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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If you need a little ray of light today, just a reminder that after years and years of struggle with health expenses, releasing Dwarf Fortress on Steam completely changed the devs’ lives, massively upgraded the game that so many people love, and Tarn just recently managed to get married to his long time sweetheart. And he’s only gotten kinder even though he’s gotten a bunch of bags of money dropped on his head, reinvesting a lot of that money back into the game itself.
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Friendly reminder that if you're designing any kind of personal information form and you decide to:
1. Validate names for "bad words"
2. Put a minimum characters limit on names
3. Have two separate fields for "first" and "last" name
Then you're doing it wrong with a shitload of very western-minded assumptions that are not universal and will cause issues
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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation. 🧵
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uspol - requesting opsec resources
Okay, I'm starting to get questions from friends about resources for protecting the vulnerable. Before I start sharing those, who's got current opsec resources on how we protect those lists from becoming free guides telling fascists who to target?
I ordered empty teabags and I seem to have accidentally ordered cup-sized ones, oops.
I don't mean "teabags for a cup", I mean "teabags that literally have the volume of a cup"
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uspol, message to recently hatched eggs in the US
Hey, if by some chance there's anyone who is going to put off starting to transition because of Trump being in office, my advice is don't do that.
It's scary, I know. I started transitioning during his previous regime, and its scary even if things are slightly more politically stable. But I made it. So did a lot of other people. You will too.
Lean on other trans people. I know we're messy af, and trying to build community is often a hard endeavor. But when it comes to getting you what you need for this, I'm confident we can come through for you.
Don't let these fucking weird Nazi cowards stop you from being you.
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At Friends of Europe event here „we need to…“ is a phrase I hear over and over
But who are WE?
If you can’t answer who should act (and name them!) and say how to act (legally, procedurally) then you’re going to get nothing done
And I mean literally "with JS", including the package definitions, ie. not just a Nix language parser in JS
Today's project: a proof-of-concept to see whether a Nix-like system can be built with JS
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What cool historical examples of marginalized people providing medical care to each other outside of the antagonistic system should I be learning about
uspol, advice, tech
In the coming weeks after the election, keep a very close eye on which tech companies mysteriously suddenly decide to expand their services to government and defense. They're fishing for war business, and more specifically fascist business.
You probably want to cut these companies out of your life *before* that happens.
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Klingon lesson
Hat pagh
Nobody is illegal
digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
Like, to be clear, I totally agree that you should be patient and welcoming to newcomers who need time to find their place, when you want to expand that community! It's crucially important, and if you're going to be trying to tempt people over, you also need to do the work of making it work for them.
But we never got to that point! We never even had broad agreement that people *should* be invited to move over here!
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US politics adjacent; Personal relationships
This post brought to you by an angry American who voted Democrat and counts himself a politics hero because he posted so many pro-Harris memes and did: absolutely nothing else, and now he blames me personally because he read about Trudeau talking about foreign interference in (Canadian) elections, assumed that he was talking about the US (what else could he talk about) and then informed me that Canadians didn't do enough and this is why Trump won
digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
"Bringing in new people without talking to the existing folks" is something you do when you're trying to do a capitalism, not when you're building or fostering a community
digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
The problem with chiding people on "you should be more welcoming to newcomers to fedi" has always been that nobody ever bothered to ask those people whether they actually *wanted* the place to grow bigger, it was just assumed to be okay and then when people objected to this, those objections were immediately paved over
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there was this fedi post from a while ago about how community isn't a party that you show up to, expecting to be served. it's more like a potluck, you're supposed to bring something to the table too. I think about that a lot. it's just really good to remember. everyone wants community but it's so easy to forget to participate in building it. I wish I realized that earlier. now I'm just hoping that I learn how to interact with people better and feel more assertive about my agency over the spaces I occupy.
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uspol & fedi meta
Now that their failing campaign is over here’s to hoping the #Mastodon4Harris libs redirect their funds to mutual aid, especially for marginalized people in the US whose communities have been destroyed by the successive Republican & Democrat administrations 🙃
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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
