robotamerica

sometimes, you need to redesign your space to inspire a bit more writing. so, i redesigned things a little. the idea was to take the design from a neovim inspired space to a more brutalist text document inspired space. just playing around really. perhaps…

%%yellow%%do you ever do hobby-like things just to see if you can do them and then nearly completely abandon them months after learning everything you can about them?

i haven't suffered from anxiety for much of my life. sure little bouts here and there, but nothing serious. i am a confident person, at times, perhaps, a little over confident. but lately i have noticed something. moments of extreme clumsiness. moments wh…

i have said it before and i will say it again: %%green%%silence is largely a myth%%. i live in a fairly rural place. not much for noise around here apart from braying donkeys, gobbling turkeys, the hoof clop of our neighbour's cows, baaing lambs and sheep,

%%red%%we have been drought-stricken since may and we only have a couple of weeks worth of water left. the rest of mexico has been wet%%. more rain than usual. so it is a little frustrating for us. regardless, %%green%%the garden is looking healthy and ri…

%%yellow%%i was reflecting on my time in veracruz recently%%. four years spent among the sugarcane and coffee fields. four years learning to play the jarana and sing old songs. four years making new friends, building community, making art, and raising a c…

summer is typically my contemplative season. it is also the season where i usually enjoy reading the most. this year has been a little different. work has been busy and heavy, and the move has taken a lot of that contemplative time i would usually have and

had a lovely weekend. we closed off guelaguetza where i was able to snap one of my favorite photos i have taken this year: it is a departure from my typical photography, but i was super happy with the framing and chaos of the moment. after the calenda, i…

%%red%%perhaps never in our short history, has our technology had more of an influence on how we look and act.%% algorithmic propaganda, persuasion, influence, and radicalisation means that machines are helping to shape the 21st century body and mind so m…

%%yellow%%5:30 AM%%, fifteen minutes before my daily alarm. like clockwork, i am awoken instead to the squealing and screeching of a bird and the violent chirps of her friends. goddammit, that damn cat is up to it again. i swear, every two days he catches…

we have had a couple of weeks of reprieve at work. it won't last long, but the mornings have been much quieter for me.