Hi, welcome to my website! I’m a gay girl who loves cities and bikes and lives in 🌁+🗽 writing about whatever interests me. More about me (and this). My posts are available as an RSS feed.
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- Hindsight is 28c is a post about my late friend Hansel.
- Speed reassignment surgery is about going slow on a bicycle.
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I aim to update posts as my ideas change and are complicated. These are what I touched last. More about revision and dates.
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Pharos printing with a VPN
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Rewarding digital brainery
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The Power Broker is 50
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My first week of classes
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NJT Fare Holiday Adventure: Day trip to Philly
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📚 Reading
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert Caro
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Changing Planes
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson
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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Malcom Harris
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🌱 Seedlings
Partial thoughts and other things not yet worthy of a post.
I’ve been thinking about what it would be like to really embrace thinking in the open by publishing all most of my notes online. I think it would be a really interesting experiment, and I’m wondering what kind of effects it would have on the notes I take and how I think. I’ve been finding myself thinking through writing even more lately.
I’m wondering if a typewriter would be something I would enjoy using. My handwriting isn’t good enough to handwrite documents, but I think I might really enjoy typing them in a more physical way. The idea of a full paper workflow is really appealing to me.
Just watched Union Square Partnership security completely fail to deescalate a situation and assault an angry man in front of his daughter. They only stopped because a passerby de-escalated. You would think the people charged with being security for a busy childrens playground in the center of a busy park in a busy city would at least be trained in de-escalation, but the security guards were actively antagonizing.
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