Tananda

OK I get it, BlueSky is a micro blogging site etc, but gods I just don't like the 300 character format. I know, I know - it's the paradigm of the platform and I should deal with it.

Its just that the limitation kind of forces interactions that feel shallow and performative at times.

YouTube video by Adam Conover The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow

Paraphrasing: Cory Doctorow

When we started the EFF, we were concerned primarily with bringing our real-world freedoms / privacy / into the digital realm.

However today, we are mainly focused on preventing the digital world from eroding our real-world privacy and freedoms

NGL this is quite possibly the funniest thing I've seen this week..

No google, I will NOT be verifying my age... fuck right the hell off to fuck-you-town!

YouTube video by ScarletWench Bodicify A Rose With a Whip

My friend @steveparke.bsky.social shot this video of me "Bodicifying" a rose with a whip... enjoy

youtube.com/shorts/brbJP...

YouTube video by ScarletWench Sillyness at the White Heart Tavern

Sillyness last weekend at MDRF at the White Heart

youtube.com/shorts/KSsMB...

Unfortunately we can't cut bodice roses this way during festival hours (safety and all) but it looks so cool TRAINED PROFESSIONAL, DO NOT ATTEMPT #marylandrenaissancefestival #renaissancefestival #re... TikTok video by Rose Sellers of MDRF

I don't do TikTok - but my bosses at the MDRF Rose concession do ...

www.tiktok.com/@mdrf.rosese...

Whip 29 is out of the wax and ready for first crack video… that will happen tomorrow

I think Feo is going to be pleased

YouTube video by ScarletWench Paolo Garbanzo vs The Sus. Bus

@jackthewhipper.bsky.social , Paolo Garbanzo, and @sescarny.bsky.social at the Secret Show, Sunday September 7 at Maryland Renaissance Festival - destroy "The Sus. Bus" (a.k.a. "The Struggle Bus")

youtube.com/shorts/J-RJz...

Date-night advice:

Going to the local bookstore and quietly moving all the dystopian cyberpunk titles to non-fiction then getting coffees so strong you can resolve Planck-time

YouTube video by ScarletWench Rose Destruction: Secret Show with Jacques ze Whipper, Paolo Garbanzo, and Ses Carny at MDRF

I put together a video of the "Secret Show" segment Jacques ze Whipper, Paolo Garbanzo, and Ses Carny did at MDRF on September 7 2025

Super proud cuz Jacques used a whip I made for him.. Rose Sellers Gone Rogues provided the roses

youtu.be/--rco0WFOUA

I present to you … whip number 28

Jacques ze Whip

This weekend at MDRF

- Hit me up if you require assistance of a rosey-nature

MDRF Roses / Rose Sellers Gone Rogue - a hint about our specials this coming weekend

Captain KRB I make multi-purpose videos about cool stuff.

Discovered a creator on YouTube who makes (made?) some really cool video essays. It seems the last upload was a year ago - but the narrative style - the bumpers and pacing etc.. just really good stuff.

www.youtube.com/@CaptainKRB

It seems that a lot of what I have to say these days is just negative - complaining. I try not to be "that negative Nancy" but with us being on the absolute stupidest timeline... I just am struggling to find anything positive to latch onto - when I do, someone/something always finds a way to yeet it

YouTube video by The Monty Python Museum Out of the Trees (1975), by Graham Chapman & Douglas Adams

Interesting random discovery - a 1975 BBC One-shot with Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=saxh...

... and going to deactivate FB for a while I think.

Social media and news are toxic - I was away from it for 3 weeks while on a vacation (sparingly used a couple of FB groups related to the event I was helping to run but that's it)... my world view was MUCH healthier. I don't know how to balance being informed with becoming Jaded / cynical.

The reason why there's no "Joe Rogan of the Left" is that the left tends to be biased against just credulously accepting any BS their guests want to peddle - He's the Art Bell of podcasting... Really not something we wanna emulate is he?

I was having some thoughts related to why I bother writing blog/content online. I think I kind of worked out what I want to do and why I'm doing it

digitalsorceress.com/b/2025-04-28...

This sums up my disappoint with iOS very well - I would be much happier if it was not true

This is not particularly new but it's particularly relevant these days.... I have often found a great deal of truth in The Oatmeal

theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

It's dated yesterday but It sort of took me till today to get round to finishing

Solving an issue of syncing bookmarks across multiple devices and browsers

digitalsorceress.com/b/2025-04-19...

Random Brain Penguins...

Again, I know there's a lot going on out there to be seriously upset about, but these little actual winnable personal battles (of no bigger world consequence) give me some tiny feeling that there's something I can control in this world

digitalsorceress.com/b/2025-04-13...

Sometimes self-care looks like getting really obsessed fixing a somewhat insignificant (in the scheme of things) problem.. simply because it's a case of "well, at least this is a thing I have some control over"

digitalsorceress.com/b/2025-04-10...

YouTube video by ScarletWench First crack - Whip #23

I’ve been on a whip making hiatus recently… I’m back with number 23, a 7 foot black and purple lead shot core whip I made for a friend

youtube.com/shorts/gNAoz...

I did a content.

digitalsorceress.com/b/2025-04-01...

Sadly it seems that all of the milquetoast gutless centrists need to get primaried out by more progressive candidates.

The Republicans are going to scream that every Democrat no matter how much they lean right and capitulate is the worst mot radical communist ever - so it's time to GO LEFT

"Men is too Headache"

I heard that one some time ago but it crossed my feed randomly yesterday and I thought it was worth sharing again. :)