Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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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Periodic reminder in light of the #nyt strike that #wordle started life as a free, vanilla javascript website with no DRM and not owned by the nyt, and I packed it into a single html file that you can download and run offline or from any site, like this: https://jon-e.net/wordle.html
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🍉❗️ IMPORTANT WARNING for when you are in #Amsterdam (incl. region) this week (incl. the weekend):
"This Thursday, Ajax has a football match against Tel Aviv (starting at 9:00 p.m.). The Amsterdam police are expecting a large number of Zionist football hooligans in Amsterdam and are also concerned that some who are also IOF soldiers may cause issues. So, please be cautious if you are wearing a Keffiyeh or a Palestine shirt.
Everyone on the streets should pay attention to personal safety. ESPECIALLY THIS WEEK." (source: Week.4PalestineNL)
They expect 2600 Haccabi Tel Aviv fans in the Johan Cruijff Arena (Ajax stadium). It's a real scandal that Israel is allowed to participate in EUFA matches, but now it's even become dangerous for locals. This weekend a peaceful protester was already beaten into hospital by a visiting Zionist. The @gemeenteamsterdam exposes its residents to a lot of danger. This football match should have been forbidden beforehand.
So please stay safe people! ❤️
#Ajax #EUFA #Israel #Haccabi #TelAviv #IDF #Gaza #Palestine #StopTheGenocide
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I can joke about "cursed" food all day long but in reality it seriously is none of my business what people enjoy eating. Your preference is yours and that's okay.
Also on that note, if we were to strictly sick to traditional dishes and ways of preparing them, no cuisine would ever evolve because every new thing deriving from the traditional form is "cursed" until it isn't anymore
CW-boost: palestine, anarchism
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"Is funding this thing with philanthropy okay?"
And
"Should we give control over this thing to an unelected rich person who has no reason to act in the public good?"
Are exactly the same question
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Medical stuff and wearing masks
I spent half the day at the emergencies because my body went into overdrive and they needed to calm it the fuck down. And they had to ensure I didn’t develop an infection from the wounds it caused. So that’s a kinda stressful situation for me the patient, even though medically speaking it’s not really remarkable. It just needs handling according to standard protocols.
Normally, whenever I go to a medical facility, I go in masked. Today I couldn’t, because I couldn’t have anything touching my skin without causing significant pain. Putting on and taking off clothes was not fun.
But with everyone else bollocksing the mask wearing, I now get exposed to a waiting room full of people coughing their longs out from influenza, COVID or whatever else they had.
I didn’t make a “personal choice” not to mask, I simply couldn’t. But about 95% of people there could, but chose not to. It would’ve been safer for me and every other patient, the staff and their kids that they dragged along with them if they’d just put one on.
The fact that nobody at the emergencies provided them with masks and insisted they put them on also keeps baffling me.
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kink joke, polyamory
is it really relationship anarchy if all of the relationships are D/s
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*Ada - Np-93/237 
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I'm thinking a lot these days about how gender isn't just a personal identity, it's a site of interaction and negotiation with various power structures, the gender of white womanhood was constructed to be a supporting beam of white supremacy, voting patterns like these aren't white women voting against their interests, it's actually an act of gender affirmation.
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I hate how all AI hype is predicated on "if we can just make this not be broken then it would be an amazing product"
And because AI produced things look kinda close to the real deal people buy it. Cause it feels like it just needs a small improvement, even though its flaws are a fundamental part of the technology
Just don't draw the weird 6th finger. Just don't make up things when you don't have a real answer. Just don't change the environment in an AI generated game entirely if the player turns around 180 degrees
These things *feel* like they're small, solvable problems to people who don't know better. We could easily fix those things if humans were doing the work!
But AI can't. It will never be able to. It can't because not doing those things means it couldn't do anything else either. Like self-driving cars, the solution to these issues will always be 2 years out
CW-boost: description of disease, politics
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Rijkswaterstaat houdt vast aan de plannen ondanks eerdere protesten. Daarom bezetten we de boerderij als laatste redmiddel en roepen iedereen op ons te steunen. Morgen hebben we extra hulp nodig in de strijd voor de Limburgse natuur. Meer info: https://stopa2verbreding.nl [4/4]
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I feel like half of programming is remembering how weird stuff works and the other half is setting things up so that you do not have to remember the weird stuff
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Does anyone currently living in Germany follow me?
I'm in the UK, and I want to send my friend in Germany some backed goods as a present - what's the cheapest and most hassle free way to do so?
Something like a basket of muffins or a small fruit basket is what I'm after.
Thanks
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That's a load bearing print statement (makes the i2c timing work)
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On one hand I think it's naïve to expect that all medicine and disability care can be as straightforward as diy hrt but also I think there's definitely something to be sought out there with the kind of independence it affords us
uspol and election meta
Serious question: do you *need* to follow the elections in the US?
Don't get me wrong, you should do your part and do what you can to prevent a disastrous outcome. But you also need to recognize where "what you can do" ends, and where the doomscrolling loop begins.
We all know how bad things could end up being after this election, we're all aware. Reading up more on analyses and predictions is unlikely to improve our understanding, and even less likely to result in a concrete action that we can take against it - at least, one we didn't already think of.
Maybe it's better to just... detach from it, if you are not actively working on it already, let the chips fall where they may, and instead put your energy into building a sustainable society going forward, with or without the systems currently in place.
There are a lot more productive things you can do with your time and energy, than worrying more about something you already know is bad. And for a lot of those possibilities, it just doesn't really matter what the outcome of this election is.
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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
