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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lol, facebook's P92, apparently the initial plan is to allow activitypub remote followers but not remote follows
ie, a whole activitypub server ran by facebook which would essentially just be a bridge full of crossposter bots
yeah, i'd say everyone should defederate as soon as something concrete appears
i think FB are just missing the point as usual. "everyone's moving to activitypub? we can implement that!"
lewd meta
Should I be horny on main (with appropriate CWs)? Why / why not?
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how many conservatives does it take to change a light bulb?
trick question, they won't. they will tell you to move to another house.
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LB: I am seriously annoyed with calling creations "content", or (somehow even worse) the more recent "drop"... it's so dehumanizing, which is the point I suppose. Words mean things!
Anyway, I don't do it, and I encourage people to not do it either :D
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YOU CANNOT BE A COMPANY RAKING IN $100MILS EACH YEAR AND CALL YOUR SELF SOLARPUNKS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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i just wanna say that activism isn't just going to protests and confronting fascism. it's also mutual aid. it's the soup kitchen, housing and medical support. it's the art. it's science and reasoning and education. it's agitation. it's organizing. it's fundraising. it's ties and connections. it's direct action.
we can't fight oppression and corruption alone because one person can only know or be able to do so much. but teaming up to play different roles and support each other strategically is what makes the biggest difference.
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Silicon valley only ever has the capability to remember exactly *one* idea that all the laser brains running that shit have to share.
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After every company having a feed and every company being TikTok and every company being Clubhouse now every company wants to be a frontend to an unreliable symbol generator.
#innovation
Ik word zo moe van die mythe dat je een vergunning aan moet vragen voor een demonstratie...
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It is truly impossible to explain why something is broken to someone who desperately wants it to work
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being in the official Mastodon discord and watching the speedrunning of centralising the fedi is rather discouraging
Edit: this is not official policy or anything like that, this is me arguing with another admin on potential directions for fedi
re: subtoot, political violence
Like, to put it more bluntly: chances are that those "violent activists" have tried non-violent methods for years while you were pretending that the problem didn't exist
subtoot, political violence
If you think that activists are too willing to use violence, consider that instead of criticizing those activists, you should maybe be asking yourself how it got to the point where violence is seen as necessary, and what non-violent work you yourself have not been doing that could have solved the problem sooner
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Which is why it's a good idea to think twice about being and staying friends with bigots, fash, and otherwise toxic/harmful people. Yeah, some believe in teaching and redeeming them through the magic of friendship, but have they not considered the possibility that they themselves may be influenced, too? What makes them so confident the influence only goes one way? It's such a weird level of confidence.
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Like elsewhere, the entire political spectrum has moved very far to the right. 25 years ago, Emmanuel Macron would have been considered to be from the hard right (anti-immigration, pro-privatization of public services, etc). He's now the face of French centrism.
Striking & protesting are very important tools. If it wasn't for them, France would probably be in an even worse shape than it currently is. But they are far from enough, and the French model is not necessarily one to elevate.
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A lot of Americans, particularly on the left, romanticize France, French activism, and how normalized protesting & striking are in France.
So just to be clear: for the past 30 years, the French left has been losing non-stop. I don't mean just electorally. I mean that labor rights have been dismantled, public institutions are defunded, healthcare is on its way to being privatized & so is higher education, the police state is expanding, and capitalism has reached all parts of life and society.
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Talking about cis men is kind of a tightrope because on one hand analyzing them as a class is important. It is important to talk about the kinds of opinions cis men tend to have, the kinds of violence inflicted by cis men. On the other hand, if you start going on about cis men and their "nature" and how theyre all violent and evil then you just morph into a terf
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"I don't understand," the knitter said. "You have spaceships, you explore, I don't know, black wormholes or whatever they're called. Why come to me?"
"I do not know how to knit," the alien said. "It fascinates me."
"You know so much more than us."
"Gng. We know different things."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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Fedi users be like: "meow"
- 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
