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a stone well descends more than 9 floors, below ground, with stairwells descending in a spiral
[the well of initiation, at 'quinta da regaleira,' in sintra, portugal — december, 2015, by steffani cameron]

I have blogged since 2003. This blog is a new interation on my old blog, The Cunting Linguist, whose archives live in full here.

I stopped publishing it in earnest back in about 2015.

Since that time, I've travelled the world. I've been a freelancer.

Not anymore. I said ciao to an industry increasingly being co-opted and corrupted by AI, and I went back to a simple, easy, work-from-home flexible job with people who don't care about my politics or my words, and now I have the freedom and security to say what's on my mind.

This is my soapbox.

Most of my content will remain free, but I'll paywall the odd thing so I can get some of y'all supporting me, so I can financially afford to post on a regular basis.

But I believe in making good ideas accessible to the masses for free, because, so far, it's only the right-wing bankrolled by billionaires who can apparently afford to blanket the world with their hateful, divisive ideas.

Those ideas? Pretty simple:

•Trans rights are human rights.
•Immigrants make countries stronger.
•Freedom to choose is the cornerstone of humanity.
•Communities are being destroyed by lack of lease protection for small businesses.
•Having a home and a livable climate are basic human rights.

This blog believes:

  1. Billionaires should be taxed out of existence.
  2. Monopolies and tech giants are a threat to humanity.
  3. Trans rights are human rights.
  4. Generative AI is a concerted effort to devalue human knowledge.
  5. The Oxford comma is not up for debate.

Luigi Mangione was the tip of the iceberg for rage against the machine. My voice is joining the fray.

But this blog will also revel in beauty, muse on the human condition, ponder how our intoxicating swirl of humanity, culture, place, time, and governance make us who we are.

We can be full of rage yet love humanity at the same time. We're complex, and this blog will explore it.

I believe diversity makes us better. I believe technology will never replace human ingenuity. And I believe in us, all we deserve, and who we can be.

I'll write about that.

My pronouns are she and her. I live on the unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən People, known today as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations, in Victoria, Canada.