This was originally published in 2600:The Hacker Quarterly’s Spring 2023 issue. Link to episode on Acast. I have asked myself one question for years.. decades, to be honest. I’ve been on the Internet proper, not some weird walled garden like AOL or Minitel, for over 30 years. By publication I’ll…

Messing around until someone needs to find out. Episode page on Acast. It’s a term that’s thrown about pretty frequently, and to everyone it has a meaning. Most commonly, someone did something foolish and then, welp, oh no the consequences. But that’s not exactly how I see that term, at…

Being present with what you are doing. Episode page via Acast. There are a few techniques and tricks that I’ve used to help me deal with mental health. As I mentioned in the 31 May 2023 episode, I’ve been in remission from my horde of mental health conditions for over…

Why I’m trying to rescue a project I abandoned 19 years ago. I’m pivoting my Medium presence. I’m adding a second set of stories to the ones I occasionally write here under the name of a project I let lay fallow for nearly two decades. In 2002, I came up…

Not everyone knows where they’d be if one thing turned out differently. I do. (Mostly.) I’m in a basement, in a hundred square foot improvised bunker. This sounds much more sinister than it is. The bunker’s main features are nearly a meter of polished granite on two sides and plywood…

I spent 14 days in utter despair in November. I was a hollowed out shell of a person. Anxiety means there’s a tendency towards catastrophization, and depression means those mental images can throw me into despair. The difference between most worst case scenarios that pop into mind and seeing Tr…

(There are lots of spots where I’ve written [EPITHET] to fill in for a highly offensive word because frankly, I won’t write these terms but the kinds of people that would.. would.) …. Great fucking job, Kochsuckers. You’ve allowed the decades long project of multibillionaire cocktwaddles like Sheldon Addleson and…

To be a true Chicago Cubs fan is to know suffering, at least in the sportsball sphere. In North America, it’s impossible to dodge media mentions of 1945, 1908, goats, Bartman, and black cats. …

“Right to work." "Job creator." "Death tax." "Empowerment zone." The anti-worker, generally conservative, pro-wealthy political right has weaseled is way with language incredulously well. …