the library of alexandra

june 8, 2026 update: i have decided to put good internet on an indefinite hiatus. you can read more in the announcement here. with good internet magazine's autumn/winter issue in the printers' hands, i thought this would be a great time for me to spend a…

“It was not Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, or whatever the others were called, who had me dragged away and beaten.

i am not doing well. this is, unfortunately, just part of my story that continues to rear its ugly head over and over again. thanks to some medical issues outside of my mental health, i've had to mess with my medication combination (after months of stabil…

A Halfway Checkpoint i consider the year i've had so far, and i can't feel more than the immense gratitude i already feel daily. i'm six months into my unemployment, stepping away from corporate life in an attempt to rediscover my relationship with work,…

Moderating Communities is Not a Burden in light of the fosstodon discourse on the fediverse, fallout, and the subsequent leadership succession, there's a lot of talk of "lessons to be learned" without explicitly saying what those are. i'd like to offer so…

Deep Focus, For Once i'm busier than when i had a job. i've been giving myself deadlines for personal projects that, frankly, just don't make sense and are completely unnecessary. this time is meant to allow me to feel like myself again, not crunch and cr…

Big Tech's Intentional Creation of Dependency molly got me thinking about why we felt like we needed tech oligarchs in the first place: these college kids, scrappy, hustle-culture entrepreneurs that we launched into the fiscal stratosphere with our data,…

A Love Letter to Me this is for the 32-bit cafe's valentine's day 2025 event, where the theme was self-love!

Blog Question Challenge 2025 my indieweb bestie and yin to my yang, flamed. tagged me in the tagged me in the blog question challenge, originally asked by ava. i'm hella late, but writer's block has been real lately. thank you, flamed!

Reflecting Over the Past Year this is for the 32-bit cafe's new year's 2025 event. 2024 was supposed to be our first year slowing down. my boyfriend and i agreed to cut down our travel, take things slower in the pacific northwest, and establish our roots.…