Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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
mastodon meltdowns, meta
Yes, it really sucks when an instance shuts down. Yes, it really sucks navigating interpersonal conflicts. Yes, it really sucks discovering that some admins are shitty, actually.
But, consider this: this isn't just about a migration from Twitter to Mastodon - or to fedi, for that matter.
Rather, we're all collectively having to relearn how to build and maintain communities and their infrastructure, after two decades of total reliance on corporations to (fail to) do so.
That *is* going to be a messy process, involving a lot of conflict as people figure things out. For many, it's learning these things the hard way, through trial and error.
It may be painful, but it's very much worth it in the long run. And fedi just happens to be the environment that people learn it in.
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"A handful of companies own the #patents on virtually every #seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing #biodiversity back to #farming."
https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/
#agriculture #food #monopoly #ossi (Open Source Seed Initiative)
FYI, I link to two earlier reports on this problem (2017 and 2019) in a tweet from 2020.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1317831041055399936
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Eventually people are going to need to admit that the internet is very much so a real and impactful part of our lives.
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it would be so nice to just be like "yep I'm gonna switch off from it all and ignore them to make the world easier to deal with" but doing that just gives them the breathing room to expand
no fucking rest
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this week has just generally been a very tiring week for world news. the rate at which fascists are infiltrating popular culture is just exhausting
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seeking porn advice abt partners
iiiiiiiii need some advice from other amateur porn people who have shot with partners. i want to shoot porn with someone. obviously there are collabs if i find someone else interested and then we find a way to share.
but i don't live near many porn people
can i just bring in a grindr dude who offers to "film together" and keep all the footage to myself as long as i cut identifying features out of it?
should i be paying them? if so how much?
hogwarts
I guess I shouldn't be surprised anymore, but... really? *None* of the gaming media has picked up on the overtly antisemitic plot of Hogwarts Legacy?
How can you call yourself a journalist and not have at least a basic capability of recognizing nazi propaganda
re: instance subtoot
Imagine having so little imagination that you just cannot conceive of people organizing something without being a ~corporation~...
instance subtoot
oh look, the linkedin instance guy is tooting about how we need corporations if we ever want fedi to amount to anything
what a surprise
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I hate thinkers
philosopher-thinker types of guy love these wildly-contrived morality scenarios in which they can whittle an oppressive system down to its most niche possible use case to try and justify the entirety of that system. and they do this rather than accept that you could fundamentally alter the system and do away with the problem at least 99% of the time.
probably because they're unwilling to change or literally cannot conceive of doing anything different, and will go to unhinged argumentative extremes either to excuse some truly heinous bullshit or accidentally do so along the way
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| TakeV | 
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@vultureculture I heard something once that has always stuck with me.
"I don't want allies. I want co-conspirators."
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One of the wilder realizations in transitioning is how many of my cis women friends are more afraid of publicly wearing skirts, dresses, etc, and presenting more feminine in general, than I am. Like even in semi-private spaces with just friends, or explicitly safe spaces.
Society managed to fuck all us girls up good.
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ChatGPT writes 15% longer and more critical performance feedback for women employees. It aso relies on stereotypes to choose pronouns. Examples: kindergarten teacher, nurse and reception = "she". Mechanic and construction workers = "he".
https://www.fastcompany.com/90844066/chatgpt-write-performance-reviews-sexist-and-racist
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A server is a highly advanced machine, and when paired with a developer it can seamlessly convert immense amounts of electricity into stacktraces.
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"I know you," said Alice. "Are you to present me with a puzzle? Perhaps one of you tells the truth and the other lies?"
"Oh no," said Bingle-Dum.
"We both lie," added Googl-E.
"But there must be a clue," pouted Alice. "For how else am I to tell when to trust what you say?"
"That's the point!" laughed Bingle-Dum.
"We don't know when we're telling the truth either!" said Googl-E, finishing the other's sentence.
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violence against those that don't believe you have the same rights to existence is good and justified, actually.
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fedimeta
I think of when moderation crises have happened in closed social networks, there's no real recourse or remediation.
On the fediverse, there seems to be at least some mitigation afforded by federation and account migration, allowing community to have some resilience to crisis.
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Hogwarts
this wired review pulls no punches, and their "purchase here" link goes to the Trans Lifeline donation page. A fine idea, i I do say so myself!
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Daklozen pesten, hostile architecture
Klassieke manier van #daklozen pesten; maak opvang minder toegankelijk en zorg vervolgens ervoor dat ze ook nergens terecht kunnen in publieke ruimtes.
Beschouw overlast van daklozen als een oproep tot compassie. Zorg voor goeie resources voor hun opvang en herstel. Ontmenselijk ze niet.
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Few things make me angrier than anti-homeless shit. Fuck hostile architecture, fuck vagrancy laws, fuck businesses who throw away perfectly good food and then lock their dumpster, fuck businesses that say restrooms are for customers only, and especially fuck fuck FUCK the goddamn police.
- 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
