Nature In Full Bloom The black-eyed susans at the front of the garden are thriving. More blooms appear every day.
Programming A Balm For Gaslighting Myself I know it's a stupid and rather meaningless indicator, but when I have moments where I doubt that I'm a “real” developer, my GitHub activity chart helps reassure me that I'm a real
Politics A Passion for Things At IKEA, I found possibly the best short description of capitalism ever.
Link Article Apologies as Commodities A huge multi-national company like Starbucks is inextricably plugged into the system of global capitalism and, as such, is complicit in all the forms of oppression that this system engenders or heightens. But
Religion/Spirituality Genuine Discourse vs. Attempted Conversion Is genuine dialogue possible if I (as one partner in the dialogue) am already convinced that I possess the fullness of truth, and so the other does not have something to tell me
Gaming Without Going Over The "highest-bid-without-going-over" mechanic in The Price Is Right is ultimately a way to turn a lower variance game of skill into a higher variance game of chance. FIGHT ME.
Gaming Of Witchers and Child Soldiers Throughout the Witcher series, especially in the earlier anthologies and the video games, Geralt makes the claim that he no longer has proper emotional responses because of the mutagens and potions the witchers
Nature Spring Is Here For Real Yesterday, our first black-eyed susan bud opened in all it’s glory, and if you look closely, you can see a tiny spider chillin’ on the petals.
Programming Effectful Haskell: Reader, Transformers, Typeclasses Here we’ll be looking at Reader, starting with a common use case – accessing application configuration – and working our way to effectful bliss, starting from first principles. Once we’re there, we’ll
Programming Time After Capitalism A large part of what makes hobbies enjoyable is that, freed from the profit motive, practitioners work at the pace they choose, allowing them to experiment, mess up, quit, and start over. My
Link Article Managing Media I’m not going to wander into analyzing personality here, but I think it’s important to note that I’m aware of how I’m wired and it’s something that I
Programming How Haskell Changes the Way You Think Reading the Haskell book leads to weird tangential insights. For example, in some instances, it might be better to add negative numbers in your app rather than subtracting positive ones because addition is
My Gender: An Essay Without Gendered Words explain your gender identity but WITHOUT using any gender labels (like male, female, woman, agender, etc)— wheelie skye ⚧ (@disabilisaur) January 9, 2018 I am a manic pixie dream geek. This week, I
Politics Land of the Free, My Ass Under the new guidelines, travelers who are selected by its officers for additional screening could be asked to unlock their electronic devices for inspection or provide passcodes. They will be asked to disable
Breeding a New Culture The 2014 war between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip was perhaps the first war in which social media was successfully employed as a radical levelling force by the weaker party.
Hearth and Home This morning, I decided that 4 °C is cold enough to have a fire. It feels amazing and cozy just sitting with a good book in front of a roaring fire.
Politics God Bless Us Everyone Working seventy hours a week is about close as you can get to being back in the nineteenth century without a time machine. When most people hear about this situation, they immediately think
Religion/Spirituality On Selfishness and Altruism As I've mentioned in the past, I feed the neighborhood crows, and for me, this represents an important spiritual practice. Over time, I've noticed a trend. My crows hate when the neighborhood squirrels
Politics The Perils of Authoritarian Censorship Lately, there have been a lot of Twitter bannings and flagging of videos on YouTube which discuss why white nationalism is wrong. Sadly, this is something I was afraid would happen. Since the
Politics Accumulation Through Dispossession Jones is a reminder that the migration narrative in Britain needs a rethink. Those who came from the colonies were not foreigners. Britain was an empire, not a nation, and every single colonial
Programming Nerdy Girls Need Love Too I'm home sick today, and I've been alternating between sleeping and learning about functors. I think I might be a nerd, you guys. (Side note: I highly recommend Learn You A Haskell For
Politics Mutual Aid Over the next month, Luis, Christine, and ARECMA, took over the group’s storm-ravaged hilltop center and set up the Proyecto de Apoyo Mutuo (Project for Mutual Aid). I flew back home to
Politics Ephemeral Alliances I’m reading through Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread, and I can’t help but feel like he predicted leftist Twitter: Possibilists , Collectivists , Radicals , Jacobins , Blanquists , will be thrust together , and waste time
Politics Anti-Fascism Also, many of their followers think that this is a game, that this a joke, that they can come off the Internet and into the streets without this having very serious implications. And
Politics Silver Spoons At that time the contracts for farms ran for a long time, often for ninety-nine years. The progressive fall in the value of the precious metals, and therefore of money, brought golden fruit