Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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Society if we didn't have liberals believing that "radical leftism" means "electoral democracy"
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But bringing a bunch of streaming media on an external HDD and having Jellyfin was the right call 100%. Why stream when I can just bring all my media on little box? This is what they want to take from us.
Like, regl is *really* cool, and it would allow so many novel experimental things if more people knew of its existence and wrote tutorials about it
I wish regl would get some more love, rather than everybody's focus on three.js (which has a pretty questionable architecture and is really difficult to extend for experimental stuff)
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I've launched the accessible numbers project! 🎉
How to design services for people who need help with numbers.
It's been stressful and I almost gave up. And while the site isn't perfect, I think it's in a good place.
I hope it's useful to many.
Site by @davesmyth
politics, question
Does anyone know what the actual origin is of the "you'll grow more conservative as you get older" trope? It smells an awful lot like it started life as a propaganda campaign.
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it's not a particularly tough one, at least in the first two levels
but there's a concept there that i'd like to see explored, a city builder / management sim without real time stuff
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I OWN HTTPS://BEE.MOVIE NOW
weep.
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Organizing all your digital stuff into folders is the natural way of things and helpful for you and others so you can more easily raccoon through your old stuff to find the good stuff. Most-recent-first-style mixing it all up in a bucket with the eggs on top is just conceding to novelty-focused constant-production-and-consumption capitalist propaganda
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"Much of the problem arises not from an inherent desire among researchers to maximize their publication count, but from the conditions that are set by [those that] determine what gets funded and who gets tenure [...] overemphasis on the size of an individual's [...] publication record as a means of quantifying their research output inevitably rewards quantity over quality."
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via (unfortunately) a still very relevant 2005 nature piece: https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1305
@academicchatter
h/t @cmeinel
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marketing industry, consent
When you think about it, the whole marketing industry is really just a massive consent violation machine - it *cannot* function without non-consensually pushing things into people's faces, and that is its explicit reason for existence
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If you have bee photos, bee stories, bee drawings, bee poems. Today's the day. I would like to see the baby. #WorldBeeDay2023
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Oh dear. People are trying to explain but they just aren’t getting it. www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comm…
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“Have a nice day”
boring, sounds insincere
“Enjoy the next 24 hours”
intriguing, sounds ominous
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Just chill guys. Get a little instance for yourself. Follow like 30 people. Post pictures of moss. You don’t need to ‘scale’ this place, that’s the whole point.
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Migrating from one instance to another means my #embroidery posts got lost despite still circulating, so I’m going to reshare a few, starting with this french knot color wheel that I spent a month stitching to see if I could make the colors come back around to themselves. #art #womensart
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I noticed I have slipped into defaulting to singular "they" whenever I talk about someone. Even if I know their preferred pronoun is something different. I'm not sure if that's acceptable. So I'd like to know:
Would you consider this offensive if it happened to you? 
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Current situation, your Good Stuff gets boosted and bounces around randomly on people's feeds for a while and then sinks backwards into the Social Media Memory Hole, where everything older than a week is no longer looked at by sensible people but only by LLM bots, spammers and creeps, no matter whether it's normal off-the-cuff banter or Good Useful Stuff
Ordering the whole internet new-to-old was a mistake
- 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
