Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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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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this next bit is directed at the abuser himself. i'd mention his name, but we've seen how that usually plays out.
no wonder you feel lonely. no wonder you feel isolated. you've forgotten (or maybe never learned) what it means to truly connect with other people, to build meaningful relationships that just *are*. the only thing you lose by leaving is the potential to turn us into money-making machines for your own gain. you never sincerely tried to be a part of the community, so all of your complaints are just hot air.
i know how to handle people like you - people who don't know how to do anything but start screaming at the first hint of (constructive) criticism. people who have gone their whole lives without ever having truly been told "no" in a way that matters. people who think anyone who disagrees with them is "harassing" them. people who will throw even their closest friends under the bus if they think there's a tiny chance it would make them look good somehow.
i didn't talk you into a hole that you couldn't climb out of - you did. i just helped you along, agreeing with what you were saying and patting you on the back like you wanted. and you ate it up until you realized i wasn't going to let you derail the conversation like you always do. you realized i was holding you accountable for things you repeatedly promised, but couldn't provide. and you bailed.
a week later, for the first time, you were called out by someone whose privilege matched yours. you tried to play the same game with him, but he wasn't having it either. you asked him the same question you asked me - "where does it end?" - and when he pointed you to my unanswered thread, you probably realized there was no way out of the grave you had dug for yourself. and... you bailed.
we wanted you to see how much harm you were doing, apologize for it all, and step up to the task you signed up for. we wanted you to put in the work and *do better*. you owed that to the thousands of people who mistakenly placed their trust in you. for their sake, our ideal solution was never for you to leave - but we'll take it if that's the best you can do. at this point, it's strictly harm reduction. so be it.
🧵 4/6
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🧵 for anyone who feels the need to wish an abuser well:
you're hurting us, but it isn't intentional.
innocent platitudes: "take care of yourself!" "hope you're okay!"
but not for those who sacrificed pieces of ourselves to protect our people from someone who tried to erase us.
and not for those who were the deliberate targets of his abuse.
nope, those platitudes - en masse - are always reserved for *the abuser himself*.
every single one is a slap in our faces:
"look what you made him do. no wonder he treated you that way."
"you look the same as always. he's obviously suffering more than usual."
"abuser? him? no way, that's you - look what you made him do."
you're hurting us, but *at least* it isn't intentional.
it was intentional when he hurt every single one of us, for personal gain, while you stood by and watched.
maybe you didn't even see the problem, because you assume that voices like his are reliable sources of truth.
and because you weren't personally affected, you could ignore our pain and remain as comfortable as ever.
maybe you did see our cries for help, but chalked it up to the regular background noise that's always there.
it *is* always there, and you do nothing. what does that say about you?
you're hurting us, and now you know it.
but *at least* we're used to it, because it's all we've ever known.
and we won't be erased.
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does anyone have a broken Nintendo DSi or DSi XL lying around? (preferably in Europe for shipping reasons)
I need a few more consoles to do the following:
* sand/polish down each layer of the PCB and image them
* document all the testpoints on the DSi XL PCB (which are, unlike the regular DSi's, not properly labeled)
* document the last few remaining unknown pins of the CPU-TWL SoC
this is of course destructive, so that's why I don't want to do this with still-working consoles
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Giving fascists “the benefit of the doubt” is how you end up living under fascism.
(Notice I said “living”. Funny how those who would be dead under it are never the ones doing this.)
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I just heard, Chris Matthews, a political pundit/journalist use the term “marginal people” and it hit me why so many “good folx” in positions of power and privilege fail at efforts of “justice”
People are NOT “marginal”…they’ve been MARGINALIZED and that’s a big fuckin difference
The former incorrectly assigns “value” AND blame to folx and their effort, or lack of, while the latter, correctly acknowledges that these folx are acted upon by discriminatory systems, institutions, and policies
You know how it's usually pretty obvious whether someone actually understands a subject, or whether they're just repeating something they've read in a popsci magazine?
It works the same way with "have you ever actually talked and listened to marginalized folks about this". We can tell.
Jankiest VR streaming setup: casting the headset to a browser which then gets screencaptured by OBS, compositing in the image from my phone's camera by embedding a webpage that streams it (the phone is propped up on a chair against a box)
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I am once again reminding everyone that covid home antigen testing became less reliable with the omicron variant, as announced in late 2021.
Serial testing is the updated recommendation if you don't have pcr test access. Test again after 48 hours from an initial negative result if symptomatic. Test at 48 and 96 hours after an initial negative if you have no symptoms but have had contact with anyone you know to be infected.
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*Woonprotest Utrecht*
* zondag 13 augustus 13:00
* Jaarbeursplein #Utrecht
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One of the creepier tech-related incidents I remember was many years ago when I wanted the Sam's Photofacts (a third-party creator of device specs and schematics, etc.) for a very old portable TV. Way out of date, but I was trying to help someone with it.
I mentioned to a friend that I was looking for old Photofacts, but I did not say anything about the TV. He scribbled an address on a scrap of paper, an address locally here in L.A. "Try him," he muttered.
I drive over. It's a small unmarked storefront. I go in, the bell on the door rings. Sitting inside, like the caterpillar in "Alice in Wonderland", is this little guy perched on a stool, with immense stacks of paper surrounding him everywhere. Total mayhem.
I walk up to him -- knowing that this was a waste of time and really wanting to get out of there -- and asked if he had the Sam's Photofacts for that specific very old TV model.
Without saying a word, he reached over to the pile of papers right next to him, took the TOP item off the pile, and silently handed it to me. It was the ancient one I needed. Stunned, I paid him the amount marked on the item, and left with it, not completely sure what had just happened.
When I drove by there a month later that storefront was something else entirely. He was gone.
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bbc
IDK what the point is tbh
Like, they have a website. If I want to look at the BBC news I'll go and look at the BBC news website. If I don't want to look at the BBC news I'll come here and look at furries and pinball weirdos.
Real "WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY-SCHEDULED TRANS-PERSON-EXPLAINING-RETROBRITE CONTENT TO BRING YOU THIS IMPORTANT NEWS BULLETIN!" and, like... rude tbh? Entitled?
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"I just have some concerns", long 
We all know the concern trolls who are "raising some concerns" when talking about protections for marginalized folks, and who already know that they're not problems, they're just trying to sow discord.
But another, more insidious form of this are the people - usually centrists or liberals - who legitimately believe that they are raising legitimate concerns, and are doing so in a harmful manner.
There's an obvious form of privilege here; those raising the concerns are typically not part of the affected group, and so unlike the affected group, they can afford to treat it like some hypothetical thought experiment, whereas the affected marginalized folks are living the consequences right here and now.
But that's not what I want to talk about. Because it goes much deeper than that.
For example, these "concerns" are usually the absolute most obvious things that you could think of - and somehow, the concern-raisers believe that they are specially qualified to have such a novel insight.
They don't stop to consider that maybe this concern was already raised hundreds of times before, and relitigated over and over again, and found to not be (sufficiently) relevant. They don't really take the time to research it - instead just assuming that they're the first.
That's privilege.
This usually combines with another problematic factor; when the concerns are raised, a response like "yeah we've thought of that" isn't considered enough. Instead, the concern-raiser will not stop pushing until *they, personally* are satisfied that it's addressed.
They are not merely raising a concern to help; they are considering themselves to be the arbiter of truth, as if their approval is required to go ahead with the plan. They are assuming authority.
That's privilege.
Those in the best position to understand the circumstances and needs of marginalized folks, are those marginalized folks themselves. Approval by the privileged is not required.
Listen to marginalized people. Yes, even if you have "concerns".
re: subtoot
This is honestly barely even a subtoot, more like an evergreen paraphrase of reactionaries and conservatives everywhere
subtoot
"Still, [this thing that you've been doing for years with great success, while others struggle to succeed at this] is not a solution"
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like
ugh
there's that "growth at all costs" mindset again
"think of how good this would be for the fediverse!"
the software's mass-adoption? sure thing, you're right, if that's really all you care about
but the people ON THE FUCKING FEDIVERSE ALREADY? the communities that exist here? nah, not by a long shot
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yes, actually
i think preemptively defederating from the news organization that routinely does extreme transphobia
is a preferable alternative to waiting until they start pushing that bullshit into peoples' feeds
because, at that point, the damage is done. someone's mental state is harmed. someone's day is ruined. someone might be pushed to harm themself, even
the constant transphobia in the news... it really starts to wear you down and get to you
even if that sorta stuff doesn't normally
The conundrum: all the hackercons are during the summer, so all the fun vulnerabilities are getting dropped, but all the hackercons are during the summer, so nobody's around to patch the affected systems
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- 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
