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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
Sven Slootweg
boosted
When institutions and corporations tell you they can't be accessible because they "haven't had enough time" to change, just remember that they shoved AI into every single goddamned thing in less than 2 years.
(And ADA passed in 1990).
Does anyone here have opinions about befriending crows? Whether this is a good or a bad thing, whether there are any particular risks or problems associated with it, etc.?
Sven Slootweg
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I've been working on resurrecting a 20-year-old social media concept and it only just dawned on me that the vast majority of people on the internet today, even those older than me, will have never seen this concept and so it will be brand new to them
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opinions
I think what I want from Star Trek that's been missing since like Voyager is a little bit more time doing the work of establishing that the Star Trek future is good and a future we'd all want
And a little bit less emphasis on assuming we already have that in mind and subverting it
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🐾
roses are sepia
violets are sepia
everything is sepia
someone is messing with the camera filters again
I've definitely been having A Day so far.
type of guy
Interprets every single direct criticism of their views as a direct personal challenge and affront of their character... even when they weren't even the one being talked about
type of guy
Absolutely refuses to consider the needs or experiences of someone who doesn't look like them, even if it wouldn't cost them anything to do so, and insists on being Objectively Correct solely because their claims align with their own experiences and beliefs
Sven Slootweg
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Most of us are struggling financially rn, it isn't your fault.
Sven Slootweg
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You do not, in fact, gotta hand it to MiHoYo
Sven Slootweg
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days since the ladybird browser was recommended by someone who clearly didn't pay attention: 0
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*rots in its bed for the first 7 hours of its day, procrastinating on taking any medication*
"life only consists of eternal depression and there is no saving for such a pathetic broken being as me"
alina after the ADHD meds finally hit: nyoooooooom
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technology rant
@elilla Reminds me of this powerful kunstbüro poster I saw at GPN. It was for an artist talk by @charlotteeifler titled <<IMAGINE ALL TECH IS MADE BY PEOPLE WHO LOVE YOU>>
Didn't see the talk, but that poster stuck with me. Just imagine.
https://www.instagram.com/kunstbuero_bw/p/C78soCRoGdx/?img_index=1
Sven Slootweg
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I don't necessarily disagree that phones might be harmful for kids' development.
I just don't know if they're nearly as harmful as say, repeated covid infections, a collapsing biosphere, a justifiably bleak vision of their future, or even a prevalent lack of agency, independence, and spaces for socialisation.
I'd focus on those first. Then phones.
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delivery options in the UK:
UPS: our drivers are wearing shorts 365 days of the year. this magically results in packages arriving. we're not sure how this works either.
Royal Mail: is it a letter? we're good at letters. haven't quite got the hang of boxes though.
Yodel: we thought about delivering it and it's the thought that counts.
Evri, wearing a fake moustache and a t-shirt that says "totally not Hermes": your package has been thrown in a bush just off the M6. fuck you.
A while ago, Aldi in NL recalled some cutlery set due to "having sharp edges which can result in injury".
Like, I understand what they were going for there, but I think they could've phrased the problem a little more clearly 
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technology rant
because I hate computer technology so much I tend to be inured to how amazing things have become from a certain angle:
- on trains and waiting rooms, I use my touch-operated handheld computer to
- recover the blogging I did during an emotional crisis at 5am
- which at the time resulted in me getting immediate support from my federated friends
- I search for a webpage that does "markdown to PDF"
- copy-paste my thread and have a PDF immediately
- sent it to my therapist on my way to traveling there
- a travel which is fully guided by my palmtop with train delays etc.
if I think of how it was in 2000 I should be amazed. I'm, despite everything, a technologist—I have long stopped doing it as a hobby but I have enough knowledge of the internals to understand how hard it is to develop all that. I used to get lost for hours all the time everywhere (weeb friends nicknamed me Ryōga), the value of this tech as assistive for ADHD could be tremendous.
if only it wasn't hostile all the time. *that* part has gotten so, so much worse than in 2000. my Pixel 3 (7 years old) is a ridiculously powerful computer able to do anything I could possibly want, but I have to actively fight it all the time to keep using it—takes a jailbreak to install an updated, non-ad-ridden OS, putting in a new battery is an extremely involved process that resulted in the back panel (glued glass!!) breaking, the fingerprint sensor is rejected if you change the back panel, an enormous number of apps block you if you don't have Google Play Services which, as a political activist, is equivalent to having a snitch looking over every private conversation, the Play Store is a minefield nightmare, every possible app is burning my battery to track me, the website that converts md to pdf will likely be mining and selling my trauma, and every step of the process ends up being a _dis_abling danger, for the ADHD and everyone, because content as well as user interfaces are now designed for "engagement" with the type of addiction technique first developed by scammers and casino owners.
imagine what we could have if these things were designed to actually help people. which is to say: imagine what we could have if it wasn't the profit motive imposed by capitalism.
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bdsm meta, politics
before dying too soon, Graeber has hinted a number of times, always as a joke, about a bdsm theory of oppression. "the problem with the current world is that your boss has no safeword."
but I wonder.
the idea is that the systems of coercion that have arisen ca. 10000 years ago—only 5% of human history—first appear as experimentation, bound safely in a circle of consent, like bdsm: the carnival-kings precede the real kings. human societies used to be way more varied in organisation, structure, ethics, routine; sometimes they would have supernatural or ceremonial or theatre-play situations where the freedom was suspended, where fantasies of power were enacted (using the eagle and the skull as the symbol of fascism, "we are become the predators of human prey", precedes fascism by several millenia). the ideology of domination, once leaked from symbolic contexts, spread like wildfire and set itself as inescapable, inevitable, dictated by God or human nature or materialistic determinism. this put humanity in a self-destructive spiral we can't seem to escape from.
I don't know where I'm going with this but it's something like: the types of consent dynamics studied and debated and exercised in bdsm, I want that everywhere as a fundamental trait of society. I want humanity to be free again; freedom includes the freedom to transgress, so people will want to coerce and to be coerced; and next time that it leaks I want us to be ready; when we build a free world in the ruins of this one and, inevitably at some point, the carnival-king starts overstepping the magical circle and acting the Bad Dom, we will be ready to call red.
Sven Slootweg
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bdsm meta, theory, not explicit
like if you consider the energy boost that BDSM has given me as a form of treatment for ADHD, then I estimate it to be at least five times more potent than lisdexamfetamine.
because I tied up a few people in an imitation of hojojutsu that wouldn't even really keep them bound if they didn't play along as a fantasy? what?
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
