i write a lot of my post drafts in the app Drafts[^1], but here's some drafts that didn't make the cut or like i forgot or something

i used to have a pretty nightmarish read later system, until kobo said they were going to integrate with instapaper due to the pocket shutdown. then i switched over to instapaper for everything.

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On "This didn't need to be a content warning"

Something I've seen an amount of on Cohost is the refrain, "I hate it when posts use content warnings for stuff that could've been tags", and there's been some confusion as to why. This is my attempt at explaining a few points in favor of avoiding content warnings.

Cohost has multiple systems of labeling, filtering, and gating off posts. (This is the big one.)

i have no idea what the fuck i was cooking with here. this was written about a year and a half ago, while cohost still existed. reading the other paragraph i had here, right below the crop, it seems to have been a post on how you should just use tags or something. i think i was just annoyed at people using mastodon-style content warnings and wanted to write a big callout post complaining about it. probably for the best i didn't finish it.

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Pocket on Kobo is the stuff of nightmares

Imagine, if you will, being a precocious little kid who loves to read articles on read later apps on your phone. You are also a precocious little kid who loves to read books on an e-reader, which your father let you borrow so you could read every Ender's Game book. One day, you stumble uncross an animal paw, one that feels important and magical. You don't think much of it, but some way somehow, you decide to make a wish. One that holds all of your hopes and dreams, and one that you would soon come to regret. "Gee willikers, I sure do wish that I could read those articles on my read later app on my phone on an e-reader!"

And the monkey's paw curls.

this could've been something maybe but then pocket shut down, showing i was right all along and pocket sucks really bad. i think the inspiration for this was me trying to upload an article from verso to pocket and i literally could not make it work.

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AI has hollowed out Matter so much that it's not even funny

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that reminds me, i need to write a post about how i handled adding comments to my blog. hoping that someone could point out any limitations and risks before i find them out the hard way

thinking about how my comments stuff doesn't have shadows. the leave a comment box and the comments themselves 😔 it's so tragic.

from https://belarius.neocities.org/bulletin-board-nonsense/post/the-thousand-points-of-light-above-as-below/

netrunner mentioned!!!!!!!!

I’m still working on shared posts and wanted to delay doing this until I finished that, but I have too many links piling up, so it’ll have to happen next time.

from https://belarius.neocities.org/bulletin-board-nonsense/post/the-critics-are-restless/

from https://belarius.neocities.org/bulletin-board-nonsense/post/in-coherence/

from https://belarius.neocities.org/bulletin-board-nonsense/post/a-love-no-less-toxic-for-all-its-chastity/

from https://belarius.neocities.org/bulletin-board-nonsense/post/wheres-the-fun-in-breaking-the-rules-subtly/

from https://belarius.neocities.org/bulletin-board-nonsense/post/can-you-jam-with-the-console-cowboys-in-cyberspace/

from https://belarius.neocities.org/bulletin-board-nonsense/post/are-you-still-there/

Sorry Belarius for not doing my god given duty of immediately rebugging every post you make with netrunner cards with saying “netrunner mentioned!!!” You are free to email me at [email protected] to harass me at any time.

missed a doctor's appointment due to moving stuff and feeling pretty bleak about it 😔

I’m in the middle of moving, so I’ll try to keep this one short, but here’s links!

Mikhail Klimentov: Kill the CEO in your head

Genuinely though. I’ve read so much writing about games that just feels like a press release.

Os Keyes: Beyond Trans Archives, Beyond Trans Medicine

Please, if you only read one thing this week, let it be this. I found it in my read later pile, saved from a recommendation from probably god knows where. It’s a deep and loving look at archival practices, trans joy, and our relationship with academics. It will leave you in tears.

Laura Michet: It's okay to be a certain kind of hooligan

I do not "understand" getting that mad about having to drive slowly behind cyclists for a minute. I never will. It's deranged, murderous behavior. I'm glad to call it criminal.

I love basically everything Laura Michet writes, and this is no different. Read her stuff! It’s good!

jergling: 2026: A Tech Odyssey

You are awakened by a digital chime at exactly 4:00 a.m. Peeling your eyes open, you see the walls begin to shine in a rainbow of RGB waves. Your handheld greets you in Scarlett Johansson’s voice, through the bedside speaker…

A short story about the hell…

They say “great artists steal”, and I wanted to showcase how I’ve solved some problems I’ve run into on my site by showing some niche dependencies I’ve picked up. Note that these are mostly files that have originated from other sources that I’ve copied in by hand as opposed to imported.

HAST util from Lezer

I will go more into depth on this on a future article on how syntax highlighting on my blog works, but to summarize: I use a tool called Lezer to handle syntax highlighting. This library is part of the pipeline my blog uses for adding that syntax highlighting. This was written by Joel Gustafson and mentioned in an incredible blog post going into some of the history around syntax highlighting. I copied it into my site basically wholesale, and you can find it in my codebase here (converted to javascript from typescript for some reason). I generally prefer copying code in over importing it, because it helps me understand what the code does, and it allows me to tune the code to better fit the needs of my s…

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New week new links!

Michelle Starr: Mammals Have Evolved Into Anteaters at Least 12 Times Since The Dinosaurs

Have you heard the news? Eating ants is the next big thing in animals!

Patricia Taxxon: mental health update

I'm just going to soapbox for a second. You might have DID without knowing it. It's far more mundane and common than you think it is. You don't need to hear voices in your head or wake up in random places without knowing how you got there. It can be a kind of depression that makes your memory spotty. A sense that something terrible has happened to you, but that feels like it happened to someone else, leaving you suspiciously unscathed.

This is genuinely just a mental health update from a youtuber I follow, but there's a lot of really good bits in here. I have rewatched it a handful of times, which is impressive when it's only two days old, just to hear the specific ways she phrases stuff. I think that it's a mark of a good writer when even the functional writing sticks with you.

Dr. Devon Price: Is Your Fear of Gender Transition Really the Fear of Aging?

Even the fear of transition regret is a resistance to the irreversibility of time. Life’s options inevitably winn…