Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
Facebook outage
Facebook goes down and ~every Matrix and IRC room I'm in seems to have an uptick in activity
politics
"How are they hoping to increase their group's popularity with this?"
They... don't? Like, they never stated at any point that that was their intention? Why are you assuming that that's the goal to begin with...? It's a really weird assumption
politics
Reading the comments on an article about that transformer fire near a Tesla factory, and once again baffled at how many people don't seem to understand that public popularity is not a relevant goal of these sorts of actions to begin with
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"you'd never survive a cod lobby" okay well you wouldn't survive a discord server full of queer furries
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oh fucking hell. they're ending the free covid tests program THIS FUCKING FRIDAY.
GO ORDER SOME. THEY'RE FREE.
https://special.usps.com/testkits
PLEASE. we are literally on our own now.
#thanksIhateThis #covid #covidisntover #covidsafe #wearamask
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Taking care of myself doesn't mean 'me first.' It means 'me, too.” ~ L.R. Knost
personal, "smart"
Also, even if this weren't a misperception, why would I want to be complimented for something that is just part of who I am? Something that I would've happened to get lucky with, and which required no special effort on my part?
personal, "smart"
I really dislike it when people call me "smart" when really I just have a special interest in communication and therefore communicate in a way that a lot of people understand... and people end up mistaking that understanding for "intelligence" on the part of the speaker.
Like, calling me "smart" is not really a compliment, as much as it is an indirect insult to people-who-are-not-me, and I do not think that it is justified
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I just saw a toot explaining a useful "youtube fixer" firefox add on that removes "for you..." and "people also search..." from search results.
This made me realize how far we have come the wrong way: we are now in THE AGE OF ADVERSARIAL FEATURE DESIGN. Product creators introduce anti-features to attempt to divert user attention AWAY from what they want. Users are captive to the ecosystem because the software USED TO BE useful, and they actively have to block against new features to keep it so.
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There's one thing I learned about Germany : choose a random train station with nothing but some crappy RegionalBahn service - and you can be sure there's a post box in front of the station 😅.
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on Fediverse bigotry
these forms of bigotry are the oldest in white society, and the most deeply rooted. most of us learn them as truths from childhood without even noticing.
it's not surprising these are the most common forms of Fedi bigotry.
it's not surprising these thought patterns are ingrained in the ways most of you think.
it's just disappointing.
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on Fediverse bigotry
it's not surprising the three most common forms of Fedi bigotry are (in no particular order) anti-blackness, antisemitism and misogyny.
it's also not surprising all three of them often manifest here in their most classic form in the 21st century: Jews are an external evil that threatens society; black people are an internal evil that threatens me personally; women are wrong and need to be corrected before they spread their dangerous falsehoods.
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All the "If x, then pirating is not stealing" memes are fun, but let's also not lose sight of the fact that pirating was never stealing
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And to complete that thought: genuine solidarity looks like bottom-up organizing, among everyday people (the 'workers') for everyone's needs, and *not* like following an esteemed leader, even if that leader seems to speak the language of solidarity.
Note that the phrasing of "capital owners and fascists" is deliberate. Capitalism is not the only oppressive and authoritarian ideology. Fascism can hide in nominally progressive-looking ideology, too. I'm especially looking at some interpretations of communism here.
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I think my non-binary-ness basically boils down to wanting permanent access to a character creator.
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Learn to be normal about people not liking your faves/being discomforted by your faves
- 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
