The Snark Returns: Random Musings from The GWS
The Snark Returns: Random Musings from The GWS

The Snark Returns: Random Musings from The GWS

SW/Web developer: ~12 years of C# (yay!) & ASP .Net MVC, Java (blargh!), Python (woot!) experience. I'm currently hitting faucets and writing for crypto to stake/invest . | I work part-time with animals. Sadly, my cerebellum and medulla oblongata aren't Einsteinian in proportion. However, I possess a Brobdingnagian vocabulary and get by with being a barbigerous logophile. I can probably write you into bed, if smashing Capitalism and Patriarchy turns you on. Kink is political!


A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed, but She Wouldn't Know

16 Sep 2022 2 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

"People who test their friendships with others aren't friends; they're arseholes", she wrote. Well, as a self-confessed arsehole, I'm glad we're not friends, because the people who write things like that with conviction are the people who are fair-...

More Drama with a Cell Phone Company

12 Sep 2022 1 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark

Yesterday, I tried to contact customer service in order to cancel my Internet account. However, being a Sunday, nobody answered. I would have done it through their app, but I was denied access since my phone number was grey listed. Today, I went to t...

The Price of Doing Business with John the Revelator and His Bad Jangle of Dirty Silver

8 Sep 2022 17 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

For about a week prior to writing this, I'd been mulling over an exchange with a rich Capitalist. Every time I think about it, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth, the inescapable feeling that a lot of what he wrote might be right, unfortunately. Howev...

Yet More Preaching to The Choir (Why I Realised Fighting Patriarchy Solo is An Unwinnable War)

6 Sep 2022 3 minute read 10 comments Great White Snark

Smashing the Patriarchy is hard, even for men. Non-men fight it in groups. Men mostly fight it alone, as much outside of themselves as inside. I would know, having done my fair share of it and getting nowhere. I don't regret doing it, though. I'd lik...

Doing Antibot Checks, the Ableist Way

5 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

This morning, I tried to create a Microsoft Live account for business, so that I can use it for Teams, because I have a meeting with a potential client later today. (He wants me to build an eCommerce site for him. I'm not sure of the specifics, which...

I Will Not Endorse, Shill or Otherwise Promote Toxic Communities and Projects in Which I Don't Believe

5 Sep 2022 2 minute read 7 comments Great White Snark

This morning, I got an email from the uHive metaverse team, informing me that if I persuaded five people to each invest 1 Bitcoin (BTC) in uHive, I would receive $10 000 worth of its crypto (uHive Token). Now, as much as I'd like $10 000 dollars (and...

Weekend Waffle, 2022-09-03: Are we drowning or waving? (I just want me to save me.)

3 Sep 2022 7 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

Despite the fact that some of the content that follows is sexual in nature, that title is not intended as a euphemism. It is more in the sense of talking at length about nothing in particular. Since I don't have a particular subject on which to focus...

2019-22: The COVID-19 Years (And Beyond) OR My Writing Index

1 Sep 2022 10 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark

For a while, I've been contemplating putting together a writing index of both my personal favourite and popular writings. (For this, I'm defining "popular" as anything that nets me more than $0.20 in tips. It's not a great metric as far as accuracy g...

Is it too early or egotistical to get self-congratulatory?

1 Sep 2022 1 minute read 5 comments Great White Snark

It probably is, since success, particularly online, is fleeting/temporal. Bugger it, I'm doing it anway, because it makes me happy and gives me a positive feeling about the month to come. I need as many of those as I can get. My ego, on the other han...

Recall the Deeds as if they're all Someone Else's Atrocious Story: Prologue

17 Aug 2022 16 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

This post was originally published on read.cash, in two parts, but I received no tips for them (as with most of the content I post there). I'm hoping I'll have better luck here, as I have before. Authors and aspiring writers are often advised to wri...