Deep-diving into nerdtalk about websites, brand consolidation, and future plans.

Vignette: "Please," written August 5, 2026.

When you throw the more vulnerable under the bus, you don't get to insist you're still on the same side. And when you're not on the same side, you don't get to dictate the terms on which the people actually under threat get to be angry and fight back.

Vignette: “Verbatim,” originally written June 25, 2026.

Vignette: “Keeper,” originally written May 23, 2026.

I beg of Labor, at all levels of government, to give the country something better and more optimistic than "it could always get worse."

Despite not spending any money on it, a week in I'm finding myself playing several hours a day and have become invested enough in the story to want to see how it progresses.

In a perfect world, sexuality would be irrelevant and straight people could do gay roles without issue or judgement — but the reverse is not the case, and in many professional realms someone coming out as queer is detrimental to their careers.

Assimilationist queers are not a new thing, and every oppressed minority has its own flavour of folks who think appeasement and ass-kissing is the best way to save their own necks.

The right is lamenting that there will never be another person like Charlie Kirk again — we can only hope.

Vignette: "Link," originally written July 21, 2025.

I don't need to be sold on the possibility that the Coalition will make things worse — I know that they will. If you care about courting progressive votes, we need to be sold on the idea that Labor is going to make things better.

My debut sci-fi interactive novel is now available on Steam, itch.io, and the App Store.

What a fun time to be alive.

Every awful thing done because Trump, and his enablers, demands it of you is still an action on your conscience, in your name, and on your soul.

Not everyone is operating from a place of fear — enough are, certainly, but enough are just chickenshit, or self-serving, or gleeful collaborators.

Erasing queer history requires more than deleting text on a website, but capitulation here will lead to more extensive reality retcons.

This is really the worst timeline.

They don't make Nazis like they used to.

I'm not really sure how the situation in the US right now can be described as anything but dire.