Personal
Buy my house!
My 1925 Tudor on half an acre in Elkins Park, PA is up for sale. Here's why I loved living in it
Asides
Stuff that doesn't really fit in this site's "technology, media, and democracy" remit but is here anyway.
fiction
IndieWeb Fiction Carnival: May 2026 Roundup
Three short fiction pieces
Democracy
Happy 250th birthday, America
Let's keep building.
Asides
Two posts about writing
Ideas that spoke to me
Fiction
IndieWeb Fiction Carnival: May 2026
This month's prompt is "sticks and stones will break my bones".
Music
All You Fascists (Bound to Lose)
A collection of Woody Guthrie covers
Democracy
When the President threatens to commit a genocide
This cannot continue.
Democracy
An increasingly dangerous world
My underlying model for everything that's happening
Fediverse
Growing the open social web
A position statement for FediForum's unworkshop
Democracy
A note about personal security
I made a mistake last month that hopefully others can learn from. There are rumors that ICE is turning its attention to the Philadelphia area, where I live. I’m a natural-born American citizen, but based on accounts from Minneapolis, I’m not excited to run into them, and
Democracy
Remembering Beyond Vietnam on MLK Day
A good friend introduced me to Martin Luther King Jr's Beyond Vietnam speech some time ago. It was not well-received by the mainstream press at the time (more about that in a moment) but I think it's prescient and, unfortunately, timely. At the Riverside Church
life
A 2026 checklist
A way to build a habit out of what's important.