This is a blog by other means; I never particularly liked the word "blog" or its original form, "weblog". I’m tempted to call it Draconian Times; it would be a fitting name for a website operated by a man who has never known a world where the Doomsday Clock wasn’t stuck at around two minutes to midnight. Though, if I were more of a Bauhaus fan, “Dark Entries” would fit, too.
I also have a /scratch page for stuff that doesn’t seem big enough to merit a grimoire entry.
Recent Entries
Here’s what I’ve posted this year. Posts may show up twice if they’ve been updated. If you want older posts, try the archive.
August 2025
- Speak UNIX or Die
- Because developers employed at megacorps like Microsoft have plainly given up on meeting people where they are.
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(filed under technology and rants) - Collective Shout
- Their authoritarian methods and embrace of censorship put the lie to their claims of benevolence.
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(filed under politics, art, rants)
July 2025
- I Can Tell You Why Dating Sucks
- She gets a raw deal. He gets a raw deal. Everybody gets a raw deal!
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(filed under personal, relationships, dating, Women’s Liberation, Men’s Liberation, and rants) - Goodbye, Ozzy
- bidding farewell to one of the founding fathers of heavy metal
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(filed under personal, music, heavy metal 🤘) - RE: Why Are Men Like This?
- Before condemning men for being what kyriarchal society made them to be, make sure you’re not part of the problem.
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(filed under personal, Women’s Liberation, and Men’s Liberation) - You Owe Nothing
- If you’re running a personal website, you need not cater to anybody else.
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(filed under personal and webcraft) - Choosing Solitude
- I am not surprised that a Japanese study would suggest that autistic people do not value a connection with society; I sure as hell don’t.
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(filed under personal, psychology, and autism)
June 2025
- Small Web July
- I can’t fully participate because I’m living a Small Web Life, but I heartily approve of others doing so.
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(filed under personal and webcraft) - A Personal Canon
- I usually keep this in my head, but today I’ll inflict it upon you.
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(filed under personal and entertainment) - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- a game about art that is also a solid argument for games as art
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(filed under entertainment, games, fantasy, and epic) - Who Owns Your Talent?
- If the answer isn’t “yourself alone”, then you’re fucked.
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(filed under personal) - Never Mind the Adjectives
- The overuse of adjectives (and adverbs) indicates deeper problems with one’s writing.
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(filed under writing, description, characterization, and advice) - No Remorse, No Regrets, and No Need for Second Chances
- an entry for the June 2025 IndieWeb Carnival, “Take Two”, hosted by Nick Simson
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(filed under personal) - No Kings
- Was there not a war about this back in 1776? Or was that yet another lie my teachers told me?
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(filed under politics, authoritarianism, tyranny, and rants) - RE: I want to comment on your blog post
- Like the old Billy Joel song goes, “You can speak your mind, but not on my time.”
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(filed under webcraft, blogging, and comments) - No, We Cannot ‘Connect’
- Oh, sure, remind me that I’m merely a human resource to you.
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(filed under workplace and rants) - Skeletá
- opinions on the new Ghost album (it’s a banger)
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(filed under entertainment, music, heavy metal 🤘, and ghost) - Condition Ahuman
- Meadow Wyand’s poetry is rich, dark, and rewards the reader’s close and patient attention.
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(filed under books, poetry, and reading) - My Spam is So Goddamn Boring
- when you look forward to a subject line mentioning Threeway Steel, you know spam has jumped the shark
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May 2025
- RE: Social media platforms: what’s wrong, and what’s next
- everything is wrong with social media, including its very existence, and the Web itself should be next
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(filed under technology, parasocial media, and rants) - Twenty-Five Years
- that’s how long I’ve known my wife of almost twenty-one years
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(filed under personal) - On Hating LinkedIn
- if you hate this site too, I’d be the last to blame you
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(filed under technology, parasocial media, workplace, and rants) - My Spam is So Goddamn Boring
- when you look forward to a subject line mentioning Threeway Steel, you know spam has jumped the shark
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(filed under technology and rants) - RE: Don’t Be a -1
- in which I disagree with a random blogger’s career advice
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(filed under workplace) - C. J. Cherryh’s Morgaine Cycle
- digging up something I had written about a classic science fantasy saga in 2024
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(filed under fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, and books) - 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) - They Too Are God’s Children
- a reply to Jeremy Sarber’s “The Mission Field is Decorated with Rainbow Flags”
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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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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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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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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)
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