Many old house owners have been left guessing “How old is my house.” This post will give you the tools to answer that question.

My dad was a housemover -- the kind that moves physical houses, not the stuff inside houses. It's a weird, very bespoke job that is mostly done by specialized contractors working with high-value buildings that need to be physically moved usually at the whims of a collector or rich guy. My dad helped move at least one Frank Lloyd Wright house in the 90s, strapped it to a couple of trucks and slowly walked it down the highway to a new location. There's some photos of it online if you look it up, I think.

But anyway, growing up around that has meant that I have always had a fascination with houses and housing. It's one of the aspects of life that is easy to overlook given the fact that buildings, broadly speaking, are everywhere. But every building has a history! If you can look deeply at these little bits of history, you can find out some really amazing things.

And what John was trying to tell Joanie was for the first time he was at the center, how dazzling it felt to be the sun an infant was orbiting, the one true creator of the universe.

bitter and biting and heartbreaking, as jenn's writing usually is.

This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google’s abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It’s about monopolizing access to information. A true Metaverse unbound by open standards and your ability to build your own corner of the web according to your needs and desires. Which – given how strong Google’s influence is on web standards – will change the shape of the standards for the technological landscape we are building the web on.

With reactionary forces bearing down upon us, we, the children of these struggles, must take on this banner and win the war once and for all. To do so, we must develop the means to secure our survival outside of the support from the state or any liberal institution. We must develop cadres that can bring the masses into our joint struggle for liberation, underground communication networks through digital encryption and physical dropbox networks, resource depots (which will form the backbone of a logistical network) to secure the supply of necessities to the people and our revolutionary fighters, basic physical and medical educational programs so cadre are fit to engage struggle they are met with, and we must develop cells within every pore of this country from which we can mount our organized counter-attack. [...] Most of the work of a revolutionary army is logistics, followed by aiding in the work of the people by acting as a pool of concentrated labor, then engaging in direct confrontation with the enemies of the people. The People’s Liberation Army undoubtedly harvested more pounds of rice and millet than can be counted in spent bullet casings. A Communist party is nothing more than the rationalized organization of the people’s collective will, for every gain of the people is a gain for the party, for every loss of the people is a loss for the party.

I always find it enlightening that Mao's theories around guerrilla warfare mesh so well with those of Lawrence of Arabia's, as I think there's a lot to learn from both sources. Putting the organization of trans & queer liberation into these lenses aligns a lot with my feelings.

In December of 2025, I found a used 2025 VW ID Buzz in Texas that was selling for a great price, so I flew down, bought it, and drove it back.

today I learned that upcoming indie game... distributor? Highlighter? Bundler? Glizzy, began life as a Web3 games hub. So that's not exactly related to this but it does remind me about how this entire ecosystem is stupid grifts

This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM.

Incredibly cool resource. I will probably download this later.