Were I Building Something To Kill Nextdoor

Back in November, New_ Public announced their Nextdoor-killer, called Roundabout. Or, if you’d rather, their competitor to the other Nextdoor-killer, called Front Porch Forum. Like with many things that happened in the midst of my months-long autistic burnout, I’d been unconsciously noodling on what I’d expect from any software that hopes to make sense of neighborhood conversations. The other day, I woke to a list of specific things I apparently had in mind.

For Reference

Jack just removed analytics from his website, and it got to percolating in the back of my mind over the course of the day until I realized that there is only one piece of data I’m interested in: referers.

On Nibbling Nuggets Of Nuance

While I’ve been off trying to process my way through around nearly 2,500 posts from my furiousnads.com era, which has left very little room to contemplate anything else worth my interest, there have been some followups to a post by Manu which I’d taken to task for (yet again) using a ridiculous example that obscures any point he might be trying to make.

It’s Happening Here

It’s funny how after decades of conservative, right-wing Republican fetish fantasies of fighting a new civil war, when it arrived they were all on the side of the authoritarian government and its masked force of federal secret police shooting people dead in the streets under the orders of a wannabe Himmler strutting around in a dime-store cosplay Schutzstaffe coat who throws tear gas canisters upwind, all because a doddering morally arthritic reprobate couldn’t stand the idea of living in a country where a Black man became president just twice in two hundred and fifty years. No more of redcaps crying that they didn’t vote for this, instead of owning up to the fact that they simply didn’t care enough about other people to pay the attention required to understand that they very much were voting for this. (We told you. We told you in 2015. We’ve told every every year since. But, no, please tell me more about the evils of Obamacare.) Defund and dismantle every last part of ICE, prosecute every single agent, prosecute all of their bosses, and impeach anyone and everyone inside the Beltway with a hand in this. Oh, and fuck the Taft-Hartley Act: it’s time for a general strike.

The Curious Fads Of Spurious Lads

Thanks to the Node package wordpress-to-markdown, I’ll be resuming work on the blog restoration project. Over the next several days (or more likely weeks), I’ll be focusing on importing posts from my old furiousnads.com blog, which ran first between 2005 and 2009 and then again from 2010 to 2013. All told, this appears to account for something around 2,500 posts.

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