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.
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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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Would really appreciate it if people theorycrafting about twitter's imminent demise and it's repercussions could be more aware that some of us basically convert clout into money for a living and most of us were already on a financial knife's edge when twitter wasn't being burned to the ground
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Apologies don't count if you're still actively committing the exact same harm
And no one is entitled to forgiveness by the person they harmed
An aggrieved party may extend forgiveness
But it can't ever be demanded by the party who is in the wrong
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I just realized that uBlock Origin, which always has a number on it in every page I go t,o has nothing there. Twitter has 538 blocks and growing in one tab. Here it has nothing. I know they said "ad free" but I guess it didn't clock in my head until just now what that meant.
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Might as well see how the fediverse responds to one of my typical requests. This weekend, I'm moving my storage items (mostly to-be-digitized stuff) from Beacon, NY to Ardsley, NY on Sunday. If you think you might be able to help, e-mail me at jason@textfiles.com. It's about a truckload, I'm renting the truck but I have to be careful with my back.
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I just suspended two accounts from Car Companies that have registered on website boy's instance.
If you see more Corporations that are responsible for accelerating global climate change joining the fediverse, please join me in pointing a ban hammer at them.
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disappointed that I'm seeing more and more non-captioned images cross my TL. I understand and respect that there are a lot of new people around and that means the culture will shift and change with them, but this is one aspect of fedi culture that I would really like to preserve.
so, if you are able, please please please caption your images!
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art q 
you know how those sort of graphic gouache paintings with only imprecise wet blending and details layered on top capture what's really satisfying about using the medium
https://youtu.be/BXPoFmJ82Pc?t=433
what is the style / project that showcases what is satisfying about colored pencils?
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[104] A'dam staakt preventief fouilleren
https://nos.nl/teletekst#104
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So someone at work has started leaving ducks around. So, I’m adding art captions. Because, of course I am. #ducks #GuerillaArt #office
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My personal recommendation to people who are new to Mastodon is: talk about things that aren't Mastodon. Might sound simple, but during a big time and a big migration it's easy to get focused on the platform instead of... anything else! A timeline full of mostly talking about the platform isn't healthy for the platform itself - and it's not that fun either. Start living here! If you like to, anyway.
sort of meta? about designing federated systems
I think a big part of why fedi succeeded at being active for so long without an immediate migration wave, is because unlike most other social platforms, it accommodates finding *new* people and communities rather than just talking to people you already know.
That really softens the blow of the network effect quite a lot, and other federated systems should probably learn from this.
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mastodon performance is going to be very bad today. for everyone, on every instance. please do not bother your admins about this. thank you, we love you, maybe take a nice lil walk outside in the crisp late autumn morning (or spring evening, whatever hemisphere) while you wait for your picture of your cat to upload. cheers.
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@nova we all live in a society and all of us need to interact with corporations in some way. The issue beings on Fediverse have is with directly inviting them, because in past, it always ended badly.
They can always self host. Even our startup has it (if nothing changed) planned, corporates can handle that too. Yes, most companies will get defederated from big part of wider fediverse, but at least they won't take other users with them :)
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update: the Fediverse is no longer cooling so here is a #FediTips: you can put any pronouns in your bio. you don't have to use the ones you used on the previous site. you can change them to the ones you want to try. do it do it do it do it
also it's pretty easy to dye your own hair, but if you just wanna try a new color reversibly, i recommend cosplay-grade wigs
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
live set recordings that don't mute the MC :(((
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Anne C.A. Baanen
there's a difference between pouring in milk first and then tea, or pouring in tea first and then milk. this is called noncommutativitea.
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@joepie91 this is exactly why you NEVER make personal accounts on an email address managed by your work or school, not just because it's against policy, but because they could use your personal account without your permission
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I suppose this is why I don’t worry about Twitter dying off.
In many respects, I made my peace with the fact that Twitter isn’t a platform that serves its users. If anything, it needs to die.
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So I suppose this is where we have to talk about the displacement people will experience when Twitter’s demise is complete.
It’s not going to be pretty (we’re already seeing what that looks like) but I do think the displacement will be temporary. Our need for community and our collective penchant for advancing how we communicate with one another has always outweighed and outlived every platform we’ve ever had.
- 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
