This thing keeps happening where I travel somewhere, do something really cool and exciting and energising... and then I get back and I spend a day or so as an emotional wreck, after which a horrible bone-deep fatigue sets in and I feel profoundly heavy and empty.

...Anyway. Found out today that this is an ADHD thing and there's even a name for it: ADHD crash, or dopamine crash. So that's neat. Although several other ADHDers in my life do not seem to experience it quite like this so iunno.

It is 1997. I am being promised that a bold, dynamic new Labour leader will revitalise the country. Blair brings in tuition fees and invades Iraq.
It is 2007. I am being promised that a bold, dynamic new Labour leader will revitalise the country. Brown props up the banking system and cracks down on immigration.
It is 2024. I am being promised that a bold, dynamic new Labour leader will revitalise the country. Starmer criminalises protest and cracks down on immigration.
It is 2026.

The aesthetic stuff is great but honestly I'm happiest about getting those goddamn user tools out of the way. Those were bothering me SO MUCH. The code for that comes from here: https://nnda.itch.io/pitch itch.io user nnda you have my sword should you ever need it.

Finally made use of my itch.io custom CSS access to spruce up my project pages!! They're looking pretty good, if I do say so myself 😎✨

You date somebody for nine years and you think you know them and then one day you find out you have equally strong and wildly opposite opinions on which of the two duvet covers you own is 'the good one'

Okay well this is not exactly evidence against 'I need to get the fuck out of this country before the next general election'.

I hate doing self-promotion but: new zine out! Available individually on Patreon or with all my other zines on itch.io.

£10/month Patreon subscribers get a custom zine - this was the first I've done! I was given the prompts 'poetry' and 'body horror'. :)))))

https://www.patreon.com/posts/zine-media-could-156903856?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

https://bodypoetic.itch.io/collected-zines

I thiiiink New Project has just hit the really exciting point where the story gains its own gravitational field, where the mish-mash soup of inspirations and concepts suddenly cohere into something solid and real and alive and chomping at the bit to realise itself. Yippee!!!

I hope this email finds you interesting, but it is not an innate part of you.

Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.

#UNIX

rich people couldn't colonize poetry the way they colonized visual art because poetry can't be kept in restrictive galleries or sold exclusively to private collections

there's no scarcity to manufacture, no object to speculate on. A rich person can't buy the ONLY copy of a poem

so the colonization vector didn't work. you can't gatekeep language the way you can gatekeep a canvas in a climate controlled room. which means poetry could only rot from the inside. the MFA programs, the journals nobody reads, the poets talking to other poets in an increasingly small room

but physical art? a painting? a sculpture? a physical object in a physical space? that's perfect for wealth capture. you can restrict access. you can create artificial scarcity. the gallery system is a containment model. keep art scarce, keep prices high, keep the definition of "good" under the control of people with money

#StarTrek

Good thread about how harassment on the Fediverse works, and why you might not have seen it yourself if you aren't the target.
https://alvarado.social/@dave/116258216662629959

#Fediverse #moderation

👀 Submissions are open for the Internet Phone Book ❋ Issue 2

https://tally.so/r/3EEZzL

#lgbtq folks in the UK, now might be a good time to see if you're eligible for the gonorrhea vaccine, which also provides protection against MenB #meningitis.

The 4CMenB vaccine, originally developed for meningococcal disease, was rolled out last year for folks most at risk of gonorrhea, such as gay and bi men. It's worth contacting your local sexual health services to see if they'll vaccinate you, even if you think you don't quite fit the inclusion criteria, as they will make an individual risk assessment based on your circumstances. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/4cmenb-vaccine-for-gonorrhoea-information-for-healthcare-practitioners/4cmenb-vaccine-for-prevention-of-gonorrhoea-information-for-healthcare-practitioners

Happy HLVRAI2 day to all who celebrate!!! I love virtual worlds and I love improv and I love human creativity and collaboration and the irreplaceable energy of being in a moment with a performance and I may actually be having a spiritual experience right now.

Still fuming that of all the punctuation to be stereotyped as an AI tell, it had to be my beautiful wife the em-dash.

[glitchy burst reverberates]

How to Make It Home has been having a really good couple of weeks!!! Longlisted for the New Media Writing Prize & shortlisted for Best Experimental Work at the Narrascope showcase. I remain ambivalent about the role of awards in the arts world but I can't deny that's pretty cool!