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"The first time you meet an angel, you get a horrible beating."
- Terry A. Davis

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."
- Audre Lorde

What was true for me then may not be true for me at this present moment. I reserve the right to grow and change.

2026

January 13 - I am still alive, and so is the Internet

2025

April 2 - You know he had to do it to 'em; or, how to unlock Chaos in Dissidia 012 [duodecim] without ripping your hair out

2024

September 4 - Kovid Goyal doesn't want you to know this, but you can run Calibre directly on Android
July 7 - "Vane, how do you write your books?"
May 1 - Your only sin was caring too much
April 1 - The RIAA HATES her! Local Minnesotan uses tax dollars to get music FOR FREE!
March 1 - The web never died
February 1 - Adamantium Hands
January 2 - There's nothing "unstoppable" about these "domains"

2023

December 1 - How I typeset my books
November 1 - I'm alive, and I'd like you to feed me something other than cans of peas
October 1 - Urbit is still basically just a broken computer simulator
September 1 - Workaround for external keyboards to make special characters in KOReader
August 10 - Every damn day I get emails
July 1 - It's never been a better time to dive into Tor
June 1 - Look Torward, Young Vane
May 1 - Broke Dumbass Attempts To Web3 Once More
April 1 - I spent a week using Tails as my only operating system
March 1 - THEATRHYTHM FINAL BAR LINE has kinda grown on me
February 1 - I installed Utopia so you don't have to
January 1 - Uterus Pin Perler Bead Pattern

2022

December 7 - Broke Dumbass Attempts To Web3 Again
November 22 - It's insane, the things you can get simply by asking
November 1 - Woman who would have been revered prophetess 4,000 years ago now relegated to clicking links, opening tabs
October 25 - Anonymous email is still alive and well
October 24 - Short statement on the Ovarit situation
October 6 - Theoretical design for a female-only internet
September 15 - Fellas, Is It Fascist To Block Suspicious Web Traffic?
September 13 - A week with the Onyx Boox Note Air
September 4 - A Very Long String Of Gamutto Moments
August 28 - The death of Kiwi Farms doesn't mean the end of free speech
August 17 - I uninstalled my RSS feed reader
August 6 - Urbit is still basically just a glorified chatroom
August 1 - Separatism: Redux
July 11 - The state of darknet access on Android
July 7 - Broke Dumbass Attempts To Web3
June 16 - I Love Deleting Things, Actually
June 9 - Purity Spiral
June 3 - Having a website is not revolutionary
May 18 - There's no such thing as a TERF
May 9 - State of the Divide
April 11 - Rivers of Blood
March 14 - The quest for digital immortality
February 27 - Seven Spanish verbs to make your future-wife cry with
February 19 - SHUT UP AND MAKE SOMETHING
January 30 - Sappho Was A Right-On Woman
January 10 - Vow II
January 6 - I don't trust technomancy
January 3 - Worth

2021

December 4 - Copyright Accelerationism
September 28 - No Simp September
September 26 - Considering software harmful considered harmful
September 19 - Fire Walk With Me
July 29 - whoami: redux
July 23 - You Can't Go Home Again: Redux
July 8 - The Personal Is Not Political
June 1 - The Name Unsung
May 16 - Rebirth
March 16 - Academic writing considered harmful
February 4 - JavaScript Is Good, Actually

2020

December 15 - Corpserations
October 31 - I Do Not Seek Annihilation
October 24 - Deitus?
October 17 - Xeper
October 10 - Thelema
September 26 - It's Just A Goddamn Protocol, Not Your Saving Grace (ROOPHLOCH 2020)
September 19 - Collectivism
August 23 - Endgame
July 26 - You Can't Stop The Signal
July 12 - What happens after HTML?
June 20 - Gemini Means Homogenization
June 16 - "Free speech" kinda sucks, actually
April 30 - Vow
April 25 - Immortality
April 20 - The Outside: An Introduction
April 4 - Give Me Your Story
March 26 - Living In The Epilogue
March 21 - Antinatalism
February 19 - Law in the absence of law
February 3 - "Bro, literally none of this internet shit is real."
February 1 - 32-bit is still good, you freaks
January 7 - Partyarchy

2019

November 19 - A New Masthead
November 13 - Possession
November 9 - A World Just Beyond My Grasp
October 3 - Cameras
September 29 - Sign of Life
September 5 - Neurodiversity (ROOPHLOCH 2019)
August 14 - Consumption
June 21 - Separatism
June 20 - Second-Class Citizens
May 23 - So I guess I'm gender-critical now
April 20 - run every day
April 11 - The Honkpill
April 1 - Weest In Peace

2018

May 26 - whoami