Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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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- 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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@eldaking @RadiantEmber my high school chemistry teacher was quite open about the "lies to children" in what he taught. He would also say stuff like, this thing I'm teaching you right now is simplified because you haven't learned calculus yet. He was a great teacher.
There are far too few of those.
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teachers being shitty about chromosomes and intersex conditions
teachers really just lie to students because it's convenient.
This teacher was teaching that there are no male calico cats because males always have XY chromosomes and females have XX chromosomes.
I looked it up and found that there in fact are male calico cats, usually because they have XXY chromosomes. I brought this up and the teacher was like I know that but we're not talking about that now, don't confuse them.
So you're just purposefully lying to the students?
This kind of shit is responsible for so much erasure and discrimination against intersex and trans people. It makes me angry
Wouldn't it be better to just explain the actual reality to the students? Wouldn't it be better for them to understand what's actually going on instead of teaching them a lie?
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making a crafting UI in a game with persistent online inventories is really scary because if I fuck up and don't realize it someone's gonna destroy their inventory
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#spoonieTown btw is an imaginary community full of slowing down and nourish and taking care of each other vibes. The imagined infrastructure as well as the culture.
Everybody's ideas welcome.
You don't have to be a spoonie to hang out in Spoonie Town, you just need to want to Slow Down and Heal Things.
#solarPunk #hopePunk #intentionalCommunities #dreamingAsResistance #kindnessCulture #community
#spoonies
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I really do not like this TheDuriel guy. Posts condescending answers to virtually every question, never with enough detail to actually be usable, seemingly more interested in looking clever than in actually helping people
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USpol, action item, time sensitive
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For the first time in my life, I just declined a keynote invitation, explicitly because I am too afraid to travel to the event's location. I'm quite sad about that.
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And all this leads to a bit of an assignment for the reader - consider this question for yourself:
Based on who you see as a role model, which types of work are you valuing, which ones aren't you, and why? And what are the implications of that choice?
(Responding with an answer is not necessary; the point is the introspection)
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ACAB
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additional safety info re: protest info, psa
@mynameistillian if you're in a building with central HVAC, such as an apartment complex or student dormitories, seal your HVAC registers with painter's tape and garbage bags. magnetic covers *are not enough.* you need to cover the entire register, including around the edge where it's set into the wall/floor/ceiling.
if you want to know how I know this? my mom was a student on campus during the protests leading up to the Kent State shootings.
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additional safety info re: protest info, psa
@mynameistillian further safety information that may become relevant as protests escalate:
gas munitions target mucous membranes, and are carried by vapors. consider tight-fitting swimming goggles and a half-mask respirator for your emergency kit, with a new-in-packaging set of organic vapor/acid gas rated filter cartridges.
if you must shelter in place when gas blows your way? jam towels under your outside doors, and seal edges with painter's tape.
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reiterating safety info re: protest info, psa
@mynameistillian as stated in the thread: tear gas munitions are so hot their metal casings glow and they're also belching toxic chemicals by design, *do not handle them without proper PPE.* temperatures and chemicals like those are Not Good For The Body. if you're not going to gear up, clear the area so folks who can extinguish these devices have a clear path.
also, do not handle extinguished devices with bare hands due to the chemical hazard.
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politics
yes i am a fucking furry degenerate, yes i am trans and i am queer and autistic and i am proud of it. yes i am kazakh, and i am proudly asian, and i love my culture and heritage. i am not ashamed of it all, i do not hate myself, i *LOVE* being myself. i will do whatever the fuck i want and be whatever the fuck i want, and i will be happy, and you all will either fix your hearts, or fucking *DIE*.
YOU HEAR ME?
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"because they won't accept us" do we need that? why are we putting our own self-worth on the opinions of people who are bigoted assholes? why do we let them dictate us the terms? why are we so ready to strip ourselves of our identity to fit their idea of what "good" is?
fuck them. they can all go get bent, because it's either take it or leave it. if they won't give it us to them, we'll make them.
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i am so tired of the constant capitulation of queers and furries to the whims of what people who hate us will say or do or think. "this is too cringe, this is too lewd, this is too weird, this is too x y z" why care?
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To elaborate on that last point a bit: anyone can write some code. I am saying this as someone who does this professionally at a significant hourly rate. Sure, quality is going to vary between programmers, but the 'writing code' itself really isn't the difficult part.
You know what's the actual hard work? Dealing with the human factors. Understanding people's needs. Resolving conflicts. Fostering healthy and independent, resilient communities. Dealing with bigotry and other toxic behaviour. Doing this for years on end. Weaving all of these factors into the *design* of your code.
Notably, all those things that software developers are infamous for failing to do, and that are frequently feminine-coded or branded as "unskilled".
I really cannot emphasize strongly enough how much you *shouldn't* take someone as a role model just because they write a lot of code, or even nominally popular code.
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I'm growing very tired of dansup's nonsense already, and by extension, how many people are falling for his whole 'strongman' theater.
We do not need or want more dudes trying to claim the spotlight for fedi, thanks. The loud people are rarely the ones doing the important work, despite their own claims. And code usually isn't the important work either.
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good news, us racism
The Proud Boys lost their trademark and logo rights to a Black church they vandalized.
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dansup, nonsense
I've done the math carefully and estimated that the average dansup project is 25% open source
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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
