Living in a cyberpunk dystopia is weird. Most of the time we don’t even realize we are. We forget because it’s become so mundane, but we live in a highly connected online society largely influenced by giant corporations, and not for the better. Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting… Continue reading Living in a cyberpunk dystopia is weird
Author: Jon
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Mastodon notes
So I’ve been using Mastodon a bit for the past few months, and with the latest influx of users via the great Twitter Migration of Late 2022 I thought I’d jot down some of my notes on the platform. I have two active accounts, on different servers: The first thing all new users encounter when… Continue reading Mastodon notes
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Does North Dakota even exist?
This started as a humorous conversation with coworkers; I don’t remember exactly how it came up, but one coworker talked about a family trip to visit all the states but somehow missed North Dakota. This of course prompted doubts as to its actual existence. The rest of us confirmed that we, also, have never been… Continue reading Does North Dakota even exist?
What can be done
The overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court is disheartening, nauseating, disturbing; an act of sexual violence against women writ large, simultaneously a symbolic sexual assault of every woman in America and a stripping away of privacy and rights to healthcare and bodily autonomy. Women now have less rights in America than a… Continue reading What can be done
Trigger warning
It’s time to repeal the Second Amendment. There, yes, I said it. It’s a poorly-worded, grammatically ambiguous (at best) concession of a “right” that is neither inalienable nor logical, written into the Bill of Rights by white men of privilege who also believed it was acceptable to own other human beings (who they didn’t even… Continue reading Trigger warning