Microblag

2025-05-21
People who delight in anonymous cruelty always wear two masks: one for enacting it and one for distancing themselves from it.

2025-05-19
Those who prefer their deeds stay hidden in the darkness will always try to blot out the light.

2025-03-25
I started a new daily pages/journaling practice this week. In the future, I may adapt things I write in there for this site.

2025-03-18
Catastrophizing to other people is like cutting your wrist, then holding the knife to someone else’s wrist and asking them to cut themselves.

2025-02-13
Someone complimenting me on a thing I wrote for my blag feels…weird.

2025-01-21
Every day will show someone something that makes them feel anger and despair if they go looking for it. Which isn’t to say we shouldn’t keep up with the news — but at the very least, we shouldn’t need to keep up with it at a pace/level that puts us into anxiety spirals and other negative frames of mind.

We’re always going to live in a fucked-up world. The best any of us can do is to do what we can to make it less fucked up for as many people as possible.

2024-12-14
The GOP is a death cult. Its deity is the Grim Reaper; its tithe is blood money; its altar is an open grave; its holy symbol is an assault rifle. Republicans, in a practical sense, worship death and suffering. Why else would they refuse to do anything that would prevent the spread of diseases, maternal deaths, poverty/homelessness, and mass casualty shootings? Why else would they celebrate men like Daniel Penny and Kyle Rittenhouse, who have killed those the GOP have collectively deemed “unworthy” of life? Why else would so many of them believe in Rapture theology, which presupposes a global death wave and either Heaven for “true believers” or a living Hell for “heretics” and “sinners”?

2024-11-17
When you take joy in the pain of those you hate, you will never feel real joy. You will hate others for what you think they’ve done to you; you will hate yourself for what you know you’ve done to yourself.

2024-11-05
Every time a major election rolls around, I vote for the (politically viable) candidate that I believe will do the least damage if they win. Whether that candidate wins or loses is out of my control; whether my conscience is clear about my choice is under my control. I have to keep going even — and especially — if that candidate loses. This election is no different.

2024-10-09
I saw this a few days ago: “If you want to make progress, you have to leave the place where you are.” That’s the concept of “departure” in a nutshell. Now that phrase is on my desktop wallpaper as a reminder of what I need to do.

2024-10-08
Anyone who thinks we should give up one or more of our rights for “the greater good” never knows when “the greater good” will leave them behind. Those who believe they’re the exception to that rule aren’t.

2024-09-04
Anyone who tells you that gun massacres such as school shootings are inevitable and unpreventable is lying to you.

2024-08-07
Thank you for everything you did for FurAffinity, Dragoneer. May you rest in peace.

2024-04-03
Free idea for Warner Bros.: An Animatrix short akin to the Ember Island Players episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender that has the machines retell the story of the original Matrix trilogy.

2024-03-30
Halfway between the black and grey is no place for a life to waste away.

2024-03-20
A small point of pride: The HTML and CSS on this site passes W3C’s validators clean as a whistle.

2024-03-17
The fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth.

2024-02-27
To the people in charge of Tumblr, birdsite, skysite, and…well, pretty much every tech service that exists now and will exist in the future:

If you plan to do anything with user data and the third-party handling thereof, ALWAYS MAKE THAT SHIT OPT-IN. No exceptions or excuses — if you make it opt-out and force it upon your userbase without any warning, you are unethical bastards and your service deserves to be left in the void of irrelevancy. And this goes double for any AI-related bullshit.

Sell your users and your ethics at your own peril.

2024-02-20
I feel less like an adult and more like a kid with adult responsibilities.

2024-01-03
Any policy designed to hurt the marginalized is a policy of cruelty; anyone who delights in that cruelty should never hold public office.

2023-12-06
Per a challenge found on Futility Closet, I managed to “square” my own last name:

S T O N E
T A P E R
O P E R A
N E R D S
E R A S E

2023-10-14
YouTube will probably win its war on adblockers. The question now is simple: What price is it willing to pay for that victory? Because I’m already watching less YouTube, and I’d be more than happy to drop it altogether in favor of DVDs, Blu-rays, and the streaming services.

2023-09-18
Any social media service worth a good god’s damn should never make you pay to use it.

2023-09-06
Sometimes there are no good decisions — only correct ones.

2023-07-28
Free idea for anyone out there: a Toonami tribute AMV set to “Twilight” by Electric Light Orchestra. Go all Daicon IV with it.