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4/18/2022

• I tried to make a savory pancake. Simliar to scallion pancake. But using a lot of the mung beans that I recently sprouted. The first attempt seems like something my mom would like so I saved it. The second thing the batter did not properly cook so I tossed it. Then I ate yogurt and granola.
• I think I need to fry the mung beans and scallions first. I might also get some sort of protein to put in there to balance things out like fake crab meat.
• The tip of having snacks to eat so that if cooking experimentation goes wrong has been life changing. Its easier to cook knowing even if I mess it up I will still eat.

4/17/2022

• I walked to the closest Little Free Library. I even put in a few books that look nicer and newer than the current selection so they will probably go in about 6 months. XD
• I did not find anything I wanted, but I really enjoyed the walk.
• However after I felt really depressed and napped. I don't know why. :(

4/16/2022

• I made a black bean soup kind of thing. It was really good with tortilla chips. I need to really knock the salt down and maybe add some more veggies like corn, tomatoes and peppers but its a really solid base for a basic, filling meal. I have a bunch of tortialla too so I wonder if I could put it in a wrap if I'm not feeling soupish?

Reading Plans for May

Mastodon SFF Reading Club

• May - Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

Translateathon Round 6

• Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki - is a translation so it also works for this too
• Oksi by Mari Ahokoivu; translator Silja-Maaria Aronpuro
• Virus Tropical by powerpaola
• Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna, translated from French by Helge Dascher
• Goblin Girl by Moa Romanova, translated from Swedish by Melissa Bowers
• Freedom Hospital: A Syrian Story by Hamid Sulaiman, translated from French by Francesca Barrie
• Fruit of Knowledge: The Vulva vs. The Patriarchy by Liv Strömquist, translated from the Swedish by Melissa Bowers
• Poppies in Iraq by Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim, translated from French by Helge Dascher
• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata, translated from Japanese by Jocelyn Allen
• The Winter of the Cartoonist by Paco Roca, translated from Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg
• Perramus by Alberto Breccia and Juan Sasturain, translated from Spanish by Erica Mena

Negativity and whining

I like Mastodon 90% of the time but constant posting about Ukraine/Russia triggers my anxiety. I end up spiraling. I still feel a bit heavy in my heart. This was supposed to be fun. But its not.

I feel super disconnected. I've always struggling connecting with people But its getting to me now. For some reason I have a fear of dying and no one knowing, but in the grand scheme it doesn't matter. I wish I could get over it. I think deep down I wish I mattered more but I'm not particularly charismatic or likeable. I try to remind myself 'keep going for all of the fans you don't know about' but sometimes its hard.

Queer/LGBT Comics

I've read:

• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
• The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
• Chronin V. 1 and 2 by Alison Wilgus
• The Witch Boy trilogy by Molly Ostertag
• Apsara Engine by Bishakh Som
• Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Som
• Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, Vol. 1: Aphra
• Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker with Wendy Xu
• Be Gay, Do Comics
• Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance by Syan Rose
• Far Sector by N.K. Jemisin with Jamal Campbell (Illustrator)
• The Witch Owl Parliament (Clockwork Curandera #1) by David Bowles, Damian Duffy, Raúl the Third, Stacey Robinson
• Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

DECEMBER 2021

My Monthly Readings

Short Stories

• Spirits of the Broken Lands ON Apex Magazine by Kevin Wabaunsee. A fantasy story about snobby academics that think they understand magic versus what the land knows.

Articles

• Emojis Are Folklore by Jane Solomon - Such an interesting article about recording the evolution of emojis and exploring what folklore means in the digital age.
• Urban Fish Ponds: Low-tech Sewage Treatment for Towns and Cities - Low Tech Magazine is awesome in general if you are interested in lost history and possible low tech solutions for the future. The old can be new and useful again. Really enjoyed this article about managing human waste and increasing edible fish yield to boot.
• Scientists Unveiled the World’s First Living Robots Last Year. Now, They Can Reproduce by Rasha Aridi - We're well on our way to creating life in a biological sense (consumes, reproduces, etc) and no one is really talking about it. 🙄
• Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by Parimal Satyal - An indie web manifesto. Full of data, do it yourself investigation and numbers regarding data tracking. Also full of resources for safer web usage.

Zines

• Yesterweb Zine - Multiple contributors discuss a topic about the old web, each page in old web style. 🥰 I love this style so much and it inspired me to make my own digital zine. I'm still making my way through the Hall-o-Zine issue and can't wait for the third one.
• Addicts Idiots and Losers - I've read the first four volumes. Both able to be read online and available physically. Short, gritty and dark short stories. The writing is incredibly tight, not a word wasted.

UNKNOWN DATE

WHAT IS THE SLOW WEB?

• The Slow Web Initiative
• Slow Web Manifesto Collection (yesterweb.org)
• How the Blog Broke the Web - Stacking the Bricks
• a zine for the digital disillusioned (neocities.org)
• Digital Garden
  • 🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog (joelhooks.com)
  • A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden (maggieappleton.com)
  • How to set up your own digital garden - Ness Labs
  • How to build a digital garden with TiddlyWiki - Ness Labs
  • Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet | MIT Technology Review

My Reasons to Embrace the Slow Web

• I'm too drained and tired to keep up with most social networks
• I hate how great content gets replaced in five minutes with random content. 
• Algorithms recommend me random stuff and stuff I don't care about, I don't find it as addicting as others. Maybe I'm just too much of a weirdo.
• The way I consume content isn't "the right way" and its off-putting. I'm not a hardcode stan and most social media cultivates that for profit. Great creators that don't cultivate a cult of personality suffer. Maybe I'm petty but its insulting to both creators that are intelligent, creative and genuine and us fans. Shoot the whole subscribe and be a fan culture. Sometimes I don't want that.
• Live scroll is unaccesible to me some days. Sometimes it makes me dizzy and nauseous.
• I miss the randomness and creativity of the old web. Content wasn't created for a search engine on a timetable. People made things and search engines helped you find it.
• Less harrassment.
• Less fake social justicy types that weaponize our suffering for clout and are never around when we really need help. Honestly was there ever a fake fight on neocities/that are so common in social media spheres?
• ~*~FUN~*~

A Slow Life, DIY Media and the Indie Web

A Manifesto since all the cool kids have one

This isn't purely about the smol web, however it is the most visible and intentionally expressive part of me strangers will see. So what am I about? What is this space about?

My Priorities:

1. "Bad Art"
   1. Make
      1. zines (physical and digital)
      2. learn more skills like HTML/CSS
   2. Why
      1. creativity
      2. relieve stress
      3. learn new skills
      4. freedom to drop things that aren't working or that I don't like
   3. By Others
      1. Love it, pay for it, boost it, archive it
      2. Art from "the top" is not for me, not for most people, aims to instill values that propogate things that do not benefit me and mine, and a lot of it sucks
      3. There is such much beautiful art I will never see, stuff not made coporate execs
   4. For the young kid who saw the wonder and creativity of the old web and wondered what would be possible decades down the line. Most of that stuff is in the indie/diy/bad art scene, not corporate art.
   5. Links
      1. DIY Media – ~ajroach42.com - It’s not just entertainment, it’s a movement.
      2. One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent
      3. You Should Check Out the Indie Web - by You've Got Kat on YouTube
      4. 🛋 SOFA (tilde.town) 
      5. LOOSE POOPS | artist collective (tilde.town)
      6. coolguy.website
      7. Home Sweet Homepage
2. DIY/smol/indie/community Web and Tech
   1. Why
      1. I'm tired of tech designed to be thrown away
         1. Framework
         2. The Repair Association
         3. LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
            1. How to Build a Low-tech Internet
            2. How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops
            3. The Right to 35 Mobiles
            4. Why We Need a Speed Limit for the Internet
            5. The 4G Mobile Internet That’s Already There
      2. Web 2.0 triggers my nausea and Web 3.0 ain't fixing it
      3. I didn't really enjoy Web 2.0 like everyone else did. Web 3.0 looks worse.
   2. Because anyone can:
      1. Multiverse
      2. Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks
      3. Status Cafe
      4. Smol Pub
      5. Bear Blog
      6. Neocities - Tutorials
      7. HOTGLUE.ME :: unique tool for web publication & samizdat
      8. https://growyourown.services/
      9. Internet Manifestos (yesterweb.org)