📝 New blog post: "Onward To Cosmic, And Then Back To Gnome!"

It's been a couple of years since I upgraded from a soon-to-be out of support Windows PC, to a System76 Pop!_OS PC, and it's been *pretty great* ever since. I've been ... aware of System76's updated "...

https://mkultra.monster/tech/2026/01/06/onward-to-cosmic-and-then-back-to-gnome/

#blog #writing #tech #linux

📝 New blog post: "404 Not Found"

I spend a lot of time *thinking* about what I want to write. I have a couple of books I'm working on, sure. But it's the blog writing I like to be 100% consistent with, and yet ... I'm not. It's not t...

https://mkultra.monster//2026/01/05/404-not-found/

#blog #writing #thoughts

📝 New blog post: "Dusk Incarnate is Rising from the Grave (And She’s Meaner Than Ever)"

A couple of weeks ago, on one of those quiet December nights when the year is wheezing out its last breath, I opened a folder on my PC I hadn’t touched since 2017 (that’s traveled hdd transfer to hdd ...

https://mkultra.monster/fiction/2025/12/29/dusk-incarnate-returns/

#blog #writing #fiction #writing #vampires

📝 New blog post: "She Bleeds Subspace: Meeting the Astraea"

I’ve been carrying this sci-fi world in my head for years now—quietly mapping it, loving it, letting it grow. Writing a whole book feels like wrestling a leviathan, and yeah, sometimes I wonder, “Does...

https://mkultra.monster/fiction/2025/12/22/the-astraea/

#blog #writing #fiction #writing #scifi

📝 New blog post: "My Return to Writing Fiction"

Returning to writing, and I mean, in fiction, is something I’ve been struggling with for quite some time. It’s not that I struggle to think up worlds, and characters, and scenarios. No, that’s all in ...

https://mkultra.monster/writing/2025/12/18/returning-to-writing/

#blog #writing #writing #fiction #scifi

📝 New blog post: "This is Me, Wrapped, for 2025"

It’s the end of the year, and I’ve done a lot! Of course, I *also* had a list of things I wanted to do in my Apple Notes, and uh … I actually don’t think I did even one of them. Seems, “Get more serio...

https://mkultra.monster/thoughts/2025/12/09/nova-2025-wrapped/

#blog #writing #thoughts #updates #wrapped

📝 New blog post: "I Bought and Played the Banned Horror Game: Horses"

It’s not very often we see games get banned from the likes of Steam, or even Epic Games Store. Heck, Steam is well-known for hosting some of the most depraved content you’ll ever see from a game vendo...

https://mkultra.monster/gaming/2025/12/05/horses-game/

#blog #writing #gaming #steam #banned

📝 New blog post: "My Bad Habits Threaten to Catch-Up with Me"

Since I was seventeen, I’ve been a smoker. I should warn you, this whole post is about nicotine, smoking, and addiction, and if that’s something you don’t want to read about, click away. But, I smoked...

https://mkultra.monster/thoughts/2025/12/01/vaping-and-smoking/

#blog #writing #thoughts #life #vaping

📝 New blog post: "Tim Sweeney is Probably Forcing Epic's Studios to Vibe Code"

The man who thinks using Linux is like leaving the United States for Canada, and also refuses to allow Linux gamers to participate in his games (see: Fortnite), also thinks Steam (a platform where For...

https://mkultra.monster/tech/2025/11/28/tim-weenie-the-fort-guy/

#blog #writing #tech #gaming #timsweeney

📝 New blog post: "[Second Life] Neo Machina is Online"

After a lot of deliberating and deciding, since I’m not really capable of just throwing ten years of work in the trash and forgetting about it, and because I’ve had *months* of work I did in 2023 kind...

https://mkultra.monster/secondlife/2025/11/25/neo-machine-4/

#blog #writing #secondlife #neomachina #virtualworlds

📝 New blog post: "[REVOSA]: Should It Stay, or Should It Go?"

I’m at this impasse with my Second Life store, and I just can’t make a decision. If you’ve read my blog at all over the past year or more, even, you already know I’ve shut it down, and then opened it ...

https://mkultra.monster/secondlife/2025/11/19/sl-store-i-dunno/

#blog #writing #secondlife #revosa #virtualworlds

📝 New blog post: "Why is Wafrn Blocking Multiple Trans Fediverse Instances?"

In early October, I stepped down from my moderator position over at app.wafrn.net, which also followed me deleting my accounts and moving onward with my own instance/s. I detailed that this was someth...

https://mkultra.monster/discourse/2025/11/18/wafrn-wtf/

#blog #writing #socialmedia #fediverse #wafrn

📝 New blog post: "Mozilla's Secret Web Scraper Service"

Mozilla this, Mozilla that. The Mozilla corporation hates you. It hates its userbase. Mozilla desperately wants you to *stop* using the Firefox browser. It seems every single day they’re coming up wit...

https://mkultra.monster/tech/2025/11/17/mozilla-the-scraper/

#blog #writing #tech #mozilla #ai

📝 New blog post: "Storage Woes and Almost Catastrophes"

Today I discovered something new about Linux, or maybe just Pop!_OS itself, since that’s nearly the only distro I’ve used, besides Debian (on a repurposed Dell). And, let me tell you, this wouldn’t be...

https://mkultra.monster/thoughts/2025/11/16/storage-woes/

#blog #writing #thoughts #gaming #linux

📝 New blog post: "Microsoft Announces They'll Start Selling PCs"

Much to nobody's surprise, after selling a handheld Xbox for one thousand United States dollar-eenoes, filling Windows 11 with all of the worst back-door bots, malware, and privacy invasion tech, kill...

https://mkultra.monster/gaming/2025/10/23/xbox-premium-plus/

#blog #writing #gaming #xbox

📝 New blog post: "People Are Still Very Angry the Fediverse Exists"

Nevermind the title of this post. I couldn't think of anything catchy, or witty, mostly because I'm running on the five hours of sleep my brain allowed me to have, and I'm jittery with the excitement ...

https://mkultra.monster/social-media/2025/10/22/mastodon-and-the-fedi/

#blog #writing #social-media #fediverse #mastodon

📝 New blog post: "The Sims Mobile: Shutting Down, Starting Today"

I've referenced having written about games I've enjoyed becoming lost media a couple of times now. How this wouldn't have to happen if these studios just put a little bit of effort into releasing an o...

https://mkultra.monster/gaming/2025/10/20/sims-mobile-gone/

#blog #writing #gaming #the-sims #thesimsmobile

📝 New blog post: "Discover the Fediverse"

Yes, I've still got four tracks left to construct for my next album that'll be releasing here in a few weeks. Don't worry! I feel like I can get it done. That aside, I've been working on this thing fo...

https://mkultra.monster/social-media/2025/10/14/discover-fedi/

#blog #writing #social-media #fediverse

📝 New blog post: "disc eRROR 19​.​92 ~DE​-​LUX, This Halloween"

So, two weeks ago, I managed to finish a bunch of tracks for my next album. This included a lot of digging up old stuff I started a year ago that I had once dropped due to lack of inspiration. And the...

https://mkultra.monster/music/2025/10/12/disc-error-1992/

#blog #writing #music #eyeshadow2600fm

📝 New blog post: "Pokemon Go to the Social"

I’ve been having continuing second thoughts on even remotely participating in Bluesky, largely due to the fact that the CEO is now pulling a Lowtax and banning people for criticizing her. You know, am...

https://mkultra.monster/social-media/2025/10/06/go-to-the-social/

#blog #writing #social-media #gotosocial #bluesky

📝 New blog post: "Reminder: Windows 10 Ends on October 14th"

In the past year here, I've casually mentioned how much Windows has moved *away* from being consumer-friendly, and more inched closer and closer to being probably the *most hostile* operating system t...

https://mkultra.monster/tech/2025/09/22/windows-10-end-of-life/

#blog #writing #tech #windows #microsoft

📝 New blog post: "Bluesky, Decentralized? Switching to a PDS"

Today, I was curious about just exactly *how hard* it would be to setup my own Bluesky PDS via a Digital Ocean VPS. I already had a domain that I grabbed a while back (mkultra.social), because it was ...

https://mkultra.monster/social-media/2025/09/08/switching-to-pds/

#blog #writing #social-media #bluesky

📝 New blog post: "You've Got Mail!"

Do you ever find yourself checking your e-mail, only, you're not checking it to see if anyone's trying to speak to you, or if someone you know has sent something. You're checking it because the bubble...

https://mkultra.monster/thoughts/2025/09/06/youve-got-mail/

#blog #writing #thoughts #internet

I open the app every so often, don’t always know what to say though

I’ve been waiting for an invite to Alby wallet since Damus connects directly to it, but according to the Nostr subreddit they’re getting rid of the free tier 😂 dang man, okay