Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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.
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- 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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I don't know who needs to hear this, but:
Legality is a social construct. What is illegal now may be made legal in the future, and things that were illegal in the past have been made legal in the modern day.
When you are criticizing malicious behavior, do not lean on the legality or illegality of the behavior for your critique, because the law cannot stop someone from breaking it - only punish them retroactively. Focus on the harm caused by the behavior in question instead.
I built a new work table for my garage today! Sort of! There were already two half storage racks there with some planks haphazardly on top, serving as a makeshift worktable; so I sanded the edges of some very thin plywood of sorts, varnished it, then nailed it to the top. And now it looks a lot nicer!
I also made a little tray hanging on the wall, to hold my glue and spray cans and such.
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Hey unsighted fedi-folx! When it comes to good alt-text...
Please select all that apply.
I would like discussions about messaging and chat systems to be less religion and more problem-solving, thank you
Thinking about something... are there any situations *at all* where "someone responding 1) with a counterargument to 2) someone else's discussion 3) from a day ago" can lead to some kind of useful, productive outcome?
Because personally I've only ever seen this happen in the context of combative arguing, and it has always led to escalation, never to useful conclusions.
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Brabants veganistisch eten
Oh Brabant, never change.
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Is there any open source non-Web fediverse frontend? I wanna look at/learn about something 
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Today's projects: filling the other raised bed with (mixed) soil, bolting a rack to the wall in the garage, as well as a ledge to hang my long clamps on, and finally the biggest project of the day: putting my table saw on wheels!
(And accidentally generating a sorting challenge, oops)
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ACAB
tired, being salty, politics
you bitches so upset about people causing harm to inanimate objects, when i first read the headlines to what happened in LA they made me think some poor motherfuckers burnt to death in those cars! but no! they were empty the whole time!
why is violence that pigs do to people on a regular basis seems less violent to you than lighting cars on fire? and why can't people strike back?
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tired, being salty, politics
wrote a toot yesterday that went "we live in a world where people are more upset about cars on fire than kids being killed" and some shitlib responded "i agree palestinian genocide is a big issue but antifa burning cars is wrong and does nothing to stop the ICE"
my dude, we are not hippies. this is a protest and not a damn royal prom. leave your preaching from the ivory tower of white cishet wealth for when you see cops shooting people with beanbag rounds
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This video is really cool, about reusing old cardboard boxes to build furniture and construction materials out of, biodegradably waterproof and all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45JhacvmXV8
And it pairs really well with this video, about using 3D-printed molds and paper waste to create strong, new shaped objects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ItPfhx3ulw
(Do consider the comment which advises to let the paper/cardboard soak rather than blending/shredding, to retain the longer fibers and therefore strength)
This could be considered a form of #woodworking, I guess?
Today's projects: filling the other raised bed with (mixed) soil, bolting a rack to the wall in the garage, as well as a ledge to hang my long clamps on, and finally the biggest project of the day: putting my table saw on wheels!
(And accidentally generating a sorting challenge, oops)
This video is really cool, about reusing old cardboard boxes to build furniture and construction materials out of, biodegradably waterproof and all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45JhacvmXV8
And it pairs really well with this video, about using 3D-printed molds and paper waste to create strong, new shaped objects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ItPfhx3ulw
(Do consider the comment which advises to let the paper/cardboard soak rather than blending/shredding, to retain the longer fibers and therefore strength)
This could be considered a form of #woodworking, I guess?
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@joepie91
Yup.
We can have a Fediverse full of joyously naked queer people -or- a Fediverse full of Meta misinformation and slop and harassment, and it's up to us to choose which.
Crowd out the corpos and be unmonetizable.
They called it "Violates Community Guidelines" of course, but we all know what that really means
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lol changed from en_US to en_GB and got my trashcan renamed to "waste basket" lmao
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In Den Haag gearriveerd, maar allerlei pasjes gevonden van iemand, zonder telefoonnummer. Kent iemand ene geraldiny dubbink uit ommen?
We often talk about threats to the Fediverse but I'd like to point out for a moment that the strategy of "post nudes and queer shit to ward off Facebook" fucking *worked*, because Threads' defed list ended up being absolutely full of instances doing so
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@revk @neil Evidence strongly implies that quotas work. If you set a minimum diversity quota, on any given axis, it doesn’t just improve your quality (because e.g. women who stay in male-dominated industries tend to be way better than their male counterparts, on average), it also makes people under-represented in the audience more likely to stick around.
So yes, Neil is right to do what he’s trying to do.
An example: https://kjonnsforskning.no/en/2016/10/secret-behind-norways-gender-quota-success
- 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
