As someone who runs my own blog, email, social media, backup system, home automation, business site, etc... I feel like self-hosting digital services is a lot like backyard chickens. Rewarding, lots of control, independence from Big Egg, and a great reminder of why distribution of labor and efficiencies of scale are so important.

This weight presses upon me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado which tears through our city. I write to leave a warning. I write to call for help.

I Want You to Understand Chicago

Joining the Indivisible Spotify boycott today, to try and convince them to drop ads for ICE. This one is painful--I use Spotify constantly, and have been a subscriber for a decade. I've got a huge investment in playlists there, and they're one of the few services with decent Linux support. But with ICE and CBP deploying tear gas blocks away, I can't keep giving them money. @npub1j8zu...fgt7/115458155256369218" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://woof.group/NOSTR_0/115458155256369218

Well everyone, we had a good run, but Harper's has discovered gooning. We have to invent some new Weird Sex Thing now.

Harper's Magazine

The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz

Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation

The complaint form Ofcom says you should use to report websites for violations of the #OnlineSafetyAct does not allow you to enter URLs, because it might be illegal for Ofcom to look at them. What is going ON over there.

Please. "Toxic masculinity" is only harmful to those who absorb it. You're thinking of *venomous* masculinity, which hurts others.

Made a little pornographic test case for the UK #OnlineSafetyAct, to see whether we can get Ofcom to ban AWS S3 from the United Kingdom.

An Example for Ofcom

The most incredible thrift store find

As a leftist, I just feel that if I were in charge of advertising for the local communist group I would choose figureheads not generally known for having induced the famine deaths of millions of people. There are in fact other options here!

Dumb himbo