I’m both under and overstimulated right now. Schedule 3 Autism event and I can’t even lay on the floor yet fucking ay.

I’m starting to find the modern web unbearable in a lot of ways beyond ongoing rightful criticisms of Tumblr’s bigotry-riddled moderation. I’m honestly not caught up on other social media collapses and discourses on other platforms because I don’t use them! I just feel like I’m losing access to creativity and discovery the more I cut myself off, no matter how much I try.

see now I’m just using this as a journal, the goal of every microblogger online, obviously

I want to sleep in my lover’s arms. I love all of you long distance dykes out there, and the ones who finally went the distance to belong close to each other in material space. We will get there too.

Lately, it’s been hard being cooped up because of the summer, I know for most people, winter brings on pretty extreme isolation and depression, but summer brings a different form of madness and ache that radiates from the sun and the burn of my skin. I ache for long sleeves and a clear head.

On the topic of digital mutual support, did you know that nekoweb, is a static web hosting platform similar to Neocities, however offers a considerable number of features and pros, some of the most important in my opinion are access to file types and coding options that make automation and customization broader than ever, a cheaper membership plan that supports an active development and moderation team, and the ability to allow multiple users to edit a site! 

This last feature let me help @goobergrove get their original site set up! Web development, and making websites does not have to be a solo venture, you can help your friends!

While Neocities is quite popular due to the oldweb revival scene, and the lasting legacy of the now defunct Yesterweb, nekoweb may be a fantastic platform for people looking to leave Tumblr and such but not necessarily abandon the web entirely. I’ll keep posting resources, but this is a place to start.

Developing a lot of thoughts on the patterns of conglomerate social media and the ways that social media as a community tool can be stripped from the most vulnerable, especially in ways that harm the most marginalized in our communities materially, I think it’s important to consider what we can do to provide mutual aid and retain people’s connections to others while relying less on platforms like Tumblr, Twitter, etc.

I especially think it’s cruel to expect everyone on the web to have the resources, knowledge, time, energy and ability to be their own web developer, but this is exactly where mutual aid as a tool comes in. Between the large swath of public access resources and information bases, working together to establish safe and reliable web networks for the people you love, where their joy is paramount and the engagement they have is on their terms, that is what people who have been ran off this site through bigotry and “policy” deserve.

This is just a smaller post, but I want to keep developing resources and helping people retain digital presences and community beyond the cruelty of sites like this.

it’s the most wonderful time of the year (black snow like dots in my vision due to heat exhaustion)