Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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We all know the Rodalies fire moodboard, but how about the exploding VIRM? www.treinreiziger.nl/ns-onderzoekt-ontploffing-elektriciteitskast-in-intercity-niet-bekend-of-er-gevaar-is-voor-andere-treinen/
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Being awake and outside before 8 am is freaky. Why are there bicycle queues on the road?
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@morachbeag Yeah, this always bothers me. It always comes from the most from hardcore marxists, but like... Marx was racist. Yeah, class is important to focus on, and I'm for a balanced socialist society, but Marx also said Mexicans were lazy, despite not having actually lived in Mexico to understand why you would take a nap in the middle of the day: the same reason mid-day naps are common in Vietnam, the heat will kill you. He just broadly attached the concept of "lazy" to any people of color he didn't feel like "worked hard enough".
Mexico isn't/wasn't poorer because the people there are "lazy". There's something else, and that something else is important to note: colonization and resource extraction from wealthy white people, mostly from other countries, particularly Europe.
Sorry to tangent. This just really bothers me when people say to "set aside racial differences" and focus on class. Black people were literally not allowed in white unions until relatively recently in history. You can't simply ignore that.
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"People who use AI at work feel that they're more productive" is an argument I've been seeing in various forms lately, which, as a recommendation, is not far removed from "people on cocaine at parties feel that they're more interesting."
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What Happened Yonder? My @why2025camp talk: 'Consent for Hackers, negotiating consent based on HTTP status codes' has been accepted and confirmed.
Let's talk to people about negotiating consent before engaging in personal and physical interactions. Your browser does it with every webserver, so why shouldn't you do the same with people?
uspol, austerity
FYI, the Chemical Safety Board (yes, that government agency with the Youtube channel which investigates chemical accidents) is getting shut down.
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Succes voor actiegroepen tegen medeplichtigheid aan genocide in Gaza: schip Maersk Izmir met F35-vleugels mijdt Rotterdamse haven
#DoorbraakEu
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Wij begonnen allemaal ons leven op dezelfde manier als mijn piepkleine dochter nu: hopeloos afhankelijk. En niemand van ons ontgroeit dat echt, ook al wordt ons geleerd net te doen alsof. Dit is namelijk de centrale leugen van het liberalisme: dat we onafhankelijk zijn, zelf ons eigen leven opbouwen, en dat we los staan van anderen. Maar het conservatisme is niet minder bedrieglijk. Het prijst het gezin aan als de ideale eenheid van het sociale leven, maar dan een gezin dat hiërarchisch opgebouwd is en zich afsluit voor buren, vreemden en mensen in nood. Het pleit zogenaamd voor orde en persoonlijke verantwoordelijkheid, terwijl het stiekem de banden van solidariteit, die het zelf romantiseert, doorsnijdt. Het resultaat is een wreedheid die zich voordoet als stabiliteit, een cultuur van ongeïnteresseerdheid, verpakt in de taal van traditie. https://www.doorbraak.eu/nu-de-wereld-in-brand-staat/
Do any *ethical* residential proxy services exist? So with full, informed consent from everyone whose connection is used, and without shady separation between the buying and the selling side.
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I learned something. Tent pegs are named after fish in Western Europe, but a different fish in every language.
Dutch: haring (herring)
French: sardine (sardines)
German: aal (eel)
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Budapest 
Another angle; some sources say there were between 100 and 200 thousand attendees!
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pro-palestine protest signs, NATO, eupol
Another round of Amsterdam public comment on the war machine.
#AmsterdamPublicComment #StopNATO #gaza #palestine #abolishNATO #freepalestine #iran #pspol #AmsterdamGraffiti #eupol
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Save future videogames from planned obsolescence!
There is an initiative asking the EU to regulate or at least clarify video games being made inaccessible remotely by publishers.
The initiative is on an official channel provided by the EU itself, if it reaches one million signatures the European Commission will have to look into the matter and provide a response, there is still a month until 31 July.
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We're here
We're queer
Connection reset by peer
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the can opener bridge delivers when we are in our moment of need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ4tpEhQ86g
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@joepie91 and sometimes it'll decide to show me a language I don't even speak and never chosen before like what's going on at Google???
Also didn't we invent this entire web standard to indicate which languages we speak? Can companies please respect it??
Part of me wonders if big tech happened in Europe instead of the US, we'd have better multi language support for things
spicy take, FOSS, standards processes
(Because if you actually cared about the criticism, you would be asking yourself "what support does this person need to have their problem solved" and then you'd immediately discover that "file a PR/proposal" is completely outside the realm of the viable for most people)
spicy take, FOSS, standards processes
This is basically the standards equivalent of the equally-exclusionary practice in FOSS to respond to criticisms with "well just make a PR to change it" or "well just fork the project then", all of these are just responses that try to dismiss the criticism without making it sound like they are
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probably a hot take, birdsite
One thing I kinda miss from twitter is the notification when someone liked something I boosted.
On here, boosts feel like they end up in the void, unseen, on twitter I could see that others appreciated the things I boosted, which made me more likely to do it.
Thoughts like "oh $person would really like this post" don't really occur to me much anymore.
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- 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
