This week in squirrels… From Sun Jul 12th to Sat Jul 18th
Summary
- Weekly Review
- This time with Pomodoro to keep me on track. Looks like the whole week fits in a single pom.
- The weekly note finalization and posting takes hours still, though.
- Streams~
- On Sunday, I found I am catching more randos, and it’s pretty cool!
- Then I had a great morning stream Tuesday to help psyche myself up for news the next day.
- Finally, I snuck in an overdue collab with a friend we have been wanting to do for a long time
- Dinner with my besties <3
- We all met up at A’s and had amazing small bites and got to catch up.
- I hadn’t seen L in four months now, since before her wedding. It was overdue to see her.
- Lunch with JT, trying to get back on the work
- Wrote another Go web app for routines
- I was using Grocy, but at this point, I might as well do my own, since it would lower my maintenance and operational needs for it
- Refactored all my Go CI/CD using shared workflows
- Again, the idea is to reduce operational burden
- Started redoing my backup storage.
- This was a Saturday Night idea, since I am trying to run down my tech debt. I didn’t get to finish it; that will be for Sunday.
- The idea is to create a new mountpoint in my ZFS pool to store all my Restic backups with some different options and a chroot.
- Health
- The dizzies are back in force, but I still have managed to not be a vampire the first half of the week.
- However, I am not responding after two rounds of chemo. I am still 70% cancer. The doctor says all my spinal tests are still coming back negative, so we have some options, mostly novel ones like taking an immunotherapy and then getting a CAR-T where they teach my T-cells to attack my B-cells. Then, probably a BMT, which is where I didn’t want to be.
- We start as soon as my insurance is on top of it.
- It’s been an exceptionally hard week emotionally.
- It’s messy, bad news. I don’t respond to chemo. It lowers my odds on things a lot and puts me a lot closer to my own mortality.
- Because of this, since I got the news, I have been extra busy at home, trying to keep myself sane.
- Filling my car cost 20$ less than last time, at least. Thanks, gas prices.
Books
- Carl’s Doomsday Scenario ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- This one is almost better than the first book IMO.
- The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- The constant and confusing exposition and floods of numbers and names in this one made it significantly less fun, but overall, it still has some great beats
- Some of the writing was a bit more fragmented in this one
Music
- “Dreams Are Not Enough” by Telefon Tel Aviv
- I dream of it often: a younger version of myself, standing at the bottom of the ocean; arms aloft, mouth agape, eyes glaring, not seeing, not breathing, still as stone in a watery fane.
- ThouShaltNot
- Now it is officially “ThouShaltNot” levels of times
- White Zombie / Rob Zombie
- I love to put the chronological discography of White & Rob and just lose myself to Spooky Man saying scary things sometimes. Since I got sour on Manson, I tend to enjoy Zombie more.
- “Original Fire” by Meat Beat Manifesto
- A favorite of mine
Reads and Videos
- The Count Censored
- I needed a stupid laugh
- The Pokemon Company During Pride! | Jake Blennings
- Guessing Cookie Run Kingdom Pronouns Part 3! | Jake Blennings
- Still makes me cackle constantly.
- Here’s how I host my own AIM server | Veronica Explains
- I am tempted once again to try and set this up
- I find it ironic that Veronica’s website does not load properly without a lot of JavaScript. No hate, just ironic.
- Generative AI in the sapphic fiction community & the value of human creativity |Jae
- I have seen several articles about this news/issues, but I really
- Cash/Consent | Issue 35 | n+1 | Lorelei Lee
- A breathtakingly well-done essay on sex work and how the things we do harm people who have done it, consentually or otherwise, from somebody who experienced it.
- Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment Map: July 2026
- A painful map of the risks that trans people have when they travel.
- The cost of saying yes has changed | The GitHub Blog
- I actually completely agree with the author here.
- Amazing thoughts about not just how the costs have changed, but also considerations up and down the stack.
- My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite | Andrew Kelley
- interesting thoughts on the bun rewrite.
- T4T Repairs Is a Trans Construction Organization Building Community From the Ground Up | Them
- Dang, this is awesome
- Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, its cartoon IRC curiosity
- Now we can all make our own bonequest generators
- AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever
- This kinda feels like a “no duh” moment.
- Megan Rapinoe Says She Lost Brand Deal After AI Software Flagged Her Trans Allyship as “Risk” | Them
- I am pretty sure lots of people also marked her as a risk and tried to reduce her voice by attacking her income. Of course.
- This is how you silence people: you put their income at risk for speaking out. People will not fight power without either safety or dissolution.
- Lesbians Masturbate Less, But Likely Because They’re More Satisfied With Partners, Study Says | Them
- This article makes a lot of leaps, but I also giggled at the fact that we are studying this.
- Games Done Quick ‘Excited’ To Work With Saudi-Owned SNK For Around Three Hours Before Pulling Sponsorship Deal | Aftermath
- I hate to see it. Come on, guys.
- After Trans Athlete Bans, Heritage Foundation Sets Its Sights On Dismantling Title IX
- Feels like a told ya so moment
- Apple’s big AI book slop problem
- Bringing back my series “yikes”
Quote of the Week
Being under surveillance of the feds used to mean something. You had to be somebody.