The Geecologist

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

Feb 13, 2016 | Geekery, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

A few days before I flew to San Francisco to meet Adria, I posted a message on 4chan/b/ asking for anyone personally involved in her destruction to contact me. The message was deleted in less than a minute. I posted another request. That one vanished after a few...
The Bullshit Machine

The Bullshit Machine

Nov 10, 2014 | Geekery, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Here’s a tiny confession. I’m bored. Yes; I know. I’m a sinner. Go ahead. Burn me at the stake of your puritanical Calvinism; the righteously, thoroughly, well, boring idea that boredom itself is a moral defect; that a restless mind is the Devil’s sweatshop. There’s...
London riots

London riots

Aug 9, 2011 | Non-Fiction | 3 comments

It is sunset, the sound of sirens is less frequent outside now in Hackney (E8), and it seems like the right time to reflect for a minute on the ‘London riots’. To set some context for this, I (slightly begrudgingly) thought Penny Red’s blog was very...