Posts

A listing of all long-form posts published to-date. Herein, you'll find my thoughts on concepts, ideas, politics, and more.

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Northsky: A Haven for the Trans Community, or a Trap

If you know me, you know I’m the “misandry isn’t real” and offline closeted trans woman whoms’t doesn’t know if I’ll ever return to transition, unless by some miracle I fall into a supportive circle again. A supportive circle that doesn’t dissolve or abuse and then mulch me for having...
published August 4, 2026
#trans #community #mastodon #pds #northsky
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You Don't Actually Want the 2000s Back

All over the socials I frequently see (and I gather that part of this is due to algorithms from the corpo socials) people pining for either the early 2000s, or even the 90s. Some of this is targeted at me, because the algorithm knows I’m a 90s child. Other times...
published August 2, 2026
#nostalgia #socialmedia #retro #technology #memories
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Icons For Columbine

Nowadays, at least online, across the internet, and pretty much any social platform you can fathom, bullying is a virtue. It’s funny when someone does something that isn’t socially acceptable, or morally impure, because it gives you a target. Somewhere to point your aggression. And as you recreate high school...
published July 31, 2026
#bullying #socialmedia #childhood #trauma #vulnerability
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I've Withdrawn From Second Life

Since 2015, I’ve run a store in Second Life under the name, “REVOSA”, and for a semi-shorter amount of time, “Ayashi Systems”. And over that time, the stores have made continuous sales, every month, for around the same amount, even eleven years later. Most of those sales come from the...
published July 28, 2026
#lindenlabs #virtualworld #onlinecommunity #rentals
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So How's That M5 Macbook Air, Anyway?

I’ve had a MacBook Air with the M5 and 32 gigs of unified memory since the beginning of the year, and while I’ve been dealing with seventh months of feeling pissed off at Pop!_OS COSMIC I’ve also been trying to figure out if I prefer the Macbook over it, or...
published July 26, 2026
#macbook #laptop #apple #m5 #review
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Copyright Was Never Your Friend

There’s this weird new consensus forming on the left (or so it would seem): AI is coming for the artists, the creators, the makers, therefore copyright must be defended at all costs. The same people who spent years dunking on Disney for locking up the public domain are now acting...
published July 23, 2026
#ai #creators #dmca #streaming #artists
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Seven Months Later, Pop!_OS COSMIC is a Mess

Look. I’ve been a Pop!_OS user for years. I defended it. I recommended it. I even put up with the long, painful wait for COSMIC because the promise was real: a modern, Rust-based, Wayland-native desktop that System76 actually owned and could ship on their own hardware without waiting on GNOME’s...
published July 21, 2026
#popos #cosmic #wayland #desktop #gnome
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My Experimentation with Bluesky is Over

The extremely cool and awesome villain in Farcry 3 once said, “Do you know the definition of insanity?” Doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. And I feel like I’ve been doing that with Bluesky over the past few years that it’s been a platform....
published July 20, 2026
#bluesky #twitter #onlinecommunities #socialnetworks #toxicity
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A Quick Starter Pack for New Gacha Players

Gacha games have been blowing up lately, and if you’re even a little into anime-style action, story, or collecting cool characters, they’re worth checking out. At their core, these are free-to-play games built around pulling random characters, weapons, or upgrades from banners (think digital loot boxes on steroids). You grind...
published July 14, 2026
#gacha #anime #rpg #lootbox #f2p
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The Worst Blackout Ever

(Post written while electricity was still out) Upon waking up for work on Saturday evening, or, as many will remember it, the worst 4th of July ever, I shoved myself out of bed to the sound of rain pounding the windows and my air conditioner while random Minecraft horror ARGs...
published July 8, 2026
#blackout #storm #poweroutage #heatwave #emergency