When the 2010–2015 era music streaming service Rdio shut down, I exported my library as a Spotify playlist. I put a needle on that 7,849 song-long record this morning, for the first time in a very long time. So far it’s been a strangely moving time capsule experience.

Currently reading: Kraken by China Miéville 📚

I have officially submitted my data-extraction requests to Msrs. Musk and Zuckerberg. Once I’ve received my severance packages, I’ll cut the cords. Time to say my final farewells to that chapter of the internet—we sure had some fun, but if we had only been more honest about what we were doing.

Working on a homebrew setup for a TTRPG next Saturday—Orc Borg for the setting, vibes, and zany tables, and Grimwild for the cinematic, narrative-driven mechanics.

Currently reading: The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben 📚

This morning I made myself a to-do to start making a personal exit strategy for Meta and X. I’ve not tweeted in years, I’m sure, and I only really use Facebook Messenger, but both platforms are repositories of relationships, memories, and past dreams for me. I don’t think I could just yank the plug and walk away—I suppose it need not be much more than exporting whatever data I care to take with me, and then giving a bit of notice to whomever might care to listen as to where to find me next (micro.blog, of course!)

Currently reading: Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov 📚

Rosy-fingered dawn at Dundas West station. Bound for Vancouver today.

Currently reading: The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock 📚

My introduction to Moorcock was stumbling over the Corum books; there’s something about his writing I find a little chimerical and hard to pin down, and I think that’s what I find compelling about it. There’s a lot of pulpy touches, and it moves fast, until it touches down for a brief moment of existentialist introspection, or suggests connections to older, bigger myths and archetypes. But it never seems to take itself too seriously, while still giving the reader some credit. Guess I’ll see how this one goes!