I’ve been trying to teach myself how to use Jekyll to see if it can help me set up static websites that aren’t dependent on a CMS with a database. My needs have changed and for the state of my webcomic site today, WillowCMS is very over-engineered. For example, I no longer allow comments on […]
Category Archives: Linklog
Linklog for March 15: Christchurch shooting edition
A terrorist motivated by racism shot up a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand overnight, killing at least 40, making this the biggest white supremacist terror attack since Utøya, July 22, 2011. I am not going to link every news report but some responses are worth keeping. Wajahat Ali on Twitter (thread): Let me quickly explain […]
Linklog for March 14: Lawns, honoring historical antifascists, shining a light on fascist motherfuckers and more
McMansion Hell’s Kate Wagner on lawns, which are a plague. Nothing in here that I didn’t already know except for the scale of ecological and social destruction they wreak. Lemmy of Motörhead famously said that they were the kind of band that, if they could come live next to you, would cause your lawn to […]
Linklog for March 6, 2019: Executive function, career burnout and more
Once again, I’ve left my links lying around for a week, maybe longer. It’s important for me to have this trail of links that I’ve read or found interesting (lately I’ve often only been able to skim longer reads due to lack of time/energy) so I can find them later, but also to make sure […]
Linklog: Catching Up With A Lot Of Stuff
I let the linklog slide again for about what, a week? I’ve been a little under the weather while also working on commissions as well as catching up on a backlog of errands. But I have been using my Mastodon.social account as a scratch pad using both a Content Warning and a tag for links […]
Links for February 18, 2019: Trans sex worker Skywalker, How to help insects
Star Wars Episode IV: A Forlorn Hope is an outline for an alternate universe fix in which the main character is a trans girl called Shmi. It’s clever in how it explores the ramifications to the original plot of the change from ‘Luke Skywalker’ to ‘Shmi’ – she leaves home just a little earlier than […]
Links for February 17, 2019: Metal confronts its Nazi problem, infodumping, plus new: non-linklogging
I skipped a few days of linklogging because I had other things going on and no energy. I may or may not try to track down some of the interesting links I’ve missed. Heavy Metal Confronts Its Nazi Problem by Colin Moynihan at the New Yorker is a good overview of the history of Nazis […]
Links for February 13, 2019: Fairy Play, Yorkshire cheese
Fairy Play is an interesting fantasy webcomic with focus on marginalized characters. It is also captioned in great detail and has content warnings. I’d seen it around before but hadn’t remembered the link. Now I have. John Bull on Twitter, writer of Brexit Adventures, also knows a thing or two about cheese. The UK National […]
Links for February 10, 2019: An Angry Gay’s Overdue Screed on Bohemian Rhapsody, Chivalry is not that, naked webcomics, Terry Pratchett’s Oblivion mod
Christine Kelley posted a belated, but powerful response to Bohemian Rhapsody, a Queen biopic I have personally refused to watch because shouting and throwing eggs at a movie screen is not my idea of a good time: An Angry Gay’s Overdue Screed on Bohemian Rhapsody. That’s Not What Chivalry Is by Dr Eleanor Janega is […]
Link for January 31, 2019: substituting Doctor Who, Season 11 stories with earlier, funnier ones.
I’m at a campsite in Southern Spain with poot Internet access, so I’m not going to try to post daily links, but this first part of a series in which Doctor Who episodes from the rather dire Season 11 are compared with similar episodes from earlier seasons was too good not to share: Adventures in […]