Midnight Mountain

I forgot to publish this lmao.

I go almost everywhere under my own power.

Mood: YEOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Listening: Back to Sikness I’m making more and working less.

Standing leaden faced arms down listening to a crackhead bleat and scream about how I was terrible at my job and everything wrong with them was my fault and about all the fantastical ways they had of getting me fired and ruining my life, I thought, not for

Preamble On the 30th May 2026 I ran the Run Comfy Numb 25km trail race in Whistler, BC, Canada.

I feel like a stick insect.

Someone once told me that Mars bars used to be called the garbage bar.

Mood: Hell Yeah Listening: Street Anthems I think everything on this site is edgy, dumb, and kind of pathetic.

Mood: A little lost Listening: Glowing in the Darkest Night This is a real quick one because I feel enormous pressure to produce literally anything for my audience of at least 2 people.

Mood: Restless Listening: Anti Gravity Tournament 2025 It’s definitely a year.

The air in here is alive, vibrating, the omnipresent hiss of highflow 02 and whirring HVAC.

I fucking hate computers.

Mood: Tired, but the good kind of tired Listening: Got to leave this house It’s the end of the year and like many I’m taking stock.

Content Warnings on Trial I think content warnings are over emphasised, over deployed and generally just treated with too much gravitas.

Mood: Wiggly, possibly even Jiggly Listening: She Says Smiling I haven’t had a drink in 1 year, 2 months, 3 weeks, 3 days and 13 hours, not that I’m counting.

Lainring is a decentralized webring created by the users of Lainchan, an anonymous image board.

Part Two Last time I explained why I buy almost nothing new, this time I’m going to explain why even when buying used I try to buy as little as possible.

Mood: Bored Listening: Disco Fetish It’s been about 6 months since I wrote Opt Out and its going pretty well, with the sole stumbling point being YouTube.

I went out early this morning, as I’m wont to do, to visit the Little Wilderness.

Mood: Yeah Listening: Futility Blah blah blah blah I’m sad, life isn’t what it’s supposed to be, I have to actually try, and sometimes when I’m in the shower a woodlouse falls to its death on the floor from the gap in the windowsill and I get overwhelmed…

Last night I went out to watch a comet pass the earth.

I’m one of those annoying people that’s constantly writing things down.

This was written as part of September 2024’s IndieWeb Carnival, Power Underneath Despair, and was written at very short notice for the last call.

Suicide is an odd condition.

I’m 11, a boy at school is hunched forward over a computer, trying to find a working port to plug a drive into.

Mood: Comfy Listening: 我别无选择（你也没有） There’s been a lot happening these past few days.

I love distance running.

The first time as tragedy, The second time as farce So here we are again.

Mood: Pretty Good Listening: Grayshadow Ruins So, after a year of picking this site up and down, futzing with baby’s first HTML and CSS, getting frustrated at trivial issues but REFUSING to read documentation that would explain how to avoid them, learning…

I suppose making one of these pages is a right of passage.

My Contact Details Email: rambler@midnightmountain.xyz I am happy to receive encrypted and unencrypted mail.

Mood: Anxious Listening: Abnormal So, I’m at a little bit of a fork in the road right now.

I am at an impasse.

August, 2026 All going.

I think I’m done entirely with mainstream internet “content” I’m getting more and more frustrated with the internet as time goes on, I feel I am getting less value for the emotional energy and time I am putting in than ever before.

Things in my life are actually going fairly well at the moment, despite how hyperbolic I can be about ongoing problems I think I’m on a fairly steady upward trajectory.

Stop buying stuff Yeah that’s really it, you can stop reading now if you want OK, but seriously: This article is part one of two on my thoughts on why I believe the best approach to consumption is simply to buy as little as possible, buying almost nothing…

The below is a selection of bits and pieces I wrote down in my notebook at some point in time, I’m transcribing them mostly because I found myself going over them recently and I’m trying to find anything I can try that will get me writing properly again.

Mood: Stodgy Listening: Playful Spirits Not much going on the past few weeks, I went on a couple of dates, which was good, haven’t been writing as much as I wanted to, which is bad, but I did do a little, and went out to do some more photography.

Mood: I am a stinky fucking goblin Listening: Peace Finally done with being sick, just tired now.

Me M 32 Irish, currently in Canada My Interests Running Cycling Hiking and Camping Cooking Computers, in as much as they enable other Interests Education Other Pages about Me The stuff I use This site Technical This site is running on a Debian 12 VPS, usi…

Things I need to do/checks I need to perform to make sure this site more or less works for everyone: Check that the site is easy to navigate with: A Trackpad Yep Carat browsing Yep Touch input Doable but not great, need to increase size of touch targets f…

Mood: Huh Listening: SYSTEMS OF TERROR Still sick, not as sick, but still more goo than man.

Mood: Been Better Listening: Rave Shit IV I am sick again, somehow.

Lost in a maze My mind barely works for half an hour at a time these days.

My Cousin went into the river last night.

Mood: Done Listening: Confessions Of A Mask Hacking up grey-green sputum so dense and thick it feels like caulk in my mouth.

He is watching television with infantile comprehension & absentmindedly automatically crumbling a biscuit into long cold tea.

Mood: Funky, almost relaxed Listening: Other Desert Cities Been a while, bunch of shit’s happened, some of it even good.

Blood Meridian (Reread) Audiobook this time, the narrator spoke much slower than I normally read, which really helped make some of the more cumbersome parts easier to parse, though I found it much easier to lose attention when listening compared to readin…