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Congratulations! I believe I’m going on seven myself, so I love to see others succeed in their own journey of sobriety. Coping is always hard, but yeah I agree it’s better sober. It forced me to take care of a lot of mental and physical health issues that I was ignoring and putting off.
When it feels like there is so little we can do these days, building capacity for the ongoing chaos and collapse is all we can do. The external problems are real and frightening, but there are a lot of powerful people banking on individual learned helplessness to keep that power. When we build individual capacity and ease our own suffering, we strengthen opportunities for collective capacity.
Love this last paragraph, very true!
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The Weekly Wrap Up is posted! Links this week include a massive directory of lighthouses around the world, the story of a new font creation (plus a bonus link that lets you play with different styles of segmented fonts) and an article about using a disposable vape to host a web server. I talk about how Thanksgiving went and what my Froglok wizard is up to in Everquest 2. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
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I did the first Parkrun in my home town on Saturday, and wrote it up into a blog post.
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I spent so long trying to use my cognitive abilities to outrun my working class background…and undiagnosed ADHD that I basically burnt out at 19…
Replace ADHD with autism (diagnosed at age 9 but given little support or understanding), and replace 19 with late 20s or early 30s, and this is me.
It took me a very long time to learn that my value doesn’t depend on test scores or winning at capitalism. But sometimes I still need to be reminded.
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hey guys, im doing my digital advent: its 24 of my fave neocities sites, there are way more than 24 that i love but this is kind of a random selection of 24 sites 2025 Digital Advent: Fave Neocities Websites! | [finnybox].blogspot.com
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These posts are taking so long for me to write now 
but it’s done - check out what I got up to in November
I realise now that I didn’t go through and link out to the TV shows or music - that would have taken me at least another hour 
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Photo/life dump of mostly fun things
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For the first time I contributed to this months IdieWeb Carnival prompt
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quick turn around! i still haven’t opened a draft ;)
I started jotting a few notes down as soon as I saw it, just so I wouldn’t forget my ideas in the future. 15 minutes later I accidentally had a draft on my hands haha
I still haven’t decided whether I want to participate. As @CaffeineAndLasers noted in their post, I don’t think highly of the IndieWeb as a concept.
Also, @CaffeineAndLasers, I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but Germany already has laws akin to KYC regarding website operators.
Owning a website will require registration with the government including your ID, and mandatory registration details on the footer of each page that anyone can look up the websites owner. This is justified as “Cracking down on misinformation and cyber-bullying”, but also ends any chance at pseudoanonymity on the web.
They’re called impressum requirements.
In addition, ICANN policy requires that anybody registering a domain must provide their name, address, and phone number. This is kept on file even if you pay to have that information obfuscated by services like RespectMyPrivacy!.
If the US government implements additional KYC legislation to the internet, it will be because most people in Congress can’t tell a computer from a Cuisinart, don’t read omnibus legislation that crams a thousand proposals into a single “must-pass” bill, and don’t think to question lobbyists as harshly as they should.
Strictly speaking, though, if the US government really wants to know who runs a given domain, they can probably just subpoena ICANN or the appropriate domain registrar.
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I didn’t know about the German requirements, thanks for the heads up.
I may need to take another pass editing that last paragraph, since I am realizing I am getting a few of my points muddled.
In Australia, it’s a requirement for all businesses to be registered with an Australiam Business Number (ABN) which you print on all receipts / invoices, which customers can use to verify you are a legit business doing legit things
My fear is not that the government can tell who owns your domain, figuring that out now isn’t that hard. My actual fear is that someone will get it in their head that you need to print your registration details on your website so ANYONE can look you up.
I don’t think there are any real proposals to do that at the moment, but it is something I can imagine Australia trying.
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I’m not sure your post mentioned that you were subject to Australian law, but I understand why you might have preferred not to mention that.
At the risk of hijacking the thread, I read your Indieweb article and it kinda sums up how I feel about it. It is a bit overwhelming (and I am a techie!)
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I’ll admit, when was writing this, and even when. I linked back to @starbreaker’s post I totally forgot about the micro-templates, we mentions, POSSEE aspects of the “IndieWeb"
Rereading all those aspects in his blogpost made me dizzy. I am happy with my website and my RSS feed
Bye bye Eurovision.
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