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This is my interstellar craft of truth and wit. Buckle up. If you want celebrity gossip, this is not the blog for you. If you want comfortable postings that’ll fill you with happy fuzzy thoughts about the world at large, or self-help guru shit, this is not the blog for you.
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Category Archives: internet
Jul
27
2010
Hate Lives Here
Yesterday a local Vancouver paper asked a question on its Facebook page: “Do you think more could be done to combat homophobia?” In the ensuing comments, a White Pride freak — who I’m really fucking wanting to identify by name here but don’t feel like dealing with the legal hassle as a little blogger girl [...]
Also posted in Battle of the Comments, Crime, Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, Ethics, Facebook, Gay or Straight?, Life 101, Lifestyle, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Society, Specifically Steff, blogging, censorship, keeping it real Tagged bad people, changing the world, fighting hate, hate, hate speech, homophobia, homophobic, prejudism, racism, reality, reality check, skinheads, what not to do, what's going on, white power, white pride 6 Comments
Come morning, everything always changes. New. Nice. No fuck-ups yet. Yesterday’s badness has fallen away, but it’s left me in thought — not surprising, given I dig thinkin’. And here’s the thinkin’ it produced on humanity in general. Sometimes we get unfortunate reminders of just how far-ranging humanity is. Good people, bad people. Ugly-ass people. [...]
Also posted in Autobiographical, Battle of the Comments, Being me, Best of Steff, Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, Journalling, Life 101, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Psychology & Moods, Society, Specifically Steff, blogging, keeping it real, relationships Tagged baddies, best friends, betrayals, dead bodies, false friends, friendship, internet trolls, kindness, mean people, meanies, people, real friends, real life, stupid people, trolls, true friends, trust, truth 3 Comments
A couple months ago, I proposed to talk about writing for therapy, how to kinda “go there”, via blogging. The conference was yesterday. It was an “unconference” put on by end-patients and people who work on the peripheries of mental care. Why did I want to get involved? For a million reasons. I’ll get to [...]
Also posted in Autobiographical, Being me, Depression, Dimestore Philosophy, Hygiene & Health, Journalling, Loving and Knowing Yourself, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Psychology & Moods, Society, Steff Rants, blogging, keeping it real, writing Tagged absenteeism, assholes, depression, insantiy, mental health, mental health camp, mental illness, pettiness, public speaking, rant, sick, small-minded people, spineless, stigma, stimatizing 14 Comments
Jul
01
2010
RANT: Elite? Who’s “Elite”?
Yesterday, someone in the Vancouver social media scene* sort of thought it ironic that I should slag “tweetups” as being elitist and circle-jerky, since I was avoiding the whole worldwide “Social Media Appreciation Day” thing that Mashable sponsored and launched right here in Vancouver. Apparently the thought is that I am now “elite” in Vancouver. [...]
Also posted in Autobiographical, Being me, Communication, Dimestore Philosophy, Facebook, Life 101, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Specifically Steff, Steff Rants, Twitter, blogging, keeping it real, writing Tagged blogging, elite, facebook, following, image, image-making, images, influence, IRL, klout, life online, online life, perceptions, personas, reality, snobbery, social class, social media, socmed, Twitter, writing 3 Comments
Jun
23
2010
The New Post-Relationship World
There’s a couple that have been long prominent in Vancouver’s web community, and last night came the heart-breaking news that they’re ending their marriage. How did the news reach us all? They both changed their Facebook relationship status to “…from married to single” within moments of each other, and with one simple “Yes, it means what [...]
Also posted in Dimestore Philosophy, Facebook, Life 101, Marriage & Other Commitments, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Psychology & Moods, Society, Twitter, blogging, keeping it real, relationships Tagged announcing the end, becoming single, break-ups, divorce, ending a marriage, facebook, Marriage & Other Commitments, status updates, telling everyone, telling your friends 7 Comments
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