ash @apisashla@www.librepunk.club

they call me assless ash

Mike and the Mechanics "Silent Running" is such a weird song because it's clearly intended to be a commentary on right wing militia style radicalism but it does, at the same time, fuck

*looking up at an American flag on top of a nearby building that seems to be tearing itself apart on its own flagpole* yeah,

"most highly anticipated military action of the summer" mf is this sports to you? are you surprised that it's actually a war where people die?

*wonderwall voice* -but I never really had a doubt,
I don't believe that anybody fucked a cube for clout,

just internal backlinks btw. if I'd implemented webmentions or something interesting like that it would be actually cool. what I actually did only seems cool to me right now because of the sheer number of rakes I stepped on attempting to do it.

you would not fucking believe how much effort it took me to implement an extremely simple and fully supported feature using HTML and a templating script. I think I may not be an intellectual giant. anyway my blog has backlinks now

and I don't mean this to excuse weird unjustified leaps like thinking language algorithms are sentient and people are complicated computers, but I do understand why regularly working with things that give the appearance of volition would be persuasive

any philosopher would strangle me for this I'm sure but I can absolutely see why working with computers seems to persuade laypeople like me that questions about whether the universe is fundamentally deterministic or not don't practically make a lot of difference.

in theory a computer is the definition of a solvable knowable set of processes and nearly all of it is designed to be known or knowable by *some*body, but introducing even a moderate level of complexity to a deterministic system makes it do things that seem completely unpredictable (both intentionally and otherwise.)

why was I not using syncthing before now. I am an idiot.

I was hoping to add comments but most of the commenting systems for static sites are either Disqus, which is Disqus, or some kind of Rube Goldberg contraption like I was using before with Staticman before that shit the bed with a Jekyll update and I couldn't fix it

I'm hoping to add internal backlinks since zola now supports them but I spent a while wrangling with it yesterday so I'm not quite there yet