Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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cw boost: police violence, chemical attacks
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journalistic complicity in the genocide of Palestinians
when there's a reckoning in the future around what roles people played in facilitating the genocide in Palestine, it is a moral imperative that journalists + the ownership class of the news outlets they work for must be held to account
don't forget this: by repeatedly, systematically refusing to call out Israel's crimes, these bastards have caused as much shedding of innocent blood as though they were on the ground pointing the fucking weapons themselves
nlpol, media
Hey Algemeen Dagblad, Is dat nou wat jullie zien als 'de macht controleren', ja? Achter vluchtelingen aangaan met een undercoveronderzoek?
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PLEASE BOOST: Icelandair broke two wheels off my new suitcase. I'm stuck in KEF airport in Iceland. Is the reach of Mastodon powerful enough that it can find someone nearby who can help me get a new suitcase that has dimensions that can be checked on Austrian Air? I think that's 158 cm linear.
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As a peace-loving person I believe we should punch the ones who oppose peace.
Because they won't stop until we're either gone or properly positioned to service them.
And I cannot allow that.
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Dear people of the Fediverse,
Do you have any suggestions for a good, not necessarily free, spech-to-text recognition / dictation app that saves the audio and allows exports as txt, and, most importantly, does not force you to sign over your data to hundreds of "legitimate vendors"? If the same app also works on a desktop - even better, but it's not necessary.
Edit: Android and Windows.
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This also kind of makes me wonder whether 'tech folks' are just fundamentally the wrong pond to fish in for anarchist movements, despite the subversive potential of the tech, because of the widespread (misguided) belief among nerds in a total understanding of human nature, which is fundamentally incompatible with the anarchist idea that you can only build a foundation and people will have to figure out their own details as they go along
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I guess this is really just a variant of Dunning-Kruger, huh? But about culture and needs, instead of some technological subject
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Can we please get rid of this insufferable nerd belief that if you just try hard enough, you can capture the entirety of human existence and needs into a technical model?
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Ah. No ethnic minority person in my compartment, so no passport check. Police just look. But - like in Kehl last week - the train waits in Frankfurt (Oder) while they do the illegal controls, so we accumulate more delay…
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the problem when all the things it does to enjoy itself are either physically or mentally intensive and thus even when it is "resting" it never actually rests it is just applying too much energy to fun things instead of unfun things it has to do
it needs shit it enjoys doing that is actually restful for its body and brain...
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Don't bring your phone to the protest
Wear your most generic, mass-produced, non-identifiable clothes
Wear running shoes
N95's are a good idea for many reasons
Water in a bottle with no stickers
Don't RSVP with anyone beforehand
Tell a friend when you expect to be back
Be safe, don't get hurt, don't let them put you in the cop car
Give them hell
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And like, I would also be fine with maintenance work on something open-source that's already useful, but it's surprisingly hard to find a project that fits the bill there?
Like, I'd want to work *with* someone, without a hard scheduling commitment (because ADHD), using tools that I am comfortable (even if not familiar) with, which mostly means non-monolithic JS, and be confident that the project doesn't veer off to something miserable like "AI" or cryptocurrency.
And those constraints filter down the available options way more than they should, honestly.
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Aside from generally feeling miserable about the software industry and who it serves, I've also been struggling with a lot of programming just being... *boring*.
Like, this is definitely the ADHD brain talking, but a lot of new software development is just the wrong kind of routine work for me. It's not novel and it's also not caring for something that people already use and rely on. And I understand programming too well to still find much enjoyment in it.
So I've been needing something novel, something I don't understand yet and which I can work on in an exploratory way, where I *don't* know where I'll end up yet. And I think I've found it? It seems like (inclusive) malleable software fits the bill - it's both exploratory and practically useful.
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good morning fediverse. 
lots of folks planning on heading out to various sorts of protests today.
if that’s you, while you’re out there, spend a little time networking with the other members of your communities that are also there.
it’s good to loudly protest the bullshit being done in your name and with your taxes. it’s great to also build resilient community-led groups to reduce dependence on the systems that oppress us.
be safe out there.
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When people think of direct action, the mind often goes to anarchists in bloc doing cool acts of sabotage. And that's an example, yes.
But direct action just means that you're acting directly to accomplish something. You're not begging, you're not bargaining, you're not voting in favour, you're just doing it. It's much simpler, and it's a lot more effective than the gaggle of intermediaries want you to realize.
Go do the thing.
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we want to privately chat with an expert about handling speciesism and racism in TTRPG settings.
we're be happy to pay for this, in particular with a black, queer, and disabled expert, but would also be happy to be sent links to read or books to buy written by someone with experience and perspective that we can't have.
if you're the person for us, reply, mentions, DM, etc are all fine, but you also can email us at tabletopsocial@chaosfae.com
please boost!
#TTRPG #TTRPGDesign #black #racism #speciesism #DND #writing
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"Extremely homosexual non-compliance" is the most beautiful word combination I've read on the internet this week.
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This is a graphic from a paper on ants but it looks like something I drew in a boring meeting.
(The point it's making is an interesting one, all ants can do all jobs, and you don't need to inject them to make it happen, they will just switch if the job isn't being done. But, I think they found a way to trigger this switch in the paper which would be ... huge, honestly. )
I will not comment on the "ant muscles"
Is everyone interested in ants just... weird?
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
