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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 lot of questions about communication, culture and the essence of belonging. the setting is a world with multiple comingling alien races, which immediately brings in the interesting questions of differences in needs between food and housing, as…

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 lot of questions about communication, culture and the essence of belonging. the setting is a world with multiple comingling alien races, which immediately brings in the interesting questions of differences in needs between food and housing, as…

ive been no contact with my ex (out of convenience / awkwardness, not some kind of agreement) for maybe six months now? they got in touch a couple of weeks ago because theyre planning to move to a bigger city to start a stable and well paying job that theyve been dreaming of for a while. theyre bundling a bunch of their things in their car with their boyfriend and heading over that way, and need to get rid of a bunch of things that belonged to the two of us. i've been turning over this feeling…

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 least somewhat accessible to people in different situations. "optimised for desktop" normally means "i expect you to be looking at this on a 1920 x 1080 display and the site will be nigh-unusable if you want to do something crazy like put your…

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-essay-style balance. i'm very left leaning and fairly politically active, but the way that protests have gone in australia have always prickled me. the vast, vast majority of protests i've been to in my city (read: all of them, bar one even more…

uuupah mini thoughts is this where i thought i'd be, looking forward as a teenager to my late 20s? at a bus stop at 21:16, cross legged on the footpath, writing a blog on a computer in my lap? i suppose they wouldn't be that surprised actually. my mini thought of this month is that i noticed a new behaviour in myself, this unconscious understanding of, and frustation with, the wrinkled blob of grey toothpaste that sits inside my skull. the physical machine that makes my consciousness possible…

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 to get back to talking about thoughts when these kinds of posts feel "done" and doing my monthly three albums as their own thing, maybe with attached media reviews from other areas of the media world. basically, make my blog a fun…

pump the brakes it's been a weird autumn! and a weird april. everythings settled down a little and i think im start to rediscover my love for notekeeping and personal organisation. i simultaneously feel like a bit of a void in me and my life and am starting to id things i want to do more - do more art, see more music, organise more silly little events - but i now actually have the energy to make them happen! i've been appreciating the little things a bit more, spending more time with the…

if you didnt read my last blogpost, dont! it's depressing! and if you did, i still feel really bad and really scared about the future. what could make me feel good? my biannual mobile tab spring cleaning, of course. i hold on to tabs with things that i want to check later instead of writing them down, which is an awful habit, but when i do eventually clean them up i have a gold mine of cool things to revisit music woah! there are three good albums in my mobile browser tabs. how convenient!…