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
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When you're an LGBTQ+ instance admin and you post "don't be mean and post Hogwarts spoilers" and nearly everybody who's cheering you on is cis...
that should maybe tell you something, I don't know
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Professor Fig dies at the end of Hogwarts Legacy and can't be saved. Also, Rookwood is the one who cursed Anne. Congrats you were conned into joining a pogrom.
Wishing all #HarryPotter fans an awful day. Try Wizard of Earthsea, next time.
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I also want to state: this decision from the joinmastodon.org website makes ZERO instances show up when a user selects the ‘LGBTQ+’ category. ZERO.
We all know these instances require manual sign-ups to prevent trolls and hate accounts from being created.
This decision is terrible.
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this thread for visibility!!
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As I was investigating why our server has seen a decrease in new user sign-ups, I noticed the JoinMastodon.org website now lists servers with ‘Instant’ sign-ups as a priority over those with manual signups.
They used to list ‘All’ by default - displaying our server under the Gaming category upon first look for new users. Now it’s hidden.
By actively reducing the visibility of servers who require sign-ups , it’s hurting the Fedi as a whole by creating large centralized servers.
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"Unlimited PTO" is becoming more commonly offered as a benefit to workers. To me this reeks of being a trap, and I'm starting to think it is.
Unlimited PTO starts to feel a lot like Unprotected PTO.
There's no mechanism to require, nor even encourage, workers to take time off. There's no assumption that someone taking a reasonable amount of PTO won't be looked down upon by any particular member of management.
It seems like a grift. I'm guessing this isn't a new thought but I hope it spreads
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@MsNostromo that's exactly what it is. The only way I've ever seen it work is when there is a minimum required time taken off.
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If you think that young people "won't understand solidarity" or "care about unionising," it's because you're an ageist piece of shit.
Full stop.
If you happen to think that teenagers won't understand the importance of solidarity, I implore you to:
a) actually talk to teenagers because you likely don't and haven't done since you were one (and if you live with a teenager and think they're incapable, maybe you should consider your relationship to that person because... it's likely you who is a bigger issue);
b) pay attention to those of us who research their existence within historical movement spaces and try to bring that information back, rather than continuing to focus on the forever-patriarchal history our own "comrades" still feed us.
Young people have always been in labour movements. Young people have always been everywhere. But adults are fine with systematically erasing their contributions to... anything. Because it maintains the oppression of those younger than ourselves.
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@mcc as I understand it:
"effective altruism" is "use your money in the ways that produce the most good" which became "give the already wealthy all the money because once they have infinite wealth they'll do something good with it. right?"
longtermism is "greater long term good is more important than small short term good" which became "the things the rich are doing are awful for everyone right now, sure, but they'll create a utopia in millions of years"
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tech optimism in the 1990s: computers allow unlimited copying. this will be revolutionary for society! that's right, no more property! communications that the government and corporations can't trace! yay, free culture!
tech optimism in 2020: with this revolutionary new technology we can make private property and money a reality on the Internet. we'll financialize everything and force the middle class to live in VR! all at the small cost of disastrous climate change!
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when thinking about cloudflare trying to get in on the fediverse hype, you should remember that their vision of "free speech" means shutting down a mastodon instance for sex workers while platforming literal nazis
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I just want to be treated with kindness, consideration, and care, consistently.
That's the non-negotiable baseline.
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the time is now: 12:00 (flashing)
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everyone is always talking about the top of the morning, but what about me, the bottom of the evening?
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i put together a automatically-updating list of wildebeest instances, for convenient blocking or silencing:
https://wesleyac.com/wildebeest
please do your part to push back against the corporate takeover of the fediverse by a company that profits from platforming nazis, fascists, and bigots.
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i have a cat. i also have meetings every two weeks. my cat is mostly respectful of the fact he's not allowed to jump on my laptop or climb on my body while i'm working... unless it's meeting day. how does he know. please get off of my shoulders.
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Whoa, I just learned that apparently Gleason (of Soapbox/Spinster fame) was kicked out of the Pleroma project for being too awful for them
Quick birdsite update: half the site is currently broken, seemingly as a result of them shutting down the API without realizing that the first-party clients use it too, and they've announced an additional 4-day "grace period" for the API shutdown which of course totally isn't just an excuse for them to roll it back and fix their *own* shit
lol, lmao
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wild for corporations to imagine tech is neutral and apolitical when protecting their revenue streams always looks like "one subscription is for one Family, which we define as no more than Four Persons who share an IP address"
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A thought. Here’s the thing about sharing pronouns on profiles, even if you think it’s obvious or think it’s not for you because you’re cis/straight.
Sharing your pronouns is using your privilege to normalize the practice of doing so. If more of us share our pronouns, it becomes a WE thing instead of a THEY thing.
This reduces the othering people who aren’t cis/straight experience every day.
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#LGBTQ #Pronouns #Allyship #Unity #Humanity #Empathy #Othering
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
ah yes of course cloudflare is actively cooperating with soapbox
- 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
