I recently read the best thing I've come across in a while, Amy Newell's latest installment of Woe. She's been very open about her struggles with her own mind, and much of it resonates deeply.
Something I've struggled with a lot over the past couple of years is the increasingly terrible hellscape we've manufactured for ourselves to live in. It feels like things are only ever getting worse and, reinforced by a self-selected assortment of doomsday thought pieces, like our chance to fix it has passed and we're all pretty much fucked.
I often find myself frustrated that broken things still work. What's the point of having rules and standards and ways things should be if it doesn't matter whether they're followed? I'm starting to suspect that the answer is that there is no point, and all those rules only exist to give us the illusion of order and security, which in reality don't exist at all.
It's social media. It looks and feels like Twitter, but underneath it operates very differently.
If you don't care about technical implementation details (like the vast majority of people..) you just need to understand that a “server” (often also referred to as an “instance”, they're the same thing) is a website where you sign up for an account. Also important to understand is that you can follow and interact with any other account that exists on any Mastodon server/instance.
Hi! 😄 I'm Kira. This is my personal blog. I write here about things I'm thinking, learning, doing, and reading. Topics vary pretty wildly, but the main ones on my mind lately are:
How to expand and include more people and types of people in the Clojure programming community
How the tech industry in general can be a force for good instead of evil in the world
Yoga philosophy and what it means to live well and do good, and how some sort of spiritual practice might be a part of that
I write software for a living, mostly in Clojure, and spend most of my time in Grand Falls, Canada. I work from home and have the cutest co-worker in the world.
I love hearing from people and talking about what's on my mind, i.e. the kind of stuff I write about here. You can find me on Mastodon as @kira@indieweb.social or email me at contact@kiramclean.com. You can also follow this blog on Mastodon as @kiramclean@write.as.
