About
- 🏳️⚧️ Transgender
- ♀ Female
- 🌽 Vegan
- ⛤ Witch
- 🥐 Francophile
- {} Programmer
This site is where I set aside the fears I have in Real Life™ and show what I've got with zero shame.
On this site
Computing & Technology
- “Linux” or “GNU/Linux”? Be Specific.
- How to do your computing
- How to Build a Website on Neocities
- An Opinionated Guide to Picking a Free License
Politics & Society
- Heresies
- Motte-and-Pretend-Bailey
- Trans Women in Sports
- Gender is a Social Construct, and that's OK
- Abolish ID
- Who is a [Nn]azi?
- Craquer les Frontières: A vectorized version of a propoganda poster. [IMG]
Satire
- Cooltraner: A collection of "fanfiction" and other material written by my very stupid alter-ego. Inspired by the great Peter Chimaera.
- Why I think the Earth should not be destroyed
- Europe after Brexit [IMG]
- Anarcho-Stalinist Party Platform
- White People Should Go Back to Europe
- The Chart: A map of the apocalypse. [IMG]
- The Dark Lord's Advocate: The Elder Council High Magicks debates the most rational way in which to handle the return of The Dark Lord. [Fiction]
- This Socrates Idiot
- Worst Fizzbuzz
- Dear Stack Overflow [IMG]
- Blue Pill Venn Diagram: A break-down of the bizarre, pathetic lingo of the alt-right. [IMG][CW: Slurs]
Poems
- Exhortation: A poem about gender dysphoria.
- The Song of Satan: A poem in praise of Satan.
- Harry Potter Black-Out Poem and Critique A poem written over the pages of The Order of The Phoenix in response to J.K. Rowling's anti-trans statements. Additionally, a critique of Harry Potter's messaging.
Logs and Collections
- My Microblog on Mastodon.
- Playlists
- Diary
- Dreams
- Magic Journal: Where I collect notes on my magical practices.
- Games I like
- Bookmarks
- Notes on exercise for labor
Fiction
- A Fairy’s Wish: Mona seeks a fairy's help to fix her body, but is surprised by the result.
- The Binding of Isaac
- Special Place: A first chapter and outline (in the source code) for a trans-related story. It's not very good and I don't plan to finish it, although I do hope to write some more of this sort of fiction eventually.
Archive
Things that I didn't create but want to preserve or highlight.- Psychopatha Sexualis 129: The story of a trans woman living in the 19th century.
- Philo of Alexandria on Trans/GNC people
Causes & Suggestions
Use free software 🐧🐂. Take ownership of your data 💽 by rejecting "cloud" services ❌☁️ in favor of data and applications stored on your own computer and under your control.
Do not use Library Genesis or Z-Library to download illegal books 📚 🏴☠️. It's better not to read a book at all than to read a pirated copy. Remember, copyright lasts 75 years after the author's death — to incentivize creative progress, of course.
Similarly, make sure to avoid Sci-Hub and associated browser add-ons that provide illegal access to scientific papers. Instead, spend $50 to get one paper or $50,000 to become a student at a University with institutional access to the journal. Even though scientists provide journals with manuscripts and peer-review for free, that doesn't mean they're free to read! If you can't afford to read a paper yourself, just trust journalists and bloggers to tell you what it says – they hardly ever misrepresent research findings.
Go Vegan 🥦. If there's just one food stopping you 🧀, try being vegan except for that one food.
If you care about animal suffering but aren't yet ready to give up all meat, start by giving up chicken ❌🐓. Chickens are subject to worse conditions and provide less food per death than large mammals.
I don't believe that there is any ethical level of meat or dairy consumption, but the less you eat, the better you're doing. No one is perfect, and diet is just one moral challenge we all face among many. I'm proud of you for each step you take. 💚
If you're not sure if you're trans 🏳️⚧️, find a way to try out different pronouns and see how they make you feel. I realized I was a woman based on the warm glowy feeling in my chest I got when people first called me "she."
Donate to well-researched charities that distribute cash and cost-effective medical treatments in poor countries. Givewell.org currently gives good recommendations. Avoid charities that operate in rich countries, give animals as gifts, fund programs in schools, or build alters to hypothetical robot Gods.
Visit these sites
Text and Blogs
- N-Gate:
Incredibly snarky summaries of
"Hacker" "News"
(weekly)and Fosdem(yearly)(Inactive 😢). - theisticsatanism.com: Discusses Satanist theology and practice in incredible detail.
Comics
- Assignée Garçon: Sophie Labelle is a Québécoise, trans cartoonist. Her comic gets some criticism because she's very heavy-handed with her messaging. However, I've found that, for this exact reason, the French version of her comic is great for learning LGBT vocabulary (a lot of which is still missing from dictionaries).
- Pepper and Carrot: An open source comic about a young witch and her cat. Made entirely with Krita and Inkscape. Translated into many languages by the community, and originally in French.
- Discord Comics: Queer romance (mostly).
- Lunar Baboon: One of the most persistently heart-warming comics I've ever read.
- Lefty Cartoons: Self-explanatory.
- 9mm Ballpoint: Another left-wing cartoonist.
- Existential Comics: Philosophy-oriented comics
Podcasts
- The Placebo Magick Podcast
- Foss and Crafts
- Libre Lounge (Inactive)
- Klaatu's podcasts on Hacker Public Radio and Gnu World Order.
- Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell
- Lexicon Valley with John McWhorter on Slate and Substack (Unified Feed)