About!

I question my wisdom in putting this here, but here goes:

I am an ungracious acceptor of praise

I am misanthropic and mercurial, but I like a laugh

I have a dry sense of humour, but sometimes it's wet

I swear too much, I have a temper, but I do not smoke

I am a speccy four-eyes, I am crap at sport, but I am strong

I try to help my friends and family, sometimes I succeed

They try to help me, sometimes I accept

I enjoy my own company, even though I'm a bit of an asshole

Other people enjoy my company, even though I'm a bit of an asshole

I am a teflon skinflint, marketing does not work on me

I can think outside the box, because the box is a lie

I have been to warzones. I found myself. I don't recommend it

I am violent, but mostly towards myself

I have sensitive skin, but a calloused mind

I attempted to play D&D at my local games cafe, but felt far too fucked up and out of place

I am poor in the past, poorer in the present, but fine in the future

I've frequented a number of different jobs, some interesting, some tedious

I have spent time in various countries, travelling and working, from Europe to the far east

I've met many different people from all manner of exotic places, some I liked, some I didn't

The only person I want to be the boss of is me

Favourite Pastimes

I like visiting random woods, streams, and hills in my home county of Shropshire. I used to disparage the place for being boring and parochial, which it is, but the countryside is very nice

Favourite Music

I often find myself listening to Groove Salad on Soma FM

It has a nice selection of chillout, and Soma FM is cool, it still works on Winamp!

Favourite Superhero:

Tank Man

He can single-handedly stop an entire convoy of T-59 Tanks armed only with two bags of groceries.

Like most people on Neocities I'm here for the nostalgia, and to escape the corporate horrornet.

I remember when the internet was a mystical and finite resource; access was fleeting, and only possible at certain times and at great expense. Going online was something you DID, it was an adventure, the potential for discovery seemed limitless and profound - I remember feeling my heartrate rise when I logged on back in the 90s. It's been over 30 years since I first went online, and the web somehow seems smaller now than it did then, even though it's almost infinitely more vast than it was at the time.

Social media has managed to shrink what we perceive as the internet into tiny enclaves of corporate interest. What most people interact with today is no more the World Wide Web than than AOL was back in the day - they are gated communities, corporate intranets, designed to keep you hemmed in and dependent on their personal brand of data dispersal. People know the memes of their chosen platform and parrot them relentlessly like a weird cyber-shibboleth.

It's a vast clique of basic internet interaction that can be done from work, or on the train, with no real creative input - your thoughts go in a little box, you add a photo, then you press send - it does the job, but it is no-frills and uniform. A little bit of flair is permitted, but nothing that truly deviates far from every other account on the platform. It is limiting, and bad for us, it needs to be replaced.

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