(This post originally appeared on hackers.town.)
I don't know when, where, how long ago I first read (and really ingested) the idea that the word "but" basically tells a reader/listener "yeah, just throw out my previous statement".
It stuck with me, whether I recall the circumstances or not.
First, a note: There's something at thraeryn.red now. Not much, but it's there.
My buddy Bæ Grylls said something that caught my eye today.
Okay, razing everything to the ground and starting over isn’t a sophisticated enough solution for some of you but baybeeeeeee…
Reform doesn’t go far enough.
There are so many reasons why I agree with his statement, complete with examples. The world's societies may have started as simple recipes, but each and every one has, with time, become such a complex casserole that attempting to pick out the bits we don't like is a task that could take lifetimes.
You should be viewing this at blog.thraeryn.red – any previous link using thraeryn.net should work for the foreseeable future, but if you set any bookmarks or subscribed to the RSS feed, you'll probably want to edit them.
I'm planning to consolidate all my various things under the thraeryn.red banner, and this is the first step! You can tell, because actually browsing to thraeryn.red itself just shows a generic domain parking page! 😅 All I can do is quote Christopher Walken as the Archangel Gabriel in The Prophecy:
Kink isn't an area of my life where I seek community. It is, in fact, one of the few portions of my life I prefer to keep quiet.