Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Etcetera

    Good morning, or afternoon, or evening, whenever you're reading this. I'm trying to make a habit of writing more, and I wasn't sure what exactly to write today. But I thought to myself maybe it doesn't matter so much what exactly I write about. After all, this is a blog, not an essay, not a book.

    Well speaking of blogs, so far everything on this little capsule has been only on gemini, but I decided to throw the rest of the internet a bone and set up a copy of this on the web side of things. I did already have a web server going for a few things. So I hacked together a quick and dirty perl script to convert everything to html. It's not pretty, but gets the job done, mostly. Enough for my needs anyway. Though I suppose the advantage of gemini's sparse formatting is that even a quick and dirty approach gets you ninety percent of the way there.

  • Ad maiorem Dei Gloriam (For the greater glory of God)

    First thing we need to state here clearly is the fact that God is the Absolute Goodness. This means that something is as good as it is somehow similar to God (that's why absolute evil doesn't and can't exist - if something exists, it is similar to God in the fact of existence, therefore at least in this it is good, so nothing that exists can be absolute evil).

  • 🔤SpellBinding: GHIYPSM Wordo: ABACA

  • April 13, 2024 - Saint Hermenegild (R)

    Thou hast protected me, O God, from the assembly of the malignant, alleluia: from the multitude of the workers of iniquity, alleluia, alleluia.

    Psalm: Hear, O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to Thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy.

  • choosing every day

    I'm choosing to live. At this point in my existence its truly a choice. I'm actively, as-in it takes energy to, making this choice. part of me takes solace in that fact like "I am putting in the effort and work to survive" but its becoming to the point where I'm spending every single spoon I don't even have left to just not die.

    I had a bad couple months and it just took the last of me. I hate it because it's so up and down for me. I used to talk about how I feel like I'm two people: steph and stephanie.

    Steph is usually who you get here. The sad, lonely, depressed, struggling girl and stephanie is me without all the trauma and baggage laying around.

  • A Quick Review of Garfield: The Movie (2004)

    As a child I was completely obsessed with 2004's Garfield: The Movie (I'm an adult now by the way, feel old yet?). I remember watching it over and over again on both VHS and DVD, presumably the film was put on by my parents so I'd sit still and be quiet for an hour and a half. Recently I ended up putting the film on for my Grandparents since they've developed something of a taste for children's movies in recent years. As it turns out I still love it, so I figured I'd slap together this quick review while I have an hour spare. So, let's talk Garfield...

  • in a stage whisper: silence, embodiment, and trans* archival praxis

    a university librarian at an ivy league writes for an audience of historians about archival silences, and introduces the notion of a "shouty archive". [2] what? i mean, i suppose it's an imperfect and relatively powerful metaphor, as the author herself notes, but i'm also not sure it's really all that illuminating of a point. "archival silences" do exist, and have been widely theorized based informed by the work of michel-rolph trouillot.

    i don't find talking about absolutes all that satisfying. i've been thinking a lot lately about the moral claims around access to information and the subtleties that get bulldozed in the name of impossible perfection. archival discourse, like the piece i reference above, talks about correcting silences, and the work of verne harris introduced the notion of "archival whispers", which trace around the absences and silences.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • GmCapsule v0.7 Released

      I've made a few significant fixes in the GmCapsule server, hence the minor version bump. My server (skyjake.fi / geminispace.org) is already running the new version, so maybe I didn't break anything. 🤞