Closing out the month of reflection in the United States for Black Americans and their heritage, I found it necessary to return to my site for writing things out. I've drained so much energy and time into social networks, namely Instagram and BlueSky, with some level of reward but ones that diminish time and time again. This is routinely about what my expectations are with these platforms and I'm slowly learning that the longer one engages with these places (in a constant fashion; as opposed to taking breaks), the similar levels of disappointment (and developing resentment) that comes with it. From intentional misinterpretations of phrases to straight up fetishization of Black people, social networking has reminded me that it is in fact a reflection of "real life", the offline life; the world that choose to exist in and are able to curate to some capacity.

Sliding Back In

I've decided to pay more attention to the Microformats library such that I can unblock other folks from using it. Ideally, I'd like to get the types and library to a point of stability that I could have it become a flagship implementation. Taking it to embedded devices is something I'm very interested in doing. The approach that Microformats takes is one I've honed in because it enables one to use a Web browser - or a Web agent; meaning any device capable of talking with HTTP resources

• to both style and declare information. It's also less lossy of a format than things like ActivityStreams and the flexible schema system of ATProto's Lexicon. There's a bit of comfort, also, in not having to reinvent the presentation and interaction layers; it's "just" the Web.

Latest Writings and Readings

I've finished a great book, How We Walk that a friend lent me^[1], that invigorated my want to dive deeper into Fanonian ideas of decolonial psychology. It's something I've been more curious about as we've collectively slid into an acceptance of the destruction of the Uncanny Valley paradox and ignore the impact that such tools produce on a regular basis. It's perplexing and when things develop to be so, I turn to read.

I'm doing some cursoray research on the concept of ableism in the act of reading to confirm some ideas on it. It's not hidden that I'm an advocate for folks to engage literature. I do see that the most immediate form that one imagines when engaging with me would be that of a book. I'm not a purist of the medium that literature is held and consumed — I enjoy audiobooks, graphic novel renderings of books, video essays and of course, a physical printed book. It's not cheap to buy books — making me also a very big fan of libraries in all of the forms that they take place. I do want to make that more clear and look into making such alternatives more promiment when I bring material up. As with a lot of things under capitalism; the further it goes from a homogenous approach of use, the more challenging it can become to provide. That, however, isn't enough of an excuse to not try.