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runaway to the stars i was recommended this by a dear friend and while i pretty regularly find new webcomics hard to get into, this one was an absolute breeze and i was up to date in a couple of days. it's a sci-fi that does a great job of digging into a…

ive been no contact with my ex (out of convenience / awkwardness, not some kind of agreement) for maybe six months now?

i know that some people relish in their site being desktop only as a hearkening back to the myspace and geocities days or a rejection or convenience or smartphones or something, but imo a responsibility attached to having a website is to make the thing at…

this is one of those drafts that i've been sitting on for potentially actually years, but tonight i had the conversation that feels like it added enough to make it interesting, or perhaps just approaching some level of high-school-reading-comprehension-es…

uuupah mini thoughts is this where i thought i'd be, looking forward as a teenager to my late 20s?

my blog has unintentionally gone from being a place where i can talk about weird shit that i'm thinking about and stuff ive been doing to this strangely strict self-imposed monthly responsibility that wears on me when it doesnt get done in time. i'd like…

pump the brakes it's been a weird autumn!

if you didnt read my last blogpost, dont!

disclaimer if you're someone i know in real life, probably don't read this one. especially you LD and NB. sorry, but i'll fill you in on it some time in the future i dont think ive been so motivated and simultaneously unmotivated to put something to (digi…

steam on fedora (2026-01-29) steam continues to be a bit inconsistent and sometimes fails to start on my fedora wayland install, but so far the best results have come from updating the steam desktop file (which you can find with the command locate steam.d…

hello!

never write a blogpost in a funk jesus christ ive tried to talk about my feelings like four times and im getting nowhere so im going to talk about the interesting things i found in january instead i dont like modern lego i visited a lego store this month…

i'm actually kind of terrified by all the news coming out of the usa right now. a civilian gets shot by the country's own secret police. troops bomb a sovereign nation and kidnap their president before putting him to trial for breach of american law. dona…

getting off of spotify is finally trendy. there a couple of ways you can go about it - swap to tidal, swap to apple music, swap to the youtube premium account that you're forced to pay for to use youtube, buy a bunch of cds, dig up your ipod from high sch…

what a year!

welcome i come to you like a slug, crawling on my belly and dripping slime. covid has brought me low and removed my capacity for writing, reading, listening to music and cognisant thought. it did cause me to get some really good rest though. this has beco…

spring has sprung!

maker coffee i started my trip to melbourne with the best coffee i would have all week!

three albums ii by ben von wildenhaus ii by ben von wildenhaus it's a little hard to put a nice neat description on this album. the picture of ben on the cover definitely gets you in the right headspace - it's a very guitar-forward experience with these s…

this is going to be a bit of a short one, for reasons that will hopefully be clear. i don't really have a good excuse for the lateness though, sorry!

fuck it!

(this is more ironic than anything i promise) i'm kind of uniquely placed financially speaking; i work as a programmer, but most of my friends are artists, teachers or working in healthcare (not as doctors). i prioritise my personal life over my professio…

hello :-) the weather's been getting colder, and my sense of smell is getting worse - partly because of the temperature, partly because the plants arent as fragrant, and partly because of the onset of my annual six-month perma-cold. i blissfully missed a…

it's been a crazy almost two months since my last blogpost!

✒️editors note: let the record note that i posted this five days before the surprise trailer drop for tron: ares. i like to think that i was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back i first watched this film in a car trip back from a scout camp wi…

(im using this post to tide over the fact that im still not done this months blogpost lol) royal milk tea this was one of the first things i grabbed and felt pretty indicative of the Standard Default milk coffee that you can get from a vending machine for…

welcome back to australia, me!

i've been in japan since boxing day 2024 and i'm about to head off tomorrow - i really wanted to do something equivalent to my melbourne trip report from earlier this year, but i wasn't anywhere near as particular when it came to taking photos and recordi…

every now and then i'll be halfway through one of these and go "damn, this blog feels like a little bit of a shrine to consumerism". talking about media is kind of odd because in person, if i havent experienced what something is but my friends think i sho…

three albums i straight up listened to almost no new music this month. i did add a bunch of new albums to my monthly playlist but most of them were kind of disappointing after a listen or two. im giving myself a break!

my three (?)

i had a lot of music i really liked this month but didnt stew on singular albums as much as i would have liked, so heres a cop out bumper crop of albums i really enjoyed, with maybe slightly thinner analysis than normal my september 2024 plays black one -…

this is a big one!

let's start with a nice easy question - what are you meant to do with your life?

✒️editors note: holy fuck the run on sentences in this one are crazy good luck i've got a lot of joy out of keeping on top of current game trailers the last couple of years. as someone with three or four layers of ad blocking on every device i don't get n…

i try to keep an arms length between a lot of my personal life and this blog, partly for privacy, and partly because i've found writing about a lot of my personal life sounds a bit boring. i hope you'll allow me to indulge myself a little. i'm currently f…

i didn't have the idea to do this until i got home so im missing a bunch of photos - i'll add some from elsewhere where necessary and add links to their sources. i'm also sticking the bill of items and price where i have them, and an approximate where i d…

new month!

my friend gave me a spare bottle of hormone blockers today!

howdy all!

i've had a hell of a couple of months that have somewhat impacted my blogging and art schedules, but i have to get in the three albums for april 2024 for the sake of my own sanity. theres a couple more things in the pipeline, so keep an eye on the blog!

the desko bmos 5200 is a pretty interesting keyboard. i first saw one at the amman civil airport in jordan, and it has been absolutely stuck in my head for the last four years. i snagged one from taobao for a mere 50 aud and, horror of horrors, was greeted

i spent a bunch of time (and a bunch of money) in 2022 modding a gameboy advance with a pretty new ips screen and a bunch of other gizmos. like any nerd hobby there is a load of posturing for "who can spend the most money", and a fair bit of it is sort of…

all good new year resolutions need to fail in february or march and my resolution to be more on top of blogs has failed spectacularly!

i had some big plans of writing all my home server guides in one big string when i did the first one, but it turns out that these actually take a really long time - so long that i've actually bought a second thinkcentre and started using it for hosting ga…

i was going to say "tumblr has really done it this time" but the last five years of tumblr have been a real rollercoaster of tumblr-doing-it-this-time. that said - they really have done it this time. in the span of a week or two their ceo matt mullenweg h…

pardon for the lack of activity in january - i had very lofty plans of starting my new blog schedule, as well as finishing the "best things of 2023" that i think i've mentioned elsewhere on the site, but neither happened. i also didn't really do any art b…

hello all!

bon voyage 2023!

it's spotify wrapped month!