Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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
Ah yes, rubber "recycling" - shredding tires and stuffing it into the soil as filler: https://hermeq.nl/nl/rubber-mulch.html
Really raises the question of where the boundary between "recycling" and "landfill" even is, doesn't it
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A different manifestation of the political compass
(creator: unknown)
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Concept: A computer whose first loyalty is to me, the user, and not the corporation that built it
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is there a tool for #linux that gives me a bunch of drag-and-droppable colourful boxes with editable text content?
i do not care what kind of tool it is meant to be. if it is a task manager or a mind map tool or whatever. i want colorful boxes, i want to put text into them, i want to freely arrange and rearrange them into a linear list, i want to be able to scroll down if the list gets very long, and i want to spend 0 minutes on drawing the boxes myself or resizing them or whatever. please recommend a tool that does that
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re: uspol, angry
@joepie91 it's also called "appeasement". You know, something that worked out very well in Europe in the years of 1933 to 1940 /s
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What particularly pisses me off is how some people are going "well Zelenskyy should not have pressed the issue of security guarantees, and just accepted the implicit promise".
First of all, an 'implicit promise' is worth fuck all when you are dealing with someone who has no sense of obligation towards promises in the first place, like Trump. If it's not on paper or video, it doesn't exist.
But perhaps more important is the underlying subtext of this criticism. Because that subtext is "well you know Trump is volatile and unreliable, so you shouldn't do anything to provoke him, and instead navigate around it".
That's a very familiar pattern. You know what it's called? "Enabling an abuser" and "victim blaming".
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PSA: Europe PubMed Central exists.
"Europe PMC provides comprehensive access to life sciences literature from trusted sources. It's available to anyone, anywhere for free. With Europe PMC you can search and read 45.6 million publications [10.5 full texts], prereprints and other documents enriched with links to supporting data, reviews, protocols, and other relevant resources."
https://europepmc.org/
Scope: https://europepmc.org/Help#sources
Also @SafeguardingResearch got the database of #PubMed
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uspol, angry
@joepie91 There's genuinely no outcome where Trump hadn't thrown a fit and pulled support
Programmers really need to learn that most software isn't used by people by choice.
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Wie kan ik nog blij maken met 18 zegels voor het Jumbo Boodschappenpakket? Stuur je spaarlink en ze komen jouw kant op.
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How willfully ignorant do you have to be to claim that Zelenskyy was responsible for the conflict, when Trump and Vance were *so* obviously planning to steer towards conflict and withdrawing military support from the start??
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It's a nice community, until you witness things going south, and then you take notice of so many other lingering issues that the best course of action is to keep a healthy distance, and maybe talk to folks within that also notice the same issues but actually have the means to work on change
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@anarchiv yeah it seems pointless to me to try to explain in detail how a different system would work, to someone who thinks that this (gestures at everything) is an example of something that works.
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"Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom — that the current economic and political system is the only possible one — the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone’s blueprint? It’s not as if a small circle of visionaries in Renaissance Florence conceived of something they called 'capitalism,' figured out the details of how the stock exchange and factories would someday work, and then put in place a program to bring their visions into reality."
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Dear #language friends,
is there a term for the thing where you forgot what something is really called and instead make up a new term that makes sense in context?
Examples:
- "drippy basket" for "dish drying rack"
- "food weapons" for "cutlery/silverware/flatware"
- "cobra chicken" for "Canada goose"
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"I’ve watched this simple act, which protects the health of the wearer and everyone around them, get politicized and distorted into a sign of mental illness or criminal behavior. Anti-mask rhetoric that was met with disdain when it came from the fringe, alt-right in 2020 has made its way across the political spectrum and is now being promoted among even the most left “radical” groups. If there isn’t straight up hostility and vitriol, there’s often avoidance, annoyance, and refusal to accommodate mask requirements that would make spaces and gatherings accessible."
https://misfitmentalhealth.substack.com/p/why-are-people-wearing-masks-in-2025
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US politics, Ukraine, narcissistc abuse, personal
For anyone who actually watched the exchange between the us government and President Zelenskyy.
I'm just one man in a sea of eight billion, not a war hero. But some little kid inside me needs it seen: that's how my malignant narcissist parents treated me. I know how it feels to sit in a room like that. Alone, with your own sense of ethics twisted against you. Wondering in some small part of you where the child still lives, if anything is worth it at all.
Just without the tv cameras and the huge responsibility and the world watching, which makes it infinitely worse for Zelenskyy.
I cut my parents off in 2016, three years after they last treated me that way. And it was as soon as I could make it happen. I hope some similar justice happens to the people in charge of america -- that the world goes No Contact.
I hope the entire world order remakes itself into something that destroys the possibility of people like that existing.
I will do what I can to help. Now you know a bit more about why. Slava Ukraini.
- 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
