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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- 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
re: grumbling, evergreen
(This is mostly a complaint about people elsewhere. Most of my interactions on here are quite good. But there's certain communities that are absolutely full of the strawman-constructing type.)
re: grumbling, evergreen
And yes, the people who show that they can deal with nuance, continue to get nuanced takes rather than absolute ones. So if you keep getting absolute takes from me, that should tell you something about the way you communicate and argue
re: grumbling, evergreen
And yes these are usually the same people even if they often believe that they're not
grumbling, evergreen
"Stop speaking in such absolute terms all the time!"
Maybe I wouldn't have to speak in absolute terms if people ever actually took the nuance seriously, instead of taking it as an invitation to construct a strawman
Today really has been a day of stress...
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i wish posts raising awareness of the severity of climate change did anything for me personally besides raising the severity of my anxiety levels
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💽 If you have a SNES emulator running on any system it becomes a Super Pretendo.
Reminder: when someone (eg. landlord, company, employer, whatever) tells you that a contract change or renewal is 'needed', always approach it critically and determine what exactly they mean with "needed".
Often what they actually mean is that *they* need the change, not that *you* need the change.
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if the fact that they're making sitting on ledges illegal or impossible to stop homeless people from sitting or sleeping on them hasn't radicalized you you should wake the fuck up, frankly
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"Accessibility on a Shoestring": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiCsvZZh5-k
A great, fairly short talk providing lots of practical advice and examples on how to make games more accessible with little time and monetary investment, so this one's particularly interesting for indie devs.
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When you empty your vacuum cleaner you become a vacuum cleaner.
Good morning.
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i wonder if raising a kid in a polycule is going to end up more mentally healthy for the child because the housework and the chores can be split between different partners evenly without overloading them and thus giving everybody time to spend with the kid
(Dat zijn dus die dingen met die ronde karretjes waarin je altijd verschrikkelijk door elkaar geschud wordt)
Wow. De 'nieuwe' achtbaan van Hellendoorn is blijkbaar zo'n tweedehands Reverchon-kermisbaantje. Ik kan maar moeilijk begrijpen dat ze daar in deze tijd nog geld aan uit durven te geven...
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Anne C.A. Baanen
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the pytest package checks whether your code is pyte. only if your code is pytest, will it pass; otherwise, it will tell you to make it pyter.
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why aren't there open source gambling simulators that let you win fake money to help folks who need that stimuli for harm reduction
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Language toolchains with a perceptible compilation step are challenging for the neurodivergent brain...
It's far too easy to start compiling, get distracted while waiting, then tons of time flies by before you remember to switch back to what you were working on. 😅
As a bit more background: the reason that I think it's important for people to learn to identify the more subtle variants is not just because of the harm caused by those variants directly; but because they can serve as fertile ground for the more problematic variants to persist and crop up again later. Kind of similar to how racism often starts with racist "jokes", not with overt rhetoric.
I continue to find it very difficult to point out the similarity and apparent shared roots between different oppressive behaviours, without implying that the circumstances are of equal badness.
A case that just came up was how anti-vegan rhetoric often functions similarly to bigoted rhetoric (eg. transmisia, racism, etc.), trying to frame everything as things "being taken away" from the privileged group.
Another example from a while ago would be the similarity in assumptions and behaviours between actual colonialism, and the way that (especially white liberal) Twitter users felt entitled to the entire fedi adjusting to their cultural expectations.
In both cases, the two things are obviously not of the same impact; but I do feel that calling out the similarity helps people to identify problematic patterns (and subtler forms of them) more broadly. But how do you communicate that without implying they are equally bad?
- 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
