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
The bug is that they handle state incorrectly by the way, and one control system has a toggle whether the other has an explicit open/close, and it does not have a transition state, according to the system it is always either open or closed, and anyone who has ever fixed someone else's bad state management probably knows *exactly* where this is going
You really should not let me near tech that you would like to keep working
Got the automatic curtain control system in the hospital in an invalid state within 2 minutes of touching it, because of course I did
health, kidney disease, funny
An abbreviated review of my kidney patient career so far: had 240/something blood pressure with no real symptoms besides a headache and slightly blurry vision (which quickly recovered), walked merrily into the ICU to the astonishment of the nurses (and walked out again a day later), continued living a mostly normal life without dialisys on 8-10% remaining kidney function (ie. end-stage kidney failure) and no meaningful deterioriation over that timespan, managed to reduce salt in my diet so much that the sodium levels in my blood were dangerously low (again with no meaningful symptoms), learned to detect high potassium levels by feel, which once again baffled medical people, and was told today by a nurse that I am the second person they've ever had to pick up for a check-up on foot rather than in a bed, despite having worked there for a while.
I swear, at some point I'm surely going to become a medical research subject
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@smveerman with Lelylijn and Nedersaksenlijn also having been killed this government sure seems to hate trains :/
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The Dutch government and the province of Limburg have decided that, with the investment budget originally meant for the Hasselt - Maastricht tramline the following actions will be taken:
* Demolishing the railway bridge across the Maas in Maastricht.
* Improve railroad crossing safety between Maastricht and Eijsden for a second Maastricht - Liège service, making that half hourly.
* Buying unused land from ProRail around Maastricht to be used as construction grounds.
* Building a new bicycle bridge across the Maas near the location of the old railway bridge, but only when the demolition of the railway bridge is approved before 2027.
So, that's it then. A possible train service between Maastricht and Flemish Limburg will now forever not be possible.
Source: MIRT Brief Najaar 2024.
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The age-old question: "Do I hate MY job or do I just hate having to have A Job?"
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Who's interested in being part of a chill "reply when you can" penpal club?
No deadlines unless you want to set yourself one (which is totally legit).
No minimum requirement (send a postcard with a doodle).
It will mean sharing a physical mailing address, but it doesn't have to be your house - maybe a local coffee shop or friend is willing to be your address.
I can make a Signal group for folks who don't want to share here.
[EDIT: ask for my address!]
Tag #FediPenPals 
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So I am in a local-ish book circle with friends here in Sweden, we are reading kind, queer, feel-goody sff mainly. It'll be my time to pick a book in a few months, and I am thinking maybe A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark, to tug the group out of its whiteness for a while. I'd love some suggestions for other books that loosely fill the criteria that are not set in a european-ish/western setting with white people, by poc authors, if you guys have read anything good?
#bookrecs please
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I will be spending more time supporting and promoting mutual aid posts I see.
I offer no guarantees and any boosts/likes does not mean I vouch for the account. I don’t research or dig deep into these things and take them at face value.
Help however you can or see fit. With these dark times upon us I find it important to just help people without thinking, this is my mentality right now.
Much love to everybody! Stay safe, hopeful, and united!
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Ableism, neurospicies, reading difficulties
Judging someone for their inability to read and comprehend something as easily as *you* might be able to read and comprehend something is ableist.
Attacking someone for making a mistake because they mis-read something is ableist.
Expecting someone with autism to present in the same way that *your* autism (or whatever other neurospicy) presents is ableist.
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Spotify just reported record-breaking profits.
In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)
hospital, covid related
(Some background; I indicated that I would prefer for staff to wear a mask, they mentioned that they weren't sure if they could *require* it as per policy, I said "oh it doesn't have to be a requirement, a request is probably good enough" so that's what was put on the sign and it's working as expected)
hospital, covid related
There is now a sign outside my room with "please wear a mask" (and also "reduce stimuli") and despite it not being a requirement, it is being followed quite well by staff! Once again shows that you do not actually need to *require* it to have a significant impact #CovidIsNotOver
Hello from hospital!
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once you realize that the core dream of language model AI proponents is “owning a slave” you really can’t unsee it.
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uspol
I'm concerned to still see so many posts attempting to dunk on fascists for being hypocritical.
They don't care and won't care. Why are you reading their posts, and worse, amplifying what they said? There are better things to do with your time, almost anything in fact, unless you think that your takes are so good that it will realistically move people to change.
Point out hypocrisy to people and organizations that see being consistent as a value, they might actually change their behavior!
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Pls boost: Oregon has paid leave for victims of SA, DV, harassment, bias crimes, or stalking
TIL that Oregon's Family Paid Medical Leave includes paying for lost days of work due to sexual assault, domestic violence, harassment, bias crimes, or stalking.
Please boost so that other Oregonians know that paid "safe leave" is available.
https://paidleave.oregon.gov/employees/applying-for-safe-leave.html
I hope other states adopt similar paid leave policies.
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Today I am thinking about the fire marshals who have to deal with the customer service hell that is enforcing fire code at large cons. Like, imagine trying to keep a straight face while explaining to someone in a guy fawkes mask that, no, room occupancy limits are not a social construct, the building will literally cave in on itself if everybody attends this panel on macOS malware
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Hello All!
As of this month, we are officially short of the amount of money we need in order to cover hosting costs and pay our mods. Our total monthly expenses are about $120 ($50 for each of our two mods and $20 for managed hosting services). Before Open Collective Foundation (our previous fiscal host) went under earlier this year, we had these expenses completely covered. Since we had to transition to self-hosting, we have never hit that mark again.
Over the previous months as we have been using Ko-Fi, I have been working behind the scenes to get us to be able to use Open Collective again because of how many different types of donations they accept (we have only been using PayPal with Ko-Fi which is...not ideal).
And as of today, I am happy to announce that we can once again accept payments through Open Collective at https://opencollective.com/blackqueerlife
For the first time, you will be able to make donations through Stripe, PayPal, or direct bank transfer. Our hope is that we can once again have our costs covered fully by donations.
I can't tell you how many times in the past year and change that I have been running this server that I have thought about giving up and moving off of the fediverse. Our mod team constantly has to deal with white supremacist harassment, transmisia, transmisogynoir, ableism, etc from other users and instances. We are making it work, but I'd be lying if I said it was not taking a toll. And with fascism on the rise globally, things are only going to get worse in that department.
So if you don't agree with that and want to help support us in maintaining a space on this network, any amount helps. Seriously.
-eva
@blackfedi #BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse #MutualAid #BlackFedi #BlackQueerLife #QTPOC
- 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
