I have been many things. They all lead to who I am now. A storyteller in fiction, memoir, and photography.
This is a list of links to various places I hang out on the web, gathered together in one memorable place. If you like what you find here, please consider dropping me a tip!
All of the links above go to independent social media accounts that interoperate with each other, that are open to different apps, and that do not rely on advertising revenue.
Think of it like going to a book signing at your local queer-run combo bookstore / coffee shop instead of giant chain stores or Amazon.
I try to avoid corporate social media networks; we've seen them fail to fascist takeover one-by-one, and even before that, pull people into toxic engagement loops for the sake of advertising revenue. Mastodon, Pixelfed, and other software built on the ActivityPub protocol lets different communities host their own social media in an interconnected way, avoiding the need for corporate control.
I founded and help run the rereading Project, which is working towards Arcalibre, an open source, AI-free tool for managing e-book libraries.
The rereading Project is built on the principle that books are art and art is labor.
Most things on the modern web take a lot of processing power, storage, and bandwidth to process, but the web used to work well on computers that were small and slow enough that we'd consider them disposable today.
This page is intended to be light on resources, mostly as an experiment or proof of concept. The old web is there if we want it!
I use "Xandra" as a pen name in some places. It sounds cool.