flexibeast.space - gemlog
My gemlog. This is a Web mirror of my gemlog in Geminispace.
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):
My Gemini capsule home page:
A glossary of some of the terms/abbreviations/acronyms i use on my gemlog:
Posts grouped by tag:
Post feeds:
Some of the gemlogs i more actively follow:
A microblog-style collection of some short thoughts of mine:
Some suggested reading:
Posts
2025-03-04
Kink: ‘submissive’ vs ‘slave’
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
2020-10-26b
Oversimplified notions of ‘fluidity’
2020-10-26a
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