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):

[Gemini]

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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

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