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_data/badges.js

@@ -337,5 +337,15 @@ export default {
 			imageURL: "beep.png",
 			linkURL: "https://beeep.neocities.org/",
 		},
+		{
+			altText: "Pixel Area: 77x 77y",
+			imageURL: "pixel-area-88-x77y77@2x.png",
+			linkURL: "https://pxlarea.com/x77y77",
+		},
+		{
+			altText: "I'm on powRSS",
+			imageURL: "powrss-88-31.gif",
+			linkURL: "https://powrss.com/blogs/nathan-upchurch",
+		},
 	],
 };

_data/blogroll.js

@@ -22,13 +22,6 @@ export default {
 					description:
 						"ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear is a privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform. Bear's discovery feed lists trending articles from the Bear blogosphere.",
 				},
-				{
-					title: "Freethought Blogs",
-					feedUrl: "https://freethoughtblogs.com/feed/",
-					url: "https://freethoughtblogs.com/",
-					description:
-						"Freethoughtblogs is an open platform for freethought writers. We are skeptics and critics of dogma and authoritarianism, and in addition, we recognize that the nonexistence of deities entails a greater commitment to human values, and in particular, an appreciation of human diversity and equality. We are for feminism, against racism, for diversity, against inequity. Our network of blogs is designed to encourage independent thinking and individual autonomy — freethoughtblogs.com is a vehicle for giving vocal secularists a venue for discussion of their values and interests.",
-				},
 				{
 					title: "Hundred Rabbits",
 					feedUrl: "https://100r.co/links/rss.xml",
@@ -115,6 +108,13 @@ export default {
 					description:
 						"Founded by graphic designer Mary Hemingway in June 2020, Design by Women aims to showcase and celebrate women, gender expansive and gender non-conforming creatives currently working in the design industry and to inspire emerging under-represented creatives to pursue a career in design.",
 				},
+				{
+					title: "Design Regression",
+					feedUrl: "https://designregression.com/feed.xml",
+					url: "https://designregression.com",
+					description:
+						"Design Regression is a journalette publishing texts that are about design for reading and reading-related research. It aims for the hard-to-get blend of approachability with seriousness and relevance to practice.",
+				},
 				{
 					title: "DIELINE",
 					feedUrl: "https://thedieline.com/feed/",
@@ -175,6 +175,13 @@ export default {
 					description:
 						"Logo Design Love is a website and book devoted to logos, symbols, icons, and marks.",
 				},
+				{
+					title: "Pimp My Type",
+					feedUrl: "https://pimpmytype.com/feed/",
+					url: "https://pimpmytype.com/",
+					description:
+						"Hey, I'm Oliver Schöndorfer – typography consultant, speaker, and UI designer from Austria. I love sharing insights in my enthusiastic, entertaining style – whether at a workshop, conference, or on a podcast.",
+				},
 				{
 					title: "PRINT Magazine",
 					feedUrl: "https://www.printmag.com/feed/",
@@ -522,13 +529,6 @@ export default {
 					description:
 						"Started in 1997 by Floor64 founder Mike Masnick and then growing into a group blogging effort, the Techdirt blog relies on a proven economic framework to analyze and offer insight into news stories about changes in government policy, technology and legal issues that affect companies’ ability to innovate and grow.",
 				},
-				{
-					title: "The Canary",
-					feedUrl: "https://www.thecanary.co/feed/",
-					url: "https://www.thecanary.co/",
-					description:
-						"The Canary is a anti-oppression, decolonised, and recolonised radical media outlet that publishes the truth without fear or favour. We publish stories that matter to ordinary people across the UK, whether the corporate and state media like it or not.",
-				},
 				{
 					title: "Usermag",
 					feedUrl: "https://www.usermag.co/feed",
@@ -594,6 +594,14 @@ export default {
 					description:
 						"Designer, front-end developer and the founder of Set Studio and Piccalilli.",
 				},
+				{
+					title: "Avas Space",
+					feedUrl:
+						"https://subscribeopenly.net/subscribe/?url=http://blog.avas.space/feed",
+					url: "https://blog.avas.space/",
+					description:
+						"I’m Ava(?) and this is my personal blog, where I casually write about my thoughts on tech, data protection law, media, my health and little creative projects.",
+				},
 				{
 					title: "Bardo Burner",
 					feedUrl: "https://bardoburner.com/feed/",
@@ -643,6 +651,13 @@ export default {
 					description:
 						"annabelle kathleen marcile akers - aka lemon ice cream.",
 				},
+				{
+					title: "Luddlife",
+					feedUrl: "http://luddlife.bearblog.dev/feed/?type=rss",
+					url: "http://luddlife.bearblog.dev",
+					description:
+						"In a world drunk on productivity, we choose to stay sober. In an age that worships speed, we dare to move slowly. This is not a rejection of progress, but a reclamation of our humanity. This is Luddlife.",
+				},
 				{
 					title: "MediaActivist",
 					feedUrl: "https://www.mediaactivist.com/rss/",

_data/galleries.js

@@ -123,12 +123,12 @@ export default [
 			"I'm not much of an illustrator, but here are a few things I've done over the years.",
 		url: "/img/gallery/illustration/",
 		date: new Date("October 20, 2025"),
-		galleryImage: "doodle.webp",
+		galleryImage: "doodle1.webp",
 		galleryImageAlt: "",
 		pictures: [
 			{
 				title: "Just a wee ice-cream doodle",
-				filename: "doodle.webp",
+				filename: "doodle1.webp",
 				altText:
 					"A rubber-hose doodle of an ice cream cone holding two mini ice-cream cones.",
 				thumbAltText:

_data/metadata.js

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ export default {
 			linkDisplay: "About",
 			linkURL: "/about/",
 		},
+		{
+			linkDisplay: "Badges",
+			linkURL: "/badges/",
+		},
 		{
 			linkDisplay: "Blog",
 			linkURL: "/blog/",
@@ -340,8 +344,8 @@ export default {
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 		},
 	],
-	weatherOnByDefault: false,
+	weatherOnByDefault: true,
-	weatherSymbol: "🌞",
+	weatherSymbol: "🎃",
 	webrings: [
 		{
 			name: "Fediring",

_data/quotes.js

@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+export default {
+	quotes: [
+		{
+			quote: `…we may safely say that mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle; but that as a factor of evolution, it most probably has a far greater importance, inasmuch as it favors the development of such habits and characters as insure the maintenance and further development of the species, together with the greatest amount of welfare and enjoyment of life for the individual, with the least waste of energy.`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "Mutual Aid as a Factor in Evolution",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `They see a race of law-makers legislating without knowing what their laws are about; today voting a law on the sanitation of towns, without the faintest notion of hygiene, tomorrow making regulations for the armament of troops, without so much as understanding a gun; making laws about teaching and education without ever having given a lesson of any sort, or even an honest education to their own children; legislating at random in all directions, but never forgetting the penalties to be meted out to ragamufffins, the prison and the galleys, which are to be the portion of men a thousand times less immoral than these legislators themselves.`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "Law and Authority",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `If you reason instead of repeating what is taught you; if you analyze the law and strip off those cloudy fictions with which it has been draped in order to conceal its real origin, which is the right of the stronger, and its substance, which has ever been the consecration of all the tyrannies handed down to mankind through its long and bloody history; when you have comprehended this, your contempt for the law will be profound indeed.`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "An Appeal to the Young",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `It is futile to speak of liberty as long as economic slavery exists.`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `…workers cannot buy with their salaries what they have produced and at the same time copiously nourish the swarm of idlers who live upon their work.`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `…who would sell his labor power for less than it is capable of bringing in, if he were not forced thereto by the threat of hunger?`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `We know well the means by which this association of the lord, priest, merchant, judge, soldier, and king founded its domination. It was by the annihilation of all free unions: of village communities, guilds, trades unions, fraternities, and mediæval cities. It was by confiscating the land of the communes and the riches of the guilds; it was by the absolute and ferocious prohibition of all kinds of free agreement between men; it was by massacre, the wheel, the gibbet, the sword, and the fire that Church and State established their domination, and that they succeeded henceforth to reign over an incoherent agglomeration of subjects, who had no direct union more among themselves.`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `Far from living in a world of visions and imagining men better than they are, we see them as they are; and that is why we affirm that the best of men is made essentially bad by the exercise of authority, and that the theory of the "balancing of powers" and "control of authorities" is a hypocritical formula, invented by those who have seized power, to make the "sovereign people," whom they despise, believe that the people themselves are governing.`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race.`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "The Conquest of Bread",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `There is not even a thought, or an invention, which is not common property, born of the past and the present. Thousands of inventors, known and unknown, who have died in poverty, have co-operated in the invention of each of these machines which embody the genius of man.`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "The Conquest of Bread",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, **the right to live**, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence at its disposal.`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "The Conquest of Bread",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `The landlord owes his riches to the poverty of the peasants, and the wealth of the capitalist comes from the same source.`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "The Conquest of Bread",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `The house was not built by its owner. It was erected, decorated, and furnished by innumerable workers — in the timber yard, the brick field, and the workshop, toiling for dear life at a minimum wage.`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "The Conquest of Bread",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `To emancipate woman is not only to open the gates of the university, the law courts, or the parliaments, for her, for the "emancipated" woman will always throw domestic toil on to another woman. To emancipate woman is to free her from the brutalizing toil of kitchen and washhouse; it is to organize your household in such a way as to enable her to rear her children, if she be so minded, while still retaining sufficient leisure to take her share of social life.
+			It will come to pass. As we have said, things are already improving. Only let us fully understand that a revolution, intoxicated with the beautiful words Liberty, Equality, Solidarity would not be a revolution if it maintained slavery at home. Half humanity subjected to the slavery of the hearth would still have to rebel against the other half.`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "The Conquest of Bread",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `…we have come to believe that man would tear his fellow man to pieces like a wild beast the day the police took his eye off him; that chaos would come about if authority were overthrown during a revolution. And with our eyes shut we pass by thousands and thousands of human groupings which form themselves freely, without any intervention of the law, and attain results infinitely superior to those achieved under government tutelage.`,
+			author: "Peter Kropotkin",
+			work: "The Conquest of Bread",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Peter_Kropotkin_circa_1900_copy.webp",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `Must you toil your life long to procure for others all the pleasures of well-being, of knowledge, of art, and keep for yourself only the eternal anxiety as to whether you can get a bit of bread?`,
+			author: "Elizabeth Gurley Flynn",
+			work: "The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, My First Life",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/Elizabeth_Gurley_Flynn_point_(cropped).jpg",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.`,
+			author: "P.G. Wodehouse",
+			work: "The Inimitable Jeeves",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/PGWodehouse.jpg",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanour was now rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.`,
+			author: "P.G. Wodehouse",
+			work: "The Inimitable Jeeves",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/PGWodehouse.jpg",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove.`,
+			author: "P.G. Wodehouse",
+			work: "Very Good, Jeeves",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/PGWodehouse.jpg",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `Scarcely had I entered the sitting-room when I found… what appeared at first sight to be the Devil, A closer scrutiny informed me that it was Gussie Fink-Nottle, dressed as Mephistopheles.`,
+			author: "P.G. Wodehouse",
+			work: "Right Ho, Jeeves",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/PGWodehouse.jpg",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `I was reading in the paper the other day about those birds who are trying to split the atom, the nub being that they haven't the foggiest as to what will happen if they do. It may be all right. On the other hand, it may not be all right. And pretty silly a chap would feel, no doubt, if, having split the atom, he suddenly found the house going up in smoke and himself torn limb from limb.`,
+			author: "P.G. Wodehouse",
+			work: "Right Ho, Jeeves",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/PGWodehouse.jpg",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `If the prophet Job were to walk into the room at this moment, I could sit swapping hard-luck stories with him till bedtime.`,
+			author: "P.G. Wodehouse",
+			work: "Right Ho, Jeeves",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/PGWodehouse.jpg",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `I want to know what the devil you mean by keeping coming into my private apartment, taking up space which I require for other purposes and interrupting me when I am chatting with my personal friends. Really one gets about as much privacy in this house as a strip-tease dancer.`,
+			author: "P.G. Wodehouse",
+			work: "The Code of the Woosters",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/PGWodehouse.jpg",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `I don’t suppose she would recognize a deep, beautiful thought if you handed it to her on a skewer with tartare sauce.`,
+			author: "P.G. Wodehouse",
+			work: "The Code of the Woosters",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/PGWodehouse.jpg",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.`,
+			author: "P.G. Wodehouse",
+			work: "Ring for Jeeves",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/PGWodehouse.jpg",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.`,
+			author: "P.G. Wodehouse",
+			work: "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/PGWodehouse.jpg",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `And shove him into a dungeon with dripping walls and see to it that he is well gnawed by rats.`,
+			author: "P.G. Wodehouse",
+			work: "Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves",
+			headshot: "/img/quote-authors/PGWodehouse.jpg",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `Observe people with cool eyes, listen to their words with cool ears. Confront feelings with cool emotions, reflect on principles with a cool mind.`,
+			author: "Hong Zicheng",
+			work: "Vegetable Roots Discourse",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `Those who hoard great riches perish anyway. Being rich is not as carefree as being poor. Those who climb in life fall quickly anyway. Those highly placed do not rest as easy as the lowly and common.`,
+			author: "Hong Zicheng",
+			work: "Vegetable Roots Discourse",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `Rhythms of the pine forest and sounds of streams upon pebbles are nature's murmurings when you listen in quiet. Firelight and smoky scenes at the grassland's edge, as well as clouds reflected on still water, are nature's superb compositions when viewed at leisure.`,
+			author: "Hong Zicheng",
+			work: "Vegetable Roots Discourse",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `In the midst of adversity, something gladdens my heart. In the midst of attaining my desires, sadness about my purpose springs up.`,
+			author: "Hong Zicheng",
+			work: "Vegetable Roots Discourse",
+		},
+		{
+			quote: `Larvae are unappealing, yet they turn into cicadas that drink dew in the autumn wind. Withered grass is lusterless, yet it brings forth fireflies that glow beneath the summer moon. Thus grubbiness in the course of things can produce purity, and dimness in the course of things can produce light.`,
+			author: "Hong Zicheng",
+			work: "Vegetable Roots Discourse",
+		},
+	],
+};

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-			<span class="copyright-notice">{{ metadata.copyrightNotice }}</span>
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content/blog/small-acts-of-murder-shame-religion-and-what-we-owe-each-other.md

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+---
+title: "Small Acts of Murder: Shame, Religion, and What We Owe Each Other"
+description: "Thoughts on regret, murder as a spectrum of harm to quality of life, and arriving at a moral philosophy."
+date: 2026-10-10
+tags:
+  - Atheism
+  - Life
+  - Moral Philosophy
+  - Religion
+synopsis: "Thoughts on regret, murder as a spectrum of harm to quality of life, and arriving at a moral philosophy."
+imageURL: /img/remorse-albert-sterner.webp
+imageAlt: "Remorse, by Albert Sterner. An illustration of a figure collapsed on a bed with their face in the pillow."
+---
+Years ago, I broke up with someone abruptly. She and my friend were over. The
+two began arguing. Upset, she ran outside into the rain. My friend commented
+that she was being ridiculous, that I should break up with her. I'm not usually
+so impressionable as to take such an action based on an offhand comment, but I
+had been feeling a little uncomfortable in this new relationship. While she was
+pleasant, kind, and beautiful, the relationship had mostly been physical and I
+was troubled that she hadn't told me much about herself—although I had been
+asking. I was young and new to relationships, with all of the anxiety that
+accompanies inexperience. I found her standing at the end of the street,
+crying. If this happened today, I'd say something reassuring. I'd comfort her,
+bring her inside, and explain how I had been feeling at a better time. Instead,
+I looked into her tearful eyes and ended it then and there. I was young,
+inexperienced, and scared. I really just wanted to get to know her better.
+Instead I hurt her in a cruel way. By entering into a relationship, she
+entrusted me with the power to hurt her. I abused that trust. To this day I
+burn with shame when thinking back on the memory.
+
+I tend to think of murder as a spectrum upon which loss of life is the extreme
+end. Economic slavery imposed by capitalism demands large amounts of time from
+finite lives to enrich a wealthy few. Systemic bigotry erodes quality of life
+every day. Individual actions turn small moments into unhappy memories. Life
+can be impacted in innumerable ways both systemic and interpersonal—beyond
+simply cutting it short, the extreme end of a spectrum of harm. Especially to a
+materialist, this view lends a new gravity to harms of all sizes. Each action
+or inaction that causes pain to another represents a permanent mar on another's
+experience, a sliver of one precious existence worsened or ruined. No matter
+how trifling, each represents an injury to life itself.
+
+I don't believe in objective morality, either. In the view of this atheist and
+anti-theist, the universe is indifferent to suffering. There's no "good book"
+with all the answers. This being the case, morality becomes a logical exercise:
+if we hold every sentient life as precious and irreplaceble, how do we model
+our behaviors and our society so as to maximize the quality of each?
+Unfortunately, grappling with this question is the work of a lifetime.
+
+I was raised to believe that morality came from a book. God doesn't want us
+drinking coffee, hence drinking coffee is immoral. Most religions cover the
+basics—plus a few wacky and harmful inclusions—but the topic of morality is too
+complex for any tome to do justice. Further, religion fails to offer a sound
+logical framework for thinking about morality. As a result, followers think
+they're doing fine if they're following at least most of the instructions, and
+in some popular traditions there's repentance to boot. This doesn't tend to
+work out very well
+[even in the short-term](https://www.azquotes.com/quote/702126), but when the
+scales fall from the eyes of the faithful and they break free of magical
+thinking, they are left morally adrift: with no way of considering how they
+ought to interact with others beside their personal feelings.
+
+Developing a personal moral philosophy is not a simple matter. None of the
+great philosophers seem to have arrived at a complete answer, so what hope has
+the average person when they discover their entire worldview was bunk? Many
+important conversations were skipped in favor of indoctrination, so those freed
+from the mental shackles of religion find themselves behind their secular peers
+in terms of moral development and understanding. Couple that with years spent
+living in a reactionary environment, and it makes for a lot of catching up to
+do while also trying to survive in a capitalist society barely less indifferent
+to sentient life than the vacuum of space.
+
+Despite all of this, I sometimes find the recollection of the suffering I've
+caused difficult to bear. It is some comfort to know that, like most, I never
+meant to cause harm. Most of us do our worst when we think we're in the right,
+don't know better, or simply aren't thinking at all. But the tragedy of harm is
+its irrevocability. Just as the ways I have been hurt live on in me, I can
+never erase the painful memories I've caused.
+
+If we owe each other one thing and nothing else, it is to respect each-other's
+time, both in quantity and quality. We're not born knowing how. It takes a
+lifetime of listening, learning, experience, and practice—hurting others all
+the while. Even with every effort, fallablility is simply part of the human
+condition. One of the few sound pieces of advice I received as a Mormon child
+was to consider scenarios that ask you to make a moral decision, and decide now
+what you will do when they occur. It may not be so easy to choose in the
+moment, so make the decision before it becomes difficult. This system isn't
+perfect, but you can certainly consider the kind of person you want to be and
+how you want to affect others. Hopefully you get it right. Hopefully, with
+time, your ideals become instinct. Hopefully, you maintain the cognitive flexibility such that they are never rendered immutable.
+
+Perhaps, as
+[terror management theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory)
+would have it, this way of entwining morality with mortality itself is a means
+of assuaging death anxiety. Maybe the idea is that, if we must walk into
+oblivion, we should do it hand in hand with smiles on our faces, rather than
+pecking at each others eyes like hens in a battery cage. Surely, as nature
+demands that we spend our lives scraping for its necessities while it awaits
+our demise like a circling vulture, our principal aim ought to be to free
+ourselves from this cruel status quo? To make possible the full development of
+our personalities? To experience, together, the fullness of what it is to be
+conscious in freedom from want and suffering? Why shouldn't life itself be at
+the root of our thinking around morality? After all, we owe each other
+everything. From the earth that made our existence a possibility, the bees that
+pollinate our food, the person who laundered the linens we were born on, who
+introduced our parents, who stitched our shoes, who taught us to read, who
+shared our first kiss… our obligation to everything and everyone around us is
+infinite. The idea that any sentient being is beneath moral consideration must
+be put to rest. We owe each other—and we each are owed—everything!
+
+In light of this overwhelming debt, the preciousness of sentient life,
+sometimes I don't know what to do with the weight of my shame. Although I have
+no children, I often recall a quote by Mitch Albom on parenthood:
+
+> All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine
+> glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a
+> few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
+
+This idea can surely be extended to encompass all human relationships, given
+adequate time. Maybe it is the best we can do to take our guilt, with both
+sorrow and gratitude, as a pattern for our own pair of white gloves to help us
+handle the lives about us with due care. Since my life has become more stable I
+have had the time and headspace to consider the past. I find myself hoping that
+the most I have left with others are fingerprints, that the pain I have caused
+is mostly a small part of a larger happy memory. When I consider the type of
+person I'd like to be, it is one who shares in the sorrow he causes. I can take
+solace in the fact that I am at least this.

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@@ -7,6 +7,29 @@ h1: Changelog
 includeTOC: true
 ---
 ## 2026
+### October
+* 2026-10-14
+	* Removed Creazilla from [/links](/links) as it is now peddling AI slop.
+* 2026-10-10
+	* Updated [/links](/links) to include a [forum section](/links/#forums-active).
+* 2026-10-07
+	* Updated [blogroll](/blogroll).
+* 2026-10-01
+	* Updated footer.
+	* Updated [/badges](/badges).
+### September
+* 2026-09-30
+	* Updated footer.
+* 2026-09-22
+	* Updated footer.
+	* Updated [blogroll](/blogroll).
+* 2026-09-20
+	* Updated [/links](/links).
+* 2026-09-19
+	* Updated [blogroll](/blogroll).
+	* Updated [/links](/links).
+* 2026-09-18
+	* Updated [/links](/links).
 ### August
 * 2026-08-23
 	* Updated [/wish](/wish).

content/links/index.md

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ Here are some links to pages and resources that I believe are worth sharing. If
 ## Creative Resources
 ### General
 * [Creative Commons Search Portal](https://search.creativecommons.org/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—The Creative Commons (CC) Search Portal helps you search CC licensed works across multiple platforms. Includes music, web, images, 3D models, video, and more.
-* [Creazilla](https://creazilla.com/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—A huge collection of media files under a Public Domain license including photos, illustrations, scanned art images, vectors, videos, and audio files.
 * [Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—Free stock photos, illustrations, vector graphics, videos, music and sounds effects.
 
 ### Graphic Design
@@ -97,6 +96,14 @@ Here are some links to pages and resources that I believe are worth sharing. If
 ## Ethics / Vegan Resources
 * [Cruelty Free Kitty](https://www.crueltyfreekitty.com/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—Find products that were not tested on animals.
 
+## Forums (Active)
+* [32bit.cafe](https://discourse.32bit.cafe/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—Indieweb / smallweb, webweaving, and general discussion.
+* [Basenotes](https://basenotes.com/forums/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—The world’s longest-running fragrance forum.
+* [Dogs on Acid](https://www.dogsonacid.com/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—Drum and Bass music.
+* [Fragrantica](https://www.fragrantica.com/board/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—Perfume and fragrance.
+* [Ouddict](https://www.ouddict.com/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—Oud, artisanal perfumes, and incense.
+* [Quxnet](https://quxnet.net/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—Quxnet is designed after the old web, focused on text content, good conversation, and privacy without modern web distractions. It's a small community, so it thrives on participation, not spectators.
+
 ## Free/Libre Software
 * [Free Software Foundation](https://fsf.org){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—A nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom.
 * [GNU](https://gnu.org){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—An operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom.
@@ -216,6 +223,11 @@ Unlimited creativity, zero ads.
 * [TypeLit.io](https://www.typelit.io/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—Test your typing online by practicing on your favorite literature.
 * [Wee Windaes—A continuum o the Scots Leid](https://wee-windaes.nls.uk/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}
 
+### Good Poems to Read
+* [*For A That and A That*, Robbie Burns](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43805/for-a-that-and-a-that){rel="octo:octothorpes"}[^2]
+* [*Inversnaid*, by Gerard Manley Hopkins](https://allpoetry.com/Inversnaid)
+* [*Los Novios*, by Octavio Paz](https://voiceofthesceop.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-lovers-new-translation-of-octavio.html){rel="octo:octothorpes"}
+
 ## More Links
 * [beeep.neocities.org/links](https://beeep.neocities.org/links){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—Links to other small and personal websites, plus cursors, fonts, graphics, and other tools for your website.
 * [Divergent Rays Fun Links](https://divergentrays.com/links){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—A bunch of fun links to things in the following categories: Art, Audio, Humor, Interactive, Digital Museums, Old Web and Retro, Play, Practical, Science, Travel and Miscellaneous.
@@ -227,7 +239,7 @@ Unlimited creativity, zero ads.
 * [Wander the Night](https://wanderthenight.com/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—Ambient music by [Simon James French](https://www.simonjamesfrench.com/) coupled with photography by [Cody Ellingham](https://codyellingham.com/) representing five cities after dark with subtle animations and rain sounds.
 
 ## Privacy-Respecting Tools and Services
-* ~~[Autistici](https://www.autistici.org/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—A collective offering free digital services, including:~~[^2]
+* ~~[Autistici](https://www.autistici.org/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—A collective offering free digital services, including:~~[^3]
 	* ~~Anonymity services~~
 	* ~~Blogging~~
 	* ~~Chat~~
@@ -343,9 +355,11 @@ Unlimited creativity, zero ads.
 	* Search
 	* VPN
 ## Random Cool Stuff
+* [Industry Standard Tools](https://industrystandard.tools/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}— Every trade has a small number of items so entrenched that they've become the de facto tool that nearly everyone in that trade uses. Mitutoyo calipers. An SM57. A Cambro. This is a list of industry standards. Entries are written, contested, and voted on by the people who use them.
 * [intertapes.net](https://intertapes.net/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—An updating collection of found cassette tapes from different locations. The audio fragments include: voice memos, field recordings, mixtapes, bootlegs and more.
 * [Pocket Bird](https://idreesinc.itch.io/pocket-bird){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—A pet bird that flies around web pages as you browse. Collect feathers to unlock different birds, and find hats for your bird to wear.
 * [Silk](http://weavesilk.com/){rel="octo:octothorpes"}—An interactive generative art tool.
 
 [^1]: It turns out that the developer behind Bubbles.town [used an LLM to categorize blogs](https://brennan.day/floating-up-an-interview-with-the-creator-of-bubbles-town-benjamin-behnke/), even when AI crawlers were specifically disallowed in a blog's [robots.txt](/robots.txt). He has since owned up to the mistake and apologized, but… [oof](/ai).
-[^2]: Autistici/Inventati has been [found guilty of thoughtcrime](https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/designation-of-autistici-inventati-as-a-specially-designated-global-terrorist) and designated as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist,” a designation that the people running Autistici/Inventati [find ridiculous](https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076). Nonetheless, it’s probably prudent, legally speaking, for me to advise you that my inclusion of a link on my website does not imply an endorsement, nor my personal support, for the linked website, content, or organization. Consider its continued inclusion here a warning so as to A. let visitors know which organization and URL to avoid, and B. advise them against using services from, engaging with, or providing any material support whatsoever for Autistici/Inventati.
+[^2]: Like many publications of Burns' poems, this one makes use of the '[apologetic apostrophe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetic_apostrophe)'. As an FYI, when rendering the Scots language, it is a faux pas to use apostrophes in Scots words as though they are bastardized English words, slang, or mere pronunciation. Words such as "a," or "aw," "fu," "fae," or "frae," "gie," "mak," and "dae" are all complete Scots words and so do not require apostrophes.
+[^3]: Autistici/Inventati has been [found guilty of thoughtcrime](https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/designation-of-autistici-inventati-as-a-specially-designated-global-terrorist) and designated as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist,” a designation that the people running Autistici/Inventati [find ridiculous](https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076). Nonetheless, it’s probably prudent, legally speaking, for me to advise you that my inclusion of a link on my website does not imply an endorsement, nor my personal support, for the linked website, content, or organization. Consider its continued inclusion here a warning so as to A. let visitors know which organization and URL to avoid, and B. advise them against using services from, engaging with, or providing any material support whatsoever for Autistici/Inventati.

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+---
+title: Mystery of the Goose Pear
+manufacturer: Kyara Zen
+date: 2026-09-02 10:52:47
+time: 10:52 AM
+---
+

content/now-burning/Now Burning_2026-09-04_12:36.md

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+---
+title: Shirakawa - White River
+manufacturer: Shoyeido
+date: 2026-09-04 12:36:36
+time: 12:36 PM
+---
+

content/now-burning/Now Burning_2026-09-16_14:07.md

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+---
+title: Orange Sacra
+manufacturer: The SmokeWalkers
+date: 2026-09-16 14:07:00
+time: 2:07 PM
+---
+

content/now-burning/Now Burning_2026-10-10_10:59.md

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+---
+title: Moonlit Night
+manufacturer: Les Encens du Monde
+date: 2026-10-10 10:59:00
+time: 10:59 AM
+---
+

content/now-burning/Now Burning_2026-10-12_09:19.md

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+---
+title: Shirakawa (White River)
+manufacturer: Shoyeido
+date: 2026-10-12 9:19:00
+time: 9:19 AM
+---
+

content/now-burning/Now Burning_2026-10-12_13:45.md

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+---
+title: Omokage
+manufacturer: Okuno Seimeido
+date: 2026-10-12 13:45:00
+time: 1:45 PM
+---
+

content/now-burning/Now Burning_2026-10-13_08:49.md

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+---
+title: Tobiume
+manufacturer: Baieido
+date: 2026-10-13 8:49:00
+time: 8:49 AM
+---
+I picked up a box after reading about it on [rauchfahne.de](https://blog.rauchfahne.de/en/2026/09/03/baieido-tobiume-en/); I'm glad I did!

content/now-burning/Now Burning_2026-10-13_10:04.md

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+---
+title: Sumire
+manufacturer: Tennendo
+date: 2026-10-13 10:04:00
+time: 10:04 AM
+---
+

content/now-burning/Now Burning_2026-10-14_11:09.md

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+---
+title: Kinkaku (Golden Pavilion)
+manufacturer: Shoyeido
+date: 2026-10-14 11:09:00
+time: 11:09 AM
+---
+A classic.

content/now-burning/Now Burning_2026-10-14_13:08.md

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+---
+title: Floral World Freesia
+manufacturer: Shoyeido
+date: 2026-10-14 13:08:00
+time: 1:08 PM
+---
+Surprised at how nice this is.

content/now/now_2026-09-06.md

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+---
+title: Capitalism Forced Me to Move House
+description: "This peasant has moved along."
+synopsis: "This peasant has moved along."
+date: 2026-09-06
+imageURL: /img/The_revolt_of_peasants_from_Haghpat_copy.webp
+imageAlt: "A painting by Eduard Isabekyan: The revolt of peasants from Haghpat in 1903."
+---
+:::info
+This post is another that I accidentally published before I had time to properly review and revise. I forgot to mark it as a draft. I meant to tone it down a little, but here we are. So, sod it, I guess?
+:::
+
+As I [wrote about before](/now/now_2025_11_28/), a person chose to use her economic power and privilege to displace six people from their homes; as a result, I was forced to move. I'm fine, but I would like to take a minute to consider freedom, a virtue American politicians love to pretend to care about, and what that word means: freedom for who? Freedom to do what?
+
+Since my parents chose to move my siblings and I from a lovely little town in the Scottish Borders to a tiny sulfur-scented cesspit in west Texas, I've heard over and over again "I bet you're glad to live in a free country now!"[^1] As I looked at the desert around me, dangerous and nigh-impossible to traverse without a car, breathed in [the fragrance of rotten eggs](https://www.theexamination.org/articles/oil-companies-leak-toxic-gas-across-texas-making-local-residents-sick) from the drilling for oil, saw school-mates wearing the same hole-riddled shirts day after day, and reflected on how reluctant my parents were to take me to the dentist or the doctor lately, it was all I could do to avoid spraining a muscle as my eyes rolled violently into the back of my head.
+
+The Declaration of Independence famously states that all men are endowed with certain unalienable rights, including those to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But how can we be said to have the right to life when its necessities are locked behind a paywall? How is it that we have the right to liberty when our employers dictate who will enjoy the benefit of the profits derived from our labor, or when a landlord can remove the roof from above our heads at any time? How do we have the right to pursue happiness if the vast majority of our waking hours are spent pursuing the means to stay alive? The facts are these: if we do not have the right to water, food, clothing, housing, a clean environment, medical care, and everything else necessary to live to the furthest reaches of our natural lifespan, we do not functionally have the right to life. If we do not have the right to life, liberty is meaningless, an uncaring jungle, and the pursuit of happiness is all but impossible.
+
+You are not free to enjoy stable housing, because your landlord is free to remove your access to your home at any time. You are not free to pursue happiness, because capitalists are free to lay claim to all of the necessities of life and withhold them from you unless you spend most of your life in servitude to them. You are not free to walk down the street unaccosted, because the right of a police officer to extend their arm does not end where your nose begins. There's plenty of freedom about for the wealthy and the occupying army who serve and protect them, but where is the freedom for everyday working people? It seems that we're free to work or starve, and that's about it. Oh, and we can say aloud whatever bigoted opinions we like without legal consequences.[^2]
+
+Capitalism has had its chance. When unfettered by regulation, it [sent victorian five-year-olds to be mangled by machines during twelve to fourteen hour shifts in textile factories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour_in_the_British_Industrial_Revolution). When tempered by government as a result of over a century of workers *literally [fighting and dying](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike)* for the most meager protections, it continues to churn out poverty, homelessness, and [preventable deaths](https://capitalismkills.info/) [by](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/26/communists-capitalism-stalinism-economic-model) [the million](https://invisiblepeople.tv/capitalism-kills-nearly-1-million-americans-per-year/) as [a matter](https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/america-land-of-the-dying-alarming-study-shows-u-s-killing-its-own-population) of [policy](https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/18/life-under-capitalism-early-deaths-a-silver-lining-for-corporations/). Existence is not success. If an economic system is incapable of ensuring that all people are granted the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it is simply not fit for purpose. We've tried letting it run loose. We've tried regulating it. We've tried mixing in a little socialism in the form of social welfare programs. It keeps ruining lives all the same. Capitalism is a failed experiment.
+
+The wealthy would like us to believe that the alternatives to an economic system that benefits them at the expense of the rest of us inevitably results in the Pol Pots of the world. They conveniently forget to mention that there are over a hundred years of communist political theory written with the explicit goal of [avoiding the natural consequences of allowing power to concentrate in the hands of a few fallible humans](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-are-we-good-enough). When people recount the crimes of communist regimes, they somehow forget to mention the communists that were critiquing, organizing against, and being killed by these regimes as it happened.
+
+I recognize that to many people, some of the points I'm making will sound like lunacy, but I would like those people to consider that A. there are a great number of very intelligent people who favor economic systems other than capitalism and it might at least be worth trying to understand why that is, and B. in a capitalist world, it is in the interest of every major power, institution, and decision maker that you stay as ignorant as possible regarding alternative theories of economy and governance, and this is reflected in the news, education, and entertainment you consume every day.
+
+With all that said, I have moved lol. Unpacking everything is going to take time, and as I no longer have access to a lovely large office to work and make incense in, we're going to have to be somewhat creative with how we configure this place. I quite like the street I'm on, and the neighborhood seems nice. It's also a benefit that there is not a cancer center for dogs across the street—that sure makes for some depressing scenes when you're sitting on the porch. I'm going to miss walking to the river to feed the ducks frozen peas and smell the locust blossoms, though. I missed my last chance to do that and I was so sad I wrote a haiku about it:
+
+> Inside cool houses<br />
+No tall locust trees blossom<br />
+How I wish I'd left
+
+I'm going to have to be intentional about visiting the river when the locust trees are in bloom. In the meantime, I have a new neighborhood to explore and a new home to make. And the person who chose to upend six lives for her own benefit is going to have to contend with what is now a very, very uncomfortable place to live as all of its charm and our years of work to make it liveable have moved out alongside us.
+
+[^1]: The stereotype is true. There really are Americans who believe that anyone who does not live in the U.S.A. is at risk of arrest at any moment for thought-crime.
+[^2]: Criticize capitalism, however, and you are branded an extremist and put on a list. How sweet does freedom taste!

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content/status/Status_2026-09-12_13:49.md

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+---
+date: 2026-09-12 13:48:54
+emoji: 💰
+comment: Guy creates a fake classified program in the CIA and uses it to hide $40M worth of gold bars in his basement—work expenses, he says. [You can't help but respect the initiative](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/cia-officer-gold-bars-tentative-plea-deal).
+---

content/status/Status_2026-09-12_15:45.md

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+---
+date: 2026-09-12 14:44:08
+emoji: 💩
+comment: "[Good read](https://tante.cc/2026/09/07/the-function-of-llm-based-math-proofs/) on LLM mathematical “proofs.” TLDR, like most of the LLM hype, they're bunk."
+---

content/status/Status_2026-09-17_10:50.md

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+---
+date: 2026-09-17 10:49:00
+emoji: 💻
+comment: "Coming from EndeavourOS (which I really like), I had the idea in my head that Fedora KDE was some sort of Shangri-La where everything just worked out of the box. Well, I can't install KDE applications using Discover for some reason, attempting an upgrade with Discover went *very* poorly, and Kmail is crashing every time I attempt to send a signed email. By comparison, Endeavour was rock solid, although there's so much more you need to do manually. All I really want is a good OOTB experience without a bunch of manual setup, recent packages, not too much system maintenance, and reliable graphical package management. Is that too much to ask?"
+---

content/status/Status_2026-09-19_11:48.md

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+---
+date: 2026-09-19 11:48:00
+emoji: 🇺🇸
+comment: "If we [do not have the right to clean drinking water](https://grist.org/equity/federal-court-rules-there-is-no-constitutional-right-to-safe-drinking-water/), we do not have the right to life, let alone liberty or the pursuit of happiness."
+---

content/status/Status_2026-09-21_12:18.md

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+---
+date: 2026-09-21 12:11:18
+emoji: 💸
+comment: |
+  “But capitalism is the most efficient way to distribute resources!”
+
+  Meanwhile, [35% of Chicago households do not have enough food](https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2026/09/14/new-report-finds-35-of-chicago-households-dont-have-sufficient-food), including *almost half* of all households with a child. You know, I kinda don't care if we only get to pick between two kinds of mustard under a different economic system.
+---

content/status/Status_2026-09-22_15:30.md

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+---
+date: 2026-09-22 15:29:39
+emoji: ❤️
+comment: I think that love is yearning for the well-being of another as if it were your own, and despair when you cannot deliver it.
+---

content/status/Status_2026-10-05_11:11.md

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+---
+date: 2026-10-05 11:10:34
+emoji: 💉
+comment: "Today in “capitalism is the most efficient way to distribute resources:” [a new study](https://www.facs.org/media-center/press-releases/2026/15-million-americans-live-in-a-county-with-no-general-surgeon/) from the American College of Surgeons and the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center finds that 15,000,000 Americans don’t have access to a general surgeon in their county."
+---

content/status/Status_2026-10-07_16:12.md

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+---
+date: 2026-10-07 16:11:58
+emoji: 😫
+comment: "“I think you should use AI to…”
+Why? Why are you telling me, the person who does the work, what tool to use? Am I not fast enough? I'm on a salary and we have no deadline. Is my writing not good enough; am I simply too stupid? If this were the case, I wouldn't be employed here. Do you want to rob me of the joy of doing the thinking and creative work that keeps me from being bored out of my mind during the workday? Do you want to push me out by force of sheer depression? Why?"
+---

public/css/index.css

@@ -89,6 +89,19 @@
 	--grid-gutter: var(--space-s-s, clamp(1.25rem, 1.1092rem + 0.7042vw, 1.5rem));
 	--grid-columns: 12;
 
+	/* Line Height Tokens */
+	--line-height--2: calc(var(--step--2) * 1.5);
+	--line-height--1: calc(var(--step--1) * 1.5);
+	--line-height-0: calc(var(--step-0) * 1.5);
+	--line-height-1: calc(var(--step-1) * 1.5);
+	--line-height-2: calc(var(--step-2) * 1.5);
+	--line-height-3: calc(var(--step-3) * 1.5);
+	--line-height-4: calc(var(--step-4) * 1.5);
+	--line-height-5: calc(var(--step-5) * 1.5);
+	--line-height-6: calc(var(--step-6) * 1.5);
+	--line-height-7: calc(var(--step-7) * 1.5);
+	--line-height-8: calc(var(--step-8) * 1.5);
+
 	/* Utilities */
 	--span-grid: 1 / span 12;
 	--color-metadata: var(--contrast-color);
@@ -322,7 +335,6 @@ footer {
 	font-variation-settings: "wght" 500;
 	margin-left: calc(var(--grid-gutter) * -1);
 	margin-right: calc(var(--grid-gutter) * -1);
-	min-height: calc(var(--space-3xl) * 3);
 	padding: var(--space-xl) var(--grid-gutter) 0 var(--grid-gutter);
 	width: calc(100% + var(--grid-gutter) * 2);
 	& .footerContainer {
@@ -357,7 +369,7 @@ footer {
 	& p {
 		font-size: var(--step--1);
 		grid-column: var(--span-grid);
-		line-height: calc(var(--step--1) * 1.25);
+		line-height: var(--line-height--1);
 		margin-bottom: 0;
 	}
 	& .webring {
@@ -381,7 +393,7 @@ h1 {
 		"wght" 400,
 		"SOFT" 20,
 		"WONK" 1;
-	line-height: calc(var(--step-5) * 1.25);
+	line-height: var(--line-height-3);
 	padding-bottom: var(--space-l);
 	text-wrap: balance;
 }
@@ -391,7 +403,7 @@ h2 {
 	font-size: var(--step-0);
 	font-variation-settings: "wght" 450;
 	letter-spacing: var(--wide-letter-spacing);
-	line-height: calc(var(--step-0) * 1.25);
+	line-height: var(--line-height-0);
 	margin-block: 0 0.5lh;
 	text-transform: uppercase;
 
@@ -402,7 +414,7 @@ h3 {
 	font-size: var(--step--1);
 	font-variation-settings: "wght" 700;
 	letter-spacing: var(--wide-letter-spacing);
-	line-height: calc(var(--step--1) * 1.5);
+	line-height: var(--line-height-1);
 	text-transform: uppercase;
 	text-wrap: pretty;
 	&::before {
@@ -416,7 +428,7 @@ h4 {
 	font-size: var(--step--2);
 	font-variation-settings: "wght" 600;
 	letter-spacing: var(--wide-letter-spacing);
-	line-height: calc(var(--step--2) * 1.5);
+	line-height: var(--line-height--2);
 	text-transform: uppercase;
 	text-wrap: pretty;
 }
@@ -427,7 +439,7 @@ ul:not(.taglist) {
 		color: var(--contrast-color);
 	}
 	& li {
-		line-height: calc(var(--step-1) * 1.5);
+		line-height: var(--line-height-1);
 		padding-left: 0.5em;
 	}
 }
@@ -468,7 +480,7 @@ p:not(.quizQuestion, .isso-input-wrapper) {
 p,
 li {
 	font-size: var(--step-0);
-	line-height: calc(var(--step-0) * 1.5);
+	line-height: var(--line-height-0);
 	text-wrap: pretty;
 }
 figure {
@@ -611,7 +623,7 @@ thead tr th:last-child {
 	> li,
 	> li > p {
 		font-size: var(--step--1);
-		line-height: calc(var(--step--1) * 1.5);
+		line-height: var(--line-height--1);
 	}
 }
 .footnote-item::marker {
@@ -634,7 +646,8 @@ hr {
 /* Badges */
 .badges {
 	& img {
-		height: 100%;
+		height: 31px;
+		width: 88px;
 		margin-bottom: var(--space-2xs);
 		margin-right: var(--space-2xs);
 	}
@@ -660,7 +673,7 @@ article > .post-image,
 
 .post-synopsis {
 	font-size: var(--step-1);
-	line-height: calc(var(--step-1) * 1.5);
+	line-height: var(--line-height-1);
 }
 
 .post-time-author,
@@ -728,7 +741,7 @@ article > .post-image,
 		font-family: var(--font-family-ui);
 		font-size: var(--step--2);
 		font-variation-settings: "wght" 400;
-		line-height: calc(var(--step--2) * 1.5);
+		line-height: var(--line-height--2);
 		& .authorBio a {
 			text-decoration: underline;
 			text-decoration-color: var(--contrast-color);
@@ -868,7 +881,7 @@ sup {
 					font-size: var(--step--1);
 					font-variation-settings: "wght" 700;
 					letter-spacing: var(--wide-letter-spacing);
-					line-height: calc(var(--step--1) * 1.5);
+					line-height: var(--line-height--1);
 					text-transform: uppercase;
 					&:before {
 						content: "";
@@ -916,7 +929,7 @@ h3.postlist-link {
 	font-size: var(--step--1);
 	font-variation-settings: "wght" 700;
 	letter-spacing: var(--wide-letter-spacing);
-	line-height: calc(var(--step--1) * 1.5);
+	line-height: var(--line-height--1);
 	text-transform: uppercase;
 }
 

public/img/gallery/illustration/doodle.webp

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/home/n_u/Repos/nathanupchurch.com/public/img/doodle.webp