Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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- 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
Bonus: it was ordered from Amazon, first-party. I normally wouldn't buy stuff from Amazon, but in this case it's pretty much guaranteed to have cost them money :D
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Preaching to the choir: Abolish gendered clothing, normalise masc people wearing skirts and dresses. Feeling light and floaty and airy and swooshy should not be limited to fem-presenting people.
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me, singing to my Dell R720 rackmount server
happy birthday 2U
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Sure, sure, sure. It's phones why young people are unhappy.. not the hopeless outlook into our future. /s
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We have to do intergenerational work as a community.
Without intergenerational work, we are not a proper community.
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i could have a tram stop right in front of my door. in fact there was one until 1937.
but no, then hitler personally decided that the tram wasn't german enough and interfered with the city planning.
but fine, after the war the socialists built a trolleybus instead. which is also ok.
then reunification came and the cdu decided trolleybuses weren't german enough (yes, that was one of the arguments) and switched to diesel buses.
and now they decided against battery buses. and bought hydrogen buses instead. because it's such a great german technology and batteries are bad because they're imported. oh, and the hydrogen is delivered by tank trucks, because they can't produce it themselves.
one century of nationalists ruining public transport, yeah 
Also this is a 100+ EUR case and I paid about 24 EUR for it due to a pricing error, so I'm not too bothered 
Holy shit, the new case for my NAS just shipped... more than 10 months after I ordered it
health +/?
I sleep with tight socks on my feet and suddenly my migraine is gone. This feels like a cheat
So I just learned that the OV-fiets public transit bike rental scheme here in NL, has a direct lineage to the bike sharing (not rental!) scheme proposed in the 60s by the Provos, an anarchist movement.
Not just 'inspired by', but some form of actual collaboration between the guy who originally proposed that scheme, and the guy who ended up kickstarting the OV-fiets system!
It's really kind of absurd how much influence the Provos ended up having, and yet how often they end up being written out of history.
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Deutsche Behörden und Firmen: Geschlechtsangaben abseits von Herr und Frau sind uns zu kompliziert
Auch deutsche Behörden und Firmen:
NL politics
So apparently the alt-right/fascist party here (FvD) has started a meal kit delivery company. You can't make this shit up
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@juliana I wonder what their () were thinking when they named that person
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This is really, really interesting. Open Collective is allowing those who use their platform, and have funding, to be “hired” under their umbrella to enable things like payroll, healthcare, taxes, etc to be handled. It doesn’t help projects that can’t get funding, but those that have ample funding to support maintainers full time now have an option for “employment”.
https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/open-source-collective-is-hiring-maintainers
https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/open-source-collective-is-hiring-maintainers
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For those of you following this thread, here, here's a post I just put up on my official author site blog about the situation, this includes a quote of the email I sent them as well as the email they sent me back:
https://angelahighland.info/2023/02/28/draft2digital-killed-my-account/
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Let me emphasize: THIS WAS THE VERY FIRST RESPONSE TO MY MAIL FROM THEIR TEAM.
None of them, NONE OF THEM, had reached out to me saying they needed proof of my identity. They went straight to "we can't prove who you are and now we're shutting down your account, and also, you can never have an account on our system again".
If this is how Draft2Digital treats its authors, I sure as hell don't WANT an account on their system again.
Interesting article: https://www.bryanbraun.com/2022/07/16/scratch-is-a-big-deal/
"So, no, Scratch isn’t just a programming language. It’s an ecosystem of apps, resources, and community features for giving kids a positive first experience with programming. [...] This recent growth has caused Scratch to break into the Tiobe index's top 20 most popular programming languages."
racism, NL
Oh look, what a surprise, the guys who were arrested for projecting racist slogans onto buildings were involved in a White Lives Matter group
Apparently the bicycle lockers were renovated and derusted, not replaced; they've definitely done a good job then, because I couldn't tell that they weren't new :p
Ref: https://dtvnieuws.nl/nieuws/artikel/fietsenstalling-station-rosmalen-op-de-schop
Interestingly, this is apparently part of a concerted plan to deal with traffic jams on the nearby highway - it's good to see that there are still local governments who understand that "widening highways" is not the solution, which unfortunately isn't a given in NL anymore either (thanks neolibs)
- 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
