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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- 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
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@PaulWermer @drahardja True. That reminds me of this comic by #WorkChronicles. https://workchronicles.com/comics/page/38/
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@drahardja there is a distressing tendency to reward those who respond to a disaster, while ignoring those who do the difficult work of preventing a disaster. The latter is so much harder to see, and also so much more challenging...
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refers to parental abuse (violence) and downplaying thereof
every now and then I will hear something along the lines of "These days kids can't even be hit without everyone making a fuss, I was hit as a child and it didn't do me any harm"
and each time, I think, actually, it did do you harm. it made you think it's fine to hit children.
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Question for Mastodon Admins: are you using the `REDIS_NAMESPACE` configuration variable?
If yes, can you reply and explain why you are using it?
We will need to drop support for it, as Sidekiq no longer supports it, and I want to be certain we understand every usage to prepare a migration guide.
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"office revolution" 
"the new office chair" 
goddamn neolibs and their fucking appropriation of language
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Long covid is lichamelijk en zit 'niet tussen de oren', toont onderzoek aan - https://nos.nl/l/2503701
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Why capitalism is a fundamentally violent ideology
The ideology of capitalism is to create a social hierarchy through wealth disparity; you get to the top by having more wealth than others.
Capitalists will always try to privatize basic needs and infrastructure, because those are the most reliable way to extract wealth; you always have to buy them, whether you want to or not.
And if you satisfy those needs without buying them, police will show up to evict you for not paying rent, arrest you for "stealing" food, and so on. If you resist them, violence will be used against you, to force your hand.
This means that there is a direct line from capitalist ideology to state violence; it cannot work without that. Capitalism *must* be violent to exist.
And sure, there are a couple ways to reduce these issues through eg. regulation - but crucially, every single one of those ways *goes against* capitalist ideology.
So "making capitalism work" through regulation is a very strange concept; you're "making it work" by removing it from the equation, by actively working against it.
By that point, isn't it just time to acknowledge that capitalism is violent and undesirable?
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I did *not* need to be called out this directly this morning by today's Questionable Content strip 😅😭
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I collect these. I call them "design in the wild" where end users fix design mistakes on their own. It's a bit shocking how often this happens. Think of how bad it has to be to reach this point. #ux #DesignInTheWild
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If you haven't made any other new year's resolutions - or even if you have - why not randomly select one of your backups and check that you can restore it?
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UK, trans, new NHS GIC pilot in Sussex!
The Sussex Gender Service is now starting up! They're selecting from people who joined a GIC waiting list before a certain date, currently 2023 03 31, and registered with a Sussex GP before then.
It sounds much like the other pilots, happily.
https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/our-services/specialist-services/sussex-gender-service
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That’s a definition of an traffic island I didn’t knew about before #Flooding
re: money, dentist
(This is the dentist in question, in case anyone is curious: https://www.tandartsmazairac.nl/)
money, dentist
It's still really shitty that dental care in NL isn't covered by healthcare insurance in any meaningful way, but I don't have a bad word to say about the local dentist, they've always been fantastic
dentist
Got chipped tooth fixed within 2 hours of it happening. Impressive.
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Dat de burgemeester uit Samson & Gert in het echt ook een burgemeester is vind ik nog steeds lachwekkend 😅
Zijn naam kwam weer voorbij door de overstromingen in Affligem.
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Hello friends. Yearly reminder that TurboTax is a scam, and that most people don’t need to pay for tax software every year. There are lists on IRS.gov of legitimate sites where you can file your federal taxes for freee
The one I used last year was just as simple as turbo tax, but wasn’t trying to upsell me constantly.
- 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
