Month: October 2024
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How do You Tweet On This Darn Thing?
A problem I’m having with the transition from social media to building my own place on the Internet is that I’ve not only gotten used to reading infinite scrolls of half-formed half-thoughts, I’ve gotten used to writing that way. I quit Twitter a while ago, but I keep thinking in tweets. And I’m not sure…
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The View From The Other Side.
I have been a man in the eyes of the world for almost eight years now. I transitioned slowly, thinking maybe people would be more accepting if they saw I wasn’t “rushing into things,” if I gave them a chance to adjust. Or maybe I thought I could do it so slowly that nobody even…
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Reverse CSS Crimes.
A fun thing you can do with your evening is to go into the homepages of major corporations and remove all the CSS so everything looks like it’s 1994
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Star Trek Writers’ Guides.
Not-actually-sorry to do two PDF Hobbies in a row, but I found the original (and Next Generation) Star Trek internal writers’ guides online and they are too good not to share. Disclaimer: I am not 100% conversant in the lore, because I am only an entry-level Star Trek nerd insofar as I’ve only watched, like,…
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The PDF Hobby and death in space.
If you weren’t around for my Cohost days, you might not know about my PDF hobby. I collect boring bureaucratic documents about unusual or morbid situations. I’m fascinated by the way institutional writers try to project control and objectivity in the face of horror and absurdity. It started out with police reports, then I branched…
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Kink At Pride.
Content notes: insufferable discourse, public humiliation, reluctance (insincere) “Say the words, boy,” Tom purred in my ear. He stood behind me, the whole of his body pressing against mine. I was wearing a leather chest harness, and he used it to hold me close, against the heat of his bare chest. We were both sweating…