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
Ran across the phrase "growth at the rate of trust" (h/t @kawaiipunk), and it summarizes my feelings about a lot of things (social media included) so well
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Een mysterie met de elektrificatie van de Maaslijn is nog niet opgelost. Op dit moment rijden de treinen tussen Venlo en Tegelen onder bovenleiding die permanent op de Duitse spanning van 15 kV staat. Dat kan straks niet meer als er elektrische treinen op de Maaslijn rijden, die onder de Nederlandse 1,5 kV spanning rijden. Hoe dat opgelost gaat worden is al jaren een groot geheim.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but you are still allowed to have fun and see friends and eat a slow dinner and celebrate things, even while "all this" is going on. Make your five calls, be part of a protest, pick your piece of "the work" each week but also make sure to nourish yourself and your networks because we are going to continue needing each other.
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I was raised homophobic, transphobic, and racist. I got over it. (full disclosure: I am a work in progress)
"They're a product of their time, they can't help it." is rubbish. We are all the product of our time. Staying there is a choice.
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got a special kind of hate for services that do not require ID to make an account, but demand one when you change your name. y'all know what you're doing and it isn't cute.
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I have run out of books to read again!
Looking for recommendations for queer sci-fi in the broadest sense (other than Becky Chambers - I've already read all of that), particularly that which tends toward a hopeful view.
It doesn't have to be happy-go-lucky, I just don't like the "everything is doomed and misery forever" thing that especially post-apocalyptic stories tend to do.
(Bonus points if you know where to buy a DRM-free ePub for it)
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@joepie91 we feel this in our soul 😓
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@njion Been making tea on my french press for years! 
The one thing to be careful with is to decant it after you're done steeping, otherwise it'll become too strong and bitter. You can't easily remove the tea leaves from the container, but you can remove the liquid.
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Love how the tea and coffee communities are both quite obsessed with very expensive gear and I'm over here trying to figure out the cheapest ways to get into both hobbies so that more people can engage in them without having to make serious financial commitments because at the end of the day it's about enjoying a tasty cup of hot caffeinated water and not about consumerism
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The common french press is probably a better tea brewer than most dedicated teapots when it comes to quality loose leaf tea. The large leaves of specialty loose leaf tea expand a whole lot when steeped meaning they need a lot of space and the infusers of most teapots are way too small for that. You don't get such issues with french presses!
Honestly the french press has to be one of the most versatile tools for hot drink stuff. Like they're great at brewing both tea and coffee AND you can foam milk really nicely with them too! And they're typically very cheap and available in almost any store that sells kitchen supplies!
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Any Discworld fans here? I suddenly had an image of Death coming to a newly transitioned trans person on Discworld just to collect their deadname.
BE AT EASE. IT IS NOT YET YOUR TIME. I'M ONLY HERE FOR THE NAME.
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“i asked chatgpt” No wonder is left in your soul
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I want to meet the person who decided to add a Windows notification for when you haven’t had notifications for an app for a while and so it notifies you that you might want to turn notifications off. Wild
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What screen readers do you use regularly on your Android device? I’m looking for an anecdotal idea of how popular alternative #screenreader apps on #android really are. Please boost! Thanks so much for your help. #screenreaders #a11y #accessibility #blind
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“Why GUIs are built at least 2.5 times | Patricia Aas”
https://patricia.no/2025/05/30/why_lean_software_dev_is_wrong.html
> It isn’t typing speed that constrains developers either. We are constantly making custom work in a context, doing it well requires us to deeply understand our context.
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Netherlands Sticker Protest Art; CW: nlpol, uspol, Elon
Some recent fun protest stickers 
#AmsterdamPublicComment #AmsterdamGraffiti #AmsterdamStickerArt #freepalestine #justicenow
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This is easily the best thing I’ve read in a while, books included.
- 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
