Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @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.
- 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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protests are supposed to disrupt. they are supposed to be a pain in the ass. to ruin people's day.
and yes, they are supposed to do this even - ESPECIALLY - to the ppl who are not responsible for the problem.
protests put a price on their participation. protests force them to confront the issue at hand. "just let them enjoy the game" is fucking literally the opposite of what a protest is trying to accomplish.
if a protest doesn't jack up someone's day, it's not a protest, it's performance art
Asking for a friend (non-euphemistically!): are there any shops for HRT stuff left that still actually, y'know, ship to EU and sell estrogel/bica for a reasonable price? Things are looking pretty dire with euaibolit out of the running for now.
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Transmisia, weaponization of "allyship" status, J.K. Rowling, antisemitism, suicide
I always knew that mastodon.lol was sketchy as hell, but its instance admin, Nathan, has revealed themself to be tremendously vile:
https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265
This is blatant weaponization of "allyship" status to put a boot on critics who they claim to be an "ally" to. This completely overshadows the shittiness that preceded this of treating spoilers of the antisemitic wizard game as more important than the serious harm J.K. Rowling causes. That was bad, but this weaponization of "allyship" is violent, and absolutely unacceptable.
To anyone who does this, and to all the people who responded to this bullshit with well-wishes to Nathan after they did this, from the bottom of my heart, fuck you.
It got worse, by the way: in replies to this post, Nathan told some of his critics to kill themselves. That makes it even worse and more blatant, but it was already unacceptable before then. Screenshot of one of those cases attached, in addition to a screenshot of the original post.
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monogamy is a non-compete agreement don't @ me
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if someone migrates accounts it should carry over my show/hide boosts setting for that user, elephant man please fix this immediately
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joke misinfo
whoa Meta™ made a mastodon? that's wild
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I hope one day people learn that it is possible to apologize, grow, and move on- rather than double down on any and all criticism as if your humanity is on the line for being wrong.
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I hope people remember which companies are laying people off the next time they consider donating their labor to certain open source projects
mastodon dot lol meta, suicide mention
Addendum: "it is completely unacceptable to tell people to kill themselves" and "those comments were made because of distress" can both be true at the same time.
It's important to recognize that those comments aren't automatically proof of Nathan being "evil" - but it also doesn't relieve him of responsibility for making them.
Kindly CW your Rowling-related toots, thank you
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re: mastodon dot lol meta
@joepie91 I think this is just the obvious endgame of the DARVO* tactics so many of us are culturally pre-programmed to fall back on.
They feel harmed by a report of harm they consider invalid, and DARVO to build a base of counter-support to fight the report instead of taking the report at face value.
Any community mod/admin who hasn't gotten a handle on this is one comment away from becoming an unintentional abuser.
* (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender)
mastodon dot lol meta 
So to get this clear: death threats towards the admin are not okay, and that one decision alone doesn't make him a TERF. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here, and assume that those things really did happen, even though I've seen none of them.
But, with that said: here's this very curious pattern again, where a supposed ally is called out on a decision they've made that harms the marginalized group they're supposedly an ally to.
And instead of engaging with that, listening, and correcting course - they just complain about the criticism, and take some kind of drastic measure (in this case, shutting down the instance).
And suddenly, the entire focus of the conversation shifts to "oh no how horrible, I'm sorry that you had to do that" towards the admin, and away from the thing that the admin was criticized for. Which they never actually properly engaged with.
And when you call out "hey uh, you never did do anything about that problematic thing", that will get cut down by other "allies" who argue that "this is not the right time to bring that up".
Suddenly, the "ally" who did the harmful thing is centered in the conversation. Instead of the marginalized folks that the harm is being done to.
It's a curious pattern, and it's not the first time I've seen it happen.
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terf game
Even if you try to ignore the antisemitic TERF wizard game, you just... can't? Even running three redundant layers of ad blocking, Amazon and Newegg both show "sponsored" links on every page, the PlayStation remote app pushes ads to my phone...
I've never seen an advertising blitz for a game quite like this, it's just sickening.
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Schiet mij maar lek. Unilever maakt een winst van 8,3 miljard euro bekend. Een stijging van 24,9 procent ten opzichte van vorig jaar maar kondigt vervolgens doodleuk aan dat de prijzen nog verder omhoog moeten vanwege de grondstofprijzen.
Je hoort vaak dat voedsel prima aan de vrije markt kan worden overgelaten maar dit voorbeeld laat toch wel wat anders zien.
https://www.nu.nl/economie/6250503/unilever-boekt-meer-winst-door-hogere-prijzen.html
This is the third time in two days that I am about to report an obscure instance with bad vibes to the pixie.town admins... and it's already on the blocklist, somehow
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JK rowling, fighting against transphobia
this post fucking blasted me into the drywall. it's so powerful. please read this
subtoot
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.
Please Boost 
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.
- 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
