This is everything I’ve posted on this version of my my grimoire at starbreaker.org. Posts may show up twice if they’ve been updated.
I also have a /scratch page for stuff that doesn’t seem big enough to merit a grimoire entry.
2025
May 2025
- May Day
- It’s the first day of summer if you’re a pagan worker, and a great day for a wildcat strike.
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(filed under personal, workplace, and history)
April 2025
- About Last Night
- Seems I need to clarify a couple of things for people who are worried about me.
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(filed under personal, webcraft) - Until We Meet Again
- It need not be forever, but I must away for a time.
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(filed under personal, writing, webcraft, and health) - CSS Naked Day 2025
- Don’t panic. You are not experiencing technical difficulties.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, HTML, CSS, and minimalism)
March 2025
- Three Videos Giving Me Life This Week
- It might be tenebrous life, but it's life nonetheless.
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(filed under personal, music, and heavy metal 🤘) - Sex Without Women? Fuck That Noise.
- regarding a recent opinion piece in The Atlantic by Caitlin Flanagan
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(filed under personal, pornography, sex, relationships, Women’s Liberation, Men’s Liberation, and rants) - Can You Spell ‘Anomie’ Without AI?
- random thoughts while reading blogs and listening to goth rock
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(filed under personal, philosophy, anomie, ai, and technology) - Reconsidering POSSE
- in which the author introduces himself to people frequenting platforms like Bear Blog and Buttondown
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(filed under personal, indieweb, posse, and webcraft) - Saturday Scenes (2025-03-15)
- In which Morgan Cooper loses his shirt without setting foot in a casino.
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(filed under writing, sci-fi, fragment, Saturday Scenes, and Starbreaker Saga) - All That I Leave Unwritten
- Though this is a personal website, there is a lot I don’t share. I have my reasons.
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(filed under personal, writing, memories, sex, Men’s Liberation, psychology, religion, and philosophy) - Time Machine
- I can think of a few people we might remove from history...
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(filed under sci-fi, politics, and rants) - Saturday Scenes (2025-03-08)
- This used to be something writers would do on Google+.
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(filed under writing, sci-fi, morgancooper, fragment, Starbreaker Saga, flash fiction, and Saturday Scenes) - Give Conservatives Something to Cry About
- Calling them ‘Nazis’ or ‘fascists’ only encourages them. Let’s make ‘Republican’ a slur.
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(filed under politics and rants) - starbreaker.org NOW: February 2025
- the starbreaker.org /now page, archived as a web zine in February 2025
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(filed under zine) - Personal Web, Personal Sovereignty
- I often feel like I’ve only ever been free on my own website.
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(filed under recommended, personal, technology, webcraft, manifesto, and 32bit Cafe Code Jam)
February 2025
- All Anti-Vaxxers Lie
- Even if vaccines did cause autism, I'd rather be autistic than dead.
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(filed under science and rants) - Four Words for Jeff Bezos
- “WE DON’T READ WYNAND”
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(filed under politics and books) - Money as a Means and an End
- I won't go full Kantian. I promise. You never go full Kantian.
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(filed under personal, finance, and money) - God Damn the King
- The only kings a patriotic US citizen should acknowledge are Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.
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(filed under politics) - Interactive Fiction?
- The operator of foreverliketh.is asked me if I had ever considered creating my own text-based games. This post is his fault.
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(filed under personal, technology, writing, sci-fi, and webcraft) - RE: Blogging for traffic not design
- WordPress’ continued prevalence on the commercial Web does not prove its quality or suitability for personal blogging.
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - Counter-Thaumaturgy
- An exercise from the viewpoint of one of the Starbreaker saga’s more hard-bitten characters, Eddie Cohen
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(filed under writing, fiction, sci-fi, magic, tactics, violence, warfare, fragment, and Starbreaker Saga) - Weekend Work
- My day job already owes me for ten hours overtime for which it won’t ever pay, and I have real work to do this weekend.
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(filed under personal, workplace, and rants) - Libertinism as Protest, Sodomy as Praxis
- We might not be able to fuck our way of capitalism or fascism, but we can damn well have some fun trying.
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(filed under personal, politics, capitalism, fascism, sexuality, Women’s Liberation, Men’s Liberation, and rants) - Butt Thetans
- in which my wife reminds me through her choice of podcasts that Scientology still exists
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(filed under sci-fi, religion, and bullshit) - Music Questions Challenge
- This could be fun. If you’re reading this, it’s your turn.
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(filed under personal, entertainment, music, and blogging) - “A Man Who Reads”
- A funny thing happened at the bookstore tonight.
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(filed under personal, entertainment, and books) - Ayn Rand
- I sipped the Kool-Aid, but didn’t chug it, and eventually lost my taste for it.
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(filed under books, philosophy, and personal) - Popovers in HTML
- This is a little experiment with new web tech.
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - A Long War on Two Fronts
- We can’t post our way out of fascism, but ignoring cyberspace won’t save us either.
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(filed under politics) - starbreaker.org NOW: January 2025
- the starbreaker.org /now page, archived as a web zine in January 2025
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(filed under zine) - RE: Finding the Authentic Web
- If you want to find the authentic web, you’ve got to think independently.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, and rants) - The Song of Achilles
- reactions to and opinions on the novel by Madeline Miller
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(filed under entertainment, books, Greek mythology, Homer, and Troy) - Street Cultivation
- I had recently read Sarah Lin’s novel on the basis of a recommendation on Reddit.
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(filed under entertainment, books, sci-fi, and opinion) - Nuke Fossil Fuels from Orbit
- Nuclear power might be our best bet for carbon-free power generation, but fear is the major obstacle.
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(filed under energy and opinion) - I Still Don't Have a Career
- I saw this post on Hacker News that struck a nerve, and thought I'd comment on it here.
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(filed under personal and workplace) - Advertising Will Never Be Great
- Shakespeare had the right idea. Never mind the lawyers. The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the advertisers.
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(filed under advertising, marketing, and rants) - Zoom is No Substitute for In-Person Interactions
- Victor Rotariu makes grandiose claims to justify always having your camera on in Zoom. I think his claims are arrant bullshit.
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(filed under personal, remote work, zoom, workplace, and rants) - Macbook Necromancy
- I resurrected an old aluminum unibody Macbook from 2009, and installed Debian.
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(filed under technology and GNU/Linux) - To the Democratic National Committee
- A little rant against the Democratic party leadership
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(filed under politics, elections, and rants) - I Need a Longer Plank
- adventures in home improvement
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(filed under personal)
January 2025
- Notes on Email Filtering
- Do I need many filters, or just the right filters?
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(filed under technology and email) - Substack, Freedom of Expression, and Tolerance for the Intolerant
- Substack founder and CEO Chris Best claims credit for helping muckrakers find their voice, but he does the same for Nazis, too.
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(filed under technology, politics, Substack, First Amendment, and rants) - Unplatform
- a new guide to exiting social media, because you have no voice on those platforms and they doesn’t deserve your loyalty
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(filed under technology, parasocial media, and webcraft) - Feeds Update
- a brief note concerning my RSS and JSON feeds
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(filed under technology, feeds, and webcraft) - Using Sublime Text in 2025
- I don’t use it, but other people still do. More power to ‘em.
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(filed under technology, software, and Emacs) - Blogging is Dead: Just Like God and Rock 'n Roll
- People keep saying that blogging is dead, and I keep doing it anyway, as do many others.
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - These Men are No Mere Cowards
- I think Joan Westenberg is being charitable. Mark Zuckerberg is worse than a mere coward. Nor is he alone in his treasonous complicity.
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(filed under politics, ethics, fascism, authoritarianism, and rants) - Star Trek: Section 31
- It was a romp, and it was fun to see Michelle Yeoh play the heavy, but it doesn't feel like Star Trek.
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(filed under entertainment, movies, sci-fi, and startrek) - Fuck Trump
- This man has no business being President again.
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(filed under politics and rants) - Concerning the TikTok Ban
- I’m actually not concerned at all.
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(filed under parasocial media) - Neil Gaiman
- The victims’ allegations should be investigated. He should stand trial. If convicted, he should lose everything but his life.
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(filed under crime and punishment) - If Liking Some Pop Music is Gay, Then I’ll Be Gay.
- I want to blast Body Count’s “Cop Killer” while gunning down the masculinity police. (This time we get even!)
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(filed under personal, entertainment, music, Men’s Liberation, and rants) - Free Our Feeds? Oh, Please.
- Saving social media from “billionaire capture” doesn’t mean much when nation-states, corporations, and billionaires already control the Internet itself.
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(filed under technology) - Why I Don’t Use AI, Particularly Lex
- An answer to Lex’s 2024 letter, “Why Don’t More Writers Use AI?”
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(filed under writing, technology, ethics, and machine learning) - I Would Not Blog
- If I was becoming an adult in 2025, I would not run a personal website. My rebellion would take a different form.
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(filed under personal, privacy, technology, and parasocial media) - Read for Pleasure, or Not At All!
- If you need permission to put aside or refuse to read books that don’t appeal, you have mine.
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(filed under entertainment, books, reading and rants) - Anarchism As I Understand It
- I am the enemy within, if you insist on having one. I am nevertheless content to live and let live.
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(filed under personal, philosophy, and anarchism) - Armor Your Heart in Ice and Shadows
- Neither the cold nor the dark need be feared. Make of them instead your refuge in times of need.
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(filed under personal and 32bit Cafe Code Jam) - I’ll Read It
- Need a reason to build your own website? I can help.
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(filed under webcraft) - Social Media Has Been Worthless for Years
- I published my first novel over 12 years ago. Most of my sales came via my website, not social media.
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(filed under writing, business, marketing, advertising, webcraft, parasocial media, and rants) - RE: “I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life”
- Vinay Hiremath has a shitload of money and an existential crisis. He doesn’t know how to be content with more than enough.
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(filed under money, existentialism, philosohy, and rants) - Then I shall make noise!
- If expressing myself online is narcissistic garbage, make the most of it and be damned to you.
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(filed under personal, writing, blogging, and Romantic Satanism) - RE: Blog Questions Challenge
- Kev Quirk didn’t summon me for this, but I’m going to do it anyway. Why not, right?
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(filed under personal, technology, blogging, and webcraft) - Black Sabbath — Cross Purposes (1994)
- Vocalist Tony Martin deserves more respect from Sabbath fans than he generally gets.
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(filed under entertainment, music, heavy metal 🤘, and Black Sabbath) - Running GNU Emacs in the Linux Console
- Only one thing stopped me from doing this before, but no longer.
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(filed under personal, technology, UNIX®, command line, and Emacs) - Terminal First
- Inspired by a MelonLand forum post, I explain my design approach. I then go off on a tangent about smartphones, parasocial media, and the use of pop psychology to further fascists’ agendas.
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(filed under personal, technology, psychology, parasocial media, politics, and webcraft) - GNU Emacs From Scratch
- in which our intrepid schmuck nukes his overly complex configuration in favor of one only slightly less recondite
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(filed under recommended, personal, technology, configuration, and Emacs) - An Apology to the Subscribers
- Given all of the unread posts people pulling my feed will see, I think one’s due.
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(filed under webcraft) - “Ballade of Ladies and Times Gone By”
- a 15th century Middle French poem by François Villon
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(filed under poetry, 15th century, French, and public domain) - Angra — Angels Cry (1993)
- the Brazilian progressive/power metal band’s first album
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(filed under entertainment, music, heavy metal 🤘, and Angra) - “Dregs”
- a late 19th century poem by Ernest Christopher Dowson
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(filed under poetry, 19th century, and public domain) - starbreaker.org NOW: December 2024
- the starbreaker.org /now page, archived as a web zine in December 2024
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(filed under zine) - I don’t blame Cathode Ray Dude at all, really.
- Making your own website IS hard. Modern tools are shit. I have no good answers.
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(filed under webcraft, UNIX®, rants, and technology) - nine 𝑥 to know me
- Little lists of stuff I’m into. You might like some of these, too.
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(filed under personal, entertainment, and lists) - This is Not My Side Hustle
- I got an email from a guy who doesn’t understand why I’d run a website without trying to monetize it. My response became a manifesto. Oops.
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(filed under recommended, personal, rants, manifesto, and webcraft) - RE: The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
- a reply to Bradley Taunt’s post about the inherent jankiness of desktop GNU/Linux
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(filed under recommended, technology, UNIX®, and GNU/Linux) - The Milgram Battery (a Starbreaker story)
- Inspired by Stanley Milgram’s shady psychology experiments at Yale, it’s a final ordeal for those seeking to join the Phoenix Society’s elite corps of attorneys at war: the Adversaries.
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(filed under fiction, métal hurlant, sci-fi, sciencefantasy, psychology, virtual reality, anthologized, published, short stories, and Starbreaker Saga) - Fighting the Crab Bucket Mentality
- I must have been feeling particularly self-righteous when I wrote this.
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(filed under rants) - Marriage Needs No Defense
- If it takes an act of Congress to preserve an institution, it’s already fucked.
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(filed under politics, marriage, and religion) - In the Hands of Strangers
- I'll admit that I've always been a bit skeptical of democracy, though not to Peter Thiel’s extent.
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(filed under politics, democracy and libertarianism) - True Love is Expressed
- A diatribe against Christian purity culture and virginity fetishism
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(filed under sex and religion) - I Know What I Need
- I dislike being commanded, and being told that I need to do something is particularly grating.
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(filed under workplace and rants) - Not In My Contract
- Do the job. Get paid. Socializing with coworkers costs extra, and your boss isn’t paying.
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(filed under workplace and rants) - Mortal Glory
- I originally wrote this for Catherine, who suggested I share it on the Randroid forum.
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(filed under poetasting) - The Kingslayer Worm
- a fake news article attributed to Bob Abooey; or, how I snuck a Howard Stern reference into a Randroid forum
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(filed under fiction shitposts) - Blood Money? I Don’t Think So
- When did Edward Fine become the Ancient Mariner, anyway?
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(filed under journalism) - The Self-Educated Soul
- I did not get what I wanted; I got what the school wanted me to have: not a true education, but schooling.
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(filed under education and schooling) - Weaving the World’s Dreams
- The world needs a hero. Not a hero to save the world from itself, but one who can inspire man to rise up, take responsibility for his fate, and create his own salvation.
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(filed under writing) - One Nation Above God
- “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...”
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(filed under politics, religion, atheism, secularism, and rants) - Have Mind, Will Travel
- Regardless of the connotation people place upon the word, there can be honor in being a mercenary...
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(filed under workplace)
2024
December 2024
- 2024 in rock
- Commentary on albums released in 2024 that I bought over the year. Mostly rock.
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(filed under entertainment, music, albums, heavy metal 🤘, Cemetery Skyline, Cloud People, delving, Demon (UK band), Disco Freaks, Ember Belladonna, Fourth Dominion, Judas Priest, Kydia, Lucifer (band), Mega Colossus, Robot God, Satan (UK band), and The Cure) - On Seeking Community
- Been there, done that, still got the therapy receipts from the capitalist death panel...
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(filed under personal, society, community, and loneliness) - Reasons I Refuse to Go Vegan
- In which I rationalize what is fundamentally an emotional stance because I do not find the ethical, environmental, and health arguments for being vegan persuasive...
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(filed under personal, politics, food, diet, ethics, ecology, and veganism) - Letting Christabel Crowley Speak for Herself
- Writing from the viewpoint of a character I don’t typically use as a viewpoint character...
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(filed under writing, sci-fi, characterization, experiment, viewpoint, Starbreaker Saga, When You Don’t See Me, and Christabel Crowley) - I don’t blame Cathode Ray Dude at all, really.
- Making your own website IS hard. Modern tools are shit. I have no good answers.
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(filed under webcraft, UNIX®, rants, and technology) - A Masculine Mystique
- a much shorter counterpoint to Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
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(filed under personal, politics, Women’s Liberation, and Men’s Liberation) - Computer Says, “Fuck You”
- an unrealistically optimistic view of artificial general intelligence...
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(filed under writing, sci-fi, sciencefantasy, flash fiction, and machine learning) - Who’s got a foreign key on this table?
- The need to identify dependencies in a database comes up fairly often at my day job.
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(filed under technology, programming, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and my day job) - RE: Topic Blockers
- Why can’t we filter the web by keywords, anyway?
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(filed under technology, UNIX®, webcraft, command line, Emacs, censorship, and programming) - Street Justice
- UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fucked around and found out. Too bad he didn’t get a fair trial first, but his abuses are not crimes under the law.
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(filed under politics, healthcare, class warfare, and rants) - Gimme Back My Headphone Jack!
- I probably won't accept another iPhone unless Apple makes one with a 3.5mm stereo port.
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(filed under personal, technology, audio, and music) - Gun Control
- in which I prove (yet again) that opinions are like assholes
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(filed under politics, firearms, law, opinion, and rants) - starbreaker.org NOW: November 2024
- the starbreaker.org /now page, archived as a web zine in November 2024
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(filed under zine) - Finding the Sweet Spot: Purple Prose and Fire Emblem Fates
- What if purple prose, used in moderation, wasn’t the aesthetic atrocity that style fascists and writers even more pretentious than I am make it out to be?
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(filed under recommended, writing, translation, localization, characterization, worldbuilding, entertainment, games, and rants)
November 2024
- TANELORN (Strike the Balance)
- lyrics for a fictional single by Crowley’s Thoth for use in my fiction
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(filed under writing, poetasting, lyrics, heavy metal 🤘, sci-fi, and worldbuilding) - Are the Electors Paying Attention?
- Is it foolish to hope that the Electoral College might ignore the popular vote?
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(filed under politics and news) - How to Ruin Your Franchise
- “How to Train Your Dragon” needs a remaster, not a live-action remake.
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(filed under entertainment, movies, and video) - Your Body, Your Choice, Forever
- Even an asshole like Nick Fuentes might sometimes manage to say something useful.
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(filed under recommended, rants, politics, Women’s Liberation, and Men’s Liberation) - The Sword: “Locomotive Breath”
- This cover’s a pleasant surprise from a band I thought broken up.
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(filed under entertainment, music, and video) - Something Short...
- ...for a change. Thank or blame FlamedFury.
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(filed under shitposts) - Wearing Bigotry On One’s Sleeve
- I won’t stop believing that hating people for their race, religion, nationality, sex, gender, sexual orientation, etc. is fundamentally un-American. Except Nazis. Nazis can fuck right off.
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(filed under rants, personal, politics, Women’s Liberation, Men’s Liberation, and trans rights) - Fortress of Solitude
- I’m not Superman, or even Doc Savage, but I still need one of my own.
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(filed under recommended, personal, introversion, and autism) - Self-Care or Self-Indulgence?
- Buying posters and tinkering with Debian GNU/Linux could be either.
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(filed under personal and UNIX®) - Blogging Collectives
- Leon Paternoster is curious as to why there aren’t more of these.
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(filed under webcraft and parasocial media) - A Shield of Silence
- There must be something I can do to help if we must endure a second Trump administration.
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(filed under personal, rants, politics, and resistance) - Not This Asshole Again
- just what we need, a second term as President for America's bigoted uncle
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(filed under politics and rants) - I Voted (2024)
- Both parties are bad. One party is worse. I vote accordingly.
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(filed under personal, politics, and rants) - Impact
- Brace yourselves. This could get heavy.
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(filed under personal, memories, writing, books, and indiewebcarnival) - Freeing Time From Clocks
- Can some billionaire please bribe Congresscritters to abolish Daylight Savings Time?
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(filed under politics and rants) - RE: Finding the Authentic Web
- If you want to find the authentic web, you’ve got to think independently.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, and rants)
October 2024
- Twenty Years
- I never thought I'd be married, let alone stay that way this long
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(filed under recommended, personal, marriage, and memories) - The Lost Boys (1987)
- Man, peer pressure sure was a bitch in the 1980s.
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(filed under entertainment and movies) - Conservatives at a Casino
- You’ve got to let them play, because this is America, but never let them deal.
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(filed under politics and shitposts) - Using a Personal Laptop at Work?
- It's not wrong. It's just stupid.
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(filed under rants, workplace, and security) - NVDA; or, The Punishment Detail
- It's called 'work' because all the other four letter words are taken.
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(filed under technology, workplace, webcraft, and rants) - Hitler’s Generals
- Trump wishes he had them. I almost agree, but for different reasons.
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(filed under politics and rants) - Guys, Let's Talk About Periods
- If we're going to live with women, we can't dismiss this as a women's issue.
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(filed under recommended, Women’s Liberation, and Men’s Liberation) - Speaking English on the Multilingual Web
- The Web is multilingual, even if I'm not, so it's on me to adapt.
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(filed under recommended, personal, language, philosophy, and indiewebcarnival) - Morgan Cooper: Dirty Work
- An attempt at a character study in a style similar to what David Simon used in his 1991 book, Homicide.
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(filed under writing, sci-fi, and characterization) - Sharing Optional
- I once said that integration is not a webmaster's problem. Neither is discoverability.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, and parasocial media) - Recursive Bulk File Renaming
- a HOWTO for renaming a bunch of files in a directory tree in a terminal with UNIX tools
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(filed under recommended, technology, and UNIX®) - RE: The Static Site Paradox
- I think Loris Cro's first mistake is in assuming normal people have websites.
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(filed under rants and webcraft) - Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
- Director Todd Phillips shows that Arthur Fleck can't live up to the legend he created.
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, and movies) - Dracula (1931)
- I wanted to like this classic starring Bela Lugosi, but I can only appreciate it.
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(filed under entertainment and movies) - Power Underneath Despair: Roundup
- Not all of my respondents had a single darkest hour; some still haven't come out the other side yet.
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(filed under personal, suicide prevention, and indiewebcarnival) - The (Plain Old) Web
- I don't need a POSSE, and whether you rebrand ActivityPub as 'the social web' or not, you can keep it.
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(filed under recommended, rants, technology, webcraft, and parasocial media)
September 2024
- Power Underneath Despair: Last Call!
- This is the last call for September 2024 IndieWeb Carnival/Suicide Prevention Month submissions.
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(filed under personal, suicide prevention, and indiewebcarnival) - RE: The Right to Remain Silent
- I'm tempted to rebel against Kev Quirk's opinion, but it makes sense.
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(filed under politics, rants, and ACAB) - Let God Speak, Dammit
- She's a big God; She can use Her words and speak for Herself.
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(filed under recommended, personal, religion, existentialism, and theodicy) - The Substance (2024)
- Brilliantly written and directed by Coralie Fargeat, with killer performances by Demi Moore and Dennis Quaid
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, movies, and Women’s Liberation) - Prometheus Unconquered
- a hymn of defiance from the Titan's viewpoint, written on my birthday
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(filed under recommended, poetasting, Greek mythology, Romantic Satanism, and Prometheus) - Fourth Dominion
- If there’s ever a remake of Nightbreed, this band should do the soundtrack.
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, music, heavy metal 🤘, and Fourth Dominion) - Psycho Cat Daddy
- Inspired by 'childfree.txt' by Xandra because, despite being a man, I sometimes find myself dealing with this bullshit, too.
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(filed under personal, rants, politics, “Oh, no! Moloch has a hungry!”, Women’s Liberation, and Men’s Liberation) - RE: You Should Go To Conferences
- I know Sophie at localghost is right, but I probably won't take her advice.
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(filed under rants, introversion, workplace, and webcraft) - A Day with a Kensington Expert Mouse
- It's First World Problems all the way down, because even in the future nothing works.
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(filed under technology and hardware) - Some Thoughtcrime for 9/11
- They say “never forget”, as if I could. I wasn’t there, but I saw it happen live on the Internet.
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(filed under personal, rants, memories, politics, and history) - RE: Software Should Cost Money
- I thought it already did. Maybe the real question is 'who should pay'?
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(filed under technology and politics) - RE: Bullies
- Simone Silvestroni's story reminded me of an experience from my youth.
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(filed under personal, memories, and abuse) - The Power of Satan Compels Me
- People used to blame heavy metal for youth suicides in the 1980s, but it saved me.
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(filed under recommended, personal, memories, abuse, music, heavy metal 🤘, suicide prevention, and indiewebcarnival) - Power Underneath Despair
- In your darkest hour, what saved you? What helped you find the strength to carry on?
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(filed under recommended, personal, suicide prevention, and indiewebcarnival)
August 2024
- RE: On Email Addresses (Again)
- some thoughts and opinions about hiding one's contact details
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(filed under technology, webcraft, and privacy) - Transgressing the Law of Jante
- Affirmations for those who would defy a law that binds them but does not protect.
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(filed under recommended, personal, philosophy, and society) - Xennial Memories
- Well, more Generation X than Millennial, but Xennial's the new term for people born in the late 70s and early 80s.
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(filed under personal, memories) - Email is Still Useful
- Well, I still find it useful, but I put in the work to make it useful.
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(filed under technology and email) - Has the IndieWeb Become Irrelevant?
- No, it was always irrelevant if you had your own domain and site. Everything else is optional.
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(filed under recommended, technology, webcraft, and rants) - Humbuggin’
- Don't mind me; I'm just getting my Scrooge on a bit early this year.
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(filed under shitposts) - Let's Talk About Whiteness
- As far as I'm concerned, being white has been more burden than privilege.
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(filed under politics and rants) - Behind the Mask
- I don't talk much about being autistic. I'm going to do that today.
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(filed under recommended, personal and autism) - Techies Who Don't Read Fiction
- It sounds like a promo for Oprah Winfrey's old talk show, but worse horrors await within.
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(filed under rants, politics, Silly Con Valley, and ignorance) - A Place for Every Page and Every Post in Its Place
- a guide to creating your website's directory structure, and thus the URLs of your pages and posts
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(filed under technology, UNIX®, filesystem, webcraft, and 32bit Cafe Code Jam) - Single? Looking? Why Not Make a /dating Page?
- Instead of using an app that makes more money if you stay single, why not use your website for online dating?
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(filed under recommended, personal, webcraft, memories, and online dating)
July 2024
- How About Some Toast and Eggs
- You know, to go with this spam?
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(filed under shitposts) - Better Than You
- I don't need to be better than you. I need only be better than who I was.
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(filed under personal) - Another Vacation, Please
- I’ve just had one, but I could use another. I’m still tired, dammit.
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(filed under personal)
June 2024
- Personal Websites are for Personal Use
- Commercial use — such as listing in Google, linking to from Reddit, or scraping for LLM training data — is not necessarily welcome.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, rants, and commercial use) - Writing with Large Language Models
- LLMs were not made with my needs or best interests as a writer or a programmer in mind.
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(filed under writing and machine learning) - Talking Shit About Harry Potter
- I had read these books because my wife was into the movies; being able to trash-talk them is merely a bonus.
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(filed under entertainment, books, politics, and rants) - Blocking Unwanted Referrers with .htaccess
- This is something I've wanted to do for a while now, but I thought I couldn't on Nearly Free Speech. Turns out I could, after all.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, class warfare, and commercial use) - People and Blogs
- I was recently asked to contribute to Manuel Moreale’s interview series.
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(filed under personal and webcraft) - Something for the Smol Web Newbies
- If you need this, if you’re dealing with imposter syndrome because of a misplaced notion of purity, then it’s there for you.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, and affirmations) - “I Know Where You Live...”
- I’ve gotten this threat despite not putting personal info online, though it’s been over a decade.
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(filed under personal, privacy, and security) - starbreaker.org and the Holy Grail Layout
- I’ve been making some changes to the layout for visitors using laptops and desktops.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, CSS, and announcements) - Toward a Tao of Vengeance
- cruel thoughts on a sleepless Monday night
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(filed under personal and philosophy) - robots.txt: the Nuclear Option
- Corporate scraping of personal websites has exceeded the Ripley Threshold.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, rants, and commercial use) - Proprietary Social Media Tags Considered Contemptible
- To suggest that use of Open Graph and Twitter Cards metadata is harmful would be an exercise in belaboring the obvious.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, and parasocial media) - I Don’t Belong, Either
- a reply to Jackdaw’s post, “Belonging and not”
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(filed under personal) - Pronatalism is White Supremacy
- I had suspected it before; Richard Hanania’s support for this bullshit confirms it.
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(filed under politics, personal, rants, and “Oh, no! Moloch has a hungry!”) - Limited Fediverse Integration
- I don’t own/operate Bridgy Fed or ShareOpenly so use them at your own risk.
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(filed under webcraft and parasocial media) - mailto links in RSS
- Do great programmers steal, too, or just artists?
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(filed under webcraft) - Pride Month
- I have my reasons for flying these colors.
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(filed under personal, politics, Gay Defiance, Women’s Liberation, and Men’s Liberation)
May 2024
- Developer Experience: JSON vs XML
- Are XML feeds like RSS and Atom really that hard to work with in JavaScript?
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(filed under technology, webcraft, and programming) - Concerning Age-Appropriate Content
- This started out as a Mastodon post in response to a #WordWeavers prompt.
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(filed under entertainment, books, writing, parenting, personal, memories, sexuality, and censorship) - SaGa Emerald Beyond
- an introduction to Square-Enix’s weirder RPG franchise and its latest entry, based on the PlayStation 5 demo
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(filed under entertainment, games, JRPGs, and SaGa franchise) - Oceanborn
- notes on Nightwish’s 1998 symphonic power metal album
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(filed under entertainment, music, and heavy metal 🤘) - Making a Grimoire
- I’ve wanted to do this for a while, and I finally made a decent start of it.
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(filed under webcraft) - Footnotes: No Fun to Create, Either
- Tyler Sticka doesn't like reading footnotes online? Fair enough.
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(filed under recommended, technology, HTML, and webcraft) - Matters of Faith, Problems of Evil
- It’s a good thing I don’t believe in Hell, for this post alone might earn me a seat.
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(filed under recommended, personal, religion, existentialism, and theodicy) - Providing JSON Feeds in Addition to RSS
- I spent my Saturday night doing this instead of relaxing like a sensible person.
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - Indecision 2024
- in which I gripe about electoral politics in the USA
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(filed under personal, politics, and rants) - Touch Grass?
- This phrase has become a pet peeve of mine.
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(filed under personal and philosophy) - It’s Not Your Feed Reader
- If my posts are showing up as new in your app, it’s my fault.
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(filed under webcraft) - No Glove, No Love
- I use an ad blocker for the same reason I wear condoms.
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(filed under technology, rants, and advertising) - Heavy Time
- a cat helped me find a used paperback of this 1991 novel
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(filed under entertainment, books, sci-fi, and C. J. Cherryh)
April 2024
- JS Naked Day
- This website wasn’t wearing much to begin with...
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(filed under webcraft) - Good Enough; or, Never Give Your Best At Work
- You get paid the same whether you meet expectations or exceed them.
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(filed under recommended, personal, workplace, Women’s Liberation, Men’s Liberation, and indiewebcarnival) - CSS Naked Day
- This website’s gonna rock out with its markup out.
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - Is Reggaeton at 9am Really That Bad?
- This techie in Argentina seems to think so. He should be grateful it’s not Babymetal at 8am.
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(filed under technology, audio, and housing) - B. Bergeron on Progressive JPEGs
- I would do so if WebP, AVIF, or JPEG XL were not available and (in the first two cases) well-supported.
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(filed under technology, UNIX®, webcraft, and image processing) - On Loneliness
- another take on the ‘male friendship recession’ from a man sick of hearing about it
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(filed under personal, society, politics, rants, Women’s Liberation, and Men’s Liberation) - Ideal Breakfast?
- I doubt mine is anybody's ideal, but it works for me.
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(filed under personal and cooking) - Things to Do in April 2024
- Here’s a todo list for my website; will I get to do it all?
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - Happy Easter
- I don’t really celebrate this holiday since I’m neither a little kid, a parent, or a devout Christian.
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(filed under entertainment, movies, Ghostbusters, religion, sci-fi, and shitposts)
March 2024
- IndieWeb Carnival 2024: Accessibility on the Personal Web
- Is it just about disability accommodation and WCAG/Section 508 compliance?
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(filed under recommended, technology, webcraft, and indiewebcarnival) - Personal Web, Personal Sovereignty
- I often feel like I’ve only ever been free on my own website.
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(filed under recommended, personal, technology, webcraft, manifesto, and 32bit Cafe Code Jam) - Reset, Part Two
- I didn’t quite go through with my original plan after all. Here’s what I did instead.
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
- Dan Luu digs deep into how a lot of current web tech just doesn't work on phones commonly available in poor countries.
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - The Right to Change Sex
- A long, interesting article in New York Magazine that references Judith Butler and raises a pressing question: why in Hypatia’s holy name are we still pretending that conservatives have valid arguments?
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(filed under politics, Women’s Liberation, and trans rights) - A Modest Proposal for MAGA
- If you really want to make America great again, it’s time to eat the rich. Start with Trump.
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(filed under politics and rants) - Kitty Doesn’t Think Things Through
- Having cats around is one reason I prefer WFH, but they can be silly.
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(filed under personal and cats) - Hacker News, Again
- What part of “my website, my rules” do some people find difficult to grasp?
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(filed under technology, politics, and rants) - Storming Heaven
- What if defiance of nature is human nature?
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(filed under recommended, personal, philosophy, rants, existentialism, Romantic Satanism, and indiewebcarnival)
February 2024
- IndieWeb Carnival 2024: Digital Relationships
- or, How I Met My Wife and Why I Might Not Try That Again
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(filed under recommended, personal, philosophy, online dating, and indiewebcarnival) - nine 𝑥 to know me
- Little lists of stuff I’m into. You might like some of these, too.
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(filed under personal, entertainment, and lists) - Robb Knight on Using Eleventy
- Should I be frightened because this makes sense to me?
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - A City on Mars
- looks like I have another book to buy for my to-read pile, or I could do the sensible thing and borrow it
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(filed under entertainment and books) - Shoggoths Away!
- a song by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
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(filed under entertainment, music, indie rock, and H. P. Lovecraft) - A Cure for Atheism
- Why can’t you love God in Her bed?
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(filed under personal, sexuality, and religion) - Too Much Greek Mythology?
- Some recent reading inspired an outpouring of doggerel involving the trickster god Prometheus
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(filed under poetasting, Greek mythology, Romantic Satanism, and Prometheus) - Concerning Trans Rights
- Most of the rights transgender people want recognized are basic rights of individual self-determination, and I’m OK with that.
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(filed under recommended, personal, politics, Women’s Liberation, Men’s Liberation, and trans rights)
January 2024
- Reset
- Here we go again. I might actually redo this site again this month.
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(filed under technology and webcraft)
2023
November 2023
- HTML5 Needs a “partial” Element
- What good are web components if you can’t easily reuse them across multiple pages?
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(filed under recommended, technology, HTML, and webcraft) - Your Site, Your Rules, Your Way
- This is me sticking up for the “soydevs” who don’t build their websites the way other people think they should, because tech prescriptivists who indulge in gatekeeping are authoritarian scum.
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(filed under recommended, technology, webcraft, and rants)
October 2023
- The Last Post for This Version
- I should have written this over a month ago, but I’m building a new version of starbreaker.org
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(filed under webcraft and announcements)
September 2023
- The Song of Achilles
- reactions to and opinions on the novel by Madeline Miller
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(filed under entertainment, books, Greek mythology, Homer, and Troy)
August 2023
- Isabel Hogben: a Victim of Conservative Grooming
- She’s exactly Bari Weiss’ type: young, naïve, and receptive to authoritarian ideology.
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(filed under politics, rants, pornography, censorship, and sexuality) - RE: Why Are Websites Embarrassing
- some commentary on a post about egregiously bad web design by Robin Rendle and a rant about modern web development that you’ve probably read before
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(filed under rants and webcraft) - Dictionary Integrations
- adventures in integrating GNU Emacs with dictionary apps on macOS and GNU/Linux
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(filed under technology, UNIX®, and Emacs) - Viewpoint Limitations
- Writing Spiral Architect in first-person viewpoint might have been a mistake. There are elements that I could explain from another viewpoint that I can’t explain from Morgan Cooper’s.
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(filed under writing, sci-fi, characterization, and Spiral Architect) - Little Spoon
- a romantic haiku
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(filed under poetasting) - Contributing to the Cacophony
- I have an account on mastodon.social now, but I’m not leaving libranet.de; it’s a backup/RSS syndication account.
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(filed under parasocial media) - RE: A Key Feature of NFTs Has Completely Broken
- I’m laughing my ass off as I read this tech in The Verge. But my laughter is angry laughter. People really should know better, dammit.
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(filed under technology, griftocurrency, and bullshit) - RE: Red Meat Friday: Why Vim?
- This is a post about UNIX text editors. You are not expected to understand this, or to care.
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(filed under technology, UNIX®, and text editing) - I Finally Got Without Bloodshed Taken Down
- Most writers would lament the removal of their first novel from Amazon. For me it’s victory and liberation, but now I must decide what to do next.
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(filed under writing, books, publishing, and Without Bloodshed) - Tears in Rain
- I’ve been reading a dying man’s blog post about regret, and I have opinions with which I’d rather not directly burden him.
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(filed under recommended, personal, death, regrets, and rants) - Boots: a Haiku
- capturing the small soul of an authoritarian bootlicker in seventeen syllables
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(filed under poetasting and class warfare) - Adam Winfield Needs a Mirror
- This little shit doesn’t realize that he’s one of the “small-souled bugmen” he claims to detest.
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(filed under politics, alt reich, and rants) - Writing Wonders: August 2023
- I thought I’d answer this month’s questions in one place, and make them accessible outside of parasocial media.
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(filed under writing, prompts, sci-fi, worldbuilding, and characterization)
July 2023
- Cathedrals on Quicksand
- Some thoughts on a recent Minutes to Midnight blog post from the opposite perspective.
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(filed under recommended, technology, programming, workplace, and rants) - Web Environment Integrity: Expectations, Reality, and Entitlement
- Google’s latest attempt to respectively exploit and protect its dominance in the browser and advertising markets puts the company’s effrontery on full display and cries out for the sort of antitrust enforcement not seen since Uncle Sam brought the hammer down on AT\&T.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, bullshit, and rants) - Silence Implies Consent
- My efforts to thwart commercial use of my website may come to nothing, but I will make them anyway for my own sake.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, rants, and commercial use) - They Abandoned Their Children to Fortnite
- If children are obsessed with video games to the point of throwing tantrums when they can’t play, I blame the parents. They failed their children, and these children will spend their lives paying the price of their parents’ negligence.
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(filed under recommended, rants, society, parenting, and gaming) - From The Archives
- a list of restored posts that might prove of interest to somebody looking for a quick read
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(filed under miscellaneous) - Spiral Architect: Patient Privilege
- I should be writing this chapter, but I’m not quite ready yet.
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(filed under writing, sci-fi, plot, characterization, worldbuilding, and Spiral Architect) - No Bottling the Genie Again
- As much as I sometimes want to become anonymous again online, I suspect that it’s too late for me. Learn from my mistakes.
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(filed under personal, technology, webcraft, privacy, and security) - This is Not My Side Hustle
- I got an email from a guy who doesn’t understand why I’d run a website without trying to monetize it. My response became a manifesto. Oops.
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(filed under recommended, personal, rants, manifesto, and webcraft) - Stormageddon, Fluffgoddess of the Next Apocalypse
- a bit of flash fiction featuring Claire Ashecroft and an AI “on the fritz”.
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(filed under writing, flash fiction, sci-fi, dialogue, characterization, worldbuilding, and machine learning) - A Cat Meets the Emacs Doctor
- a bit of Monday silliness; apparently Smudge figured out M-x doctor
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(filed under Emacs and shitposts) - Spiral Architect: Little Sunshine and more…
- I had written this update late Sunday night, but forgot to upload it for several days.
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(filed under writing, sci-fi, characterization, plotting, and Spiral Architect) - RE: The syndicate
- I generally agree with Jeremy Keith at adactio, but I want to go a bit further.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, and parasocial media) - Flaming Telepaths
- hearing this song on the radio back in the day pulled me into Blue Öyster Cult fandom
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, music, heavy metal 🤘, and Blue Öyster Cult) - They Too Are God’s Children
- a reply to Jeremy Sarber’s “The mission field is decorated with rainbow flags”
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(filed under recommended, politics, religion, and philosophy) - Spiral Architect, Chapter 5: Prima Donna
- a short progress update on my work in progress
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(filed under writing, sci-fi, and Spiral Architect) - Zuck’s New Threads Are Lame
- Fuck Mark Zuckerberg and all of his works. Including his new parasocial network, Threads.
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(filed under rants and parasocial media) - Burn the Mothers Down
- I finished my first run through Final Fantasy XVI yesterday, and it’s been a ride. Expect spoilers.
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, games, Final Fantasy franchise) - Writing Wonders: July 2023
- I thought I’d answer this month’s questions in one place, and make them accessible outside of parasocial media.
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(filed under writing, prompts, sci-fi, worldbuilding, and characterization)
June 2023
- Been Sick
- I have no idea what it was that kicked my ass, but I seem to be getting over it.
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(filed under personal) - Books I Never Finished
- I saw this thread on Tildes, and since I can’t chime in there I’ll have my say here.
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(filed under entertainment and books) - Reworking My Blogroll
- I’ve been tinkering again instead of writing sf, and remembering how to write XSL transforms.
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - Insomnia
- I’m occasionally subject to sleepless nights. It’s usually my own damn fault.
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(filed under personal, entertainment, books, and games) - You Are Not Normal
- I’m a little tired of people who do a better job of conformity than I claiming to be normal. They are no such thing.
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(filed under affirmations and trans rights) - Now I Have a Mailing List
- It’s not what you think; this mailing list allows discussion, not just broadcast.
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(filed under webcraft) - RE: Acting Your Wage Will Atrophy Your Abilities
- commentary on a post by Ruby On Rails creator, 37signals founder, and professional idiot David Heinemeier Hansson
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(filed under rants, workplace, and bullshit) - Our Revels Now Are Ended…
- a bit of Shakespeare that’s been stuck in my head for years
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(filed under writing, music, sci-fi, and characterization) - RE: Makefiles for Fun and Profit
- commentary on a post by James Tomasino
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(filed under technology, UNIX®, and programming) - Theme, Variations, Eternal Return
- I don’t know if I’ll use this in a Starbreaker story or if it’ll be another fragmentary outtake.
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(filed under writing, sci-fi, characterization, and worldbuilding) - I Was Banned From Tildes, Too
- Unlike those who protest their innocence, I had it coming.
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(filed under personal and censorship) - They Came From Hacker News
- Going viral on aggregators like Hacker News and Reddit isn’t what it used to be.
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(filed under rants, parasocial media, and technofascism) - Would You Recommend Us to Your Friends?
- This question irks me, and if you’ve seen GoodFellas you know the answer.
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(filed under rants and marketing) - Writing Wonders: June 2023
- I thought I’d answer this month’s questions in one place, and make them accessible outside of parasocial media.
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(filed under writing, prompts, sci-fi, worldbuilding, and characterization) - Microservice Architecture is a Recipe for Pain
- You’d think that having grown up Catholic I’d be masochistic enough to like developing microservices.
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(filed under technology and programming) - More Cleanup
- documenting more changes for future references
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(filed under webcraft, CSS, and image processing)
May 2023
- A Bit of a Cleanup
- in which this website’s operator documents some changes he’s made for himself if nobody else
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(filed under webcraft) - My Manhood, My Property, My Way
- a rant and a meditation on biological sex, socially-defined gender, individual choice, and existentialism with music by Diamond Head, The Sisters of Mercy, Annihilator, and Frank Sinatra
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(filed under recommended, personal, political, rants, gender, Women’s Liberation, and Men’s Liberation) - Programmers and Grimoires
- Do not begrudge developers and system administrators their references unless you crave downtime, breakage, data corruption, and other dire consequences…
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(filed under technology and programming) - Make Them Reject You
- If you don’t ask for things, and you aren’t willing to simply reach out and take them, you’ll end up with nothing.
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(filed under recommended, personal, workplace, philosophy, Women’s Liberation, and Men’s Liberation) - A Well Known URL for Your Resume/CV
- Jim Nielsen came up with a well-known URL for avatars, but why not one for resumes and CVs?
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - Not For Her Sake
- I had never heard of Alyssa Rosenweig until today, so it’s not for her sake that I vote against Republicans at every opportunity.
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(filed under politics, rants, Women’s Liberation, and trans rights) - RE: Date and Time with a Static Site Generator
- I was tempted to just email Jim Nielsen with my answer, but decided to blog it instead.
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(filed under technology, UNIX®, and webcraft) - After 1989: A Trip To Freedom
- notes on the historical concept album by Minutes to Midnight
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, music, and history) - Fun with Dates and Emacs
- a note to myself about creating RSS and Atom friendly dates for posts in Emacs
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(filed under technology, UNIX®, command line, and Emacs) - Trying Friendica
- My discomfort with the Fediverse might be discomfort with Mastodon itself.
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(filed under parasocial media) - Your Screen Is Tasty
- I see no reason why this website shouldn’t eat it all. (om-nom-nom)
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - Alice Cooper, Live in Hershey
- Catherine and I crossed off an item on my rock ’n roll bucket list last night
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(filed under entertainment, music, heavy metal 🤘, and live music)
April 2023
- Dammit, Apple
- If your content blocker is going to block images, it should block all images.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, parasocial media, and rants) - RE: Mastodon Preview Cards
- regarding a post by Jeff Sikes
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(filed under webcraft, rants, and parasocial media) - Disdain for Profanity is a Luxury Belief
- prescriptivist boors and bores alike have been looking down on profanity in English since 1066
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(filed under recommended, language, profanity, and rants) - I Just Bought a Piano
- Oh shit, am I petit bourgeois now?
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(filed under personal and music) - Florida Man Bans Abortion
- I don’t care that his real name is Ron DeSantis.
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(filed under politics, Women’s Liberation, and rants) - Parental Rights
- some random thoughts and advice to parents from a childless man
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(filed under politics and abuse) - John Daker has seen some shit
- a commentary on the Eternal Champion novels by Michael Moorcock
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(filed under entertainment, books, and Michael Moorcock) - Preventing LLM Scraping
- I don’t want my writing used to train a large language model.
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(filed under technology, rants, and webcraft) - A Letter to NPR Management
- I’m posting this here on my website so I have a receipt.
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(filed under parasocial media) - Jesus He Knows Me
- Ghost is covering Genesis, and they picked Easter to drop this video.
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(filed under recommended, music, video, heavy metal 🤘, Ghost, Genesis, and religion) - Scarlet Dorn
- discovering a new (to me) band from Germany
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(filed under entertainment, music, heavy metal 🤘, and video) - First World Problems
- in which I gripe about self-inflicted annoyances I face as a webmaster
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(filed under webcraft and rants)
March 2023
- Poem for a Mass Resignation
- the Great Resignation deserves a greater poet than I, but this might do for now
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(filed under recommended, poetasting, and workplace) - Companies Are Failing Everybody
- disputing findings in the most recent Women in the Workplace report
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(filed under politics, Women’s Liberation, Men’s Liberation, workplace, class warfare, and rants) - The Ides of March
- If you ever wanted to have a public toga party while staging a general strike, today’s the day.
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(filed under politics, workplace, Women’s Liberation, and Men’s Liberation) - RE: Stop Using Custom Web Fonts
- I got over custom web fonts a long time ago, but I’m no designer.
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - RE: The Ultimate Linux ARM64 Workstation
- comments on Jason Eckert’s post about running Asahi Linux on a Mac Studio
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(filed under UNIX® and hardware) - RE: All You May Need is HTML
- comments on Fabien Sanglard’s post about how to build a website
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(filed under technology, HTML, and webcraft)
February 2023
- Fertility Crisis? You’re Welcome!
- Has it ever occurred to New York Times columnists that wage slaves don’t breed well in captivity?
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(filed under personal, politics, Women’s Liberation, Men’s Liberation, capitalism, and rants) - Persona 4 GOLDEN
- I played the original on the PlayStation 2, and I’m feeling nostalgic.
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(filed under entertainment and gaming) - Always Remote
- Regardless of the weather, I will always prefer remote work over on-site.
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(filed under personal, workplace, remote work, and class warfare)
January 2023
- Living for Pleasure: an Epicurean Guide to Life
- notes on Emily A. Austin’s book about the Greek philosopher Epicurus and his teachings
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(filed under entertainment, books, and philosophy) - Ticketmaster Delenda Est
- There’s nothing wrong with Ticketmaster that can’t be fixed by razing the corporation to the ground
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(filed under rants, music, politics, and antitrust) - I Quit Mastodon Again
- Maybe this time it’ll be permanent…
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(filed under personal, rants, and parasocial media) - smile, he said
- it isn’t just women who hear this
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(filed under writing, poetasting, and Women’s Liberation) - silent defiance
- yet another bad haiku
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(filed under writing, poetasting, and Romantic Satanism) - A Seed of an Ending for Soft Doctrines
- Isaac Magnin has nobody to blame but himself. This was the best possible outcome of his endgame.
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(filed under writing, prompts, sci-fi, worldbuilding, characterization, entertainment, music, video, and The Soft Doctrines of Isaac Magnin) - RE: Does a Blog Need to Integrate?
- blogs with RSS/Atom/JSON feeds are already interoperable
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(filed under recommended, technology, rants, and webcraft) - No New Years’ Resolutions in 2023
- they usually go unkept, anyway
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(filed under personal) - Hello Again, World
- restarting my blog on a new domain
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(filed under webcraft)
2022
December 2022
- Hello Again, World
- restarting my blog on a new domain
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(filed under webcraft)
August 2022
- Things Do Not Have Friends
- a rant about the so-called male friendship recession
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(filed under rants, society, and Men’s Liberation) - a Phishing Attempt for PayPal Users
- Who falls for this? Are these assclowns even trying?
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(filed under security) - Shadowbanned
- an extremely short flash fiction
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(filed under writing, sci-fi, flash fiction, and politics) - RE: Static Site Generators
- Easier to use depends on who you ask, doesn’t it?
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - The Magician and the Parrot
- a joke that came out of my UNIX fortune program
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(filed under shitposts) - Holy Smoke
- Fuck censorship. Burn all book burners for great justice.
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(filed under books, politics, and rants) - cicadas
- a summer haiku
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(filed under poetasting and nature) - The Village Voice Isn’t Really Back
- Brian Calle might have resurrected the brand, but not its soul.
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(filed under bullshit) - Gloomy Monday Thoughts About Computers
- half-baked and not thoroughly thought-through bathroom musings about computers as weapons in search of civilian applications
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(filed under technology and luddism)
July 2022
- Learning Vue
- in which I set about adding another tool to my kit to stay employable
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(filed under technology, webcraft, and programming) - Random Thoughts on Game Streaming
- if you’re streaming a multiplayer game, please tell me up front so I can drop out
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(filed under entertainment, gaming, and consent) - Little Changes
- After inspiring more changes in Bradley Taunt’s pblog, I made further tweaks for my own use.
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(filed under webcraft and programming) - Still Derisive About Marketing
- I’m an old techie and I still despise marketing and its practitioners.
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(filed under rants, marketing, bullshit, and private-sector PSYOP) - An Archetypical Tech Recruiter
- I’m almost of sick of these people as I am of self-righteous terminally-online types.
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(filed under technology, workplace, and rants) - Notes on Pancreatic Cancer Screening
- Is early detection of pancreatic cancer even practical for most people?
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(filed under personal) - Building a Site for My Fiction with ‘pblog’
- thinking out loud, building in public
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(filed under technology and webcraft) - Web3 is Coming For Authors
- A ‘crypto revolution’ re-imagining books? Count me out.
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(filed under writing, griftocurrency, and bullshit) - Creating YouTube Thumbnails with a Shell Script
- It’s almost as good as an embed, but without Google’s spyware.
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(filed under recommended, technology, UNIX®, command line, shell scripting, and programming) - Paying Strangers to Watch Me Work?
- How stupid can the New York Times get when it comes to remote work?
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(filed under personal, rants, workplace, and remote work) - RE: High Property Taxes Are Good, Actually
- commentary on Brock Whittaker’s post on interest rates and real estate speculation
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(filed under politics, taxation, and housing) - Nothing Like a Bad Phishing Attempt
- There’s been a phishing scam targeting M&T Bank customers via SMS since 2019.
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(filed under security and phishing) - RE: Soft Deletion Probably Isn’t Worth It
- a reply to Brandur’s post about soft deletion in databases
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(filed under technology, databases, and programming) - RE: Really Getting Started with Hugo
- a reply to Bryce Wray’s post about Hugo’s quickstart instructions
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(filed under technology, UNIX®, and webcraft) - Crypto Direct Deposit? WTF?
- The more I learn about cryptocurrency the more closely it resembles a comic book supervillain’s revenge on a world that allowed him to be dateless on prom night.
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(filed under technology and griftocurrency) - RE: The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
- a reply to Bradley Taunt’s post about the inherent jankiness of desktop GNU/Linux
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(filed under recommended, technology, UNIX®, and GNU/Linux) - RE: Thoughts on RSS
- a reply to Matt Rickard’s thoughts on RSS and the problems it faces
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(filed under technology, webcraft, and parasocial media) - Extending pblog
- Some of my extensions to Bradley Taunt’s pblog aren’t necessarily suitable for submission as a patch, but I wanted to document them here.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, and programming) - Blocking Crap with a Hosts File
- If you can get your hands on /etc/hosts, it’s a good way to block the worst of the web.
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(filed under technology and UNIX®) - There Goes Your Feed (Again)
- Because I often break shit while tinkering…
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(filed under technology and webcraft)
June 2022
- Roe v. Wade Was Overturned Today
- Never forgive. Never forget. All conservatives are scum and the government can only recognize rights we’ve always had.
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(filed under rants, politics, and Women’s Liberation)
May 2022
- COVID-19: One Megadeath Later
- a rant about the US’ collective response to the COVID-19 pandemic
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(filed under politics and rants) - Podcasts Have Always Sucked
- Transcript or GTFO. I can read faster than you assholes can talk.
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(filed under technology and rants)
April 2022
- A Reality Where HTML Never Existed
- Bradley Taunt thinks CSS and JavaScript were a mistake. I go further.
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(filed under rants and webcraft) - Party Like It’s 1989
- a Web Zero Manifesto
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(filed under recommended, technology, webcraft, and manifesto) - Playing as a Woman in Final Fantasy XIV
- Why shouldn’t I? It’s not like I don’t pretend to be a man in real life.
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, gaming, Final Fantasy franchise, Women’s Liberation, and Men’s Liberation) - Using GNU Recutils to Generate a Playlist Feed
- I ended up not doing this, but I don’t want to delete this post.
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(filed under technology, webcraft, UNIX®, databases, and programming) - Going Dark (Building A Shinobi Site)
- documenting the process by which I rebuilt my website (yet again)
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(filed under technology, webcraft, UNIX®, and programming) - RE: The Box of Doom
- commentary on Krad’s zine, The Box of Doom
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(filed under personal, politics, and identity)
March 2022
- About My Ad Blocker
- It’s your fault I block ads. You chose to use adtech, and adtech is malware.
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(filed under technology and ad blocking)
February 2022
- Hellbound; or, Curse God and Live
- This K-drama got me thinking about existentialism and the problem of evil.
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(filed under entertainment, television, K-drama, religion, existentialism, and theodicy)
January 2022
- Personal Websites as Self-Portraiture
- The personal website is both medium and message, a self-publishing technology and a new visual arts medium, and every website is its operator’s self-portrait.
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(filed under recommended, technology, webcraft, and manifesto)
2021
December 2021
- Questions for Your Cast
- a brief guide to character creation without prior worldbuilding
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(filed under recommended, writing, characterization, and worldbuilding) - Amazon’s The Wheel of Time
- Blind Guardian did a better adaptation with a ten-minute power metal song.
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(filed under entertainment and television)
November 2021
- Fuck Trump; Let’s Go Brandon
- Deference to authority is un-American. Fuck the President no matter who he is.
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(filed under recommended, politics, and rants)
September 2021
- RE: Thoughts on Silly Hats
- a reply to marginalia.nu’s post on fashion and subculture
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(filed under personal, entertainment, music, and politics) - Literature Ain’t Burger King
- Want to have it your way? Write it yourself.
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(filed under recommended, writing, and rants) - Of Course I Worked There. So What?
- a rant about the New York Times’ anti-remote work propaganda
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(filed under rants, workplace, and remote work) - Hearing Rainfall
- Reflections on working from home, and why I don’t want to go back to onsite work
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(filed under recommended, workplace, and remote work)
August 2021
- Is the Thought of an Incel a Real Thought?
- I don’t believe incels actually exist. I think their problems are self-inflicted, and I have no sympathy.
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(filed under politics, Women’s Liberation, and Men’s Liberation) - How to Ruin a Date
- all it takes is one word
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(filed under shitposts) - Does Therapy Work for Men?
- I’m not convinced it does, but I could be wrong. I am, after all, a man.
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(filed under personal and Men’s Liberation) - Don’t Worry. I’m Still OK.
- I don’t believe anybody will care, but don’t be surprised if you don’t see me posting much here.
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(filed under personal, privacy, and security)
July 2021
- Street Cultivation
- I had recently read Sarah Lin’s novel on the basis of a recommendation on Reddit.
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(filed under entertainment, books, sci-fi, and opinion) - Nuke Fossil Fuels from Orbit
- Nuclear power might be our best bet for carbon-free power generation, but fear is the major obstacle.
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(filed under energy and opinion) - I Still Don't Have a Career
- I saw this post on Hacker News that struck a nerve, and thought I'd comment on it here.
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(filed under personal and workplace) - Advertising Will Never Be Great
- Shakespeare had the right idea. Never mind the lawyers. The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the advertisers.
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(filed under advertising, marketing, and rants)
June 2021
- Zoom is No Substitute for In-Person Interactions
- Victor Rotariu makes grandiose claims to justify always having your camera on in Zoom. I think his claims are arrant bullshit.
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(filed under personal, remote work, zoom, workplace, and rants) - My Father is Dead
- The man worked his ass off and he didn’t even get to retire.
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(filed under personal, grief, cancer, and death) - Installing Devuan 3.1 and Migrating to Ceres
- notes I compiled for future reference or in case they help others
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(filed under technology, UNIX®, and GNU/Linux)
May 2021
- The Cancellation of Emily Wilder by the Cowardly Associated Press
- I love the smells of conservative hypocrisy and butthurt in the morning.
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(filed under politics and rants) - What Five Stages of Grief?
- I think I’ve skipped straight to angry acceptance.
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(filed under personal, grief) - My Father Is Dying
- The man I knew is gone, replaced by a broken, bewildered animal.
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(filed under personal, grief, cancer, and death) - Wife First, or Mother?
- Spoiler warning: I choose my wife. Always.
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(filed under personal, marriage)
April 2021
- a haiku from my study window
- blame Ghost of Tsushima if you want for this poetic impulse
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(filed under poetasting) - Entries for a New Devil’s Dictionary
- inspired by the original Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
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(filed under shitposts) - Why Should I Go Back to the Office?
- Also, why do I always get nervous when somebody at work talks about ‘safe spaces’?
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(filed under personal, rants, workplace, and remote work) - Not This Shit Again; or, ACAB
- I’m tired of hearing about cops going full Dredd and summarily executing civilians.
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(filed under politics, rants, and ACAB) - Then I’m Against You
- Demanding that I choose a side will never work in your favor.
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(filed under rants, politics, and society) - Maybe I Don’t WANT To Be Reached?
- I have lots of reasons to avoid social media. Advertising is but one.
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(filed under recommended, rants, parasocial media, marketing, and advertising) - YouTube Kids a Vapid Wasteland? No Shit, Sherlock.
- I’m sorry, but when has children’s entertainment in the US not been a vapid wasteland?
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(filed under parasocial media) - It’s Just Some Other Asshole’s Computer
- Is this the curse of knowledge, or merely pride?
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(filed under technology and rants) - Goddammit, Jon Schaffer
- Good thing I never mistook Iced Earth’s founding guitarist for a hero, let alone met the man in person.
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, music, heavy metal 🤘, politics, and rants)
March 2021
- Tina Guo
- Classical instruments, heavy metal, and fetishwear? Yes, please.
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(filed under entertainment, music, heavy metal 🤘, and video) - The Wrong Kind of Diversity
- Diversity will be punished unless it can be exploited because under capitalism no lives matter.
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(filed under rants, politics, and workplace) - Parallel Transcoding from FLAC on Linux
- Using find and xargs can dramatically speed up the transcoding of large collections of FLAC files to formats like Ogg Vorbis or MP3.
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(filed under recommended, technology, UNIX®, and command line) - Unpleasant Truths About Culture Fit
- If somebody wants to discriminate against you when hiring without getting sued, this is the excuse they’ll use.
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(filed under rants, politics, and workplace)
February 2021
- Glory and Blame
- In which I wax irreligious and take a whack at the problem of evil.
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(filed under recommended, personal, religion, existentialism, and theodicy) - Gina Carano Will Be Fine
- She has fuck you money, and she hasn’t actually been silenced.
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(filed under politics and rants)
January 2021
- Goddammit, Jon Schaffer
- Good thing I never mistook Iced Earth’s founding guitarist for a hero, let alone met the man in person.
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, music, heavy metal 🤘, politics, and rants) - XTerm: Because Worse is Better
- It doesn’t need to be perfect. It just needs to work.
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(filed under technology and UNIX®) - Parler Had It Coming
- Their management forgot that there is no cloud; it’s just some other asshole’s computer.
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(filed under technology, politics, rants, and parasocial media) - Thoughts on the Insurrection
- I am fucking sick of right-wingers and their bullshit.
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(filed under rants, politics, and news) - My Wife Gave Me an AlphaSmart 3000 for Christmas
- I wasn’t expecting this, and it’s surprisingly handy now that I’ve gotten the hang of using it.
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(filed under recommended, personal, technology, hardware, writing, and word processing)
2020
October 2020
- Aspects of Tyranny and Oppression
- a beast with five faces: church, state, capital, society, and family
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(filed under politics) - More Stuff I Might Use Later
- These might work in a new edition of Without Bloodshed.
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(filed under writing, dialogue, characterization, worldbuilding, sci-fi, Without Bloodshed) - Getting Back Into It
- But first I’ve got some background material to work out.
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(filed under writing and sci-fi) - I Voted By Mail
- Any public official who takes voting rights seriously should work toward making voting by mail the default.
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(filed under personal and politics) - Spamtoberfest
- Man, Digital Ocean really didn’t think this through.
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(filed under spam and bullshit) - Cobra Kai at Work
- a defense of wildcat strikes, legality be damned
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(filed under politics, class warfare, workplace, and rants) - Shite Hustle (No Revenue)
- an affectionate parody of Alestorm’s “Shit Boat (No Fans)”
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(filed under entertainment, music, lyrics, parody, techbros, shitposts, and side hustles)
September 2020
- The Cop in My Head
- All cops are bastards, especially the one in your head.
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(filed under recommended, personal, Men’s Liberation, and rants)
July 2020
- Making Meaning
- inspired by a Gemini post by Case Duckworth
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(filed under recommended, personal, existentialism, Men’s Liberation, and writing) - RE: Naming Computers
- a reply to dctrud’s gemlog
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(filed under technology, UNIX®, and networking)
June 2020
- Leftist Dating Advice Considered Harmful
- I’ve never gotten effective dating advice from a leftist on the internet. Have you?
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(filed under personal, politics, Women’s Liberation, and rants) - Egoism, Neutrality, and Zeal
- I hate getting the hard sell, especially when you’re trying to sell me a cause.
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(filed under politics, philosophy, and rants) - Bostock vs Clayton County, GA
- I’d like to see originalists shit themselves as they read this decision.
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(filed under politics, Women’s Liberation, Gay Defiance, and rants) - Text Mode Weekend, Part Deux
- in which I continue to experiment with Slackware without X11 as a desktop OS
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(filed under technology, UNIX®, terminal, command line, and experiments) - The NoFap Hoax, by an Anonymous Psychology Professor
- I found this on Pastebin and wanted to preserve it.
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(filed under politics, psychology, sexuality, and Men’s Liberation) - What if Internal Wifi Was a Mistake?
- When was the last time you did anything with your computer offline?
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(filed under personal and technology) - Text Mode Weekend
- in which I experiment with Slackware without X11 as a desktop OS
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(filed under technology, UNIX®, terminal, command line, and experiments) - Choose Life?
- the problem with video games is that reality sucks
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, games, politics, Men’s Liberation, class warfare, and rants) - RE: Against Bingeing TV
- contrary to acdw’s opinion, I don’t think Netflix invented binge culture
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(filed under entertainment) - Relevance Junkies
- I can’t be the only one sick of hearing about J. K. Rowling.
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(filed under rants, politics, and parasocial media)
May 2020
- On the Imperative of Niceness
- Stop tone-policing your fellow workers and start organizing general strikes.
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(filed under politics, workplace, and rants) - How to Avoid Reply Guys
- Anything you post in public is fair game.
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(filed under parasocial media) - The Racist H. P. Lovecraft vs. Self-Righteous Internet Leftists
- Throwing Lovecraft’s work down the memory hole only harms the living.
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(filed under entertainment, books, H. P. Lovecraft, writing, and rants) - What Really Caused Nationfall?
- It’s easier to write post-apocalyptic sf when the world isn’t collapsing around you.
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(filed under writing, sci-fi, and worldbuilding) - Macbook Necromancy
- I resurrected an old aluminum unibody Macbook from 2009, and installed Debian.
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(filed under technology and GNU/Linux) - To the Democratic National Committee
- A little rant against the Democratic party leadership
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(filed under politics, elections, and rants) - Dragon Hunting; or, Helvetia delenda est
- An idea for a SF thriller that I probably won’t use
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(filed under writing, sci-fi, and worldbuilding) - Vocabulary Lessons
- There are plenty of good reasons to avoid the use of ‘niggardly’ that online leftists don’t cite.
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(filed under writing and rants) - I’m a Sodomite and I’m OK
- You’re probably one too, unless you’ve never had recreational sex.
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(filed under recommended, personal, politics, sexuality, and Men’s Liberation)
April 2020
- I Need a Longer Plank
- adventures in home improvement
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(filed under personal) - Three Mile Island Dirty Rice
- a recipe for spicy eggy rice dish, without a lot of bullshit
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(filed under cooking) - Final Fantasy VII Relived
- better than I expected, with some unexpected twists, but don’t pay full price
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, games, sci-fi, and Final Fantasy franchise)
January 2020
- Why I’m Going to Block You
- I don’t need a reason, but people give me so many good excuses.
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(filed under rants and parasocial media) - A Decade in Review
- a summary of what my life has been like this past decade
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(filed under personal)
2019
December 2019
- A Decade in Review
- a summary of what my life has been like this past decade
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(filed under personal) - Real Sex Education
- Compared to what I got in the 1990s, PornHub was an improvement.
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(filed under recommended, rants, politics, and sexuality) - Containment, Social Media, and the Dangers of Imitation
- Deplatforming wasn’t a major issue before social media, and it still isn’t even though social media more often creates cacophony than community.
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(filed under recommended, politics, parasocial media, censorship, and rants)
October 2019
- I Want My BSD!
- my autobiography as a Unix fan, with apologies to Dire Straits…
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(filed under recommended, personal, memories, technology, and UNIX®)
April 2019
- Proprietary Video Games
- a rant on deliberately crippled computers and software
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(filed under entertainment, gaming, and rants)
January 2019
- On Religion as Blasphemy
- Suppose we’ve been putting words in God’s mouth the whole damn time?
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(filed under religion and history) - On Allyship
- I’m nobody’s ally, but some of the things demanded of allies are easily granted, so why not?
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(filed under politics, rants, Women’s Liberation, and trans rights) - Harry Frankfurt: On Bullshit
- I’ve some to suspect that understanding and containing the spread of bullshit is the defining issue of our time.
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(filed under philosophy)
2018
September 2018
- Turning Forty
- looking back from the top of the hill before I go over it
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(filed under recommended, personal, and memories)
July 2018
- The Truth About US Taxes?
- I’m not convinced that taxes are necessary to finance government.
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(filed under politics)
January 2018
- Leaving the Cult; or, Getting Free of Toxic Tech Culture
- This post is absofuckinlutely brilliant and you should have read it last week.
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(filed under technology, workplace, and rants)
2017
March 2017
2016
March 2016
- Finding the Sweet Spot: Purple Prose and Fire Emblem Fates
- What if purple prose, used in moderation, wasn’t the aesthetic atrocity that style fascists and writers even more pretentious than I am make it out to be?
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(filed under recommended, writing, translation, localization, characterization, worldbuilding, entertainment, games, and rants) - C.L. Moore: Queen of the Pulps
- one of the great 20th century originals and a worthy heir to Mary Shelley
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, books, and C. L. Moore)
February 2016
- C.L. Moore: Queen of the Pulps
- one of the great 20th century originals and a worthy heir to Mary Shelley
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, books, and C. L. Moore)
2015
April 2015
- I Know I’m Fat. Did You Know You’re An Asshole?
- I don’t want or need your acceptance. You can think whatever you want; just don’t make your prejudice my problem.
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(filed under recommended, personal, and rants)
March 2015
- Programmer Passion Considered Harmful
- I might have been drunk when I posted this on Medium, but I meant it and I stand by it today.
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(filed under recommended, technology, programming, workplace, and rants) - You Should Listen to Galneryus
- This Japanese power metal act’s first three albums are tight.
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, music, and heavy metal 🤘) - Sally Wiener Grotta: The Winter Boy
- I had gotten a free copy in my World Fantasy Convention 2014 book bag and had the pleasure of meeting Sally Wiener Grotta and attending a reading.
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(filed under entertainment, books, Women’s Liberation, postapocalyptic)
2014
August 2014
- Richard Zane’s Fantasmagoria
- an absolutely gonzo indie novel by an author I knew from Google+
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(filed under entertainment, books, and sci-fi)
July 2014
- The Alpha Male Myth
- Alpha wolves don’t exist in the wild, only in captivity. Research has shown this. If alpha men exist at all, it’s because we’ve made a prison of our society.
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(filed under society and Men’s Liberation) - Derelict by L. J. Cohen: a YA Worthy of Heinlein
- a review resurrected and expanded from the archives; I had bought the book and gotten my money’s worth
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(filed under recommended, entertainment, books, sci-fi, and young adult fiction)
March 2014
- Worldbuilding: Mutual Aid vs the Welfare State
- I’m not an expert in economics or in political economy, but the more I tried to think things through the more impossible it became to justify writing a straightforward right-libertarian utopia.
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(filed under writing, politics, economics, sci-fi, and worldbuilding)
2012
May 2012
- Post-IPO Facebook: Echoing the Dot-Com Boom
- From my archive, a prophecy that went unheard but not unfulfill’d: I saw Facebook’s enshittification coming, but didn’t think it would be this bad.
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(filed under recommended, technology, politics, and parasocial media)
2005
November 2005
- Fighting the Crab Bucket Mentality
- I must have been feeling particularly self-righteous when I wrote this.
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(filed under rants)
2004
October 2004
- Just Married!
- I might have had doubts, but I don’t have any regrets.
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(filed under recommended, personal, and marriage)
July 2004
- Marriage Needs No Defense
- If it takes an act of Congress to preserve an institution, it’s already fucked.
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(filed under politics, marriage, and religion)
March 2004
- In the Hands of Strangers
- I'll admit that I've always been a bit skeptical of democracy, though not to Peter Thiel’s extent.
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(filed under politics, democracy and libertarianism)
2003
August 2003
- True Love is Expressed
- A diatribe against Christian purity culture and virginity fetishism
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(filed under sex and religion)
July 2003
- I Know What I Need
- I dislike being commanded, and being told that I need to do something is particularly grating.
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(filed under workplace and rants)
February 2003
- Not In My Contract
- Do the job. Get paid. Socializing with coworkers costs extra, and your boss isn’t paying.
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(filed under workplace and rants)
January 2003
- Mortal Glory
- I originally wrote this for Catherine, who suggested I share it on the Randroid forum.
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(filed under poetasting)
2002
December 2002
- The Kingslayer Worm
- a fake news article attributed to Bob Abooey; or, how I snuck a Howard Stern reference into a Randroid forum
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(filed under fiction shitposts)
September 2002
- Blood Money? I Don’t Think So
- When did Edward Fine become the Ancient Mariner, anyway?
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(filed under journalism) - The Self-Educated Soul
- I did not get what I wanted; I got what the school wanted me to have: not a true education, but schooling.
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(filed under education and schooling)
August 2002
- Weaving the World’s Dreams
- The world needs a hero. Not a hero to save the world from itself, but one who can inspire man to rise up, take responsibility for his fate, and create his own salvation.
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(filed under writing)
July 2002
- One Nation Above God
- “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...”
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(filed under politics, religion, atheism, secularism, and rants)
June 2002
- Have Mind, Will Travel
- Regardless of the connotation people place upon the word, there can be honor in being a mercenary...
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(filed under workplace)
2000
September 2000
- Veteran of the Psychic Wars (2000)
- I had originally written this for Meredith Minter Mixon's long-defunct anti-bullying website, Raven Days
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(filed under personal, memories, abuse)