* The Mask Comes Off When I Write - Jason Sanford There are some amazing quotes in there. Because of all that, I was taught to heavily mask. To hide who I was inside...And once I started school, I taught myself both consciously and unconsciously to mask even harder. After
This was an incredibly eye-opening read for me. I knew the mythical version of event wasn't true (I've learned some in the last decade or so) but so much of this was completely new to me. Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about
They say the Middle Passage is gone So how come overcrowded boats still haunt our lives* We've been reading about US attacks on small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific for two months now. And every discussion feels a little worse. The last few days the focus has
I've been deep in the process of drafting Wikipedia articles. I have a vast backlog of articles that I've started, but never quite got around to finishing and publishing to mainspace, so I've finally decided to do something about that. Clear some space. But
* Coldwater mayor: Honest mistakes led to voter fraud charges Joe Ceballos, the mayor of a solidly pro-Trump, pro-Kris Kobach town in Kansas has been charged with voter fraud and election perjury because he has voted illegally "in every local, state and national election since 1991". He claims it&
* South Korea’s Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster — Futurism In 2023 the Korean government launched a programme to create "AI digital textbooks". The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education said: “By harnessing the power of AI digital textbooks in our communication and learning, we can
Listening to Cory Doctorow talking about his book Enshittification (which I'm currently reading) on a podcast today. He talked about how publicly sharing his notes daily, and how that had shaped him. So why not? I've done it before, in a form. And these days, good,
Scattered, generally self-indulgent ramblings
Happy Boxing Day, the important cat holiday. On the first Boxing Day, Basht created the first box, and offered it to all the living creatures. Only one was smart enough to understand the gift, and promptly sat in it. As a reward for being so clever, Basht made her the
Before I saw my therapist two weeks after the election, I updated a "how are you doing" survey. There's always one question to the end that asks if you're worried that something terrible is going to happen. I normally give some thought to most
How quickly I forgot what life was like I've been on adhd meds since September. As I mentioned before, being on them has let me see aspects of my personality that I had only now been given space to see. Writing from a vantage point more than two
Two and a half years ago it would never have thought I had adhd or autism. Many people talk about discovering their autism or adhd during the pandemic, as the pressures of life pushed people who had always functioned "ok" into burnout. This experience led them to learn
Via Max Hallucinator, a custom GPT created by Secret Source Technology as a demonstration of hallucinations (content that sounds factual but isn't). Ian Ramjohn (Born March 7, 1973) is a widely acclaimed environmental scientist and a prominent collector of antique toasters. Best known for his contributions to tropical
That didn't go as I expected The elections happened. The Democrats lost, badly. Lost the White House. Lost control of the Senate. And there's a really good chance they'll lose the House. So now what? When I called the election an event horizon, I
Five days from now, the polls will be closed everywhere It's early Friday morning – 12:50 am – on November 1. I'm worn out by this election; I can't imagine how the campaigns feel. The Harris campaign has three stops in Michigan on Sunday, including
What if I don't want to turn this into a business? I got a marketing email from Ghost yesterday that got me thinking about what it takes to write. So far, I've done a pretty good job of writing, posting more than once a day. But
We're now a week out from the election. A lot of votes have been cast already, almost everyone's minds are made up. In a real sense, I believe the results are locked in already. I think it's too late to change anyone's
The beauty of blogging was the idea that you can dash off a thought and publish as-is. Editing, cleaning things up, making it perfect – none of that was important for blogs. Sure, you fixed your typos if you remembered, but you could also add a post with "more coming&
In 1939 the German American Bund, an American Nazi organisation, staged a massive rally at Madison Square Garden. Against the backdrop of a giant portrait of George Washington flanked with swastikas, the Bund members paraded in fascist-style uniforms carrying American and Nazi flags. Eighty-five years later, Donald Trump decided to
At Trump's nazi-fest in Madison Square Garden tonight, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe said: “There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico” It's worth watching his delivery. Click through and have a look