Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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- 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
how neurodiversity interacts with transphobia 
So I haven't seen this discussed anywhere, but I think it's an important thing to talk about: how neurodiversity often ends up being a conduit for transphobic sentiments.
For a while now, I've had a hypothesis about the interaction between these two things, and that hypothesis seems to be confirmed in pretty much every case I've looked at:
I think that a lot of neurodiverse people are some form of agender without realizing it, that they genuinely do not understand the experience of (affirmative) gender identity, and that this is a major conduit for transphobic sentiments to propagate.
Usually it goes something like this:
- "Why would anyone care about gender that much? That just seems like a social construct"
- Reads some transphobic thinkpiece about how trans folks "do it for the attention" and are "faking it" and how it's an "epidemic"
- This seems to match with their perception of gender identity (particularly deviating from AGAB) as being something that's "made up" and not really important
- "Ah so clearly trans people are just faking it and they have an agenda, that's why it doesn't make any sense"
- Proceeds to perpetuate talking points from the transphobic sources which they feel "enlightened" them on the matter
I'm... not sure what to do about this. In the cases I've looked at, the apparently-agender folks perpetuating these sentiments never seemed to do it out of *malice*, but rather out of confusion.
Essentially, they were victims of a cisnormative society just as much as other trans folks are, but they didn't realize it, and they ended up causing harm to other trans folks in the process.
That harm has been done, that it was out of ignorance doesn't change that. At the same time, this feels like a preventable problem? But I also can't ask of trans folks to "be patient" with people spouting transphobic sentiments.
So yeah, no idea what to do with this observation now :/ But hopefully pointing it out will at least be a step towards a solution.
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liberals stop conflating peaceful protest and legal protest
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welcome to scrum, where the stories are made up and the points don’t matter
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In case you don't already know, we are not post-pandemic. After a conference in Stockholm, a couple people came down with Covid. At my conference in London, we lost a couple people to it, and the organizer had to Zoom in because she was positive. My conference in Berlin was cancelled...due to Covid. I'd hoped to write something more clever, but please look after your #immunocompromised and #disabled friends -- wear a mask and don't assume it's "just a cold."
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normalise giving people a chance to opt-out of christianity related bullshit because I am so tired of it.
it is one of the most violent religions on the planet, people are still currently being oppressed, abused, tortured and killed in the name of christianity, and a lot of us are traumatised by it so maybe just don't assume that everyone is okay seeing any of that christmas bullshit either
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also if you're smart in #nginx, please help review my patch that turns on caching to protect against #DDOS by the mastodon thundering herd when a popular user boosts a review from a @bookwyrm federated site. https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/pull/2465
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Hello please enjoy the George #Cats #CatsOfMastodon
Yep, it was slate.js, judging from this delightful section in its documentation: https://docs.slatejs.org/#why
What was that alternative to Quill for rich text editing components again?
Did you know: Firefox actually has some pretty neat selection capabilities!
For text: hold CTRL to select multiple separate ranges of text
For tables: hold CTRL to select a square of multiple cells, or CTRL+SHIFT to select entire rows/columns/tables
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Heck yeah, kinky photos should have image descriptions too. Disabled people are often de-sexualized (it's part of infantalizing us), but a lot of us are goddam perverts. Help us out. ;)
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If Mastodon is the promise of the early internet, what would be the Geocities of the fediverse? A service for creating microinstances where you can be as tacky as you want, where you can break shit knowing you only break it for yourself?
I wonder how much of this has to do with the bigger character limits, leaving space for people to actually present their projects *without* needing to capture it into some snazzy marketing slogan soundbite
One of the less obvious things I really appreciate about fedi: I see so many more cool personal *projects*, rather than just "startups" or "side gigs" or whatever other capitalist venture.
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Every media player needs a "pause after the current track" button.
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fediblock, eris from disqordia
if you need some proof that eris is a unpleasant individual --- make your own choices whether this is #fediblock worthy, but note that i know some instances defederated from disqordia due to the below, among other things:
this thread is cached correctly here, on the external server, but eris' original toots were lost when the old disqordia instance went down
https://cybre.space/@DangerDyke/108595663835969647 (top of thread at https://jubi.life/@sixthhokage95/108592329213498710)
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Min van VWS gaat onderzoek doen naar mensen die de tandarts mijden vanwege de kosten.
Ik begrijp niet goed wat hij wil onderzoeken. Ik kan de conclusie al wel vertellen:
Een deel van de Nederlanders is te arm om de tandarts/mondhygiënist te kunnen betalen en gaan dus niet. Een slecht gebit heeft invloed op je algemene gezondheid, welzijn en je sociale positie.
Oplossing: Alle tandzorg in het basispakket zonder verhoging van de premie. #ArmoedeInNederland
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for folks who don't know, google specifically has like, the Most Advanced C++ Bug Catching/Mitigation Tools, to the point that they *took over the development of clang*
just using rust instead, even with 'unsafe' parts, completely blew all of that out of the water! holy shit!
- 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
