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.
- 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
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Please try to turn your anger and spite into support for the most vulnerable around you, instead of turning it into angry posts.
If you're in the US and need help with something right now, please let me know. I'll do what I can to help.
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Folks, its daytime in a lot of the world right now. Can we please CW stuff for the benefit of people who are outside this mess? They didn't cause it and had no say. Let's not drown them in it.
ietwat gerelateerd aan de verkiezingen in de VS
Dus nu we de consequenties in de VS zien, gaan we ook allemaal in Nederland aan de slag om te voorkomen dat dit overwaait via fascisten als Wilders. Toch? TOCH?
Of gaat iedereen weer zijn kop in het zand steken met "dit zou hier nooit kunnen gebeuren"?
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"We don't need to visit Egypt, we've got Suez at home."
Suez at home:
uspol, question
I'm looking to read the thoughts of other folks, *specifically* non-white folks, on the outcome of the US elections and what that means about the way forward. Something blogpost-shaped would be ideal. Does anyone have any suggestions?
(Importantly, I'm looking to *read* and absorb, not argue. And I realize that it's early to ask this question, so feel free to recommend something a few days from now when you run across it.)
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grief requires tending, a form of labor, but the advantage of social/political grief is that we have many hands to make light work -- there are millions of us on this planet to help hold it. even when we feel so alone in the absurdity of loss, we can breathe and remember how many wanted the same world as we do, and that that world is very much alive in our hearts and collective imagination
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Please can we all use CW (Content Warnings) and hashtag the heck out of posts/toots for the foreseeable future. Some folks will vanish if they can’t filter out recent developments.
Please boost this message far and wide. ☮️
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I have been living homeless for the last few months, here are some things I have learned:
- Every time I have gone up to a house, knocked on the door and asked to fill up a water bottle, people have always said yes
- There is a big difference in people’s minds between “travellers” and “homeless”. If you say you are travelling/exploring you will be treated a lot nicer than if you say you are homeless.
- You can ask big shops or restaurants if they have any spare/nearly out of date food and they may give you some. The worst they have said is no.
- People care a lot less than I thought. I have been cleaning my boots in a canal and no one even looked.
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@mindpersephone Sometimes, rarely, when the stars and moons align and the weather and degree of light coming through the window and the volume of birdsong filtering into the house is *just right*
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And taking TER trains in most of France is a disheartening experience
The vast majority of passengers are too young or too poor to have cars - they’re only here because they have no other choice
Many stations are knackered and run down
Most of the trains are modern-ish, but information provision is poor
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uspol adjacent but relevant anywhere at anytime
reminder to use Signal or another encrypted messenger to talk to your friends. especially about sensitive topics that might be under heavy fire from politicians, but the more you use it for normal talk the harder it is to censor or use as a control mechanism
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(I have nothing against financial mutual aid to be clear, but "sending the same dollar around fifty times among mostly-all-poor folks" is not a sustainable revolutionary strategy, even if in the short term it is certainly helpful)
Is there some kind of mutual aid matchmaking platform, preferably decentralized in some way?
Commercially run platforms do not qualify, nor do "you can technically do mutual aid here" platforms, I'm really looking for something with an ideological basis in mutual aid that actively encourages it.
Note that "mutual aid" here is not a euphemism for just "people asking for / offering money", I mean mutual aid in the broader sense, including doing stuff for people that they need
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ableism, games
When someone refuses to add accessibility features because "it's a game of skill" then it's a good idea to wonder what exactly that "skill" is, because very often the "skill" ends up being "not having any impairments"
- 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
