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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AI: People Are Becoming Lars Ulrich?

There are a lot of takes about AI out there on the internets, some good, some bad. Okay, actually, a lot bad. There’s talks of the environmental impact, which I personally feel can’t be spoken about fully, until we acknowledge the environmental impact that we, and our habits, have already...
published April 29, 2026
#ai #environment #copyright #llm #memes
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Chronicling the Nineties: Part 1

It came to my attention, that, while there are plenty of people who lived through the nineties, not everyone has the same kinds of experiences with what was essentially a decade of technological revolution. A revolution that brought us to exactly where we are now, for better, or for worse,...
published April 28, 2026
#nineties #nostalgia #childhood #memories #retro
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Valerie's Complex: The Second Update

Recently I posted on here about relaunching my Minecraft server, and doing it in a way that’s nice and cheap and not heavy on the wallet (address: mc.mkultra.monster). Initially, I loaded up the server with a “starter pack” that new players get whenever they join, and my little spawn building...
published April 21, 2026
#minecraft #server #updates #gameplay #features
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Valerie's Complex

This is going to be a bit of a shorter blog post, as an attempt to return to some normalcy after the past couple weeks. But, after moving my website and Mastodon instance to cheaper servers, I decided to also use those cheaper servers to launch a Minecraft server. A...
published April 15, 2026
#minecraft #servers #multiplayer #gaming
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Two Weeks Later: The Marathon

Alright! It’s been about two weeks since a random person from a year ago decided to slap some defamation up on their account over at todon.nl, where their admin decided rules don’t matter, actually. And a few days since a “pizza.enby.city” admin decided to mirror that post, but make even...
published April 13, 2026
#mastodon #harassment #defamation #socialmedia #stalking
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The Hallway

I signed the lease on a whim. The place was cheap for how big it was—a two-story in a quiet cul-de-sac, built in the ’70s, with wood paneling and shag carpet that somehow smelled like a combination of fresh vacuuming and stale cigarettes. The realtor kept saying “great bones, great...
published April 7, 2026
#fiction #storytelling #household #nostalgia #mystery
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So Here's the Thing About Being Trans Online

You struggle with yourself for years. You don’t quite know what the struggle is, but you know… it’s a struggle. Then, eventually, with some adulthood and introspection, you figure yourself out, and you take steps to bring yourself, who you really are, into the light. But it doesn’t come without...
published April 4, 2026
#identity #community #acceptance #transgender #online
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It's Been a Weird Week

It’s … been a week? I logged onto my GoToSocial account and was yapping like I usually am, and then I was suddenly notified that someone who added me to a nasty Bluesky blocklist over nine months ago had suddenly erected a thread on a Mastodon instance calling for my...
published April 1, 2026
#mastodon #bluesky #defamation
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From GoToSocial and Back to Mastodon

It’s been a wild ride since I shutdown my Mastodon instance here on mkultra.monster. From spending time on Bluesky, and being disappointed by their financial and political decisions, to joining numerous instances on the Fediverse. Instances on software like, Sharkey, Misskey, Akkoma, Friendica, and, of course, GoToSocial. But, as things...
published March 31, 2026
#mastodon #gotosocial #federation #instances #software
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No, Zuckerberg Didn't Create the 'Metaverse'

Over the last week, or so, or, since Fall 2025, Meta has been in the process of sunsetting their entry into the metaverse on the VR side of things, and cementing it as a mobile-only sort of experience. The problem, is that nobody seems to know that this thing that...
published March 18, 2026
#metaverse #zuckerberg #virtualreality #meta #snowcrash