Sven Slootweg @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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- 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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Exciting news! After years of work, my research paper has just been published. It shows that adding a layer of gravel at the bottom of a plant pot really DOES improve drainage. This exact scenario has never been directly tested before, in spite of a lot of myths and theories flying around.
The full research paper is open access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318716
There's also a slightly more reader-friendly summary and explanation of the research on my website: https://tradescantia.uk/article/drainage-layers/
OH: "Pinata Economics"
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eating disorders, question
Does anyone know of any useful articles about eating disorders and their relation to plurality and/or other neurospicy traits?
(That aren't some ableist garbage like "autistic people cannot communicate")
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Baffling how more often than not articles on hackernews are neither about hacking, nor new 
food packaging
Ah, I see that Lidl has also worked out the loophole
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If you want to know how it's going in Portland, Oregon: we have a minor feud between two competing naked bike ride groups.
https://bikeportland.org/2025/02/25/get-ready-for-two-major-naked-rides-this-summer-392947
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Oh yeah stumbled across this banger forum thread about retro homebrew feeling very commercialized now (by someone I recognize from Fedi) while I was looking at emulator drama yesterday: https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=24744
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Do you ever search the Internet for an error message only to find out nobody else in the world has this problem because your teammate wrote the code that makes this error?
The perpetual conflict between wanting more shared/reused infrastructure for FOSS projects to extract sustainable funding from businesses, and not wanting FOSS to center around business funding because of the perverse incentives it introduces
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The window cleaning guy is in the street. A bunch of houses in the street pay for his service. He arrives in a little van and pulls out a hosepipe that is the length of the ENTIRE STREET and walks back and forth with it cleaning the windows, yellow hosepipe strewn over the road haphazardly. Never has a person wielded as lengthy a hosepipe as this.
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When BSDCan started, there was discussion about starting a yearly BSD conference in the US.
Then we looked at the Patriot Act and said, "Y'know, maybe it's best to just have everyone go to Canada."
I'm feeling rather prescient these days.
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So with Kagi and DDG all-in on "ai" and otherwise enshittening themselves, what are people recommending for search?
I can't even use the DDG app without bumping into surprise chatbot buttons any more.
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ropol, probably good, genocide mention
Oh ok turns out they are charging him with building a fascist group, promoting the cult of personality of perpetrators of genocide, and building or participating in antisemitic groups
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uspol
Democrats: "we need to figure out how to improve our messaging"
also Democrats: "pay us to ex officio stymie the hegemonic authoritarian oligarchy vis-a-vis patrimonialst plutocracy and noncromulent demagoguery"
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the road to hell is closed for resurfacing
TIL that there used to be a ban on toy-oriented children's TV shows in the US, until Reagan abolished it
- 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
