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We're headed into a messy election season again. Granted, saying that about a US Election in my lifetime generally makes calling it messy a bit redundant, but I'm including it for emphasis. And once again I'm seeing people talking about voting third party. I am so fucking exhausted by this. Now, let...

And with that, WordPress is gone from DeathKitten.net. I've been playing with a test install of grav on a subdomain for a hot minute, and decided to put it into action. Still need to set up something to automagically post to Fedi when a new entry comes up, but the goal is for me to put my longer for...

So, the latest in the world wide webs is that Electric Car Thomas Edison has taking hold of Twitter’s controls and pointed the nose straight for the ground. Everyone’s running around trying to communicate their evacuation points to all their friends before it gets to the point where communication is...

I have a fucking jumble in my head of so many things I need to sort through right now. So many things that frustrate me, so many things that hurt, and I feel so fucking alone.

I don’t even know where to start to untangle it. But I needed to say something. Let’s see if I can sit down later and say...

So, uh, does it mean I’m officially an Old™ when I look at this new block editing shit on my WP install, and go… I could totes do what I want with a text editor and some css, why the fuck can’t I make these stupid templates behave the way I want them to?

Or does it just mean I am not, and never wi...

So, I’ve seen a few mentions of REI attempting to bust the unionization effort of their Manhattan store. As they had previously managed to present themselves as a reasonable company (for some value of the word under our late stage capitalism), I have a co-op membership. So, as someone who is very pr...

Art

It’s been a while since I’ve really done much art, especially the analog sort, but most of these are from the figure drawing classes I took in the early aughts, though there are a couple of things from the same time done outside of class.

Contains nudity.

A drawing of a blue nude woman with exaggerated elf ears and flame red-orange hair in a ponytail A drawing of a faceless elf with exaggerated ears, pink-purple hair, and green and brown clothes that look appropriate for adventure. ...

Oh, hey. I have a car again.

With that comes the ability to get places again, but not much of anywhere to go other than the grocery store and work right now because of covid. It also means costs — car payments, insurance, gas. I also had to move in the middle of a pandemic, so that was fun. My ren...

May 3rd, 2004. That was when I wiped the hard drive on my computer, one I’d built with the help of a coworker, installed a second drive that was bigger—a whole-ass 30GB, compared to the first which was maybe 3GB if I remember right—and installed Mandrake Linux with the help of a friend over the phon...

So, on the Discord server where I shoot the shit with a handful of friends, I was talking about how I don’t send and received snail mail anymore. Sure, I get packages when I order stuff online, and bills and donation solicitations and junk mail show up… but no personal letters anymore. I miss the jo...

I’m not gonna hold my breath that anyone’s gonna toss money my way, but figured that a ko-fi doesn’t cost me anything to set up, so I did it. It’s currently a button in the footer of my site. I’m lucky enough to have some money still coming in, though it’s nowhere near what it was since while boss i...

I decided that since I don’t even remember ever getting a comment on this blog ever, I might as well shut down the comments feature. No need to leave myself open to spammers. The only feedback I’ve ever gotten was from the single person I know who reads my posts, and he pings me in the slack we’re b...

Today I was in tears over a mobile game. It wasn’t really the game that upset me, so much as it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I feel like I’m dealing with the death by a thousand cuts—I have for a while—but due to a combination of shitty luck and personal choices, I have no real safety...

I know this is serious, COVID-19 is costing lives and it’s probably going to cost more than it should in the US due to the combination of incompetence and criminal levels of cruelty that this government exercises. The US has always been racist, it’s always been classist, it’s always been sexist… but...

I hate being called smart. Not because I believe it’s false, not out any sort of modesty, but because of what usually follows. Because usually when someone is saying I’m smart, or observing just how smart I am, it’s usually followed by one of two things — how I’m squandering my potential, or their j...

As some of you may be aware, I’ve been without a car for like five and a half years now. My last car was totaled in a collision that occurred while I’d been in the middle of trying to get my feet back under myself after multiple rugs were pulled out from under me at once. Honestly don’t really want...

I need to be mindful of when SwiftKey “helps” on my Tags. I had a bunch that were capitalized for no reason. Fixed now, but irksome.

A set of copper gaming dice sitting on a black pouch on top of a wood surface A ladybug on the top of the side of a yellow plastic slide on a play structure Ants on some purple wildflowers A rock formation at the edge of a beach, seaweed on the smaller rocks at the water's edge and a lone seagull on top of the largest rock looking out over the water A cake shaped like an octopus sits on a white plate on top of a cooling rack and cutting board, behind it is a white pitcher, another cutting board, and some wine bottles A black cat pounces on a purple toy mouse in front of a bookcase, her food and water tray, and a scratching post A view from the east bay hills looks out toward the bay. Karl the Fog has half consumed the Golden Gate Bridge and is creeping past Alcatraz Looking up into the canopy of a tree with leaves that are red, orange, and gold A spider made of green and white beads hangs from the bottom of a paper lampshade Smith, the percussionist of BABYLAND, is framed by some metal pipes to the right as Dan, the singer, crouches on top of something, holding a microphone and looking right into the camera. The walls behind them are covered in graffiti

Going with the easy content option again, here’s another batch of calendar...

I spend a lot of time in my head. A lack of car in the bay area—a place hostile to anyone wanting to use public transit outside the center of Oakland, SF, and San Jose—means I don’t go out a lot. When I do, I’m either at the mercy of catching a ride with someone who has different goals for the outin...

I <3 BABYLAND logo 1989–2009 drawn on the inside of a wrist Smith, the percussionist, sitting to the left of the picture behind a beat up black metal oil drum, tall metal poles or something in the center, and Dan, the singer, holding a microphone and a spray air freshener. On the wall behind them is a big sign that says NO STAGEDIVING surrounded by a lot of colorful graffiti An off-white teddy bear being held up in front of a graffiti covered wall A bright shower of sparks extend from the center of the picture and are largely pointed to the right, in the background is a human shaped blur illuminated by only the sparks, and some computer lights make a pattern from the long exposure and the jitter of the camera Smith, the percussionist playing a large brass instrument, probably a tuba? Surrounded by a metal oil drum and some pipes is a well worn black and yellow sticker that says TECHNOLOGY WORKS at the top and bottom, with four W arranged like a compass rose Smith, the percussionist, looking shocked as he holds a toy rotary saw against his arm near a scar. On the wall behind him are tshirts for sale, a red Bloodysnowman and a black BABYLAND one Dan, the singer, holding a green plush frog purse with his eyes closed and looking contenplative Smth, the percussionist, passionately providing supporting vocals to a song with a microphone that's suspended above his percussion station Dan, the singer, in profile as he wears a pink shirt, sprays an air freshener, and holds a microphone A half torn off Rock The Vote sticker on a blue plastic oil drum Metal pipes sit in the foreground as Smith lights a road flare with Dan standing to his side, the only light in the picture is the road flare

BABYLAND is one of my favorite...

w00t, got my font sorted out. Had some stupid where trying to apply css to someone else’s code meant I was getting some errors, but managed to suss out where the problem lie and get it close enough.

It would be really nice if the preview also used my custom css, so I could see my post in progress...

Playing with the Cover Template on the Twenty Twenty theme. Picture from a random excursion for Ingress purposes a while back.

Welp, WP pushed an update that came with a new theme that’s supposed to take advantage of the newer features of their system. So, gonna give this a go. We’ll see if I find enough focus to really play with tweaking it, but for now at least it’s purple. I need to spend a little time finding all the bi...