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A while ago I had a conversation with a psychiatrist which went something like: Psychiatrist: Sometimes, people with ASD1 (like you) will interpret a question differently to how it was intended, usually more literally, and then when someone points it out,…

To me, the 6th of May will always be a day of conflicting emotions.

Beyond the chains of mortal flesh There is a shining light And in that light a figure weeps Surrounded by the night Beyond the chains of brittle flesh There is so soft a gaze Crying out in silent pain Against the fiery blaze Beyond the chains of gendered…

← Part 4 Almost three years ago, I decided to write a manifesto detailing how I did — and didn’t — want to use technology.

This post is part of a collective action started by Julia Serano.

At the Paris 2024 Olympics, women’s sports once again became a political football.

Whether writing on science, philosophy, or culture, society demands of us “citationism”.

The gay liberation movement that started in the 60s and the subsequent legal recognition of the rights of minority sexual orientations largely (but not entirely) hinged on the assertion that sexual orientation is not a choice, but innate.

A little while ago I registered the domain transgirl.fr1, mostly for fun but also because I wanted a separate domain to host some public services on, in the vein of catgirl.cloud, private.coffee, projectsegfau.lt and many others.

Ok so my “I should write a blog post about this” list is getting far too long and I keep ADHDing on actually writing the damn things.

A month or two ago a friend of mine ran a silly little event with a bunch of people where we each drank about six or seven shots of alcohol, and then tried to deliver a presentation using slides we had never seen before, which one of the other attendees h…

Wow, it’s been over a year since I last posted here!

… but that release when another deadline somehow passes successfully is oh so sweet.

I think my feelings on analytics collected by companies about their users have been made clear — they are usually misused by automated systems to maximise the time those users spend within their walled garden.

I wrote and produced my first original song!

Let me introduce you to a little game I like to call Entropy Bingo.

← Part 3 Part 5 → 2025-08-12: I’m not quite as rigid on this as I was in 2022.

← Part 2 Part 4 → PS: this blog is now also accessible over RSS here.

One day, we will all die.

Today’s post is about something completely different from the usual (if there even is a usual).

← Part 1 Part 3 → Currently in my manifesto it says: 4.2) When transferring data to a person who does not comply with this manifesto or a similar one, I will assume it is public and compromised.

Part 2 → Like many young people, I’ve been around technology my entire life.

Preface, 2022-10-22 In retrospect, this blog post is perhaps a little too inflammatory, though not incorrect as far as I know.

Hah!

Free and Open Source Software is about more than ideology.