fiction
IndieWeb Fiction Carnival: May 2026 Roundup
Three short fiction pieces
Asides
Stuff that doesn't really fit in this site's "technology, media, and democracy" remit but is here anyway.
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.
Knowing when to leave
I wrote this in my blog drafts well over a decade ago (exact date unclear). I thought I'd publish it as-is as an aside. I'm sure it was going to be an excellent full post, but clearly this is just the intro. I still agree