We can do this with every angle of kyriarchical bullshit, but it boils down to: Critiquing oppression is not the reason there is oppression.

What made this place what it was for that stretch of time is dead — or at least in the throes — but there's a big internet out there. More fragmented, less accelerated, but still filled with people who make it worthwhile. Happy 2024, friends. You're amazing.

If I haven't connected with you on one of those other places yet, I totally want to. My social links are listed on my site, and if you want to drop me a line the info's there too.

Among other things, it helps put Twitter in context. I've been consistently active here longer than almost any other platform on the Internet, shitposting and arguing and talking shop and meeting you all. But it's just one particularly temporarily popular place on the Internet.

It's been fun/horrible to read my own crap takes, evangelical cringe, tech asides, and occasional on-point predictions dating back to the pre-web era. Usenet was a hell of a thing. It certainly prompted a lot of reflection and soul-searching, which I guess counts as scope creep.

And at that point it seemed natural to automate wikidata queries and random spreadsheets full of stats for cultural context. ("What ubiquitous startups did this post predate? How many web-capable smartphones existed when this talk came out?").

Then it turned into an obsessive quest to find archived versions of every site I've ever worked on — triple digits with a lot of "that domain no longer exists," as it turns out. Then I started building vector embeddings for everything, which has been really fascinating.

Initially it started as "I should archive my tweets before this place reaches its final form as some combination of MySpace, Daily Stormer, and Post-Acquisition Delicious" but it turned into an exercise in normalizing my "stuff" from about 30y of writing.

This year my actual social posting shifted to a mix of linkedin, bluesky, and mastodon, but I occasionally ducked in here. Come 2024, my tweets, my conference talks, my posts to fallow tumblrs, and so on will be going up on

Seems like as good a time as any to wrap things up here — in my copious spare time over the past year or so I've been determined to make my content self-hosted (or at least self-archived).

RT @bryanfcasey: There’s two(ish) ways to manage content in big companies. You either have a central content org that powers every channe….

RT @levistahl: Barbie/Oppenheimer discourse feels like something Jordan Peterson made up so he could cry at us.

RT @calcsam: If you saw the news around the @Netlify layoffs yesterday, there are some great ex-Gatsby folks who are looking for a new role….

*setting myself on fire, hurling a hammer into my television*. you can mock my decisions all you like, but i’m DOMINATING the news cycle.

"If your arresting officer wasn't wearing their hat when they appeared in court, THEY'RE NOT A REAL OFFICER OF THE LAW and the judge MUST RELEASE YOU, pursuant to US CODE 351.99".

"Pursuant to" is one of those phrases that only ever appears in actual legal documents, or weird One Trick They Hate scams trying to sound legitimate.

RT @bowbrick: I read that the maximum size of a document in the current PDF standard is 381km x 381km and I thought woah hilarious, how Bor….

RT @swardley: To simplify further think about meaning i.e. does meaning exit in words, in numbers or in space. That's the thing about maps,….

it would really show them, you know?.

i think the best way for biden to win over the right would be for him to win the election and then say, “actually, no, you can be president.” and step down. to prove that dems are just that much more sporting. and shame the gop into giving up.