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.
- 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
Sven Slootweg
boosted
A serious note on #FollowFriday, heavily inspired by @researchfairy toots today, is that your list of X Type of Person can also be Y person's hitlist for harassment campaigns. Much better to discover people more organically or through themselves and their own hashtags unless the person you're intending to Follow Friday has given their consent to be on an additional-exposure list. 1/2
Sven Slootweg
boosted
Did you know humans need downtime too
Sven Slootweg
boosted
this is the most succinct response I've ever seen to the comment "but Android is Linux!!"
Sven Slootweg
boosted
fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
does post-man pat imply they transitioned 
Also, is... is Technical Park okay? https://twitter.com/CoasterForce/status/1592948067044847616
It occurs to me that over the past decade or so, there has been *a lot* of change in how rollercoaster vehicle seats are designed, preferring more open designs that can accommodate more body types. I wonder where that came from.
Sven Slootweg
boosted
Humidity, Winter, 
Hey, my folks from cold places!
This winter due to prices of gas/electricity and so on we've been avoiding heating as much as possible.
The problem is that we've been seeing a lot of humidity around the house. We've tried opening the windows for some time every day to circulate the air, but still the humidity has been above 70% consistently and there's condensation every morning.
Any tips or things to keep in mind?
Sven Slootweg
boosted
yeah sea shanties are great but when do we get fucking space shanties
Sven Slootweg
boosted
If rail workers do end up engaging in a wildcat or otherwise illegal strike, PLEASE remember that strikes are meant to be disruptive. If you see someone talking about the rail strike and how it's having such a huge impact, say things like "Yeah, it's crazy how much of our economy relies on them. That's why they deserve good health care."
Don't give in to anti-labour rhetoric. Combat false narratives. Solidarity Forever.
I am doing an awful lot of Posting this week
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.
Sven Slootweg
boosted
liberals stop conflating peaceful protest and legal protest
Sven Slootweg
boosted
welcome to scrum, where the stories are made up and the points don’t matter
Sven Slootweg
boosted
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."
Sven Slootweg
boosted
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
Sven Slootweg
boosted
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
Sven Slootweg
boosted
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?
- 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
