#Blog

The Win Was Never Bluesky. It Was the Protocol.

The better question is whether we can stop rebuilding the same landlord model with a different logo on the door. Right now, our social graphs are corporate hostage files. One model lets you leave a pl…

Startup CPG Pavilion at Summer Fancy Food 2026

8 Movies You Could Never Make Today Because It’s Already 2 PM and Making a Feature Film Typically Takes Several Months, if Not Years, From Development To Pre-Production to Principal Photography to Post-Production To Marketing and Distribution

The Ephemeral Scrapbook — 2026.05.24

Bye bye Tim Cook. Hello John Ternus. The beginning of a new era at Apple?

Testing a Plugin by Writing About Not Knowing What to Write About

There’s something beautifully recursive about installing a publishing plugin… then immediately not knowing what to publish with it.

10 of Our Best Berry Bakes for Summer

Celestia: Modular Data Availability Layer — DAS, Sovereign Rollups & TIA

First production modular DA layer. ~$395M TIA market cap. ~45% staked. 7+ rollup consumers (Eclipse dominant). The data availability substrate behind Manta, Eclipse, Movement and dYmension — DAS crypt…

OpenSSF Notes Quarter of Growth with New Members, Added AI Security Resources, and Growing Community

Top Hacks for Digital Nomads to Make the Most Out of Their First-Time Trip to Rome

Introducing the First Cohort of the OpenSSF Ambassador Program

Detecting Malicious Packages using the OSV API

Taking Stock of the State of European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Compliance: An Urgent Wake-up Call for the Open Source Ecosystem

The Bovine Player Flag

Its been in the Works for a few months, but through various social sites and conversations one on one, I’ve been slowly going through designs for a Fetish Pride flag to represent Bovine role-pla…

Fetish Unlimited | Bootblack’s Eye View

Fetish Unlimited was a very unique experience. But when i was asked to bootblack in that wonderful Victorian library of the UK Leather Archives how could I say no‽ Being able to chat with a group of w…

Season with snow, serve under a tree

I was walking through a park on my way to the bus. A frying pan was sitting in the snow next to a tree. Pan, tree, packed snow.

So this is 37

So today is my birthday, and im passed the mid thirties into the “almost 40” section. So a little stock taking in life is in order and im pleased to say I’m mostly happy with where I…

The Gander Passport: Why a Sovereign Node Beats a Digital Bunker

Why is Gander connected to Bluesky, and why should you care? Explore the architectural shift of the AT Protocol and how Wingspan is building a "Third Way" for Canadian data residency. This is an early…

A winter country caught off guard

It snowed in Oslo. In February. You'd think that would be normal. It isn't anymore.

A grand celebration for the men’s national football team qualifying for the World Cup

I went to Rådhusplassen on 17 November 2025 to photograph 50 000 people celebrating the first Norwegian men's national football team World Cup qualification since 1998. Not because I care about footba…

Apparently some of them bring furniture

An older man boards an Oslo tram carrying a rocking chair and a pair of skis. It might be the most Norwegian photo I've ever taken.

Street photography in Taipei, Taiwan – when the lens stops being a choice

Taipei was the final stop on my Christmas and New Year trip through Thailand, Vietnam, and Taiwan. By the time I arrived, the 28 mm had been on my camera for weeks. This is what I learned about focal …

Gander Social Community Based New User Guide

This is a community-created guide, not official, not corporate, just here to help new folks get oriented and get comfortable faster. Gander Social is a Canadian-built social platform focused on Canadi…

New Gym

Starting a new gym has been weird. I am very much a creature that needs routine, so any big changes to the routine tend to throw me a little and cause an odd little point of stress (why yes, i am auti…

Street photography in Saigon and Hanoi, Vietnam

I went to South East Asia with one camera and two lenses. I only used one lens. Here’s a selection of street photos from Saigon (Ho Chi Min City) and Hanoi in Vietnam.

Street photography in Bangkok, Thailand

I went to South East Asia with one camera and two lenses. I only used one lens. Here’s a selection of street photos from Bangkok, Thailand.

Rage Bait Disguised as Patriotism

How It Spreads, Why It Works, and Why It Hurts Canada

Wearing Too Many Hats (and Writing Anyway)

There’s a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from context switching—jumping from writing fiction to analyzing sales dashboards to scheduling posts.

I’m not a Patriot

Why don’t Canadians call ourselves patriots? Because our pride sounds different. Born from Loyalists, peacekeepers, and quiet builders, Canada’s strength has never been in shouting, it’s in showing up…

Chronicle #011: Post-Launch Signal Drift

It’s been a month since Pejorative left my desk and entered the noise. The algorithms have already decided who should see it and who should not. Every click feels like a vote of confidence, or a funer…

Hunter October 2025 | Bootblack’s Eye View

There was something in the air for Hunter this month. Everyone seem that bit extra horny and that little bit free-er. Everyone Seemed to be able to more easily flirt and sparks were frequently flying.…

Boots Walking

So one of the shots i was hoping to get out of filming the pride march was various leather men’s boots marching. It didn’t work out well however, the gimble on my pocket 2 kept trying to d…

Photoshoot with Dash

Loved doing this photo shoot set up by @news@londonleathermen.co.uk for their photobooth day, The photographer was my friend Dash who is insanely good at what he does and always really fun to work wit…

The Bear Code | Queer History

So I have gotten asked quite a few times what the string of characters labeled “bear code” is up on my mastodon profile. This was an old, old bit of gay internet arcarna from before sendin…

Hunter April 2025 | Bootblack’s Eye View

This Hunter was a lot of fun. I really wasn’t sure how busy it was, since it seemed like half of all London kinksters were in Berlin for the Folsom Easter weekend. However it turned out to be a …

Hunter March 2025 | Bootblack Eye View

The times I get to work alongside other bootblacks are always a treasure. This Hunter Bootblack Joshi was again visiting, and took the early shift this time so I had a wonderfull time chatting and get…

Darklands 2025 Recap

So I am home, and generally working my way through the post event drop. I am a bit more prepared for it this time. But it is time to write down the highlights. Staying with family What makes darklands…

Hunter January 2025 | Bootblack’s Eye View

January’s Hunter. This was a night I enjoyed more than i thought i would. The reason i worried about my enjoyment is that I had already been out all day at a corperate event in the city. With no…

Gender stuff

There was a moment watching the behind the scenes show for dungeons and drag queens season one that had a big effect on me and kind of solidified in my mind that I was, in fact, non-binary. It was whe…

Humpday Pic

One goal I have for this year is to become more comfortable showing off my body. There’s a lot I’ve been unpacking as to why I am so nervous to put more explicit images out into the world.…

Hunter December 2024 | Bootblack’s Eye View

It was a slower night tonight. From talking to a lot of the crowed a lot of peope were having to do christmas work parties before they came, and others wanted to do rubber underground before they came…