Tom Fucoloro

I still have a 10 from 2017. My goal is to at least get it to 10 years. Replaced the battery a few years ago. It’s still a great phone. I am just now starting get apps that won’t install b/c the iOS version is too old. So far, nothing vital. But I know the day is coming.

I’m not usually one to brag about how much better my tech is than yours, but my iPhone is so old it can’t update to iOS 26 or run any AI features.

And now the camera operator went back and forth between someone with an “I’m trying to meet my wife” sign and someone with a “single” sign and everyone’s going crazy because then they met. This game’s crowd engagement is unreal.

Also, someone showed their “No ICE But Hockey” sign on the big screen and it got a huge applause.

Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe and Malala are sitting together at this Torrent game.

LOL they showed Malala and we immediately scored so she has to come to every game now

My daughter doesn’t understand why the line for the women’s bathroom stretches out into the middle of the hall but men can walk in without any wait.

The equality vs equity illustration, except it’s the gendered bathroom lines at a Seattle Torrent game and the lesson is to demolish the patriarchy.

I created a new fiction blog https://tom.fucoloro.com/posts/i-created-a-new-fiction-blog/ ← New post on my personal blog.

A few days ago, I wrote in my personal blog and *gasp* forgot to post about it on social media. Better yet, there is no comment system and I don't even know how to check the analytics on it, so I have no idea if anyone read it. And you know what? It feels good.

Now that I know how to edit posts and blog styles within VSCodium, process those changes with eleventy, then push them to GitHub, which then auto-pushes them to the free (!) web server, I feel so powerful. Free yourself from the platforms and create your own blog! Raise RSS from the dead!

GitHub - 11ty/eleventy-base-blog: A starter repository for a blog web site using the Eleventy static site generator. A starter repository for a blog web site using the Eleventy static site generator. - 11ty/eleventy-base-blog

I tried making an eleventy (11ty) site a year or so ago, and I got too confused. But this time, I pushed through and now I get it. If you don't know a lot of about building and theming a website (I didn't), I recommend starting with the base blog theme: github.com/11ty/elevent...

In some ways, it is reminiscent of making my old Angelfire site in the 1990s. There's no active web server, just files already crunched and ready for your web browser to view. For this reason, it is extremely fast and immune to most web server exploits. But also, they are fun to learn and use.

Also, I created my personal blog using hugo and the fiction blog using eleventy, and I love them both. They are static site generators, meaning each time you make a change to the site, your computer rebuilds the whole site and then uploads the finalized html files to a web file server.

I'll be posting very short scenes, character sketches and other random experiments in character development and world-building. You are welcome to follow along (it has RSS). This is the kind of stuff I would normally have done in a private notebook or doc.

Then I actually did it: tymi.fucoloro.com

I've been missing fiction writing and have been trying to figure out how to work it back into my life. So I wrote this post working through one idea: tom.fucoloro.com/posts/modern...

A few days ago, I wrote in my personal blog and *gasp* forgot to post about it on social media. Better yet, there is no comment system and I don't even know how to check the analytics on it, so I have no idea if anyone read it. And you know what? It feels good.

A record player playing a record with the cover of a Love album standing above it.

This post is brought to you by this $1 scratchy copy of Love’s self-titled album. Such a good album except for that fucking misogynist murder ballad that also craps all over Hendrix and Dylan records and others that I’m forgetting right now but will be rudely reminded of during my next play.

I hate when you’re listening to a perfectly good record and then Hey Joe comes on.

But we embraced it as a long, overly-wholesome adventure game mixed with a reading lesson mixed with an emotional intelligence lesson. It gave a lot to talk about during the several months it took us to make it through the whole thing. I haven’t played another game quite like it. 6/

It is clearly written either by a child psychologist or in consultation with one. It’s very heavy-handed about it, sort of like those “A Little Spot Of…” books. This is not necessarily a bad thing for child players, but I’m sure it might annoy some players. 5/

It was a long game with a ton of text-based dialog. So the kid got to do some reading practice, then I took over when it got to be too much. She remembers details about nearly all the friends we made and what their conflict was about. I really think she learned some interpersonal life skills. 4/

I also liked the confrontations, which is the game’s version of turn-based “battles.” Except the key to winning is to better understand the person Billy has a conflict with and to empathize with their experience while still standing up for yourself. Choosing dialog is more important than attacks. 3/

The story gets really deep, and it was awesome to see my kid’s reaction when she figured out bits of Billy’s real life meta story. Getting to the end credits is very worth it. It sparked some big discussions about our relationship as father and daughter. 2/

The 7y/o and I just finished playing Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan. I highly recommend playing it with your kid! The game worked in so many different forms of conflict resolution while Billy worked through complicated relationships with friends, family members and themself. 1/

This is part of my cis man feminist origin story.

I was a teen when the HPV vaccine came out, and I told my doctor at my next appointment that I wanted to get it and he looked at me like I was crazy and said something like, “HPV doesn’t really affect men,” and didn’t prescribe it to me. (I have gotten it since then).

No need to apologize! I thought it was funny. And reminded me I should probably delete a couple of those that I don’t use.

No.