Olu Online

tech ethics nerd. creator. solarpunk. anarchist. feminist. prison abolitionist. queer. aesthete. reader. maximalist. writer. foodie. technopagan. disabled. mad. always learning. black. extremely online. lover of lists. javascripter. weightlifter-in-training. amateur sewist. cute. smart.

[halles-comet]

I love when you go on a date with someone and you’re like. well that was neither wonderful nor horrendous. You seem Fine. I’m sure if this was the 18th century and we were gentry arranged married to secure our fathers respective land interests we would care for each other in our way. you would buy me nice horses that I really had no interest in but would admire how gentle you were with them and when I died in labor during my third pregnancy you would tell our surviving heirs that their mother was a handsome woman who never drank too much and embarrassed herself in company

[oluonline]

trying out https://aether.meadow.cafe/ and really love the vibe! i am slowly being enchanted by the small web and meadow's stuff has a lot to do with it! they also have a guestbook website that is delightfully old web: https://guestbooks.meadow.cafe/

[oluonline]

do any of you have favourite subsea cable or internet infrastructure related media that i might have missed? I am still reading the undersea network, tubes is on my list, and i have finished and really enjoyed networks of new york! i'll trade you this academic paper:

[boybeetles]

Someone in Glasgow please go see this for me pls. I will be there in spirit 🙏

[tinyglowingsharks]

Brief report from the flute accompaniment:

It went well! At least 100 people attended, families dogs a solid portion of Glasgow's trans community. There was a really lovely atmosphere, nice weather and a very cheerful celebratory vibe.

After short speeches from the ballhaver and the large dyke (my wife), the ballhaver was given a chupa chup and blindfolded (execution style). The balls were then duly kicked; it made a surprisingly loud dull thumping sound. She fell to the ground to loud cheers and there was a moment of silence while Taps played on the flute. The large dyke wore solovair urban hikers.

[polar-bear-butch]

Account from the Large Dyke.

Arrived early to find the crowd already gathering, so the kick got off to a prompt start. Following some introductions from everybody and some cheery folk music from our flautist (my wife!) we got on with the kick.

I think we got good contact, the top of my boot making a good solid noise on impact. Very good atmosphere all round, people stayed to chat for a while. Were it not January it would have been an excellent opportunity for a picnic.

10/10 queer event, would happily kick anybody in the balls in the name of community.

[alleesaur]

ghost cover doodles

[oluonline]

waste

make haste, not waste! or not, i'm not your mum.

[beardedmrbean]

[coffeeeandbaileys]

[pilgrimattinkercreek1974]

Oh ok so it turns out ive been borrowing grief from the future ! it turns out ive been preparing to lose the things i love rather than basking in the light of them while they last. Maybe i should nt do that

[wifehaver103947]

imagine cloth mother and wire mother in family court competing for custody of the baby monkey

[clothmotherofficial]

I Have Softness For You

[officialwiremother]

i have milk for you

[babymonkeyofficial]

Stop.

[kingsolomonofficial]

Cut the baby monkey in half

[omtai]

sometimes reddit is good

[aropride]

pros: it would most likely vastly improve my life in a multitude of ways

cons: might get scared

[byjove]

Approximately 50% of marriages end in divorce and only around 8% of trans people detransition (with 62% of detransitioners subsequently transitioning again) so I think we should stop infantilizing trans people and hammering them over and over with “What if you regret this?” comments and start turning that scrutiny towards people who are engaged as they are statistically much more likely to regret their decision and suffer for it.

[heystephen]

i saw a girl on tiktok who put her salt lamp in the dishwasher and didn’t realize it would dissolve, and it’s been on my mind for like 3 days

[heystephen]

thank god i screen shot it

[ID: a screenshot of a tiktok. text reads, “I thought I could wash my salt lamp in the dishwasher! You can’t apparently!” below the text a hand holds up the remains of a salt lamp: just the wooden stand that once supported the lamp itself. /end ID]

[haunteddollsgeorg]

[reasonablywittyatbest]

Ok you know what that's a good point i hadn't even considered???

[teaboot]

I hate to be that guy but in case anyone here doesn’t know, the electric components in a salt lamp are removable. You just pinch the two inner tongs and the whole cord and bulb pop out. So this still aint ideal but at least girly didn't pop a wet tesla special

[oluonline]

dishwashers are constantly asking for salt and she delivered. cleanest dishes ever after one (1) salt lamp sacrifice.

[theriverbeyond]

i must not get takeout. takeout is the wallet-killer. takeout is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face the kitchen, fridge, and pantry. i will make choices about what to cook and then execute them. when hunger is gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.

[retroactivebakeries]

“I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.”

— Henry James, after a request by the Times Literary Supplement to cut three lines from a 5,000 word article (via annadevries)

[iusedtobecharming-deactivated20]

Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!

[rehearsing]

happy too tired July everyone