Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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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Bluesky is the Microsoft Word of social media, which I mean in the derogatory sense, as the fediverse is the LaTeX of social media, which I also mean in the derogatory sense
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Serious question: what's the appropriate/respectful reaction, as a non-Māori, to witnessing a Haka? Cause, like, my first instinct is to cheer/woop, but that doesn't sound right, and it's not appropriate for me to join in. But just standing around looking serious seems like I disapprove? #aotearoa
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I'm glad a critical mass of Black folks finally got their ass up and left twitter. Been past time for awhile now. So yes I'll be vacationing there de temps en temps when the mayo gets too intense around here, it'll be nice to be around more Black folks again.
The wave should have come here, but y'all fucked it all the way up for that. Well, hopefully we can get our fedi shit together so that in a few years when the corporate overlords put the money squeeze on bluesky, we've got a better setup on here.
Am I optimistic about that? Not so much. But we'll see.
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My coworker apparently has a "no agendy no attendy" policy and I'm stealing that phrase 😆
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yknow, it would be pretty cool if libraries let the public mirror their digital collections.
more floating copies of things some authoritarians would rather be buried
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Rare ‘hidden’ trans archives to be digitized to bridge generations - University of Victoria https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2024+hidden-trans-digital-archives+media-release
TIL: The UVic Libraries’ Transgender Archives is the largest collection of original materials chronicling Trans+ history and activism in the world.
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For trans visibility week, I'm wearing a shirt that says "mh-" on it.
hospital update, Onion version
Guy Who Makes Doctors Go "Huh, That's Weird", Makes Doctor Go "Huh, That's Weird"
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Got rambling on bluesky about it so I might as well post it here to make it official.
Having become frustrated with companies like Piko buying the rights to lots of old games, hoarding them, and generally just kinda being assholes about it, my goal for 2025 is to do what these companies won't and buy the rights to a 20+ year old game and make it public domain. It may be a terrible Klik & Play game that someone made when they were 10, but it will happen.
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important context for the whole "The Onion bought InfoWars" thing. unlimited respect to the Sandy Hook families
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if i can give one audio tip for people who work with "people talking" type audio it's this: compress dynamics
this marvelous filter in audacity will let you compress the volume into a smaller band. that way everything will have a more consistent volume level and there won't be parts that are loud and other parts that are barely audible
there's a lot more to audio editing and a lot more that can be done but the most important thing is that people can clearly hear everything that's said, and that's a compress dynamics thing
PSA, getting rid of needle pain for injections etc.
Periodic reminder that if you are particularly sensitive to needle pain, you don't *need* to live with that! You can simply use lidocaine/prilocaine (brand name 'emla', generics exist), which is a local anesthetic with nearly no side effects.
For some reason doctors are very hesitant to mention it but very easily prescribe it, it's nearly risk-free and can make needles literally painless, even for someone highly sensitive to pain like me.
It was just used here for an IV and I literally did not feel it at all. Especially if pain sensitivity is keeping you from seeking treatment or tests for something, you need to ask the doctor for this!
Signed, someone who skipped out on medical checks for a decade because nobody bothered to tell them that this existed...
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Many of you might already know that due to historical reasons, Japan uses two incompatible power systems with mismatched frequencies
That has its consequence in railways too
Meet Tokyo Central station. As you can see, western and eastern Shinkansen lines terminate here. They're not connected with each other and use different electrification depending on which part of the country the line goes to – 25kV 50Hz or 60Hz
Normal-speed lines use 1.5kV DC electrification
This small infodump was brought to you by @aroma who brought my attention to that detail
hospital, positive, neurospicy
Just chatted to a nurse for a while, they apparently are also neurospicy, and I guess we kind of did some ad-hoc consensus-building on ways to improve medical interactions and reduce the chances of conflict? With plenty of informative tangents on hospital policies and org charts and even IT.
medical, pain, IV
(I knew it wasn't supposed to be so painful because of the IV that I got in the ICU 1.5 years ago, which was also perfect)
medical, pain, IV
The first attempt to get me on an IV (using an echo) was a disaster. Minutes of intense pain, they couldn't get it in, the anesthetic (applied by another nurse) was not applied correctly or sufficiently. Everyone was rushed and I told them to try again later after I did the anesthetic myself.
Second attempt was perfect. 30 seconds and it was in, I literally felt nothing. No stress, no drama, no echo, just eyeballing, done. Nurse slightly confused that I felt *literally nothing whatsoever*.
And what have we learned today: medical staff continues to be super unfamiliar with this anesthetic and how it works and I need to be more stubborn in applying and preparing it myself.
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the idea of a video game (like an RPG or something) where it tells you "press this button combination to do this thing" but every single thing has a unique button combination and that button combination remains possible to press perpetually after the moment you learn about it
so in the tutorial it says "press X to hug your wife" and that's not teaching you the interact button that's teaching you the hug your wife button and at any point if you press that button your character will uninterruptably go to their wife and hug her
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video game where if you get 100 points you go up a level and by up a level I mean you teleport up one floor in the building you are currently in
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So far today, Google has taken me to a bus stop that doesn't exist, and asked me how crowded i5 is, on a bus that also doesn't exist.
- 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
