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Albi

I’m a queer-for-short Black American who is doing their best.

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If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

You know those things that pop up when you visit a site, pestering you to sign up for their newsletter, or enable ads, or allow cookies, or create an account, or sign in, or just be a really big annoying ad? They're not technically pop-ups (they open within/

Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

First: Donate I should go through said books and donate ones that I never got around to reading, outgrew, or just plain don't want anymore. Or, it's time I pass a book on for someone else to carry for awhile. I've done that before.

Meals with Loved Ones

Remember a time when: you enjoyed a particularly delicious meal. Who was with you? I have a few! 1. The Cheesecake Factory with mom; I just graduated from college. 2. Before that, a friend treated us all to this ritzy Irish pub uptown. 3. I don't remember, but

Adamantium (addendum: protonmail)

Oh yea, my recent post on Digital Security still has Protonmail as a recommendation for a more secure/private/not-gmail email. I mean, it still has encryption and whatnot, so I guess it's still secure. But in the light of the CEO being the one of many to

Design Your Ideal Reading/Writing Space

I don't know where my draft went, so let's take it from the top. I like being in the corner. It could be a couch corner or a cozy chair in a corner. It goes without saying that a couch would be big enough for a

When did you feel loved?

Last night I was curled up in the couch corner for some quality reading time. My nesting partner came in from the cold, did his thing, and settled down not far from me to do some studying of his own. He put on Lo-Fi HipHop Beats to Study To, because

Notes: Digital Security

18 Million Rising hosted this class. Here is the recording: https://youtu.be/j20ku2kr6ty. There's also a document they provided with resources and links, here. Their focus is on Community Organizers. Since our activities are shared digitally to the internet, let’s consider the legacy of colonization embedded

OOPS

In my scheduling I accidentally double-posted. So, if you haven't checked it out yet, read my retrospective on LiveJournal after getting inspiration for your own cozy corner. (Editor's Note: If there is no image here, it's because I played around with Roomtodo for far

What was LJ Like?

I have fond memories of it. I first heard about it in high school through a friend of mine. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to obtain one of their coveted invites– an email and code that a current user had to send you. Until they opened registration for everyone,

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