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
Like, am I missing something or is the latter pretty much just a persistent implementation of the former?
🤔 ECS and RDF triplestores look awfully similar
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Every time I teach my election tech course, it gets a little easier. Not because I'm getting better at it or because there's been some new technical breakthrough, but because I no longer as often need to have That Conversation with students. The one where I have to explain that no, blockchains don't solve this.
Also for fucks sake stop automatically assuming that "Mastodon doesn't scale" is a bug! Not everything needs to be global scale! There are other reasons to build platforms!
(Note: we're not talking about unmet needs of marginalized folks here. The dynamics would obviously be very different in such a case. It's more the opposite of that, in this case.)
"I don't want to <do thing that would have solved the problem>"
Okay, your choice, but then *please* stop complaining that the problem is unsolved, if you do not wish to entertain the solutions
Currently being extremely disappointed by a certain popular person continuously complaining that, paraphrasing, Mastodon is not exactly like Twitter, and not actually doing anything with the many recommendations that have been provided over the past months
Tech people really need to stop listening to "serial entrepreneurs" for their technical advice
Why would you trust someone who can't even keep a company operational long-term, to give you advice about technology choices, something where long-term maintenance is famously the biggest cost factor?
Still seeing people constantly lamenting that "people are so inconsiderate, not masking up, this is evidence that nobody cares about the well-being of others", and like
Am I the only one who observed many people initially taking precautions and then stopping to do so precisely when the government convinced them that it was not necessary?
I feel like nobody ever talks about the role of authority figures in this whole disaster, and everybody *insists* on individualizing this problem
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If you:
A) live in the US
B) don't have health insurance,
C) make less than 5x the Federal Poverty Limit ($63k for a household of 1, $108k for a household of 3),
you can get PrEP and the medication will be at no cost to you through this program:
ETA: This post about PrEP has gone far. If anyone has updates or information please go ahead and add them to this post. The more we know, and all that.
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A thing I have noticed as a non-anarchist:
Anarchists are still your friends, even if you're not an anarchist.
If you care about your civil liberties, they want that. If you want marginalized people to get the vote, they want that. If you want to unionize your workplace, they want that.
Some of them suck, and some of them are just cops wearing a V mask.
But most of the things anarchists want are things you also want!
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Pardon me while I immediately pin this to my account.
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fediverse pro tip!
people actually open content warnings (you just did, yourself) and it's actually a form of interaction that increases the connection with other people! like stop being scared of content warnings and realize that they are a too-specifically-named labeled envelope for your posts, that your followers and mutuals will love to open and enjoy. they can be an important safety tool and a fun stim toy for people at the same time and they don't have to be only a serious thing! embrace the cw!
thanks for opening my little envelope 😊
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It‘s december and you know what that means!
(Quelle unbekannt)
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"Geert Wilders wordt gesponsord (en geeft dat niet op aan de Tweede Kamer).
De rijke extreemrechtse Amerikaan Robert J. Shillman trekt graag zijn chequeboek om democratieën te ondermijnen. Zo steunt Shillman ook de extreemrechtse terreurorganisatie Proud Boys. #PVV 🧵/1"
(Marc Speelman @marcspeelman )
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I wonder how many people would be trans if there wasn't any stigma attached to it and you could get hrt otc
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It’s not really useful to talk about #skynet and robot overlords when discussing the dangers of #artificialintelligence because that’s not what we have to worry about, at least not for a while yet.
It is much more useful to talk about the concept of #policymurder which is when systems codified by law and regulation squeeze people into destitution and death. See also “social murder.”
Cc: @carnage4life
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Misschien is het beter om geen protest te organiseren dan het halfslachtig te doen? Nu kan het op velen overkomen alsof slechts een handjevol mensen zich echt zorgen maakt. Dus misschien valt het toch wel mee met die Wilders? En de mensen die zich (terecht) belaagd voelen door het oprukkende fascisme zullen denken: moeten we het hiervan hebben? Zijn dit de mensen die ons steunen?
Was handling disposal of a spicy pillow today, and it felt a bit like a slapstick movie - first I ran into an unexpected ice sheet (battery was in water overnight for discharge, and it had frozen over), then I got it out from under the ice, dropped it into a ziploc bag, and it fell straight *through* the bag
This is the first time ever that one of those bags has broken on me, what the hell
- 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
