Sometimes I accumulate links in Apple Notes with a word or two of why I think they go together and would make for a good blog post. I’ve got three such sets in there right now: civility, class allegiance, and politics. Sometimes I can’t find my way into the posts these were meant to become, and so I just quote from them all and leave their through line as an exercise for the reader. In this case, I haven’t been able to find my way into any of the three of those erstwhile posts, and so t...| Bix dot Blog
Earlier today, in a reply to me replying to Manton Reece about all of the Bluesky stuff, some random dude named Josh Dobbin popped up to say to me: “Holy fuck, dude. What must it be like to be you, 24/7? To be pitied more than despised, I think is the most charitable conclusion.” At the time, I quoted the reply and simply said, “Oh no my life is over.” The random dude named Josh Dobbin then detached the original post from my quote, because the big man popping off at me in replies coul...| Bix dot Blog
This week has been quite a week over on Bluesky, where (as detailed by Bruno) CEO Jay Graber mocked someone’s concerns over the continuing refusal to ban transphobe Jesse Singal from the site by shouting “WAFFLES” at them, and then returning hours later to go out of her way to pointedly post a picture of waffles. Meanwhile, the site’s CTO Paul Frazee was out there defending the lack of a ban because “if the guy doesn’t break the rules we don’t ban”—a statement consisting of ...| Bix dot Blog
It’s been rumored for quite some time but it seems that Paramount Skydance is on the cusp of hiring the transphobe Bari Weiss to run CBS News, while reporting directly to the head of Paramount rather than to the head of CBS. Below is the text of the message I included when canceling my Paramount Plus subscription today. Paramount Skydance naming Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News is the antithesis of everything Star Trek stands for. I'm about to turn 56 and l've been a Trekkie for li...| Bix dot Blog
Yesterday, I left open the possibility that I am veering toward a fresh bout of autistic burnout, as the weight of the weeks piles up and I keep grading my state of mind at the end of the day on something of a willfully ignorant curve. Today seems to be hinting that this might not be the best strategy, even if it remains entirely unclear to me what other strategies exist. This morning I set down my toothbrush and promptly knocked over three things on the sink. They did not fall to the floor. ...| Bix dot Blog
These past couple of months have not been especially terrific for my nervous system, as I’ve thought about losing my pacific circuit, felt like I was dealing with a live grenade, got reminded of some previous bodymind trauma, and have been dealing with exciting new medical things. All along the way, I appear to be looking at my life and grading it on a curve which doesn’t especially reflect the likely buildup of psychic plaque. Last night, I stayed up late not just to post my IndieWeb Car...| Bix dot Blog
The rickety elevator opens to a steep staircase leading down into the basement. The last step is tricky because it’s actually a grate that folds down over a vat of boiling oil. Workers here are stacking prawns like cordwood, but I don’t eat seafood and don’t know what prawns look like so they are green, the size of rats, and some of them are twitching. Seated, a wizened old Asian man looks at me and asks if I’m Texan, apparently because of my shaved head, but I am not. Then he looks t...| Bix dot Blog
There is a sequence near the very end of the official “making of” featurette in the Superman digital release which shows David Corenswet interrupting the filming of his climactic confrontation with Lex Luthor because he’s not understanding why director James Gunn wants him to play...| Bix dot Blog
Ijeoma Oluo: You are racist because you were born and bred in a racist, white supremacist society. White Supremacy is, as I’ve said earlier, insidious by design. The racism required to uphold White Supremacy is woven into every area of our lives. There is no...| Bix dot Blog
Yesterday was a nonstop marathon to end a week that began with me being triggered by almost being assaulted, and began as a fairly normal morning, except for being the fourth in a row with the noise of apartment renovations upstairs in the front house, leading into a truncated therapy session, then nearly an hour of socializing with my medical transport driver all the way across the Portland metropolitan area from St. Johns to Clackamas, who upon seeing my Red Sox cap said we might have a pro...| Bix dot Blog
Today is the sixth anniversary of the bix.blog domain going live on the web, and so technically also the anniversary of the germ of the idea to try to restore two and a half decades worth of blogging under its umbrella. While the domain went live in 2019, the external brain that is this blog tells me that I appear to have first mentioned the restoration idea late in 2022, as an intended plan for 2023, then mentioned it again a few days later. It comes up again at the start of 2023, and shortl...| Bix dot Blog
Today by necessity began with an early Ride to Car trip to Sunnyside Medical Center in Clackamas, about as “all the way on the other aide of town” as you can get from St. Johns. My driver this time happened to be of the “take...| Bix dot Blog
Back in the Fall of 2021, I’d discovered through a research paper that without planning it my therapist and I had stumbled into what I call “unmindful self-compassion” as a way to mitigate potential after-effects of some autism pathologies. (It’s something I recently brought up...| Bix dot Blog
Last week, someone on Twitter asked their followers what lines have stuck with them or even become part of their personal philosophies. I came up with two right off the top of my head: “There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it,...| Bix dot Blog
Just over six years ago, I wrote about what I called the single most devastating line I have ever heard uttered in a movie, when Kayla Day—her head down with shame, at a backyard fire she wanted in order to burn a box of her...| Bix dot Blog
By the time I had to put dinner on the stove this evening, I was thinking a lot about what’s maybe the best line in the late, lamented television show Terriers, when Gretchen tells her interfering and uninformed ex-husband Hank, “You’re the live grenade in...| Bix dot Blog
Somewhat to be expected when you repopulate your RSS reader with blogs after months of abstaining from attention paid to the blogosphere, as the links come in you end up reading a lot of blog posts about blogging, because whatever else this, that, or the...| Bix dot Blog
Over time and in meddling with my feed reader I sometimes lose feeds and later accidentally rediscover them. So it is with Art Kavanagh, whose writings on aphantasia and severely deficient autobiographical memory were most of what I read after originally running into the former...| Bix dot Blog
The first thing that struck me about this research on gender was the person who supplied her gender as “meh”, because I once toyed with listing my pronouns as “meh/meh” but I was afraid people would misconstrue it as a pointed, wrongheaded criticism of providing...| Bix dot Blog
Your final look at The Finger It’s 2003 and you’re coming up on the end of your first full year of “stand-alone journalism”, doing independent reporting and commentary on Portland entirely by blog. You’re visiting an independent bookstore run out of a church in...| Bix dot Blog
The question of celebrating aside (it’s the primary discourse on Bluesky right now, as both Jay and the service’s safety team warn against “glorifying violence or harm”), you certainly don’t need to give a single fucking shit that Charlie Kirk is dead. As noted pretty...| Bix dot Blog
We’ve done this a least twice in the last few months over on Bluesky, and it seems the part of the blogosphere within my six degrees of separation is taking its turn: what do we do about things getting flagged as having been written by...| Bix dot Blog
More than once since my diagnosis, I’ve referenced Spoon Theory, posited two decades ago by Christine Miserandino in the context of lupus. It was picked up broadly in chronic illness communities, and adapted for use in autistic and other neurodivergent communities as well. (Before I...| Bix dot Blog
Over the past few days, Rachel Kwon, Manuel Moreale, and Kev Quirk all weighed in with some thoughts on editing posts after they’ve been published. Kwon: […] i want the challenge of committing to publishing something, putting it out there, and leaving it be. that’s...| Bix dot Blog
Leon (not a content marketer) dropped me a line to mention he’d had some thoughts about my public conniption over content marketers editing—or wholesale changing, it seems, in some cases—old posts on the websites they manage through one blogging CMS or another. It put to...| Bix dot Blog
There’s this autistic (and maybe elsewise) idea of samefood, wherein one of our robust defaults is to do just what it says: eat the same food all the time. That doesn’t always or necessarily mean that these tastes never change, however. (Samefood is one of...| Bix dot Blog
There currently are 4312 posts across 16 sources in the 25 years since I started blogging in March 2000. Further restoration in progress.| Bix dot Blog
My new, every day dinner My therapist and I think sometime last year was the only other time I experienced what we’ve taken to calling food exhaustion, this latest bout having cropped up sometime during the month of July. It threw my entire daily...| Bix dot Blog
The unsupported use case of Bix Frankonis’ disordered, surplus, mediocre midlife in St. Johns, Oregon.| Bix dot Blog
While browsing, I think, the #Blogging hashtag on social media, I ran across someone explaining why you should be updating old blog posts, and against my better judgment I’m going to push back on this from a couple of different angles. It’s worth noting that...| Bix dot Blog