I am begging software projects to release programs as tarballs or plain old static binaries. I don't know what a Helm chart is. I am not installing an entire Kubernetes cluster. Docker breaks LXC and firewalls and is constantly breaking for mysterious reasons. I would rather submit myself to hours of `./configure && make && make install` frustration than try to hack through the endless hellscape of containerized deployment systems.

Remember back before systemd how when something went wrong on a computer it put text into a log file and you could find out what happened? That was neat. We should do that again.

Hell yeah, we finally got a queer leather pixelfed instance! https://gear.pictures/

"At age 15 I subscribed to One [a homophile movement magazine], which I had found in the local library research section. I was visited at school by a US Postal Inspector, and accused of receiving obscene material through the mails. My parents were also visited, and the subscription was stopped, with no charges pressed. (Yes I lied, saying I was 18, to get the subscription.)"

W. Charles Clark, "Stonewall and the S/M Lifestyle", Checkmate 14, 1996; reflecting on his youth (c. 1950?)

Some early history of code-switching research: https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/s0271-5309(00)00012-4

"Anything less than uncritical support of China is accused of being apologia for American imperialism—and one expects such criticisms to follow regarding this essay, New Bloom, and aligned projects that seek to be critical of both the US and the PRC such as Lausan."

https://newbloommag.net/2020/06/22/qiao-collective-nationalism/

Lil Nas X, my GOD, his MIND, incredible

https://youtu.be/6swmTBVI83k

Sometimes I imagine showing 2020 headlines to myself circa 2015, and asking past me what kind of surrealistic hellscape has/will come to pass.