13 june 2023
hello world
Hi, my name is Citizen Eight. Not really, (according to the government, at least) but in my current precarious situation it seems wise to keep the corporeal form that sits behind the screen a secret. If one day I'm in a secure position I might reveal a little, but right now that security seems as unlikely as my wildest dreams. That's life right now for most people, right? I can't even say for sure I'll be living indoors next month.
I've been consistently journaling for a few years as a method of keeping my mind together as a deal with on-going health problems. My general feelings about social media are that I don't enjoy it because I feel the weight of public scrutiny without the social benefit that most people seem to get. There's a lot to get into with that, but for now I'm going to take the action opposite to what I'd normally choose (hide, lurk, build a better bubble) and instead maintain a persistent presence and see where that goes.
Elsewhere on substack I'm trying to write so I can eat, but the feeling that it's a job threatens to ruin my relationship with writing the way coding for your typical up-to-no-good CEO once ruined computing for me.
content with content
In future entires I'll discuss topics including programming, linux, old hardware, consumption anxiety, ecology, urban planning, alienation, the atopic triangle, dealing with the medical industrial complex, insomnia, vegan recipes for people with lots of allergies, and fiction. I'm working on a mostly-fiction book called The Anarcho Syndicalist's Cookbook which I'll post selections from.