As of today, Facebook and anything else Meta (Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads) is a place giving me “the ick.” They have pretty much shut down all DEI and basically “Unprotected” anything having to do with LGBTQIA: The ability to quickly report queer attacks, misinformation, or slurs. If I see something horribly wrong about trans or gay…
So, I am continuing to tinker with the spiffy new wordpress plugin that basically sets up your wordpress site to be follow-able by a bunch of different activitypub protocols (namely mastodon). Thus, it will be easy for folks to subscribe-to and I think even interact with my blog this way. If it works, Neat! This…
As an almost 42 year old who remembers logging into university servers before AOL to chat with friends/relatives to get around Long Distance telephone charges… I have been on the Internet a Long Damn Time. Also, my entire career seems to be “You have been saddled with this anxiety that will make you spend your…
The equivalent of finding my old site in a junkyard and getting it running well enough to drive home for further tinkering.
The post-pandemic urge to center more of my content into An Actual Website that I own/control is starting to hit critical mass: The ideas for fun and self-revealing pages and posts are building in my head, plans for what to do with old podcasts that got eaten when the old website was hacked, ways to…