How I Made Thousands From NFT FOMO in 2022
You're reading that title and you're groaning. You're probably groaning so hard that you're almost farting and maybe shidding a little. But fret not, this...
OpenSim: A Grid Through Time (Part 1)
I am a fan—and have been for years—of decentralized media: the ability to host your own thing and keep your data safe from big corporations and profit-...
Neverness To Maybeness
In my previous post I talked about how blown-away I was by the current story happening in Wuthering Waves, and how much the game has grown since its launch a...
Wuthering Waves: A Retrospective
A little while back ... okay, actually, two years ago, I wrote about my first impressions with Wuthering Waves, an anime gacha mobile game that has a PC...
AI: People Are Becoming Lars Ulrich?
There are a lot of takes about AI out there on the internets, some good, some bad. Okay, actually, a lot bad. There's talks of the environmental impact,...
Chronicling the Nineties: Part 1
It came to my attention, that, while there are plenty of people who lived through the nineties, not everyone has the same kinds of experiences with what was...
Valerie's Complex: The Second Update
Recently I posted on here about relaunching my Minecraft server, and doing it in a way that's nice and cheap and not heavy on the wallet (address:...
Valerie's Complex
This is going to be a bit of a shorter blog post, as an attempt to return to some normalcy after the past couple weeks. But, after moving my website and...
Two Weeks Later: The Marathon
Alright! It's been about two weeks since a random person from a year ago decided to slap some defamation up on their account over at todon.nl, where their...
The Hallway
I signed the lease on a whim. The place was cheap for how big it was—a two-story in a quiet cul-de-sac, built in the ’70s, with wood paneling and shag carpet...
So Here's the Thing About Being Trans Online
You struggle with yourself for years. You don’t quite know what the struggle is, but you know… it’s a struggle. Then, eventually, with some adulthood and...
It's Been a Weird Week
It's ... been a week? I logged onto my GoToSocial account and was yapping like I usually am, and then I was suddenly notified that someone who added me to a...
From GoToSocial and Back to Mastodon
It's been a wild ride since I shutdown my Mastodon instance here on mkultra.monster. From spending time on Bluesky, and being disappointed by their financial...
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I Retract My Previous Statement on the Fediverse
So, just recently, I wrote a post about Bluesky eating up more of that crypto money, and wrote about how the Fediverse is marginally better, but only if you...
Bluesky Took More Money From Crypto Investors: Should You Join the Fediverse?
Firstly, yes, last year Bluesky took more investment money from yet another crypto company named, "Bain Capitol Crypto," and as outlined in another post,...
No, Zuckerberg Didn't Create the 'Metaverse
Over the last week, or so, or, since Fall 2025, Meta has been in the process of sunsetting their entry into the metaverse on the VR side of things, and...
AI Slop in Gaming: Nvidia's DLSS 5
It's been pretty clear for a while that most people don't want AI in anything. They don't want it in their refrigerators, they don't want it in their...
Bluesky Swaps Founder for VC: Scaling Up or Selling Out?
In a move that sent ripples through the decentralized social media world (or, at least, on Bluesky), Jay Graber announced today that she is stepping down as...
Bazzite vs Nobara vs CachyOS: The Best Linux Gaming Distros of 2026
For years, Linux has carried a reputation among everyday Windows users as a playground for coders and tinkerers where gaming was more hassle than fun....
