Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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🪭the strategy they employed, and which our queer elders and ancestors in the US copied, was to focus on local battles and organizing, but to fight those fights in parallel through the nation.
Big wins are built off of small wins. Change starts small.
I would sort of agree with the assessment that one of the failures of the queer rights movement broadly, though not of the trans rights movement specifically, since the 2000s was to overly focus on procedural wins at a national level.
It made sense at the time, but those victories were built off of thousands upon thousands of small, local victories.
And ofc, once gay marriage was legalized, a bunch of people I think started to believe the fight was simply “won” Forever.
But it wasn’t.
If you only watch national news you are missing the real struggle. That struggle is happening just down the street, right now
If you help get a trans person out of an abusive home or get them the hormones they need, that is you winning against fascism
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🪭A new cis friend I made on BlueSky found this article on the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot after I told them about it.
We had a good conversation about the ways in which the black Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s informed queer activists in the 1960s and 1970s
We talk about how Marsha Johnson threw the first brick at #stonewall , which is good symbolism, but I think vastly undersells how much our rights are built off of the success of the fight in the US against segregation, as well as off of the fight for Indian independence
#trans #transhistory #lgbtqhistory #queer
https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/comptons-cafeteria-riot
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People are no less chronically ill or disabled if they do these things:
- Are working
- Are studying
- Are out shopping
- Are wearing makeup
- Are wearing a nice outfit
- Are enjoying hobbies
- Are making jokes
- Are posting online
- Are texting more often
- Are smiling and laughing
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@Byte taxes, holiday, sick leave, insurance, unpaid time on admin and business development, equipment, utility bills, professional services... it all adds up!
This is a useful website for working out how a given annual salary converts into an hourly/daily rate https://dayratecalculator.co.uk/ (UK tax and cost assumptions)
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By the way, they offered $160 per hour. Which is less than what I normally charge for expert work!
Chances are low that this will get the message across, but maybe they'll at least stop bothering me with this garbage.
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Welp, it's official.
I had to let go of a client today because they are *all-in* on the slop machines…Claude to be precise. They intend for it to be integral to all code going forward.
I told them I can't do it. I won't do it!
Which leaves me in a real bind because the one major client I have left simply isn't able to pay all of the bills. A real strain on my finances…yikes. 😕
Anyhoo…good news is I'm ready to contribute real senior Web Dev expertise to your next project! 😅 #FediHire
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Do folks know good options for learning Dutch?
Ik spreek een beetje Nederlands.
Buuuut I'm more than fed up with duolingo and would like to look into proper lessons.
Being able to do it from home is required.
Got a spam e-mail today from a recruiter offering the 'opportunity' to 'leverage my expertise' by... training an LLM.
I replied with "a class traitor is what you are".
food (vegan), shitpost, partial nudity
Also, did a spoof of those "fishing trophy" pictures as a shitpost
food (vegan), suggestive??
Harvested a zucchini from the garden today, it's massive and honestly looks like a horny shitpost
Ah, usual instance is up again, it was fixed! For future reference, I will also be reachable at @joepie91@slightly.tech whenever this instance goes down (and I'll probably migrate there fully eventually but I haven't worked out all the details yet).
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my favorite kind of service is one where "but how does it stay afloat, how does this earn money?" is answered with "don't worry this is just A Gal hosting this in her free time"
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"to stop the on-hold music while you're waiting, press the * key"
holy shit why is this not more of a thing...
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Hey reader friends... do any of you know a way that does not involve Amazon or GoodReads... that I can say "remind me every time this author releases a new book".?
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:ms_deminonbinary_flag:, overwhelmed edition
search engines in 2025 in a nutshell
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Just heard on the lunchtime news that there are no reports of any deaths or serious injuries anywhere as a result of the Pacific tsunami.
Take a bow, emergency planners of the Pacific region.
With so much crappy news around at the moment, it's lovely to hear that sometimes, people do their job really well and lives get saved.
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I wonder if we could organize some sort of rota for existential dread.
Like I can worry about *waves hand at everything* for an hour, and then take a break and let someone else do the worrying for a while.
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Me: *posts a highly technical blog post with over 4000 words*
Also me 5 minutes later: why has nobody commented on my gigantic blog post yet 😭
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
