Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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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[white cis men do not comment]
#Men #Sexism #mansplaining #ToxicMasculinity #gaslighting #ReplyGuys
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EXTRY EXTRY READ ALL ABOUT IT: A new allowlist-only instance for Black folks
Following the repeated harassment waves that white supremacists have been sending our way, we've been hard at work putting together an alternative option/model for Black folks to engage with the fediverse. And I am very happy to now be able to announce publicly that we are open for signups!
This new instance is called NiggasAndFriends (shout-out to Kid Fury for the name inspiration 😊) and will be open to any Black folks on the fediverse. We will have very limited federation, with us predominantly (but not exclusively) being connected to BIPOC-run instances.
When I started BlackQueerLife, I was hoping that with robust moderation, we could have a space that had open federation and was relatively sheltered from white supremacy. I now believe that given the stranglehold whiteness has on this network (particularly on Mastodon), that just isn't possible. It reminds me of what MLK once said about integrating his people into a burning house. That’s a very apt metaphor for this space imo. It's also very clear that the current state of affairs is just how most fedizens want it. I can yell at folks for being antiblack until I'm blue in the face, but as Pharrell once said, “They're gonna do it anyway.”
So, we will continue to do what Black folks have always done: build something for ourselves. If you're interested in making an account with us, DM me and I can send you the signup instructions. Thanks for reading!
Hey fedi, let's play a new(?) game! It's called "Stories That Could Have Happened". 
The game: Someone picks a phenomenon, a saying, an event, or something else, where we don't actually know for sure how it happened or came to exist, and then we collectively write a Story That Could Have Happened about its origins! It doesn't need to be true or based on history!
There are only a few base rules, to keep it fun and non-confrontational for everybody:
1. You can either post a top-level reply to start a new story about the topic, or reply to someone else to continue on their story chain so far.
2. If you reply to someone else, you must either add to it or refine it with more nuance - you cannot outright contradict their post!
3. Posting with public visibility is encouraged, but make sure to add the #StoriesThatCouldHaveHappened hashtag, so that people can mute it if they want.
4. Keep your post short, and leave enough room for the next person to build on it.
So, anyone up for playing? 🙂 Let's start with this topic:
"Turning lead into gold"
Where did the idea come from?
(If your local waste collection program has different instructions for "when in doubt", then follow those; but almost no collection agency seems to specify this, for whatever reason)
Just realized that probably not everybody knows this: when sorting plastic waste, and you're not sure whether something can go in the plastic waste... if in doubt, put it in mixed waste!
The potential consequences of mixed waste in plastic collection are much worse (can make an entire truckload of plastic useless, depending on local collection process) than the potential consequences of plastic in mixed waste (one piece of plastic wasted).
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any of you using "write.as" for blogging? is it good? i'm gathering that wordpress is uncool right now lol
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My phone is dying and I need a replacement fast. Does anyone here have a fairphone discount code for their official shop?
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the internet archive being down is really annoying when I'm trying to read old as fuck papers that it probably has archived
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NMBS has these paid bike parking spaces. Who would design a system for bike parkings? Apparently nobody as the system asks for a car license plate 🤣
Love how Thunderbird just randomly freezes for seconds at a time while I'm trying to write an e-mail.
(Do not love it)
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You can tell my Linux laptop did not shut down correctly because my laptop bag is warm to the touch more than an hour and a half after I asked it to shut down
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💊 Denk mee over drugsregulering in de pop-up XTC-winkel. De XTC-winkel is open van 16 oktober tot en met 24 november.
➡️ https://www.amsterdam.nl/nieuws/nieuwsoverzicht/xtc-winkel/
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So people are saying I should introduce myself:
My name is Imani aka AngryBlackLady.
Abortion rights are pretty much my entire personality.
I'm a lawyer, SCOTUS nerd, a journalist, and an expert in repro rights and justice and related law.
I am Editor-at-Large at Rewire News Group—the only nonprofit publication dedicated to repro rights health and justice.
I co-host a podcast called Boom! Lawyered with Jess Mason Pieklo.
I have three rescue dogs and I live outside Boulder, Colorado.
WTF kind of measurement unit is this for a supposedly academic paper?!
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What is the most inappropriate connector with enough pins to support USB-C?
I suggest:
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Brief van Ons Buurtje.
Of zich buren willen melden voor een schoonmaakactie. Met gratis koffie, thee, en...
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Mondneusmaskers.
Mijn mond viel echt open.
Hoe attent is DIT?!
Het is dat er bladblazers worden ingezet, anders had ik me aangemeld. Helaas wil mijn oor dit soort dingen niet.
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cheap airline question (Ryanair)
so they say I either have to print the thing or use the app; anyone got experience with just putting the PDF on the screen? 🤔
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Onze huisarts stopt. Long covid. 🥺
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- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
