The Weekly Wrap Up is posted! Links this week include information about a nationwide community art exhibit you are invited to make fabric panels for, the Hello Kitty Lawsuit Tracker and a digital graveyard of websites with a lot of detailed information on the sites, plus a few that are still hanging on by a thread. Iâve been doing some more postcarding and I talk about my webweaving process (which is scary). Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
I was up late doing some thinking about what America and being an American even means 250 years after the Declaration of Independence. So, political as hell.
Wow, I started reading on the train and quickly realized this is a âsave as a bookmark and read when I actually have time and attentionâ kind of read
Iâve been impressed by that fraction Iâve read so far though
I think people just really like boxes/labels, and to then pretend those boxes arenât as messy as the rest of the world. It can be comforting. I believe we really donât fit in boxes though - weâre all messy and contradictory and nuanced and, above all, ever changing. I get some boxes might feel a bit more stable than others, but tbh I think a lot of problems come from us treating the boxes as they existed in our childhood as the baseline from which all changes afterwards are deviations from. A lot of âtraditionalâ practices and values are only a couple generations old, and itâs silly to try to reify them and to discourage thinking about them critically.
So, that stubborn resolve of mine didnât last long. 
I still feel like a hypocrite two days into owning this thing, but it was ultimately the right decision for me. If I didnât have such a large PS library (including several games I hadnât played yet when my original PS5 got stolen), I wouldnât have even considered it.
Thanks, I hope it proves worthwhile when you get around to reading the whole thing.
Itâs your money, and since you have a substantial PlayStation library itâs not like you wonât get your moneyâs worth as long as the console lasts and the games remain available to download.
ill be honest this post is mostly just to keep this blog from dying
and i have very few other ideas
Listen there is no âminimal post requirementâ for a blog. I drop something like once or twice a month and thatâs plenty enough.
Fr donât feel pressured to âkeep up the content.â Thatâs exactly the mentality most of us are here to escape.
Exactly. I mean, I hadnât dropped a single post between 2026-01-01 and 2026-07-01, but now Iâm back. We are not content creators, except when using the toilet.
I had written this back in January 2026, but I wasnât ready to publish it until now.
cw for discussions of existentialism, self-harm, cancer, and Mark Zuckerberg.
Because Iâm going to see them on Friday night, I threw an old post about my connection to the boy band Five back up.
Another short complaint about a âgotchaâ I keep hearing and am driven mad by
Thatâs fair, but I tend to distinguish between labor and work. I do the former for money, and have no ownership or emotional connection to the product. I do the latter for myself.
Fair enough, but I know plenty of people whoâd use âworkâ to describe the former, aswell. There really isnât a meaningful distinction between the two terms beyond any individual sentiment.
My website classifies this piece as an article rather than a blog post, but I have published a long piece about a toxic former acquaintance from the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic modding community.
Content warning for emotional abuse and manipulation combined with ableism.
Yes, and while I donât have the disc drive attachment yet, I do plan on getting one for even more savings on games. In saying that, though, itâll be very interesting to see what happens to the price of used PS5/PS4 games going forward⌠I could see people wanting to capitalize on the sudden glut of people looking to buy used to stick it to Sony.