I finished my first volume of Tank Girl this evening and lemme just say that I don't know what I just read but I'm definitely hooked. My next installment(s) should arrive tomorrow and that should last me for a little bit, I think.

I get super-heavy nostalgia vibes when I read something like Tank Girl, but it's not the traditional feelings that one would associate with the term nostalgia -- it's more like a "nostalgia FOMO" insofar as I'm totally into this and I only wish that I had been cool enough to have been reading Deadline all along and experiencing it when it was new. I think I was just a tad too young to have experienced the very first run (I would have been about 14) but reading (what was then) underground stuff like this now makes me really wish that I had been "in the know" back then.

On the other hand, reading it now and seeing how it has aged, really kind of re-ignites a bit of the punk fire in my heart. There's something about reading something subversive and that a lot of people still "don't get" to this day that gives me the motivation to "live up" to the ideals from which Tank Girl was born. I dunno, it's hard to explain. But reading punk makes me feel punk and inspires me to be punk at some level, even now that I'm well into middle age.

Guess I'm gonna have to get used to being an #agingCyberpunk as well as an #agingPunk and whatever else. It's never too late, I guess. You're only as punk as you feel (and do), right?

And all this because I chose to spin some Gorillaz a week or so ago. Whooda thunk it?

New hobby, working my way through the BadBool list of data brokers and unsubscribing from everything I can.

https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List

#privacy #agingCyberpunk

New content on the #gemlog, a journal entry on my recent #meshtastic experiences and thoughts about #meshNetworks in general.

gemini://capsule.problemfox.net/gemlog/20260523-Meshtastic_Musings_spring_26_edition.gmi

#agingCyberpunk #emergencyCommunication #smolWeb

Seems like a good night to watch the punk (or not), cult classic by Derek Jarman, Jubilee (1978).

#Toyah #agingCyberpunk #dystopian

I'd have thought I'd have stopped getting angry by now when a vendor uses a custom charging widget rather than a simpler and safer industry standard connector but here we are...

#agingCyberpunk #techGrumble

A fun evening messing with the BIOS of my wife's old (~2010) machine until it would install and boot to Ubuntu in a predictable fashion. Meanwhile getting my old meshtastic node flashed and then looking at what is broadcasting in my local area.

Not a bad way to waste a couple of hours!

#agingCyberpunk

It's been a day, so updating Debian on my laptop before bed as a means of relaxation.

#agingCyberpunk #CommandLineTherapy

Having to pretend to be a functional adult in the USA just makes me more certain we need UBI, universal healthcare, and affordable food and housing for everyone regardless of race, gender, age, ability, or nationality.

#agingCyberpunk #basicHumanRights

My trip to Titan Moon today does sort of leave me wondering, tho. When I asked what other titles they had in the same genre of CLEAR, they didn't really have any in stock and one of the folks wasn't even really familiar with the cyberpunk genre. The silver lining was that the other person behind the counter had some inkling of some of the more well-known titles.

That kinda made me sad, especially in these, the "Silicon Hills", that the proprietors didn't seem to know much beyond the Cyberpunk 2077 titles when talking about the cyberpunk genre in general. It also made me sad that they don't keep any of those titles in stock, which means people aren't just going to randomly stumble across them. I'm not sure if that's because the owners just don't know much about the genre or because they don't sell.

In any case, this sounds like an educational opportunity for Yours Truly to maybe see if I can't get more of a cyberpunk presence into Titan Moon! Maybe the next time I lose my job, I'll see if Titan has any openings and see what I can do, because I think that might be a pretty fun gig as an #AgingCyberpunk.