Or, People Don’t Know Shit About Shit If you read my about page, you’ll see that I mention sometimes getting vent-y. This is one of those posts. If you don’t want to read that, then don’t read this post :) The Context At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Breakdancing, also referred to as “breaking” was one of the new sports to be featured (I’ve seen some people refer to it as a “wildcard” sport?

Or, FOSSbros make me cry Look, I like open source, and the general FOSS philosophy. But cmon man, the way FOSS is represented it makes me think the FSF is a front for Microsoft to make FOSS look like a joke and people are way too happy to be the caricatures. And who am I to say this? Look up who contributed the bulk of the translations into Romanian for Sileo or FluffyChat and don’t look up how much time I spend hanging around privacy and security spaces on matrix.

Or, holy fuck people need to go outside (me included maybe) But yes. If you don’t know what pro/anti ship is, congratulations. You’re about to find out about some of the most stupid drama in fandom and as a bonus, you’ll know who to block because they’ll be super insufferable! Content warning, there’s mentions of CSA, SA, death and generally heavy stuff so as always, if you don’t want to even see those mentioned, don’t read!

There’s no quippy second title here or anything, this is just me rambling about identity I guess? Where do I belong? An obvious answer to that would be just “oh your family is Romanian, you speak Romanian, you grew up surrounded by Romanian traditions, even if you were born and raised elsewhere” or perhaps “you grew up in Australia so you’re Australian”. I don’t know that I feel “at home” necessarily with either Romanians or Australians (especially white anglo aussies) – I either need to hide my queerness and be the good Christian boy I’m supposed to be or throw away my national identity and accept the tenuous white privilege my skin gives me so long as I have a western name.

Or, the misguided march for privacy in that which is Not, by design… Shoutout to my fediverse homies who know what I’m talking about here. To everyone else, yes, there are genuinely people who believe you can make a social media platform its exact opposite, that is, a private social media platform with no asterisks on the word private. What is social media? According to my favourite website(s) Wikipedia1 and Wiktionary2, Social media are interactive forms of media that facilitate creation and sharing of content in a many-to-many relationship with regards to the publishing of said content.

Or, Jesus Christ these people have never stepped foot outside their STEM supremacist echo chamber and it shows What do Brendan Eich (creator of javascript and Brave), regular people, and techbros all have in common? Well, other than being humans. Correct, they all kinda hate Firefox and Mozilla! But why is this the case? I promise it’ll be relevant to why techbros are. Opsec? I hardly know ’er; why do I know this?

Or, Hey I haven’t hammered home the point about self reflection on why you hate things enough Would you believe it if I said that the original working title of my video about queer stories and reparative vs paranoid readings of media was “Digust”? The script for what ultimately became a video was titled “Disgust v2” but the original core of what I wanted to discuss got washed away by a different idea so now I’m going to actually unpack what I wanted to write but didn’t feel would make a great video.