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I read through this page earlier this week:
And it led me to write up two pages in my digital garden. First, a direct response to the issues I have with their framing of the issue and proposed solution:
As well as my own framing of the issue and potential avenues for fixing it:
I think this’ll be relevant to a lot of the people here, seeing as the indie web itself is an attempt at fixing “the noisy room”.
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Today I published an analysis of the TV show Severance:
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On “historical inaccuracy”
An open letter to the highly placed bigshots who apparently feel very threatened by romantic costume dramas and actors wearing makeup.
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A reply to both Forking Mad and @convexer (and Ava)
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Thanks for reading my post and your response 
I really do believe humans have a fundamental need for spaces that are… not necessarily anonymous in a strict sense, but just separate from the routine of work and public life, where you can discuss things like addiction and trauma without it bleeding over into areas of life where such conversation isn’t appropriate.
The internet may not be able to offer that much longer (although I think we still have good options), but some alternative will emerge, I believe. I visited an LGBT history library once that had a collection of these matchbook-sized “travel guides” that gave discreet addresses for gay bars in local towns. The idea was that the book was small enough that you could toss it in the bushes or flush it down the toilet to avoid outing yourself in a pinch.
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The Weekly Wrap Up is posted! Links this week include how to get extra library cards, an artist who crochets old technology and the story of the creation of instant coffee. I talk some more about postcard clubs and which ones I joined, buying cross-stitch supplies and I shout out a couple of fellow Neocities peeps. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
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Got told I might be in perimenopause for my 39th birthday. 
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Can I ask an extremely dumb question? Feel like I am missing something–is perimenopause at 39 supposed to be cause for alarm?
At any rate, happy birthday!! And hope you get some good news soon to cancel out all the bad.
Not alarm, no, but it’s still a wee bit on the early side. It’s usually a mid-40s thing. It bums me out specifically because it’s another “chronic illness” I have to take on until it has finished doing its thing.
And thank you!
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At last, an entry! It’s what it says on the tin.
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I am actively playing deadlock as I make this forum post.
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Made a blog post about how to discover new music if you’re moving away from Spotify or other streaming services. There are a ton of posts about how to own your music, but not as many about how to keep hearing new stuff, so I thought this might be helpful:
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apologies for everyone who wanted to forget about gamergate
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Time for a good old fashioned link dump, featuring some posts by fellow Cafe patrons! Included in this instalment: the tenets of joyful web design, realistic worldbuilding resources, everything you ever wanted to know about medieval beasts, the threat posed to anonymity by LLMs, and more.
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This week I’m bringing you Tiaras as Art: Jan Yager. This artist created 2 tiaras, one showcasing Invasive Weeds, the other Useful Plants. They are unique, beautiful and full of meaning!
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I just finished writing this (for now, anyway). It was born from frustration and may be a bit scattered.
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Big post going over my history with journaling as a hobby. For whatever reason this has been on my mind a lot this year, so I’m finally getting it out of my head 
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I managed to sync my bookmarks without signing up for Firefox hehe
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