Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Notes about a photo album found abandoned on the floor of a storage facility

    Bunny and I went to the storage unit to pick up the Christmas decorations. I was grabbing a cart in the entrance to the unit when I saw a photo album lying on the ground. On the cover was a pictute of a teenaged girl riding a horse. Curious, I picked it up and flipped through the pages. There were you typical images of family but towards the middle of the book the theme of the pictures changed—lots of nude women at some form of festival during the day, surrounded by leering men. There were several pages like this and I can only guess that it was some form of contest for the women. Past that section, the pictures turned back into innocent family pictures again.

  • December Adventure 2024

    Folks in the Mervilles community have been doing "December Adventure" since 2023. I'm not part of that community, but I do appreciate it still and felt like joining in this time around, even if not "officially". The description for December Adventure can be found at the link below.

  • car speed classical

    I feel alone
    I am alone
    
    
    in my new car
    an old cd player
    taking my cds
    out of storage
    
    
    one of my favorite 
    a Beethoven 
    a song I'd like 
    to learn one day
    
    
    the sound system
    is quite something
    a real trip
    to blast too loud
    

• Politics and World Events

  • Social Justice Gone Wild

    I thoroughly expect this post to get many people's nickers in a twist. You know what? I don't care. I may or may not have too many years to live. Do you think I am afraid of being cancelled? I've been an outsider all my life. I've been in emergency rooms with people telling me that I nearly died. That's, like, the ultimate cancellation right there. Grim Reaper may cancel me tomorrow, forever. So read on and cancel me if you want, or agree with me. I don't give a shit, because I live in the US and it's a free country.

    [...]

    I'm sick and tired of people being compared to Nazis or segregationists or whatever for objecting to trans women in women's only spaces. I'm tired of it being acceptable for so-called progressives to use misogynist language against the so-called "TERF". Trans people are not being denied the right to exist. Bull Conner isn't siccing dogs on them or beating them with hoses or whatever. If you live in the US, you have the right to pump yourself full of opposite-sex hormones, or mutilate your wee wee, or do whatever the fuck you want to do as long as it doesn't impinge upon others' rights. You have the right to "identify as" however you like, and I'll defend that right with my life if need be. You can identify as Thomas the Motherfuckin' Choo Choo Train for all I care. I'll even call you Tom. What you don't have the right to do is force me to ride you around on the railroad tracks.

    I guess I'd call myself a TERF, except that I don't call myself a male feminist. "Male feminist" has always struck me as a label someone applies to himself as a cheap ploy to get pussy, and I don't need artifice for that. So I'm a friend of TERFs.

• Technology and Free Software

  • f3s: Kubernetes with FreeBSD - Part 2: Hardware and base installation

    This is the second blog post about my f3s series for my self-hosting demands in my home lab. f3s? The "f" stands for FreeBSD, and the "3s" stands for k3s, the Kubernetes distribution I will use on FreeBSD-based physical machines.