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.
- 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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asexuality question, 
People on the asexual spectrum, do you have words for sexual-ish intercourse, which aren't loaded with the usual preconceptions of penetration and orgasm? Anything describing the vast space of possibilities between "cuddling" and "sex"?
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While I'm digging through my old watercolor work, here's my big fifteen-minutes-of-fame, frontpage-of-reddit-several-times comic that got retweeted into orbit in the days of Early Twitter, from around 2009-2010.
It's an open secret that if you get a cute fox involved, you're bound to get loads of traction with computer people.
The concept of a "third option" is so useful.
*So many* seemingly impossible problems and horrible tradeoffs can be resolved by just... rejecting the assumption that the only available options are the ones that have been presented.
Who coined the phrase "coining a phrase"?
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i think one of the biggest absolutely disgusting things about capitalism is that it somehow convinced people that helping others without expecting anything in return is somehow bad
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Isometric city inspired in regular colombian citys. i started this piece when Colombia's team did amazing in the women's world cup under 17 but i finally finish it while we are at the Women's world cup.
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I'm seeing more boosts of (often interesting) art without image descriptions
they don't need to be fancy! just write in what you'd tell your friend if you wanted to show them the image & their internet was busted or something. there's something about it that you're trying to convey by showing the image; write that down
(otoh if you're going to repost uncredited art maybe just. don't.)
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Anyway, *opens their one thousand forty sixth tab*
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"we need a new web"
@joepie91 I just think about that line from that one Dan Olsen video, actually two lines, the one about how tech bros think they're uniquely positioned to solve the world's problems, and also the one about how the problem isn't the tech, it's patterns of human behaviour.
Yes, programmers have and will complain about the implementation of the tools, but the tools weren't the problem.
"we need a new web"
Making a "new web" is not going to fix the capitalist dynamics that led to this one being appropriated by corporations.
"Replacing HTTP" is not going to fix any of the problems that we have with web monopolization today, because it is only a transport protocol, and has nothing to do with how the content is accessed or displayed, or what it can do.
"Replacing HTML and CSS" raises the question of what you want to replace it with, and to solve what problem? Because while certainly not perfect, they solve very difficult problems reasonably effectively.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't do anything about the increasing monopolization of the web, quite the opposite. But if we want to actually do so *effectively*, a good start is to understand what the actual root cause of the problem is, and it isn't the technology stack.
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Kids can detect what you really think of them. What is says about them that their school has a "discipline center" not a library. What that says about what the adults in their life expect from them. What the education system has to offer for them.
They see it all. Adapt to meet your expectations.
Build a discipline center have discipline problems. Dutifully the children will not want it to go to waste.
And they will remember "libraries aren't for kids like us." for the rest of their lives.
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Racists gtfo of the fedi
Is there a name for the 'temporal grounding' that I (as someone with ADHD) get from living around someone else?
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1. Be gay
2. Do crimes
3. DO post about being gay
4. DON'T post about doing crimes, for the love of god, I cannot stress this enough, jesus christ
2. Do crimes
3. DO post about being gay
4. DON'T post about doing crimes, for the love of god, I cannot stress this enough, jesus christ
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possibly spicy take, Twitter migration meta
@joepie91 I think this is a reasonable take, on the whole. An additional factor that might have played into the dynamics is that when a whole bunch of people arrived basically at once, they largely interacted with *each other*. So, their impressions were shaped not by the existing users (with both the good and the bad things those would bring), but by the other people who just showed up. Hence there was a noticeable amount of "nobody on Mastodon does X" when really people on Mastodon had been doing X for years.
"You can't decide whether someone calls themselves an anarchist" is oppressor logic
A somewhat popular 'argument', which notably tends to come mainly from non-anarchists and abusers, goes something like this:
"Of course that guy is an anarchist, because they say they are! It would be hypocritical and un-anarchist to decide that someone can't call themselves that"
This betrays a misunderstanding of what anarchism is about, and it follows the logic of hierarchy, not that of anarchism. When they make this argument, what they're *really* saying is:
"You don't have an appointed authority, therefore everyone is free to do whatever they want, because nobody is allowed to tell them off!"
That's not what anarchism is about. "Not having authorities or rules" isn't the point. Anarchism is about eliminating *hierarchy*; about socially organizing and fostering healthy communities through collaborative and participatory means, rather than through 'authority'.
If someone does not live or speak by these principles, then you, as a part of that anarchist community, are entirely within your rights to say "they are not really an anarchist". This is no different from calling out any other problematic behaviour in your communities.
Or to put it differently: you saying that they are not truly an anarchist is not asserting that you have any sort of special authority to make that decision; it's asserting that you and everybody else carry a *shared responsibility* to call out misuse of the term, because that misuse harms others.
And by the logic of how anarchism works, it is everybody's job to do so, as long as it happens in good faith.
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every now and then someone makes a post like "fedi culture is getting 8 boosts and 20 likes and going 'ohh this is doing numbers' lol lmao. numbers tiny" and like i get it but also if 20 people came up to me and said "i liked it when you said that, well done" and 8 of those people were like "can i get some copies of this so i can show it to all my friends?" id be stoked
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But it's an open source torment nexus!
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can someone who runs a shopify store tell me if “sign people up to the advertising newsletter they unchecked a box for during checkout” is an option or just default shopify behavior?
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@a13cui Thanks for asking!
It's a messy topic and it's late here (I'm a bit sleepy), so feel free to ask follow up questions.
The short version of it is that Judeo-Christian is almost always used in one of two harmful ways:
1) To try and give more credibility and weight to something that is purely Christian by claiming that it's part of Judaism as well when it's not (like the above example, because Judaism explicitly permits abortions)
2) To try and talk about broader groupings of related faiths while ignoring the many other Abrahamic faiths (the proper term, though that one more often hurts the lesser known groups, don't use it unless you also know it applies to groups like the Baháʼí, which I'll admit even I know next to nothing about, but it's valid here because all I'm doing is naming their religious family)
Because many (cough most cough) teach a bastardized form of Judaism through the lens of Christianity, and because that's the only exposure many get to our faith... they get skewed harmful and hurtful ideas about us.
Some highlight examples:
* We don't have an established afterlife (we don't say there isn't one, we just have zero information on it if there is)
* We don't seek "eternal reward", the reward for our faith is being a better person than we were the day before
* We have forgiveness baked into our faith, and no it doesn't require animal sacrifice (it requires you to actually ask the person you wronged...)
* We thoroughly encourage arguing any topic with anyone (right time and place of course), and that includes picking a fight with God if you think they're wrong about something (you have a 99.9% chance of being wrong... but we commend the effort and every once in a while someone wins the argument)
* We have a rule, Pikuach Nefesh, roughly meaning that life is the highest commandment. Your well being takes precedence over your faith, if it would hurt you or others to be observant than you are exempt from that requirement. It's unacceptable to hurt others for your faith, and for yourself it's frowned upon
* We actively discourage conversion, it's allowed but it's not a trivial process. We don't want people to become Jews, we just want people to be better.
- 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
