Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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.
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- 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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found a good blog post about meta and The Pact
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if you're in need of a pack of free N95 or KN95 facemasks, check out https://www.projectn95.org/free-masks/
i requested some masks via email last week and they sent me a whole pack of 'em, which just arrived today.
shout out to @kelluri who let me know about this resource! 😊
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hey tech folks:
please stop pushing discord. i get it. it works. please help us with something better, or we will be in a situation a while from now where suddenly we are all panicking because discord is shutting down or deleting old data as we all go "wow who could have seen this coming" and put our hands in the air
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Angry rant from climate science communicator.
Scientists have been pounding the table warning about climate change for decades, often at the expense of their own careers, only to be ignored by politicians.
And now that the climate is spinning out of control, it's somehow the fault of scientists??
I say this with all due respect to all those who promote this take: f#ck off.
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I would love to see game studios use the talent and skill they have developed over years of hard work to make games for older systems. Wow me with your mastery of the engine and the limitations you had. Refine that experience. Make 3DS games. Make PS1 games. Make Gameboy cartridges. Extend the life of older systems by 20 more years with masterpieces.
meta^4
Also, the CWs for these posts are starting to take on some real "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" vibes
meta^3
All the conversation about blocking Facebook on #FediBlockMeta just seems to be a hundred identical copies of "hi, I'm a privileged dude and I haven't bothered to understand the actual reason people want to block Facebook, and therefore everybody arguing to do so is short-sighted, because surely nobody would care about anything other than protocol adoption"
injury
... I just cut myself on a strip of painkillers
I have found my answer: outside of some very specific cases, they are indeed not allowed to do this.
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If you are using a revision control system that is NOT git and that you are happy with it, I'd be happy to read your stories telling which program you use, and why you stick with it. (or why you wouldn't use git)
I don't enjoy git hegemony, so I'm looking for convincing testimonials and arguments to promote alternatives ✊
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Get yoted.
(Smol mixed media coyote on wood. 8”x10”)
Check it out in the art show if you’re going to Anthrocon this year!
#MastoArt #TraditionalArt #RealMedia #Watercolor #Acrylic #Coyote
Question for those in Belgium: am I correct that Belgium has the same legal restrictions on private security as the Netherlands, in that private security guards are not allowed to use physical violence or restraint, just like any other citizen isn't? 
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all that being said
i think this whole thing is a gross and deliberate mischaracterization
i extremely dislike Chris Trottier AKA atomicpoet
and every opinion i've ever seen from him
Finally getting around to writing a formal complaint letter to Walibi Belgium about their aggressive security guards, inspired by the latest incident
En weer een geweldsincident met de beveiliging van Walibi Belgium: https://www.looopings.nl/weblog/22815/Koppel-beweert-mishandeld-te-zijn-door-beveiligers-Walibi-Belgium.html (CW: foto's van verwondingen)
Het park beweert dat de bezoekers zijn begonnen, maar gezien mijn eigen ervaringen met hun beveiligers, durf ik daar toch aan te twijfelen...
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yeah ok so "prompt engineer" is & is going to be a way of diverting money away from subject matter experts and toward young men who get paid more than the SMEs did, right? Kind of like shoddy pop-up data science programs are ways to divert salary from librarians?
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I decided to “confront” this individual AND share publicly because too many white folx just don’t get just how racist and harmful your default is and this is any ALL WHITENESS IS RACIST BY DESIGN and can’t/shouldn’t be trusted WITHOUT a consistent, demonstrated antiracist practice…it ALSO highlights how y’all dehumanize the Black folx in your lives by DEFAULT
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Me: Oh, huh, wait this is wrong. Let me just take five minutes to fix it.
Me, five hours later: Okay so while I was in there I rewrote the whole thing...
Me, five hours later: Okay so while I was in there I rewrote the whole thing...
explaining "bad vibes"
Have you ever wondered what the "bad vibes" thing is about, when people judge someone else to be untrustworthy?
Well, have you noticed how very often when someone gets called out for some obviously asshole behaviour, shortly afterwards a dozen people step up to say "yeah they've been suspicious for a long time"?
And everybody has their own stories, and individually they don't seem like a big deal, but together they paint a clear picture of someone who knowingly violates boundaries on a regular basis.
Well, that's what the "bad vibes" thing is about. It's people who have experience in spotting this sort of stuff, going "this is kinda sus, and every time I've seen this behaviour before, there turned out to be a bigger problem behind it. I don't have the full picture yet but I'm fairly sure that it's not a good one".
It's a very effective way to deal with the more subtle abusers; and it has a much higher accuracy in practice than you might expect.
- 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
