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Connectivity and Outages
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…
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The Toll it Takes: Isolation, Transness, & the Disappointment That Are Other People
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…
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The Backrooms: Fact, or Fiction?
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…
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Prompt: What’d You Learn in High School?
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…
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A Protocol, in the Works
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…
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Strings of Strangeness, a Mastodon Odyssey
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…
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Prompt: What’s Your Morning Ritual?
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,…
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The Year is 1995
You’re sitting at a wooden desk in front of a mammoth of a PC tower. It’s beige and blocky; the buttons are chunky. Its idling sounds like the low hum of an aircraft taking off, and the hard drive clicks like a woodpecker having a seizure. It’s late November 1995, and you’ve just installed the…
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Prompt: Comprehension, and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
What’s something most people don’t understand? This is an interesting prompt, because there is no way in the world I could possibly know what the average consensus of people usually don’t understand. I could say, “Most people don’t understand that the genre of Cyberpunk is a warning, not an aspiration.” But, is that true? Is…
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