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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To book an international railway ticket in Europe it SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY
1️⃣ to have expert level knowledge
2️⃣ to need to have 20 browser tabs open simultaneously
3️⃣ to have parts of your trip where you have no option other than to buy tickets on the spot
4️⃣ to have to go to a railway station, or pick up the phone to make the booking - ONLINE has to work
5️⃣ to have to consult multiple sources of information to get the best price for a single train
It gets worse. There are *two* shipping labels from the retail electronics store to Amazon's warehouse. They both specify the same address.
Except one says it's in Croatia, and the other says it's in Czechia.
... how many things went wrong in handling this package?!
Apparently the story doesn't end there! I opened the water filter box, and found....
A USB hub. *What.*
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the biggest lie that capitalism has told us is that people can be one hundred per cent self reliant, "self made" and independent
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"i dont need socialism i am self reliant" who delivered you when you were young? who fed you when you were a kid? who taught you? who treated you when you were ill? who built the roads and parks and schools and your house? who made the clothes you wear and the art you enjoy?
you never were self reliant. nobody is. a person alone is weak and fragile. we can't survive by being cold and isolated and bitter towards each other. so respect those who helped you be safe in this cruel world. protect their rights. help them, for we are stronger in numbers than we are all alone.
Oh god. So my parcel arrived, and...
They sourced coffee machine water filters (made in Italy) from an electronics shop chain in Croatia, had it shipped to their warehouse in Poland, which forwarded it to a warehouse in Luxembourg, which possibly via Germany shipped it to my house in the Netherlands in a hugely oversized box.
And they put a label marking it as "Antec P9 ATX case" on the box at the Poland -> Luxembourg step. On the box of water filters.
What the actual fuck.
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
- 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
