worker, a twitch streamer, whatever – if you are forced to sell your labor to make a living, then you're a member of the working class.
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I made a website. It's called "one million chessboards." It has a million chessboards on it.
moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. No turns. You can move between boards.
that's it. Have fun!
onemillionchessboards.com
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Apparently stepping away and closing a community of tens of thousands of people is easier than just having an ounce of self reflection and maybe considering the needs of marginalised folk
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How many times over the past few years have we seen 'hey, white guy instance admin, could you do some accountability over this troubling thing that happened?' and they've gone 'waaah you're so mean and unreasonable, that's it, I'm done!' and flounced off?
How many times
My dude all you have to do is hold yourself accountable
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the real joke is that "apolitical" people who complain about "snowflakes" and their "safe spaces" actually love safe spaces; it's just that their safe spaces are ones where they're free to be openly misogynistic, homophobic, racist, bigoted, and say nazi shit out loud without repercussions
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if i were ever to do something so base as have political views, I would simply keep them out of the eternal platonic realm of software development, which is my blessedly apolitical safe space 🤲
(definitely don't ask me where computers came from or what their history is or how they're manufactured or how they're used today or what foss was originally meant to be, or where the computer parts come from, or the political movements that profits from tech companies are going towards, la la la i can't hear you!!!)
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My day to day is a constant struggle to do at least the bare minimum to get through life. I don't understand it. I don't care for it. But there it is. I survive. I do my best. And I try not to hold myself to standards set by people who don't deal with the same shit I do.
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It is literally impossible to explain ADHD task avoidance to people who don't experience it, I think.
It has to sound absolutely insane to just sit around, filled with dread and anxiety, not doing a small thing you "could do any time" that really needs to get done. And to just continue that way for hours, days, weeks, months, even fucking years.
Like, who lives that way? How can anyone live that way? (I live that way, but I don't know how I survive)
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Fedi meta, fash shit, subtoot
By noping out on his own, the fascist ultimately did more for the integrity of the mod team than the mod team did.
I hope the they sit with that for a bit, really think it through.
Thanks to @pixouls I now know what happened, I think! I mixed some home compost into my potting soil, and in the past I've composted... tomatoes! So most likely these are seeds that survived in the compost all that time.
Which, funnily enough, means that I now have tomato plants as a type of weeds
Sven Slootweg
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Meta, fosstodon
"the fedi is supposed to be a friendly, welcoming online space, right? But the fact is, it isn't."
Apparently we're supposed to be friendly and welcoming to people who hold far-right, fascist, beliefs, but if they're not friendly and welcoming to us it's fine I guess? 🤷♀️ One rule for me, etc.
(Re. The Fosstodon admin, Kev, table-flipping his way out of the instance: https://kevquirk.com/blog/my-thoughts-on-the-fosstodon-drama . How dare marginalised people ask whether they're safe. So rude of us.)
These are tomato seedlings, right? I'm not missing something? Could they possibly be something else, like a weed?
(I ask because these are showing up in areas that I *definitely* didn't sow tomato seeds in, nor any similar plants...)
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@joepie91 what are you building? An industrial PLA composting facility?
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
