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diff --git a/src/blog/not-a-femboy.md b/src/blog/not-a-femboy.md deleted file mode 100644 index 79c0170..0000000 --- a/src/blog/not-a-femboy.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ ---- -draft = true -title = "Why I'm Not a Femboy" -categories = ["gender"] ---- -<style> * { text-transform: lowercase } </style> - -https://plural.cafe/@devin/109647329871170072 -- yes i'm fem yes i'm boy no i'm not femboy -- no personal issue with its use in sexual fantasy and porn category because hi, though conflation of trans women - with gnc men and crossdressers is a systemic issue there. those categories can get really blurry and the popualrity - of femboy as a self-identification for a lot of people on feminizing HRT is a testament to that, but i hate how - the cisgender eye views trans porn and misgenders trans actors to lump them in with whatever category is in style -- but the cultural context i have for it is from /lgbt/ on 4chan (thanks high school us) - - not going to go into message boards' favorite "traps" (pre 2014-ish) now "femboys" (post 2014-ish), several of - which are canonically not men (e.g. astolfo) or are obviously written to be trans women by a writer who doesn't - know what they're doing (e.g. ferris, especially in the novelization) - - tied up deeply in passing politics where you're passing or you're a "hon", and femboy as the fallback identity - for those scared of not being able to pass - - the way i navigate transmisogyny is not my gender identity i just *am* a gnc boy on estrogen - - diff --git a/src/blog/techbros.md b/src/blog/techbros.md deleted file mode 100644 index 4aa112c..0000000 --- a/src/blog/techbros.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ ---- -draft = true -title = "" -categories = [] ---- - -this draft can probably be multiple blog posts - -need to find where i stuck my old writing about these things - -libertarian bullshit in open source communities -- hyperindividualism -- "entitlement" somehow contorted to mean "someone else actually cares about a change in my software or service" or even "anyone asked me for anything" - - hint: if you don't want to take feature requests or bug reports, don't publish software somewhere other people can use it - - frequently combined with actual entitlement to everyone else's output - - freedom 0, as applied against noncommercial licenses - - i'm so, so sorry that you want to make money off of what i do without royalties or even contributing anything back upstream. fuck you pay me - - complete lack of understanding of the difference between a primary and secondary audience - - this applies to so much of social media as a whole and plays with parasocial relationships, probably another post - - the constant annoyance of scraping + archival of all-but-explicitly-ephemeral social media (mastodon / other fedi stuff) -- the assumption that other people have the skills, time, and energy to deal with doing whatever themselves - - self hosting - - doubly so for suggesting single-user instances on fedi, because that's not just technical but also social bullshit - - it can simultaneously be true that self hosting is the best way to own your own stuff and that it's infeasible for the vast majority of people to do so - - "just fork it" - - often in combination with being ridiculously virulent towards forks because how dare you change what i wrote to suit your own needs better - - just join a committee / moderation team / whatever - - do i even need to go into how this plays with ableism even when it's not explicitly so - - example of explicitly so: the bullshit thrown on the Glimpse fork of the GNU Image Manipulation Program which had *specific examples of academic institutions &c. avoiding the GNU IMP, which they would have otherwise used, because the official acronym is also an offensive term for people who walk with a limp* backing their decision to fork diff --git a/src/blog/why-blog.md b/src/blog/why-blog.md deleted file mode 100644 index 49a2c61..0000000 --- a/src/blog/why-blog.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ ---- -draft = true -title = "Why a Blog in 2023?" ---- -- because i want to -- flaws of microblogging - - other people, mostly. - - harassment, unsolicited advice - blogs without comment sections add friction. nobody knows what the hell - the primary audience of a public post is (hint: it's still followers, just because you can see it doesn't - give you license to be an utter asshole as if you're being spoken to directly) - - doomscrolling - - despite the fact that people keep trying to spin up archives and search and everything, the format - is inherently better suited to ephemerality -- mastodon was pretty decent if you maintained a blocklist of about 1/3 of the instances out there (nazis and foss - evangelists) and had a high tolerance for dealing with self-righteous white leftists who think that they're immune - from doing anything wrong (particularly perpetuating racism) because they're neurodivergent or queer or both -- but with tumblr and cloudflare and facebook making overtures towards moving onto the activitypub-compatible fediverse - (or "mastodon" for short, for those who haven't heard about all the other software that works with mastodon) -- and we're just fucking burned out on maintaining both the software and a community |