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sandybeach.me @sandybeach.me · 17/07/2026

I think the dam is breaking and I am going to start writing bullshit again

Screencap from xxxHolic with Yuko holding a bag of ice on her head and saying "Here comes a guy even more dismal than a Japanese summer..."

sandybeach.me @sandybeach.me · 14/06/2026

So are we agreed as a culture that the cloudflare "prove you're human" bullshit and other marketing like Okta's "prove your identity" stuff is a vast overreach of the data double and a huge threat to the way people see themselves? or nah

Screengrab from okta.com that shows some company logos with "Sign in with Okta FastPass" above them and the text below them: Secure all of your identities within an identity security fabric

Gain end-to-end visibility with proactive remediation.
Simplify your governance and compliance requirements.

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sandybeach.me @sandybeach.me · 31/05/2026

It was so fortuitous! I was just thinking I needed a numbered piece of art on my wall, the "JD SALINGER ANAL SEX HEART EMOJI LOVE PAGE" was exactly what pulls my office corner together. As also does the ████.

A framed print as described in the post; next a computer monitor showing the littlepuss press store page.

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sandybeach.me @sandybeach.me · 22/05/2026

new SLAY THE SPIRE 2 challenge: win a run with 67 cards in your deck; I call it "THE 67 CARD IN YOUR DECK CHALLENGE", can YOU complete it? tag 3 friends to do this challenge @corvimae.com @etchy.bsky.social @corvimae.com

Slay the Spire 2 end of Act 3 screen showing 67 cards in deck

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sandybeach.me @sandybeach.me · 13/03/2026

Picked up the xteink x4 a couple days ago and genuinely it's so much more pleasant to read on than books for me. Hurts the hands so much less

Xteink x4 in sleep mode displaying a "b" in the shape found on an estradiol pill

Xteink x4 showing the cover to Katherine Cross's Log Off

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sandybeach.me @sandybeach.me · 12/03/2026

Think I might need to calibrate my monitor, on a lot of the like 0.0008 colors I'd "see" a very faint dark or light line at the boundary if I moved my head side to side slightly.

Delta E_OK JND score of 0.00041. "Either you have superhuman cone cells or you got very lucky. I'm going with lucky. This is absurdly below the theoretical JND. Your monitor is doing something weird. Or both.

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sandybeach.me @sandybeach.me · 21/12/2025

Was it shiny for everyone??

Shiny spheal with a scarf from pokemon go that has "it's HUGE!" over it

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sandybeach.me @sandybeach.me · 25/11/2025

Top 4 at a Chicago Challenge

Pile of pokemon cards pulled from prize packs surrounding a lone Precious Trolley

Morgan (of the Devil) holding a poker card in front of her left eye

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sandybeach.me @sandybeach.me · 26/10/2025

@sickoscommittee.org FSU v GVSU was a heater today, game was decided by a couple key takeaways by FSU, only 13 points scored in 2nd half amazingly

Ferris State's Top Taggart Field packed to the gills with FSU fans, taken from behind the GVSU sideline

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sandybeach.me @sandybeach.me · 13/07/2025

This is my summer reading list; along with a fair number of papers on targeted advertising & queer identity intersections; is there anything I should add?

Reading list, full text follows:

Read this spring:
Worthy of the Event by Vivian Blaxell
Trans Technologies by Oliver Haimson
Rainbow Trap by Kevin Guyan

In progress:
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report by AI Now Institute

To be read:
Work without the worker: labour in the age of platform capitalism by Phil Jones
None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza
Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All by Robert Elliott Smith

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sandybeach.me @sandybeach.me · 04/06/2025

Have you come across the idea of "ambivalence"? Here's an excerpt from a recent book "Trans Technologies" and sort of just gives a word for the ending of your video here where there's that give-and-take from the current "vanishing" question.

Excerpt from Oliver Haimson's 2025 book "Trans Technologies" discussing the idea of ambivalence: Ambivalence, as feminist theorist Clare Hemmings (2018) describes, enables us to embrace complexities and contradictions in research about gender, sexuality, and race: “In imagining that we know how to ameliorate gendered, racial, and sexual inequalities, or indeed what gender, race, and sexuality are, it is easy to miss the profound ambivalence about these terms and the inequalities or pleasures that cluster around them.” In research about gender and technology there is never only one truth, and imagining a simple orientation toward these phenomena flattens people’s experiences. Hemmings (2018) argues that ambivalence is “fundamental to both the pre-sent and the past” and that researchers must embrace uncertainty and resist the urge to resolve paradoxes. Instead, as we move toward understanding inequalities, we must let go of certainty and singularity.

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sandybeach.me @sandybeach.me · 15/05/2025

@sgtmug.com kind of knocked this out of the park

Pikachu on a skateboard with a rainbow flag pikachu tail design. He's in mid-air doing a cool trick, he's focused, in his lane. Flourishing. He also has a little electricity from his cheeks. Good lad.

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sandybeach.me @sandybeach.me · 11/05/2025

Won the Good Games Chicago 2017 retro tourney today! (3-1 in swiss, 5 of us went 3-1 and I won off 2nd tiebreaker) With Golisodor!

Prizing from tournament, includes 2 series six rewards packs, a $25 store credit voucher with a sick Swablu drawn on it, and a 2nd place Mew League Challenge promo

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sandybeach.me @sandybeach.me · 06/05/2025

This image of a quote from "Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal" that @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social mentioned in The Anthropocene Reviewed has been stuck in my head, and I couldn't find it anywhere online, so I asked @yogcavey.bsky.social to re-make it! If you remember an image like this, please send it!