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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- 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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“Structural problems don’t have individual solutions.”
Must-read by @pluralistic
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Capitalists love the “invisible hand of the market” until the market says the value of labor has increased
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after years of struggling to properly mirror waybackmachine sites using a combination of httrack, wget and archivebox, i finally stumbled upon an 'it just damn well works' solution that has apparently been around for years: wayback_machine_downloader
things it does the others don't:
- it mirrors just the site, and strips out the $*@&@# WBM headers and javascript forced into every file.
- it preserves the original site's link structure locally without external references
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Last night the 11yo broke down the Google Slides middle school Chatroom for me:
1. At first they used a Google doc but the infinite scroll was too chaotic
2. In the slide deck each new slide is one “post”—some all text, some images, some both—
3. They use slides’ comments feature to “reply” to each other’s “posts”
4. This allows participants to easily flip between posts using the slide thumbnail navigation, so they can find the conversations they care about easily
5. He owns the file & if anyone spams it, deletes other people’s posts, or gets nasty, he can revert the file to its previous save state & remove the spammer’s access
6. He did share the file with me on purpose, I think because he was proud & wanted me to see what he’d made
Essentially they’ve created a chatroom with moderation in Google Slides, so they can get around the school’s ban on platforms like Discord. It’s kind of brilliant
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Dear furries and the furry-adjacent,
This is your periodic reminder that the artist Ken Sample - also known as Ken Cougr - is widely credited as having invented the very concept of a fursona, and that he is a Black man.
This is also your periodic reminder that non-heterosexual, non-cisgender people have been a significant part of the furry fandom for as long as the fandom has had a coherent name for itself, and that the fandom has a long and brilliant history of trans people finding themselves through the exploration of self the furry fandom offers. Mockery of the furry fandom, therefore, is very frequently used as a cover for the hateful assholes of the world to harass LGBTQIA+ people - "furry isn't a protected class" being the most commonly-claimed justification.
Nazi furs fuck off. 
Edit, courtesy of Bennie in the replies: "Reminder that Ken is around still and has a Patreon:
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If you wanted to know how I feel about ChatGPT and its ilk today, I’ve just learned that my mother’s copyediting job (a French company with a majority African workforce) just cut two third of its jobs “because there’s an app that does it better now”.
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people: wikipedia isn't reliable because anyone can edit it
also people: WE TRUST CHATGPT WE LOVE YOU CHATGPT
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ADHD people should be funded to do their silly daydreamy megaprojects
Imagine what we could build
re: classism, positive
(For those unfamiliar with what kind of park the Efteling is, which is probably most non-Dutch people, this gives a pretty good idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY5A55OFLKI)
re: classism, positive
On which note, they seem to be *much* better at crowd management and reducing queue lengths than eg. Disneyland Paris or the various UK theme parks. Queues are often much shorter than you might expect from the visitor numbers.
I don't have hard evidence of why this is, but I can't help but suspect that there's capitalist incentives at play here, and that the parks that have a fastpass system have every reason *not* to fix the queue congestion issues.
classism, positive
Something I really like about the Efteling is that, despite being a large and well-visited theme park, they don't have a paid 'fastpass' system.
They do occasionally trial 'virtual queueing' systems and such (all of which have been a failure so far in practice), and they do have single-rider lines (which work well!), but those are always usable for everybody.
This is deliberate; they've explicitly stated in the past that it would be unfair to give some visitors priority or more access just because they have more money to spend.
Wish more places were like that.
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Bonus fun fact: most Dutch people don't seem to know that the Dutch keyboard layout exists, either
(We all just use QWERTY US International here, and although there are supposedly some Dutch-layout keyboards in existence, I have literally never seen one with my own eyes anywhere)
Did you know: there exists a Dutch keyboard layout, and basically nobody in the Netherlands uses it
From the history of 7 Up: "It contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug, until 1948."
USian soft drink history is just something else
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Are you fucking SERIOUS? At least you can get refills via telehealth but holy shit this is an accessibility nightmare. Fuck Biden, fuck the DEA. #ADHD
journalism, sarcasm
Maybe instead of running fact-checking articles for claims made externally, media outlets could prioritize setting up *internal* fact-checking
People who would review their own publication for accuracy, filter out propaganda, and so on, and who would do research into a topic rather than blindly publishing the claims made to them
We could call them something like, idk, editors or journalists or something
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Hey Webster if you love words so much why don’t you Merriam
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Big companies have taken and taken from the commons for years - decades even. And we have all just kinda put up with it as we just wanted to connect and share with other people.
But to be honest it's time we took back much of that control we have freely given up just to connect. We have the means to interact with one another without having to have our data, images, lives completely monitored and sold as fodder for ads.
- 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
