In this era of "Stream Everything, Possess Nothing", whatever happened to companies like Magnatune? concertinawired.com/2025/12/11

In this issue of Concertina Wired Xial discusses the concept of a "University of the People" behind the wire to get better access to education, the technical hurdles of setting up such a thing, and the current state of education in prisons. concertinawired.com/2025/12/09

In this Concertina Wired short Xial speaks fondly of the CAHOOTS program in Oregon, a scheme designed to help people in crisis without involving the police, and laments its end. concertinawired.com/2025/12/06

In this Concertina Wired short, Xial muses about X (formerly Twitter)'s brief stint into revealing the locations of user accounts from a privacy perspective. concertinawired.com/2025/11/26

In this Concertina Wired short, Xial takes aim at "Make America Healthy Again" and how it doesn't seem to apply to anyone in the prison system... concertinawired.com/2025/11/16

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial talks about how the prison environment invades your subconscious, messes with your dreams, and how it can be the only option for some people to get food security. concertinawired.com/2025/11/09

This blog post not brought to you by Chicken of the Swamps brand NutriaLoaf. Available at your nearest prison chow hall or through your prison's food delivery service. concertinawired.com/2025/11/04

In this Concertina Wired short, Xial talks about past cell-mates, the process of moving cells, and chatterboxes. concertinawired.com/2025/11/03

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial muses about suspected piracy and the removal of music distributed by CDBaby and DistroKid from the Securus media store. This includes the removal of music by @peppercoyote.bsky.social and Bucktown Tiger. concertinawired.com/2025/10/30

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial discusses the ongoing government shutdown, the governments refusal to release funds for SNAP, and how this is possibly impacting former prison friend and "little brother" JJ on the outside. concertinawired.com/2025/10/27

$25.80 if I want a print copy of a letter from PEN America. Their book, "The Sentences That Create Us" is banned in FL Prisons, and is NOT available on Edovo. Somehow, this isn't criminal. concertinawired.com/2025/10/20

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial discusses a message Securus sent to all tablet users recently advertising new features and offers that she thinks would be great to have. Unfortunately it's only for facilities operated by the Arkansas DoC... concertinawired.com/2025/10/14

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial responds to a complaint of mine and explains why you need to be a registered visitor to send money to inmates in Florida. /!\ Content warning for references to the various types of abuses that can happen in prison. concertinawired.com/2025/10/13

In this Concertina Wired short, Xial talks excessively long counts, disrupted families, over-sentencing and how money can make all the difference to a sentence. concertinawired.com/2025/10/04

The Assistant Warden said something that bruised me in a way that I hadn't quite felt in a while. She called me a human, which actually started tears in my eyes. To have someone HERE acknowledge that being here is not just being a number, that I'm still a person? Yeah, it bruised, but it was okay.

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial describes the complex, counter-intuitive and exploitative process of writing to a prison inmate, and how just directly giving the Prison Industrial Complex money to do so may be the least-bad option. concertinawired.com/2025/09/27

In this Concertina Wired short, Xial recounts a brief moment of absurdity between fellow inmates whilst waiting for dinner to show. concertinawired.com/2025/09/24

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial discusses how inmates with certain convictions are locked out of rehabilitation and education programs. She also suggests what changes she'd make in an ideal world to fix this. concertinawired.com/2025/09/20

In this series of Concertina Wired shorts, Xial muses about MMO Whales and Power-Levelled Players, Compares Prison to HOAs, and discusses how she'd go about building a shipping-container home. concertinawired.com/2025/09/17

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial again decries the state of food services at her facility. In particular how things get even worse during lockdowns for everyone, but especially those with special diets. concertinawired.com/2025/09/09

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial reviews @liu-cixin.bsky.social's sci-fi novel "Three Body Problem"... or she would have, if the Florida DoC had not banned it from being sent to prisons in the state... concertinawired.com/2025/09/07

Cellie played SNES Donkey Kong Country for the 1st time. He kept dying to these spiked tires. He got frustrated with it and abandoned game, went back to playing Color Explosive Blocks. Tried to explain multiple buttons pressed together, but he was DONE done. :( Sad times.

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial discusses "Internet Deprivation" inside prisons and how the lack of even limited access to the Internet is detrimental to inmate education and rehabilitation. concertinawired.com/2025/09/04

Yesterday, the 31st of August, my little brother from another mother graduated from the prison yard to the real world yard. Be safe out there, Joshua. You've got this. concertinawired.com/2025/09/01

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial cheers for JJ, a fellow inmate she's been guiding through prison and advising about release, as his release date rapidly approaches. She, however, mourns that she will not be there for him anymore. concertinawired.com/2025/08/26

In this Concertina Wired short, Xial laments the loss of the print edition of the IKEA Catalog. concertinawired.com/2025/08/19

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial discusses the failings of the learning technology available at her facility, what's expected of inmates in learning, and possible solutions to said failings. concertinawired.com/2025/08/18

Staring at a book like it's done me wrong. "Young Man, Be Strong!" /tableflip! But I have to, ugh, be strong and do this book for 30 elective hours in this program. "Old Fox, Be Stronger."

Just said to my li'l bro, JJ, who EOSes in < 2 weeks (YAY!): "You're going to Macca's, getting a Big Mac, go get some mac 'n cheese, put that on the sandwich and EAT IT. Big Mac and Cheese." Got a laugh out of him. :3

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial reports on yet another commissary price hike at her facility, discrimination against foreign visitors, and ongoing food service failures. concertinawired.com/2025/08/12

“Making incarcerated people pay for communication has a regressive effect on their well-being, on their improvement in prison, and after they are released,” says Wanda Betram, a spokesperson for the Prison Policy Initiative. boltsmag.org/north-c...

In this Concertina Wired Short, Xial directly comments on Daily Tech News Show's (@dtnsshow.bsky.social) Episode 5067 "Remote Working From Prison" with her own experiences and thanks them for the episode. concertinawired.com/2025/07/25

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial laments the suspension of the Martha Wright-Reed Act (which would have made prison communications cheaper and more accessible) and discusses the impact this will have on inmates. concertinawired.com/2025/07/17

William Kohler, who is incarcerated in North Carolina, doesn’t receive money from the outside to help with phone calls. He says paying for more calls would mean sacrificing hygiene or food items he needs to survive. boltsmag.org/north-c...

In this issue of Concertina Wired, a mis-sent mass email to all inmates about the refusal to replace a lost tablet inspired Xial to research the process, and discover just how obtuse and unfair it is. concertinawired.com/2025/07/09

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial talks about how family care packages used to work in Florida and how a return to the past could seriously improve inmate morale and safety. concertinawired.com/2025/07/07

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial muses about digital shelf labels from the perspective of a former retail worker. concertinawired.com/2025/06/21

In this Concertina Wired short, Xial talks about old habits and wrist-watches in prison. concertinawired.com/2025/06/17

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial issues an Open Letter to the Trinity Services Group, the private company that provides food services to large swathes of the US prison system, about the complete failure of their services at her facility. concertinawired.com/2025/05/27

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial hosts a Dharma talk about aversion, depression and helping others. Through the lens of her Nichiren Buddhist teachings. concertinawired.com/2025/05/19

And as I’ve said on other platforms, it turns out “no”! They don’t pay me for this.

In this Concertina Wired short, Xial muses about her discovery of furry music artists Bucktown Tiger and @peppercoyote.bsky.social on the Securus Media Store, and wonders if any developers that appear on said store even get paid. (cc @dustinaux.bsky.social) concertinawired.com/2025/05/07

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial has been assigned a new cell-mate. She compares them to her previous cell-mate, talks about the anxiety of "Cellie Roulette", and describes her need for a quiet space to think. concertinawired.com/2025/04/27

What would happen if one of our gas giants suddenly ignited and turned into a burning star, like Sol (our sun)? I keep mulling it over, and it bugs me. :p

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial explains what happens when an inmate is transferred to a different facility, both for them and those they used to share living space with. concertinawired.com/2025/04/21

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial talks tablets, and how import tariffs could have an extreme knock-on effect on critical communications technology in prisons. concertinawired.com/2025/04/20

In this Issue of Concertina Wired, Xial discusses the release process from Florida prisons, the extreme uphill battle for the formerly-incarcerated to reintegrate, and how much harder that will be in the current economy. concertinawired.com/2025/04/19

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial talks toilets, water waste, food waste, and renewable energy behind the wires whilst suggesting reasonable solutions to these issues. concertinawired.com/2025/04/12

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial discusses isolation, communication costs, how it's illegal in Florida to offer pen-pals to inmates, and how being dependent on friends makes you feel like a chore. concertinawired.com/2025/04/06

In this Concertina Wired Short, Xial talks tariffs, inflation, price gouging and (lack of) employment behind the wires. concertinawired.com/2025/04/04