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 much everywhere since the shooting occurred, a little over two years ago—on stage at a Turning Point USA event focused on faith, of all things—Kirk made it clear that he’s an idolater who believes in the necessit...| 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
Yesterday I had the realization, as I was making me way through the second or third day of much cooler weather, just how much bodymind tension I’d been toting around during the hot summer days that restrict my activities and constrain my autonomy. Everything just plain felt much freer and looser than it had in months. It made me think of something I’d said here last month when discussing my pacific circuit. Complicating the idea of my pacific circuit is that through either resilience or r...| Bix dot Blog
This season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been hit or miss if you go by Bluesky, where I’ve mostly been enjoying it more than the general consensus, although I do think there have been maybe one too many episodes evoking, or invoking, something from The Original Series. What I want to address here, though, is “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans”, which the Bluesky consensus seemed to hold as facially transphobic. I’m going to try to tread carefully here, both because it wasn’t difficult...| Bix dot Blog
Over the past five years, at various points this blog has had some form of “on this day” feature, displaying blog posts from whatever the current calendar day happens to be but in prior years, if any posts happened to have been posted on that day. It’s among the things I’ve wanted to restore under this Eleventy incarnation of the site, and thanks to using code by Sacha Chua as a starting point, I’ve finally got this up and running on the main page, which also has been redesigned to ...| Bix dot Blog
It’s not often that I followup on an immediately-preceding post with an entirely new one rather than just tacking it onto the original as an addendum, but I felt this was worth bringing somewhat front and center, continuing yesterday’s subject of blogging and romanticism. During this period of repopulating my feed reader with blogs, I ran across Keenan on fluctuating back in June, which specifically had come about due to an intriguing sort of person-to-person blog challenge: Zach poked hi...| Bix dot Blog
Having suddenly found myself blogging fast and furiously again in August after two months of nothing, I somehow ran into a reference or two to Blaugust (a “festival of blogging”), which I assume I’d heard of before but in which I don’t think I’ve ever participated. It seems to come out of a specific slice of the blogosphere, or just an alien-to-me particular blogosphere of its own, which would certainly explain it. Today, though, as I sat down to reincorporate some blogs back into m...| Bix dot Blog
Yesterday on Bluesky, some rando appeared in someone’s replies to say these words: “If your trans daughter gets into fight with my organic daughter please believe I’m intervening just like it was a real boy attacking my daughter”. Emphasis added, because this truly is one of the weirdest attempts to coin a phrase I’ve ever seen. It made me think of something that occurred to me a few weeks ago, when I realized there’s a simple and easy way to tell that both the fascist unpersoning...| 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
Some folks have gotten themselves together as something they’re calling the Social Web Foundation, and I’ll cut to the chase: this is an attempt by ActivityPub partisans to rebrand the...| Bix Dot Blog