Intro paragraph! Probably too short! I have had a hard time writing this month!
First up we have the Game Pile articles:
- Bart Vs The Space Mutants (in video form!)
- City of Heroes Page 5
- The Disney Animated Canonball Tier List
- Straight Outta Tucson
Story Pile articles:
There are other articles and honestly I think a bunch of them are great but I can’t really bring myself to look back on them. Truth be told I think this month, I can keenly feel the way that a lot of things that were functioning had to slow, that word counts crept down and that important things were made less important because of other, competing demands.
There were shirt posts, and you can go for more detail there.
This is also the first full month since Elon Musk took over a section of what I considered to be my personal public square and shit all over the floor. The day I write this, I know that he had just unbanned a number of actual nazis and banned a number of antifascist organisers, as well as banned people for things that definitely just look like they’re being annoyed with a thin-skinned billionaire being a turd. That means that rather than having a space to chill out, hang out, do cool things and goof off, a large portion of this month has been about watching a canary in a cage and wondering to myself if oh no, I really should probably be getting out of here.
I wrote my new bio today, for the first time since I started using Twitter seriously in around 2015. It looks like this:
- Cis Male, White, Bi, He/Him
- http://press.invincible.ink
- http://cohost.org/TalenLee
- http://kind.social/@Talen_Lee
- http://youtube.com/talenLee
- Get out, stay safe, reach out.
I don’t think Twitter is going to get a clean death and I don’t think I’m going to ‘stop’ on twitter per se. If nothing else, I gotta make it to next year. But it is not a safe place to post anything that involves talking to people, and it is 100% just there to release links to my blog posts and to finish posting Magic: the Gathering cards on my secondary account. I need to stay there if my work asks me to but otherwise, I really think, today, that I’m going to have to start writing up some official protocols about Not Using Twitter in the name of just safety.
In the diary, I got a haircut. It’s the first time I remember getting a haircut since the start of the pandemic. I handed in marks. I got through a chunk of methodology writing in the PhD. I watched some fun streams. Desert Bus happened and Fox won a prize. I got to see a thing we made and sent raise a stupid amount of money as a raffle giveaway. I got to hear Jacob Burgess remark about our aesthetic. It hasn’t been a bad month per se, not in and of itself.
It’s just essentially part of me is having to move in a digital sense, and moving house is always stressful.