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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- 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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Still angry about an old article about ChatGPT
ChatGPT is like
What if instead of paying a research assistant to do a boring and repetitive task
Instead a computer does it
But the computer is powered by Kenyans being called the n-word for exploitatively bad wages
And every time you bring this up, people handwaive your concerns away condescendingly
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Heads up - apparently Patreon changed their payment processor from California to Ireland without telling anyone, and, as a result, a bunch of transactions all got cancelled as "suspicious activity". Whether you're a creator or a patron, maybe double-check all your pledges!
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It blows my mind that it’s 2023 and we still can’t have an anchor or a form carry out an HTTP PUT or DELETE request without using a library like htmx.
But Web DRM? Sure, we’re working on that!
*smh*
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ACAB
racism and white supremacy propaganda discussion
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And while I'm on the subject, why DO we accept thousands of flu deaths each year when many could be prevented??? (Rhetorical. I don't really need an answer.) In early 2020, before any Covid research, I found study after study proving that masks prevented the spread of flu, yet I'd never heard any suggestion to wear masks. We just let it rip and accepted all these deaths. No wonder all the anti-maskers argue that "Covid is just like the flu". If we accepted that, why not this, right? Smdh
re: negative, children's safety
Oh, and bonus points for the (queer!) people threatening to call in the cops on a community of other queer folks for talking about this, ie. immediately putting everybody's safety there in jeopardy
Like, what the actual fuck is wrong with you?
re: negative, children's safety
Like, harm reduction doesn't suddenly stop mattering because you personally feel uncomfortable with the topic
re: negative, children's safety
(I am being deliberately vague here, given the tendency of some people to try and find the absolute worst interpretation of anything on this topic)
negative, children's safety
It's depressing how quickly many supposed 'leftists' fall back into statist rhetoric and "law is more important than harm reduction" thinking when discussing how to deal with children and sexuality safely, with all of the bad-faith discussion tactics that come with that.
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bbc@terf.island: how the situation in china shows they still need the guidance of the white man
user@big.instance: finally,,, this network is being taken Seriously
queefmonger@tech.gay: i used a scanner to make a back for a medium format camera and used it to take some macro shots of my balls, check it out
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Slightly unfriendly reminder to a lot of the white people in Black people's replies when they are talking about racism:
If you are doing that thing where you reflexively push back against a Black person identifying an experience that they are having with white people by trying to say it isn't about race or something else is also a factor that isn't about a marginalized identity, you are part of the problem.
"It isn't about race, it's about politics!"
"It's not just white people doing it, others do it too!"
Stop. You have to stop doing this. Check your instincts and deal with your discomfort with race on your own time please. Don't try make us hold your hand, we've done plenty of that already.
I see this stuff almost every day I'm on here. Well-meaning minimization of someone else's struggles ain't helpful and they damn sure ain't good allyship.
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Waffling
I also found out that a lot of people don't actually read the .art blog posts I make to include details of mod action we're taking. They just see the announcement and look at the 'discourse' going on around it and make up their own minds without reading the (usually short and to-the-point) posts that accompany them.
Can't win. If we don't post receipts/reasons, we're asked for them. So we post them for maximum visibility; blog post, toot, announcement, then people don't bother reading.
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Apparently HR at this new company couldn't decide what gender I was, and was too scared to ask. HR person said the recruiter called me she and the interviewer called me he and my name is too neutral to tell. My neutral style of clothing definitely didn't help either.
I am become the mythical enby, destroyer of gender
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It really bugs me in these natural disaster or zombie/alien movies when no one has a decent backpack. Everyone’s running around with these useless purses or crappy little rucksacks that will give you blisters the second you load it up. Come on, people! If you can loot a grocery store you can loot an REI. The concept is the same. Get a freaking compass while you’re at it. Maybe a bike. You can outrun a lot of zombies on a bike. I assume. Grab a hat, too. The last thing you need now is a sunburn.
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Please enjoy this emojo of a leaf blower 
which I emojified off a hardware chain webstore. CC0.
Suggested uses: replying to sealions, combining with 🍁 🍂 emoji, complaining about leaf blowers.
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Have you noticed almost everyone strongly against defederation as a management and safety tool also has a problem with consent and boundaries?
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i love having a terrible memory because i’m out here rewatching doctor who genuinely excited for what matt smith’s tardis interior is going to look like because i forgot
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today marks an exciting anniversary: exactly 10 years ago, I took this photo of a Burger King with messed up signage in Estepona, Spain
they fixed it before opening, but the memory the of whop lives on
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Stolen and reposted from someone who didn't bother with an image description or attribution
Source: Anastasia Dobrovolskaya, https://www.dobrovolskaia.com/
- 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
