Author: Cliff Pervocracy
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The Bad Guys Won And We Are Still queer.
Every time I get really scared about what the Trump administration is going to do to queer people, I remember the 1990s. (Because I’m that old.) Of course gay and trans people existed then, but in terms of visibility and official recognition in the US, we were either closeted or on the margins of society. It was…
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The thing about tv commercials.
The thing about TV commercials is that because there’s so much money (and CEO ego) riding on thirty seconds of video, the filming process is agonizing. Every shot requires eleventy billion takes because God forbid it isn’t perfect, and also needs twelvety different variations so the client has Options. (Literally, if it’s a big-deal ad…
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Goodbye, Matthias.
Matthias my buddy, my little mouseboy, you were the best of mice. You were not a young man when I took you in, you were a rescue with a broken tail and battle scars, but you had so much life left. When you were sick I thought that was the end, but you pulled through.…
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Resistance is not an emotion.
How To Make A Place Where Nothing Bad Ever Happens (All steps are optional/circumstances-permitting except #10, which is mandatory.) So That’s How You’re Coping With The Election, Huh? Yep! And I’m not even ashamed of it. In 2016, I cared about US federal politics, I followed it closely, and what did it get me? Internet…
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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…