| community, indieweb | 2,725 words
TAGS: personal essay, commons, IndieWeb, open source, Indigenous
A defence of digital stewardship, IndieWeb principles, Blackfoot models of collective flourishing, and what it means to plant seeds in a garden you'll never see. From Garrett Hardin's infamous 1968 essay to Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning...
| personal-favourites, lyric-essays | 2,302 words
TAGS: personal essay, road trip, masculinity, prairie, family relationships, Métis
A fifteen-hour road trip across Saskatchewan with my brother, watching the prairie unfold through grain elevators and abandoned towns. The quiet weight of prairie masculinity, the failure of academic knowledge to translate into brotherly wisdom...
| personal-favourites, writing-craft | 2,161 words
TAGS: personal essay, poetry, writing, mental health, neuroscience
I snuck off school grounds to write in a back alley, shoplifting Ginsberg and Neruda from Chapters, and I'm alive and writing today because of that. Recent neuroscience confirms poetry activates the brain's dopaminergic reward system, treats...
| lyric-essays | 2,007 words
TAGS: personal essay, writing, theology, gratitude, Mental Health
My annual birthday essay on turning thirty: examining the cross-cultural agreement--from Confucius to the Hebrew Bible to Zoroaster--that thirty is when formation ends and function begins. My dark year of depression which turned out to be...
| personal-favourites, lyric-essays | 3,266 words
TAGS: personal essay, grief, Literary Criticism, spirituality, Mental Health
A eulogy for two kinds of loss: those who die and those who become simply elsewhere. Filtered through Didion, Barthes, C.S. Lewis, and Pema Chödrön. On ambiguous grief, the names written down so they don't disappear, and the sixteen-year-old who...
| writing-craft, religion | 1,915 words
TAGS: personal essay, poetry, philosophy, theology, gratitude
On the poets who found different terrors inside the phrase 'earn my keep'--Jeong Ho-Seung, Brecht, Heather McHugh, Kim Hyesoon--and the theological dispute over whether grace can be deserved, turning thirty in borrowed time, and the nuthatches...
| culture | 1,567 words
TAGS: Book Review, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
A review of Jake Beka's sophomore poetry chapbook SINKHOLE--eleven poems across four continents and three generations, tracing patrilineal damage as a force that reshapes geography, contaminates water tables, and follows you across borders. A...
| culture | 3,379 words
TAGS: Social Commentary, Digital Culture, Cultural Criticism, Analog Living, philosophy
On the subscription economy, Walter Benjamin's aura, Pokémon scalpers, the rot of physical media, and the person at the photocopier making what the streaming model cannot touch.
| personal-favourites, science | 3,299 words
TAGS: personal essay, Social Commentary, Digital Culture, philosophy, Space, Environmental Justice, Mental Health, gratitude
We have the first human photograph of Earth from space in 54 years, and I can't help but meditate on what it means to be human on a fragile planet in 2026.
| personal-favourites, science | 3,455 words
TAGS: Personal Essay, Science, Philosophy, Poetry, Space, Cultural History
Born on April 13th, 26 years after Apollo 13's failure, I explore my personal connection to the Moon as Artemis II astronauts journey toward Her. The Moon has scientific importance, cultural naming traditions, religious significance across...
| politics | 3,273 words
TAGS: personal essay, Social Justice, Media Criticism, politics, Mental Health, philosophy
A few minutes before I begin writing this, I woke up into an anxiety attack. There are a lot of issues I could be writing about, the world is fraught with uncertain violence. This is a story about me, and also a story about North Darfur and...
| indieweb, politics | 2,279 words
TAGS: Technology, Digital Culture, Privacy, politics, Digital Security, Social Commentary
A quarter of the entire Internet uses Cloudflare. This is an existential threat to the Internet's ideals. I realized I need DDoS protection, but I could not use Cloudflare in good conscience. And so, I'm beyond excited to announce that I'm now...
| technical-tutorials | 1,592 words
TAGS: Technical, IndieWeb, Satire, Writing, Humor
A review of the prank I pulled yesterday, in addition to serious discourse about being silly, including thoughts on the role and importance of satire and literacy. I also share a detailed technical breakdown of the scripts that I added to the...
| personal-favourites | 3,748 words
TAGS: Announcements, Blogging, IndieWeb, Ad
After MONTHS of hard, gruelling work being completely independent on my personal site, I've been lucky enough to find healthy, sustainable partnerships with several incredible companies. Today, I'm sharing some significant changes to how...
| personal-favourites, lyric-essays | 2,048 words
TAGS: Philosophy, Personal Essay, Blogging, Gratitude, Self-Discovery
Exploring constitutive moral luck through Nagel and Williams alongside Nietzsche's Übermensch and amor fati, I reflect on the recursive gratitude I feel for who I constitutively am--and argue that blogging is a philosophical practice of...
| culture, politics | 3,832 words
TAGS: Cultural Criticism, Digital Culture, Social Commentary, Feminism, Politics, Media Criticism
Looksmaxxing. Redpilled. Sigma. Mogging. Cope. Seethe. Malding. Goyslop. Gooning. Memes from image boards became cultural foundation for Generation Alpha. How rich, powerful men have coordinated a harmful online culture for nearly twenty years.
| science | 5,048 words
TAGS: personal essay, Mental Health, Neurodivergence, psychology, Self-Discovery, disability, Cultural Criticism, philosophy
My personal exploration of schizoid personality disorder and neurodivergence. From King Crimson's prophetic song to global youth withdrawal phenomena, I examine what it means to live with a rich interior life and limited social needs, challenging...
| writing-craft, religion | 3,426 words
TAGS: personal essay, Creative Writing, Literary Theory, Cognitive Science, Culture, History, Writing Process, spirituality
Grammar/Glamour/Grimoire. 言霊 & heka. Spelling & spellcasting. The Word. Writing is generative, not descriptive. Cultures across millennia have understood that words conjure reality. Writing conjures, symbols activate the brain, serving as...
| writing-craft | 1,862 words
TAGS: personal essay, IndieWeb, Digital Culture, Social Commentary, writing
There's tension between creative authenticity and professional presentation in the IndieWeb space. What does it mean to be taken seriously as a writer while maintaining personal joy and rejecting the aesthetic standards of capital?
| writing-craft, science | 3,000 words
TAGS: personal essay, Creative Writing, Literature, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, Indigenous Writing, Cultural Criticism
How do our brains physically process stories? The neurology of narrative transportation, brain synchrony between storytellers and listeners, biocultural theory, and Indigenous storytelling traditions that collapse Western narrative structures.