Just published a new piece on @ptbocurrents.bsky.social, all about Alderville First Nation's attempts to establish legal personhood status for Rice Lake. Check it out: peterboroughcurrents.ca/environment/...

This past year, I had the chance to volunteer on thee Programming Advisory Committee for the ReFrame Film Festival. Now, with the festival less than a week away, I thought I'd share my personal picks from the festival. Read it on @ptbocurrents.bsky.social! peterboroughcurrents.ca/arts/reframe...

New post up on my newsletter, Over the Walled Garden. Diving deep into the surveillance apparatus of ICE, and what it tells us about the modern world. gabeisyourgod.substack.com/p/what-does-...

I wrote in @ptbocurrents.bsky.social about strong mayor powers and two examples of how they're being used in Peterborough. peterboroughcurrents.ca/news/two-str...

Is there a way to keep old computers running and out of the landfill? Am I going to break my laptop? What's a Linux? Read the latest post on my newsletter, Over the Walled Garden. gabeisyourgod.substack.com/p/de-googlin...

I just published a new long piece on the @ptbocurrents.bsky.social website! The Ptbo police budget keeps rising - but why? What are the factors contributing to its growth? Is it reducing crime? And are the other options we could be funding to keep us safe? peterboroughcurrents.ca/in-depth/pol...

Read the latest post on Over the Walled Garden. Find out about alternate ways to get apps onto your phone (and how Google is about to ruin it all). gabeisyourgod.substack.com/p/de-googlin...

I just published my first full article on the Peterborough Currents website as co editor! peterboroughcurrents.ca/in-depth/cur...

Excited to announce that Dave Tough and I are the new co-editors of @ptbocurrents.bsky.social! I’ve admired Currents from afar (and been a monthly donor) for years, and I’m honoured that Will + the Currents/PALN team are trusting us with their baby. peterboroughcurrents.ca/announcement...

New post is up on my newsletter, Over the Walled Garden. We're talking cookies and the other ways your activity on the internet gets tracked. gabeisyourgod.substack.com/p/the-devil-... SUBSCRIBE to get future posts right to your email inbox.

New post on Over the Walled Garden! It's the second (and final) half of my exploration is American tech companies in China, as Facebook gives it a go (and Google tries again). gabeisyourgod.substack.com/p/the-proble...

Read my latest post on Over the Walled Garden, on Google's misadventures in China, and how a company breaks its own values. gabeisyourgod.substack.com/p/the-proble...

Do I trust Google more or less than the collective wisdom of internet strangers? Read the latest post on my newsletter, Over the Walled Garden. gabeisyourgod.substack.com/p/de-googlin...

I failed to mention this in my Over the Walled Garden post about alternative search engines, but it's recently been brought to my attention that the DuckDuckGo logo puts on little hats depending on what you search for. (Thank you Trailmixen for this essential info.)

Did you hear? We've re-invented feudalism! Read the latest post on my newsletter, Over the Walled Garden. gabeisyourgod.substack.com/p/on-middlem...

Thank you to thee @garbageface.bsky.social for giving Over the Walled Garden a shout in his excellent monthly newsletter Under the Full Moon! 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Sometimes I'll scoop up my cat and hold her tight. She lets it happen (at least for a little bit), but while I'm holding her, she'll often be licking my arm. So both of us are showing affection to the other one, in a way the other one finds annoying. We’re both annoying!

Why can I run Doom on a refrigerator, but I can't get FaceTime on my Android? My latest post on Over the Walled Garden is about hackers, DRM, malware, and a three-decade effort to keep a computer game alive. gabeisyourgod.substack.com/p/can-it-run...

Sometimes technology is marvelous, sometimes it's creepy - and sometimes it's both at once. Read my latest post on Over the Walled Garden, and subscribe to get future posts in your email inbox. open.substack.com/pub/gabeisyo...

New post up on my newsletter, Over the Walled Garden. On getting my data out of America, and realizing just how hard it's going to be to extricate myself from Google Drive. gabeisyourgod.substack.com/p/de-googlin... SUBSCRIBE to get future posts directly in your email.

New post is up on my newsletter, Over the Walled Garden. On the origins of the free software movement, and what happens when engineers try to talk to real people. gabeisyourgod.substack.com/p/libre-not-...

I'm reading this book about the internet, and mostly it's good, but every once in a while, it will drop the most old-man shit I've ever heard. Here, the author describes popular online entertainment during the 2020 COVID lockdowns:

New post is up on my newsletter, Over the Walled Garden! This week, we're delving into alternative search engines. As it turns out, there's a whole world of choices. open.substack.com/pub/gabeisyo...

is it wrong to fact-check a library book?

New post up on my newsletter, Over the Walled Garden. A brief history of Google Search, and how an internet institution collapsed under its own weight. open.substack.com/pub/gabeisyo... SUBSCRIBE to get new posts directly in your email inbox.

In my latest post on Over the Walled Garden, I use the word "Google" 76 times. I say "Google" more than "the." I'm kinda proud of that.

Food for thought from @gabeisyourgod.bsky.social. The list is a little shocking when you see how many apps keep us tied to Google. I have weaned myself off a lot of the Google, but gmail and maps are hard to let go.

Read the latest post on my newsletter, Over the Walled Garden. How tech companies invite us in, then lock the gates. Plus: taking stock of my own reliance on Google. open.substack.com/pub/gabeisyo...

This year I decided to remove Google from my life. Now I’m writing about it in a new #subatack newsletter, Over the Walled Garden. Join me as I examine my relationship to big American tech, explore alternatives, and discover the strange world of the open internet. gabeisyourgod.substack.com

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So excited to be featured in Peterborough Currents' first-ever print magazine!! I wrote a couple lil pieces: a review of The Silver Hearts' The Man Who Has No Country, and a preview of Spencer Harrison's Museum of Closetry, on now at the Art Gallery of Peterborough.

I wrote about local vinyl for Peterborough Currents!

#Ptbo musicians! Did you relase new music on VINYL in 2024? Let me know, I'm writing an article.

sinus infection thinks it's tough, but it doesn't know, i have MODERN WESTERN ANTIBIOTICS. i don't care, i'm going nuclear on my own microbiome. what i'm about to unleash is going lead to a new wave of apocalyptic fiction in my gut flora

Every podcast I don’t listen to is called “Achieving the Limit with Duff and Ween” and gets sold for 300 million dollars while every podcast I do listen to is called “The Movie Toilet” and begs me to buy a t shirt so they can eat food

Wow! It's been an incredible 12 months at Currents. Our growing donor base enabled us to publish more journalism than ever before. There have been growing pains. (There still are!) But we're proud of this year's work and bullish on the future. peterboroughcurrents.ca/announcement...

I made a list

why is it so important for @joerogantop.bsky.social to let all of bluesky know he's a top

Does anyone else feel like the days are getting shorter and the Sun has maybe forsaken us, and maybe it's time to like sacrifice an animal to appease it or something? Is that crazy?

When you want to tease out a reveal over several paragraphs, but you're writing a horror novel with a serial killer in it, so it's blatantly obvious what's going on from the start

I've written a new short horror story. It’s set in the 90s, it’s all about cinema-going, and It takes the form of a Letterboxd account. If you want to read it, you can start here, with this bio: letterboxd.com/martin_smovi...

me and my boys

✨End of #NaNoWriMo update✨ -I didn't successfully write an entire novel in November, but I did write a lot. -By some minor miracle, I actually don't hate everything I've written???????? -I plan to keep working on it, and if/when there's something worth sharing, I will.