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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State of the sok. Als mensen vragen (dat doen ze gek genoeg nooit) of ik patronen kan inbreien is het eerlijke antwoord: ik kan één patroon breien 😆
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Neighborhood assemblies, not one-day marches.
Durable networks, not ephemeral signals.
Governable spaces, not viral moments.
So here's a weird question maybe, but is there anyone on here running a company who's interested in a tech employee sourcing service with a focus on marginalized folks? 
The service would be free (though best-effort) and include an initial screening of candidates through a custom process, but in exchange your company will have to pass a sniff test on work environment safety, and allow fully remote work.
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btw if you are looking for a hysterectomy in new mexico and want the name of the doctor who didn't give me any shit for mine feel free to DM
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the karlsruhe tram display firefox is having a moment
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another "here's what's wrong with everything" post
this is an extremely hard lesson to learn, i realize. A cultural community of mutual support is really good for processing trauma and directing your pain to more productive places
also privilege becomes a lot more corrupting!! You see some truly ugly attitudes from people who are convinced it's hopeless, but at least they have SOME leg up on others.
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another "here's what's wrong with everything" post
STRONGLY believe the current living batch of humanity (or at least northwestern nations + internet) desperately needs to learn a life lesson:
suffering and trauma is not an inherent virtue. it is an affliction. Wisdom can be gained from pain, but it is not interchangeable.
Despair makes moral laziness more tempting. You have to actually think about what you're doing. Forever. There's no way around this
Danse Macabre, the new ride at Efteling, has apparently been running for its entire opening week without *any* major outages, despite being a first-of-its-kind prototype ride from a manufacturer whose new ideas are often plagued with issues.
The secret? They did test runs for months to iron out the issues, before opening it. Who'd have thunk!
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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
- 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
