Trying To Be Constructive

My gemlog.

The only thing I can say in favor of my work is its sincerity.

— H. P. Lovecraft

=> About me (and some of my creations)

A ‘gemlog’ is the Geminispace analog of a blog in Webspace. Here's an introduction to the Gemini project (which predates Google's rebranding of ‘Bard’ to ‘Gemini’ by years):

=> [Gemini] | [HTTP]

My Gemini capsule home page:

=> Home

A glossary of some of the terms/abbreviations/acronyms i use on my gemlog:

=> Glossary

Posts grouped by tag:

=> Posts by tag

Post feeds:

=> Feeds

Some of the gemlogs i more actively follow:

=> Gemlogs i follow

A microblog-style collection of some short thoughts of mine:

=> Short thoughts

Some suggested reading:

=> Suggested reading

Posts

=> 2025-01-30 The weaponisation of resilience and mindfulness | 2025-01-22 “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept” | 2024-11-07 Gender abolitionism makes me so angry | 2024-10-18 How not to ‘support’ people | 2024-09-26 Play spaces vs trans women | 2024-09-23 Self-righteous condescending paternalism in the kink communities | 2024-09-09 The ‘sissy’ community displacing the voices of trans women | 2024-09-06 Some of the music i'm listening to - 11 | 2024-09-03 ‘Femme’ (and ‘sapphic’) | 2024-08-11 Anger and frustration | 2024-08-08 Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria: The Lessening | 2024-07-05 Strategies to perpetuate conflict for personal gain | 2024-07-04 My cnm relationships are non-fungible | 2024-05-15 Why i'm a member of 3PBS community music radio | 2024-05-10 Live shows: for me, smaller is better | 2024-04-26 Being a ‘writer’ | 2024-04-03 On the notion that tops need to have experienced what they do to their bottoms | 2024-02-07 “We tried polyamory in the 60s, it didn't work” | 2024-01-26 Back on Usenet | 2024-01-23 Nobody really ‘sleeps’, or really needs ‘sleep’; ‘sleep’ is a social construct | 2024-01-19 Saying something is ‘bugged’ is a serious accusation | 2024-01-02 The Australian activist left desperately needs an infusion of class politics | 2023-12-28 Some of what being an ‘owner’ means to me | 2023-12-14 Some of the music i'm listening to - 10 | 2023-11-20 “Woke commie PC bullshit” | 2023-10-08 The hyperactivity of my adhd mind | 2023-09-28 Some of the music i'm listening to - 9 | 2023-08-29 Are trans dommes unusual? | 2023-07-27 ERC with soju: update | 2023-06-23 Topspace and topdrop | 2023-06-22 Exclusivity in leftist activist circles | 2023-06-09 “Tranny chasing” vs being attracted to non-cis people | 2023-06-08 Again on whether sex is a ‘need’ | 2023-05-27 On misgendering: an analogy | 2023-05-23 Some backstory | 2023-05-17 Parallels | 2023-05-16 How the failures of psychiatrists contribute to people self-diagnosing with adhd | 2023-05-15 Setting up the soju IRC bouncer on OpenBSD, and using it with Emacs' ERC | 2023-05-07 Some of the music i'm listening to - 8 | 2023-04-27 Vaneigem's “Revolution of Everyday Life” | 2023-04-14 ‘Experts’ vs people's lived experiences | 2023-04-13 Misgendering is bad — and so is theory that erases lived experiences | 2023-03-30 On AI-created works | 2023-03-14 The steep slippery slope of ‘internalised X’ | 2023-03-08 Unfuck you and unfuck your unfucking ‘manifesto’ | 2023-03-02 Let's talk about neuronormativity and ableism in queer/tgd communities | 2023-02-28 i don't belong to the queer/tgd communities | 2023-02-08 A timeline of Unix commands | 2023-01-13 Bitcoin's energy consumption | 2023-01-12 A sail without a hull | 2023-01-11 Brief life update - 2 | 2022-11-19 Cosmo feminism | 2022-11-18 Neurodivergence, sexuality, connection and intimacy | 2022-11-05 Food should not be bought and sold | 2022-11-04 Let's talk about how we talk about sex and entitlement | 2022-10-09 Non-sexual kink isn't somehow ‘superior’ to sexual kink | 2022-10-03 Language supporting gender diversity | 2022-09-15 Debord's “Society of the Spectacle” | 2022-09-13 The metaphysics of ontopoetics and panpsychism | 2022-09-08 Autism, the mental health professions, gaslighting, and trauma | 2022-09-04 Leftist history repeating itself: on the notion that adhd is caused by capitalism | 2022-08-30 Creating minimal EPUBs with epub-create | 2022-08-16 Knowing the acorn doesn't necessarily mean you know the oak tree | 2022-08-05 Some of the music i'm listening to - 7 | 2022-08-01 Is (cryptocurrency) winter coming? | 2022-07-25 On telling users to write the documentation themselves | 2022-07-18 Kink contracts | 2022-07-15 Deplatforming sex | 2022-07-14 Sefaria on Gemini! | 2022-07-13 “Desert”: on the future of human civilisation | 2022-07-12 Some of the music i'm listening to - 6 | 2022-07-08 Humans in space, part 1: NASA and Old Space | 2022-07-06 Re: Re: A convention for gemlog tags | 2022-07-04 Afab and submissive | 2022-07-02 A convention for gemlog tags | 2022-06-26 The One True Way of teaching maths | 2022-06-25 Re: git clarity | 2022-06-23 Error messages | 2022-05-25 Why i don't use the terms ‘TERF’ or ‘SWERF’ | 2022-05-18 Re: More thoughts on sincere conversation | 2022-05-17 Re: The Disappearance of Sincere Conversations | 2022-05-08 Some of the music i'm listening to - 5 | 2022-04-19 Authoring man pages with mdoc(7) | 2022-04-14 The original cancel cultures | 2022-03-09 Self-involved egocentric bullshit | 2022-01-03 Identity, gender and privilege | 2021-12-20 A(nother) kink road less travelled? | 2021-12-12 The importance of appropriate housing | 2021-10-11 Roguelikes and maths | 2021-10-03 Some of the music i'm listening to - 4 | 2021-09-24 Moving to openbsd.amsterdam hosting | 2021-09-21 Brief life update | 2021-06-26 Adventures with Realtek wifi on Linux | 2021-06-25 Re: Reformatting gemini text | 2021-06-14 MasterChef, men, and mental health | 2021-06-10 Re: RE: The bemoaning of people's smartphone usage | 2021-06-07 The bemoaning of people's smartphone usage | 2021-05-31 Approaching winter solstice | 2021-05-28 Being competitive vs. being a douche | 2021-05-09 When comments are accidentally left in academic articles | 2021-05-06 Some of the music i'm listening to - 3 | 2021-05-03 Wikipedia's definition of ‘category theory’ | 2021-04-24 Kink aesthetics | 2021-04-18 Identifying as ‘a dominant’ | 2021-04-11 Some of the music i'm listening to - 2 | 2021-03-21 Monocausism | 2021-03-16 The Kobo Libra H₂O e-ink reader | 2021-03-12 Folklore and triviality in category theory | 2021-03-09 Some of the music i'm listening to - 1 | 2021-03-02 s6/66 for init, service supervision and service management | 2021-02-28 Some common ungrammatical/unidiomatic uses of English | 2021-02-17 The purpose of Gemini, and ease-of-access to geminispace | 2021-01-31 “Only the best bottoms make it to the top”: wut | 2021-01-19 Why i like mdoc(7) for man pages | 2021-01-13 “Calm down!”; or, unhelpful approaches to distress | 2021-01-06 Re: Geminispace vs. Beeblebroxians | 2020-12-30 Geminispace vs. Beeblebroxians | 2020-12-27 ZFC is a foundation for maths, not the foundation | 2020-12-24 Genderqueer demographics | 2020-12-17 Having cancer compared to having chronic fatigue | 2020-12-03 The ‘feminine’/‘masculine’ division | 2020-11-29 Some annoyances in maths papers | 2020-11-27 Re: Narcissism | 2020-11-08 Beyond bivalence | 2020-11-02 Tops are human, too | 2020-10-30 The limits of modifying language | 2020-10-26 Oversimplified notions of ‘fluidity’ | 2020-10-26 On the word ‘gender’ and the phrase “gender is a social construct” | 2020-10-25 Witchcraft! | 2020-10-20 Dualism, polarities and cishetnormativity | 2020-10-18 tilde.town | 2020-10-06 Re: Does being queer and/or TGD contraindicate STEM? pt 2 | 2020-10-05 Re: Does being queer and/or TGD contraindicate STEM? | 2020-10-04 Re: Does being queer and/or TGD contraindicate STEM? | 2020-10-03 Does being queer and/or TGD contraindicate STEM? | 2020-09-30 A convention for gemtext footnotes | 2020-09-29 “[T]he irreducibility of rejection to negation” | 2020-09-26 Re: Attack Vector for FOSS | 2020-09-18 Recent Linux kernel issues | 2020-09-15 You think you have debugging problems? | 2020-09-12 Programming language evangelism | 2020-09-06 On ‘bloat’ and ‘minimalism’ | 2020-09-04 Arrival

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