Potentially Unncessary Preamble: A Primer on my Neurodivergent Brain I have a weird brain and one of the biggest upsides — well, upside or downside depending on the day — is that I need to make sense of things in order to live. Instinct, impulse, intuition, and feelings are more usual guides of human behaviour. Which makes sense because…

Vocaroo | Online voice recorder Vocaroo is a quick and easy way to share voice messages over the interwebs.voca.ro prefer audio? ☝🏾 Here’s me reading it out for your listening pleasure… One of the fascinating things about the peer-to-peer economy is that it has thrown up so many examples of the human-friendly version of almost every kind of job out there. Take housekeeping, or in general the cleaning of…

Step 1: Enter into a relationship, because the opportunity presents itself, and because all media since birth has informed you that this is the thing to do. Step 2: Remain fundamentally confused as to the nature, value, or point of love; also hold a bunch of misconceptions about yourself to…

The Dead 27 Club, or just 27 Club, refers to a niche American urban legend that there’s something fishy at the intersection of being a musician or artist and being 27 that results in a statistically significant likelihood of death. It’s obviously nonsense: a handful of musicians from one corner…

There are things you learn after trauma. Well, I guess technically you learn them during trauma, and then only have the wherewithal to realize or appreciate it fully after the storm has passed and you notice one day you’ve picked up a new tendency. …

tl;dr or just the listening type? Here’s a nice static-y recording for you (maybe still scroll down for the doodles though!) Vocaroo | Online voice recorder Vocaroo is a quick and easy way to share voice messages over the interwebs.voca.ro I like solving problems, and I also really like the feeling of making people happy, or at least un-sad. So VC’s big old diversity problem was perfect bait; an…

Most of us who hold marginalised, prejudged, underestimated and downright despised identities, but have somehow clawed our way to a seat at the proverbial table, inevitably find ourselves shouldering responsibility for changing the system from within. Whether formally or informally, whether by request or because the survivor’s guilt won’t let…

For the third time this month, I’ve heard free speech defenders warning us that doom has come to our world courtesy of “the mob”. This politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech, and we have to fight it It’s only in a totalitarian state where everyone appears to agree on hard topics.medium.com Sarah Downey’s article above is definitely the most coherent and comprehensive version of the case I’ve heard, so I’m going to respond to that piece and…

Dear Allies*, You will be tired. You may very well already be tired, and if you’re not, I promise you it’s coming. You need to understand what this tiredness is made of and you need to understand what it will take to ensure that it doesn’t wither away your new-found…