#introduction I have been many things in many online spaces over the past, um, 30 years, and in that personal context to declare myself _this_ or _that_ in this one before I seriously engage with it seems strange, something to push back against. Who I am here is what emerges from me here, though it is scattered with drops and swirls of before like ink suspended on water for marbling. Anyway, you may know me from my previous appearances under this nym, and this is who I am: