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  • Hello, Dexter Morgan: The Show that Came, Went, and Came Back Again

    Hello, Dexter Morgan: The Show that Came, Went, and Came Back Again

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    Major spoilers ahead for both Dexter and Dexter: New Blood, for those who still haven’t watched either of them. I want to talk about the show Dexter, a piece of media that was on-track to be one of the greats alongside Breaking Bad (*cough* and the first two seasons of The Walking Dead), and then…

  • Anti-Social Media: Corporations Just Don’t Get it

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    I keep trying to like Threads. I know, I know, this is a massively unpopular thing to do on the fediverse, but I tend not to do what other people want me to do until I’ve come to concrete decisions and ideas on my own, through my own experience. There’s a lot of the internet,…

  • Connectivity and Outages

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    So here I am writing a new blog post in my notes app, because both ATT and Verizon are experiencing outages. Writing in my notes app, on my phone, because without connectivity, my notes aren’t syncing with the cloud, and both my PC and laptop can’t retrieve them. Because of these simultaneous outages, it’s basically…

  • Initiate the Protocol: Nova Online Now Federating!

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    Over the past couple of months, or, since the beginning of the year, I’ve been tinkering around with moving, completely, toward ActivityPub. From taking my Twitter activity and killing it in its entirety so that I can run my instance at mkultra, to replacing Instagram with my Pixelfed, to replacing Youtube with my Peertube, and…

  • The Toll it Takes: Isolation, Transness, & the Disappointment That Are Other People

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    I wanted to write a story here, in as much a condensed manner as I can, about things I’ve grappled with, and had going on years ago, and am dealing with the fallout from, even today. But it’s complicated, it’s messy, it’s not fun or happy; it’s not a road I’ve gone down in a…

  • The Backrooms: Fact, or Fiction?

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    We’ve all been there. The gas station on the side of the road in the middle of the night, the mall near closing time, your own living space at three in the morning. Liminal spaces. A concept that was a sensation on Tumblr years, and years ago. And then it became something bigger, burst straight…

  • Prompt: What’d You Learn in High School?

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    Describe something you learned in high school. I don’t always jump into the Jetpack writing prompts, because most of the time they’re kind of “Eh.” Kind of boring, etc, etc, you know what I mean. But this one is interesting, because you could answer this a few different ways. I could say, I learned in…

  • A Protocol, in the Works

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    Before I switched positions and location at my offline job, I was pretty heavily into writing this book. I’m not sure why I’ve been on a cooling-off period for a couple of months in regard to writing it, but that’s how it’s been my whole life. Took me three years to finish the full manuscript…

  • Strings of Strangeness, a Mastodon Odyssey

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    This has sort of been a thing since I first relaunched an instance on the ActivityPub network in my efforts to govern my own space, and also get away from bad administration and moderation on past instances (hackers.town to name one, forever banned for telling a bully to shut his face, literally). Basically, I don’t…

  • Prompt: What’s Your Morning Ritual?

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    What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like? On most mornings I find myself literally crawling out of bed. See, I sleep on top of a mattress that’s topped with memory foam, that’s also topped with more memory foam. I basically sleep in one gushy square of foam,…