I started following a bunch of EDC (Every Day Carry) content on Youtube because it was relaxing to watch men be excited about something without necessarily being competitive. Just a lot of 'hey, this is cool and I like it!'

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. I was 12 and desperately unhappy with the small horizons of the small town I lived in. It made me a curious person and helped me believe in a broader world where I could eventually live

I read a lot of Heinlein at a formative age and I think his books inoculated me against Ayn Rand.

If you’ve read this far, I would really like you to support the great people who have a resource table at Broadview ICE with information, first aid, supplies, food, and water. They are doing great work and are there 24 7 for protesters. A QR code for the stuff they need is in this image.

The first VCR in my family was purchased so that we could watch Victor Newman

And better than either movie!

The 2015 series for Dark Matter. Three awesome seasons filled with big ideas, FXs that have aged surprisingly well and a finale that teased some really good sci-fi. Hurts almost as much as Farscape.

This is such a great book about friendship. It also says really beautiful and difficult things about loving the place you come from but not really belonging there anymore. It really gets the nostalgia of home and cultural displacement.

I am absolutely going to bookmark this for the next time someone tries to engage with me while using 'shibari' as an umbrella term for all rope bondage. Thank you for the excellent writing!

I would love to see a fantasy series - Love, Death and Warlocks!

I manage a club with two rooms for play and I put one of these in each, with a stack of little dixie cups.

Thank you! I will be thinking of my angles

in the meantime, some links on why I can't with substack: bsky.app/profile/mist...

Same for me, but nudes. Substack is out for me (I refuse to walk into a Nazi bar) and blogs feel like advancing to the rear. I took a good long look at patreon and that might work but I'm exhausted trying to find a new virtual home 🫂