Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- 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.
- 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
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There’s more to #Ottawa than manicured lawns and pretty petals.
Thanks to multiple grassroots efforts, Ottawa’s bountiful greenery is getting more sustainable as #rewilding efforts are on the rise. Here are four projects that deserve attention and support.
#urbanrewilding #cities #seeds
https://www.rewildingmag.com/4-ways-ottawa-is-rewilding-and-your-city-can-too/
Am I imagining things or did PayPal's fee for sending private transactions increase *significantly* recently?
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If you think "some people will always want to exploit each other" is an argument against anarchism, why is your immediate solution to give those who exploit others power?
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I don't really understand the idea behind needing to call congresspeople to get them to do something like reject a budget proposal. Sure it might make some sense for things where they would not be forced to do it otherwise, but surely they are not weighing the number of phone calls against their reelection chances - people don't have political memories like that. It feels like Tinkerbell logic along with removing their culpability for decisions: they would have done the thing you wanted but not enough people believed in them.
If you're a "call my congresspeople" kind of person, no beef with you, not my kind of tactic but I'm not trying to discourage you. Just seeing appeals like "this dem Rep says everyone needs to call their senator or else they will cave!" is like "or they could have a strategy beyond theater"
Edit: to be super clear, this is not me saying "don't call your congresspeople" - I basically share asta's sentiment that the amount of labor required to do it is very low for most people, so any nonzero effectiveness makes it probably worth doing in some circumstances.
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🦝Guys??? The lesbian toggle made it to Polygon LOL
(special shoutout to Ian Walker for being super respectful to our plurality in emails and addressing us by alter name)
https://www.polygon.com/gaming/538959/blobun-lesbian-toggle-steam-lgbtq-option-setting
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Gaff tape is an essential part of theater tech shenanigans. A social gaffe is an awkward interpersonal mistake.
Felt like a fun twist on the phrase, as someone who likes to bring people together through theater. (Who is also neurodivergent enough to sometimes make some major missteps in social settings)
It's the Dutch word for 'yippee', followed by my year of birth. Picked it as a kid when I first used the web, and never saw a good reason to change it.
Contrary to popular belief, it has nothing to do with being called Joe or liking pie!
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Fun Movie Facts: In Breaking Bad (2008-2013) Walt Jr. has trouble hitting the brakes. That is because he's braking bad
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It has been [0] conferences since I last mentioned #hopepunk in a talk.
Spreading the word of catalysing hope, bringing people together to build a better world, despite (or because of?) systemic forces of dehumanisation.
Today I’m hanging out with the fine folk at @drupalsouth, hearing about open source and documentation.
NixOS, technically a subtoot but it's about all complaints of this kind (2)
This is of course separate from the usual "something is configured different on this distro and so something else doesn't work out of the box", but *that* part is in no way specific to NixOS.
NixOS, technically a subtoot but it's about all complaints of this kind
Sure, NixOS is 'unlike anything else', but only in a few very specific ways (namely the filesystem structure and mutability of system files) and while you could see that as being "difficult to make things work on", another way to see it is that it catches a lot of wrong assumptions for you early. Kind of like the Rust compiler.
Both filesystem structure and mutability of system files are things you should really not be assuming in the first place. Not just for the sake of NixOS, but also for the sake of many other configurations that are much more difficult to test against (because eg. they are embedded systems that only run on specific hardware).
See also: how DaVinci Resolve insists on living in a very specific filesystem path and how that causes trouble on *any* distro that isn't one of the officially supported ones.
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trying to think of an elaborate way to brew coffee using laboratory glassware just for the vibes
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new Severance ep drops tonight
just a friendly reminder to please CW any spoilers
it's a mystery show
don't spoil a mystery show
spoiling a mystery show is a dick move
And it's always, *always* US-centric stuff. I don't know if Reddit is only translating originally-English posts or what, but it's never anything other than that.
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"For generations, scholars argued that white women were rarely involved in the active buying and selling of Black people. But a growing body of research is challenging that narrative, documenting the significant role that white women played in the American slave trade.
Between 1856 and 1861, white women engaged in nearly a third of the sales and purchases of enslaved people in New Orleans, which was home to the nation’s largest slave market at the time, according to a working paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research earlier this year.
In 1830, white women accounted for about 16 percent of the purchases and sales of enslaved people in New Orleans, the study found. Elsewhere, an analysis of runaway slave advertisements published between 1853 and 1860, which were compiled by the Black abolitionist William Still, found that white women were listed as owners in about 12 percent of the listings.
Source: "Scholars Thought White Women Were Passive Enslavers. They Were Wrong."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/us/white-women-american-slave-trade.html
I really dislike Reddit's automatic post translation. The translations are poor, and it's polluted my search results with useless information - when I'm searching for something in Dutch, it's because I want information that's relevant to the Netherlands, don't spam me with auto-translated US-centric crap!
matrix (2)
(The joke, of course, is that I have already told them exactly why this is, some 4-5 years ago, but they didn't want to hear it.)
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XMPP has lots of viable clients. IRC has lots of viable clients. *Mastodon* has lots of viable clients.
Why doesn't Matrix? That seems like a kind of important question for certain core folks to be asking themselves.
(The emphasis here is on 'viable'.)
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URGENT 
here's my (updated) list of folks who need to be prioritized. most on this list are trans & disabled. *most are in increased danger due to US fascism.* please help by pasting their links into your search bar & boosting their posts directly or by giving any small amount. 💗
octo (795/1371) OVERDUE BY 13 DAYS: https://blackqueer.life/@octo/114093557919770970
kiamichi, utilities DUE MARCH 18: https://mastodon.art/@mahtheyzhawey/114116919571434972
ra'il (175/700) DUE MARCH 20: https://scholar.social/@so_treu/114129263339278157
squirrellilly (just 485) DUE MARCH 24: https://queer.party/@squirrellilly/114140496820373537
deliberately_me (210/630) DUE MARCH 25: https://blackqueer.life/@deliberately_me/113924192177103076
meatmech (0/365) needed ASAP: https://ondergrond.org/@meatmech/114147365724608303
clara (0/150) needed ASAP: https://eldritch.cafe/@Tropicalprincess/114088986483259903
rayne (435/650) needed ASAP: https://mastodon.art/@SingsongRaptor/114121511540844020
evel (182/394) needed ASAP: https://weirder.earth/@thief/114133090138300485
tasia (110/299) needed ASAP: https://disabled.social/@thereaders/114151003764705880
moo, needed ASAP: https://blackqueer.life/@moo/114100135055107573
ginny, needed ASAP: https://social.ginny.today/@ginny/114051543893991367
dionRa (125/232): https://kind.social/@DionRa/114048175934641857
pastel (375): https://blackqueer.life/@IelPastelBlack/113245209518615511
- 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
