Writing, notes, and occasional long-form posts.
One of the promises of RSS is that if a website publishes articles, you can subscribe to them. In practice, that only works if the site's RSS feed is actually maintained. While building my RSS reader, I discovered that 2nd Life Media Alamogordo's RSS feed wasn't publishing their articles at all, it was serving content from an entirely different customer. Since I wanted the publication in my daily…
This post is an index of what I subscribe to. If you've never heard of RSS before, it's one of the oldest technologies on the internet, and one of the simplest. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) lets websites publish a machine-readable feed of their newest articles. Instead of visiting dozens of websites or relying on social media to show you what they think you'll click, an RSS reader collects new…
On May 30th I attended a concert at Shadle Park High School in Spokane put on by Spectrum Singers, a local LGBTQ+ choral organization affiliated with GALA Choruses, a national network of nearly 200 social justice choirs. 1 The show was called Good Trouble: Songs of Protest . Outside the auditorium doors, a kid had a table set up selling pride flags for ten dollars each. She told me if she sold ten…
Supporting exhibits for “The Exit.” Use the index below to jump to each exhibit section. Index Exhibit A - Kaivac timing / cadence evidence Exhibit B - Operations Manager texts (Feb 12, 2026) Exhibit C - General Manager email thread (Feb 13–16, 2026) Exhibit D - Hostile work environment documentation Exhibit E - Resignation email (Feb 16, 2026) Exhibit F - HR resignation chain (Feb 10–12, 2026)…
Table of Contents Reader Guide & Context Background How to Read This Post Part I: Format Control Part II: Retention Theater The Refusal The Contractor Function Base and Superstructure The Three Schedules Immediate Resignation Part III: Weaponized Compliance Part IV: Tactical Solidarity The Anti-Scapegoat Line Tactical Solidarity The Five-Step Anti-Scapegoat Framework What This Achieves Part V:…
Author's Note This essay is a sequel to " The Death of Deliberation ." Reading that piece first is not required, but it provides the analytical framework this one assumes. "The Death of Deliberation" was diagnostic by design. It built a framework that demonstrates collective living as a material system of social reproduction, breakdown as a structural shift from deliberation to unilateral control…
Table of Contents The Record vs. The Work The Job Posting vs. the Job The Rule A Specimen From the Log Base and Superstructure The Control System Individual Survival: The Counter-Archive Collective Survival: Solidarity Across the Shift Gap Theoretical Justification: Organizers and Legibility What Comes Next Closing: The Takeaway The Record vs. The Work Author’s Note This post is the first in a…
Date updated: 13 Feb, 2026 A bourgeois state is not an impartial referee that occasionally “fails.” It is an apparatus that reproduces the conditions of accumulation and defends property relations. Courts, prosecutors, information offices, and “transparency” procedures are not external checks on power; they are superstructural instruments that manage class struggle, granting selective disclosure,…
The doors know me. The air is the same suffocating paper air. The catalog is never updated, only the arrangements change shape. REM comes rarely, and when it comes it doesn't feel like sleep. It feels like being admitted (again) into a private archive. My mind pulls out faces I've lost and rooms I've left and sets them under a bright, careful light, as if precision could become mercy. It offers me…
Out of Phase A reflection on loneliness, alienation, and the absence of shared life. Loneliness feels like a pit, one I've been standing at the edge of for too long. My heart beats hard and fast, full of pent-up energy with nowhere to go, no release. The physical manifestation of anxiety. Pressure in my chest, a constant alertness that doesn't shut off. Even when people are nearby, the feeling…