Shoe Bill

Hello, or hello again.
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything nice.

Single user GoToSocial instance, self-hosted on my own hardware; Onion (mirror for this site) here.

RSS feed of my public posts here; about page here.

ShoeBill.1337 on Signal (here); SimpleX Chat here.

Keyoxide proof(s) here.

If you think you might know me by another name, you might be right.

GED in 2011 at 17; no qualifications otherwise, at least literally on paper.

No human children; cat dad, though.

Just some guy.

Followers manually approved since 2025-11-05 -0700 and indefinitely.

I will almost certainly approve your follow request if you are not a bot—and by that I mean the bad kind, specifically—and as long as it's self-evident that your account doesn't exist for the express purpose of some abhorrence, etc.

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve"… or something.

The date is coincidental, FWIW, which is hilarious if you ask me.

"Introduction" here so I don't have to make it its own post, so I can update it whenever without spamming notifications, and also so I have more room to pin other stuff.

NixOS diehard on desktop/server. The host machine for the VM for this server, as well as the VM itself, both run NixOS and always will. Currently using Niri on the host machine and loving it. GrapheneOS diehard on mobile.

Love projects, especially the kind that are never finished because they're never supposed to be.

Grew up in Oregon and moved to New Mexico with my family when they did.

I ride a unicycle. Trying to learn violin. These things don't necessarily have anything to do with each other, I hope.

Like I said, I have a cat; just look under "media"; you won't have to scroll far.

ADHD and Tourette Syndrome, both professionally diagnosed for the first time when I was 20-something.

This is the second GTS instance I've self-hosted and the second of the two domains I've ever registered.

My dad passed away in the fall of 2025.

AVATAR
"Front view of the Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) at Weltvogelpark Walsrode (Walsrode Bird Park, Germany)"; Olaf Oliviero Riemer, CC BY-SA 3.0

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"Harry S. Truman holding the Chicago Daily Tribune with the erroneous headline, 'Dewey Defeats Truman', at Union Station in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 4, 1948, after winning the 1948 United States presidential election"; Byron H. Rollins, U.S. Public Domain

As of the most recent change to this message and until further notice, any and all media that is my own work, posted on or after 2025-10-29 -0600 by any service or at any page publicly exposed at this domain, is distributed according to the terms of CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise stated.

The ubiquitous platitude "failure is not an option" is absurd by contradiction. Give me an example of some situation in which failure IS an option. Go ahead, I'll wait. Failure is an ever-present possibility irrespective of the consequences thereof, and either we make peace with that or nothing gets done.

Sanity is, by definition, doing something and expecting a result.

"Everything happens for a reason" is absurd in its own right. Anything happening for a reason, by definition, necessitates that some other things also happen but for no particular reason. Everything happening for a reason is logically equivalent to a program that compiles to only ones without a single zero. The ones don't mean anything without the zeroes. If everything happens for a reason then nothing does.

A skeptic in the truest sense of the word begs for evidence sufficient to disprove themselves.

Professionals have standards and so do I.

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