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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- 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
dieting PSA
Here's a thing that not a lot of people seem to know about dieting (inspired by another toot):
While pretty much every weight loss diet has been effective for some people, *no* diets have been *consistently* effective for everybody.
The magical weight loss diet doesn't exist, and all the constant arguing about which diet is "better" is basically all just diet industry propaganda, it has no scientific basis. They all equally don't work.
And even in the cases where diets do work for some people for a while, they all share the same problem of rebounds; after a while, they stop working, become overwhelmingly difficult, or your body starts otherwise rejecting it.
Even if you're looking to lose weight (and to emphasize, BMI is pseudoscience and fat does not equal unhealthy!), some kind of miracle diet is not going to help you achieve that. All you'll be doing is torturing yourself in the process.
It's pretty much just unknown at this point how exactly the body regulates weight. Regular exercise seems to play a role, but there's quite a bit of evidence that eating habits don't seem to really matter (your body is quite capable of ejecting unwanted input!), and there's a whole lot of possible external factors that we just don't know a lot about.
Bottom line: if someone or something claims to have a magical answer to weight loss or even nutrition, you should distrust them. There are some general things that seem to work, but it is far from a settled science!
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the GoToSocial sloth is canonically agender and pansexual, has generalized anxiety disorder, loves open mic nights and ramen, and hates fascists and cars
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reminder: if enough of you regularly contribute i can leave my current $capitalistJob and work on gotosocial development full-time. what will this bring you? me having much more time / energy to obsess over gotosocial performance and federation behaviour
https://opencollective.com/gotosocial
https://liberapay.com/gotosocial
So I just discovered that an "unofficial service pack" for Windows 98 that was released in 2004... still got updates as recently as 3 years ago! Including timezone updates, apparently
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So my FiL told me about this course at Cambridge University where you have to be a member of one of the world’s wealthiest families to apply. He read about it in Private Eye. I assumed it was a joke until I looked it up…
‘A safe space to hear radical voices and debate challenging and sensitive issues, such as the future of wealth in a context of growing inequality and new paradigms of power.’
https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/education/executive-education/multi-generational-leadership-programme
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Let's port Inkscape to KDE: Kinkscape!
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I hate how Society makes learning boring and stressful. The average person has 0 interest in things like books or math purely due to experiences with it at school.
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ASUS is in trouuubllllle~
… also if you have a Ryzen 7000 X3D chip on an ASUS motherboard, update your BIOS to the latest one.
Like, *now*. 
Edit: Added photo
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Ableism in sim games
I will give Potion Permit that its incredibly ableist descriptions of its disabled characters is very true to how doctors write about ppl, but I am *so sick* of the
"old guy in a wheelchair's only personality trait is he's angry about being in a wheelchair"
It's like stardew segmented this as a character every farming-esque sim must have, and every one writes it even worse than the prev.
Also, why does the mentally disabled guy talk in third person?
It's so old fashioned in its tropes, and yes it is set in a sort of medieval fantasy world, but that's no reason to keep its really sucky tropes.
It is so frustrating to sit down and wanna play a cute game just to be slapped in the face with ableism
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gonna upload these here too if anyone has a website you can put these on them if you want i wont force you no credit required cc0
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Been seeing trucks here and there from a company called Gamer Logistics and I want to believe they deliver freight via glitch-assisted speed runs. Like, maybe if you reverse into a bridge pillar on I-10 as soon as you cross into El Paso and hold it for precisely 39 minutes and 7 seconds, if you then shift into neutral you warp to Beaumont and can skip the entire state of Texas
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See here's what I'm talking about when I talk about pinball's shift from arcades and pubs and laundrettes to wealthy men's basements.
Look at this crap, sneeze and it's gone. Who the hell's gonna mess about with this in an arcade with kids running around? Can't just fix it right there on the glass, you gotta pull it into the workshop and get tweezers and your glasses on, and it's so, so unnecessary. It doesn't have to be this small.
This is a bloody gentrified arcade board is what this is
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I like the fact that in the #Fediverse the primary goal is not algorithms or making money, but owning your data and using social networks in your own terms.
#BlueSkySocial FEELS like open and decentralized but has been received funding from Twitter and has not yet fully revealed its monetization plans. This is why I won't fully trust it. I'm glad they won't invest in the ActicityPub protocol. Their reluctancy to AP is also something I find strange even after reading the arguments.
Let's remember that #BlueSky a startup company, and companies are to make money. This is where #Mastodon for example is different, there is no monetization and never will be.
I feel like visual programming right now is where text-based programming used to be several decades ago; every environment has its own entirely custom language with questionable ergonomics and that doesn't really interoperate or work like any other environment's language
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liberal trolley car problem, uspol
Trump goes to jail but a homeless person gets to pee in your small business's bathroom.
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Hi all!
If you don't know who we are, Streetmix is an open source street design tool where anyone can play with and "remix" streets, with the goal of making streets better and safer for everyone.
Here's a great recent example of what our community does with Streetmix:
hot take, FOSS
FOSS as a mechanism for the commons has been a complete failure from a legal perspective, for reasons that would have been obvious to marginalized folks from the start: you do not actually have the money to send lawyers after license violators for enforcement.
The only reason any of it works *at all* is because the concept has established some sort of shared understanding of a commons and the social norms within it, as a side-effect. The legal component is a no-op there.
And even that barely works; it's not intersectional at all, leading to a 'big tent' approach, which frequently results in exploitation of the commons, and the gradual erosion of people's understanding of the "public commons" part.
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covid, looking for resources
Does anyone know of good sources for up-to-date info on covid risks? Especially interested in:
comparative risk of different types of activities (indoors vs outdoors, unmasked vs different types of masks, etc)
risk of long covid in vaccinated people, especially chronically ill people
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"Ad block"
Painted on a broken ad space during a demonstration in Paris
- 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
