Mike Burns @mikeburns@octodon.social

Hi. I was @mikeburns because I wanted to try Mastodon and it was the only server.

I have been informed that there are more servers now.

Awoo.

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I finally read issue 1 of Graceless, the anarcho-goth zine from 2011. They addressed the rise and fall of DIY, recommended radical goth bands, and called out the misogyny of the goth scene.

http://www.graceless.info/

> we demand that the goth scene be more than a black-clad reflection of mainstream society

Skills: detecting whether a 12-inch record is a 45 within two minutes of listening.

https://mastodon.technology/@mikeburns/102514436336947175

This flight truly had its ups and downs.

There's a subtle difference between "self-care" and "taking care of yourself". I worry that conflating the two will lead to the first being lost.

Anyway, I saw Hamilton.

Every day I see reminders that there are people who want to remove leaders because they want a more equitable distribution of power, and there are people who want to remove leaders because they themselves want to lead.

Anyway, I now own a sewing machine!

As I learn to sew as an adult, four things come together to irk me:

- I was, through society and directly, not taught anything coded as feminine;
- sewing, and all crafting, is coded as feminine;
- all things coded as feminine, including crafting, is considered lessor;
- living sustainability and outside of consumerism is, often, a form of crafting.

I see what we did there, and I won't stand for it!