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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war, nationalism
sick and fucking tired of wars starting and Germans flying the flag of one of the countries involved everywhere, as if they were cheering for their favorite football team
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I'm looking forward to 1993
Edit: some context:
- This wasn't a proposal for a european rail network, it's a rough transfer of the London Underground map to Europe
- It does show that the eurostar would go from a lot of UK stations, a plan that was sadly cancelled
- image borrowed from @rhodri
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It took me ages to realise OH stands for “overheard” and not “other half”, but the secret is sometimes it’s both
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Reminder:
During crisis events, uninformed and ill-informed “opinions” only exacerbate and perpetuate harm
It’s best to (1) seek the insight of those with expertise, preferably gained through lived experience and (2) remain quiet because your ignorance is an unnecessary distraction
re: gaza
I have always found it difficult to fully understand the situation behind the conflict, so I may not know what the right answer is, but I sure *do* know what some of the *clearly wrong* answers are, and they include the narrative from several governments around here, including the Dutch one
gaza
I guess this is one of those things where people's response to events tells you a lot about their internal politics...
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oh yeah I created a map thing of all the train lines I traveled on, for train fedi street cred or something?
https://waarisflimpie.nl (still need to make it slightly better however)
People complaining about narrow roads / protests / bike paths / etc. impeding fire trucks have clearly never actually watched fire department people drive
Turns out the answer is "use JGR's patchset", which is packaged in nixpkgs
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Anyone have any recommendations for well-designed (ie. not random distribution) large #OpenTTD scenarios that use FIRS or a fork of it?
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Did you know about PromptFont?
This is a special font that I made which includes glyphs for all sorts of button prompts on all sorts of different gamepads and devices. Since it's a font, you can easily include it as part of text and scale it or colour it however you want.
You can find the font available for free here: https://shinmera.github.io/promptfont
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Folks in #Hamburg: even if you don't plan on going to #37C3 this December and are not involved in its organization, perhaps you could help make the event a little safer for vulnerable folks? 
All that's needed is for people to hand out masks outside of the venue: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/111177036963676873
Please let me know if you'd like to help out on this - I probably can't be in Hamburg myself, but I'd be happy to contribute what I can from here to make this happen.
Love how the 'fractional' scaling in OpenTTD is just "increase the margins, only increase font at whole scaling factors" because it's a bitmap font
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you see, if your argument rejects the axiom that all nazis are evil, nothing you say can be taken in good faith
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This Halloween I'm gonna cosplay as functional adult
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I just had a fortune cookie with no fortune inside and honestly that feels like a perfect representation of life lately
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@disability We contacted UC Davis about this.
This location is a "public-private partnership". The land is owned by the people (aka UC Davis), but leased long-term to a private developer to build student housing. Neither UC Davis nor The Green could find who did this and they're assuming that someone "borrowed" their candlestick bollards and used their own fake No Parking sign to annex this area for their own purposes. Because we notified them, they picked all this stuff up and removed it and will be paying attention to this in future.
Speak up and make a difference for #Accessibility.
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joking, don't get mad
military history's prominence is not because it merits it objectively, but because in the time before cool strategy videogames, there was a large demographic of men who wanted to scratch that particular brain itch and had to pretend that they cared about history to approximate it
- 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
