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!


The Existential Dilema of Antisocial Media Friendships

30 Dec 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

It's always heartbreaking to see a friend hurting and know there's nothing I can do to help/make them feel a little better other than talk and listen (not even a hug, because of distance). It's even worse when that hurt is from an experience that mir...

Men, Women and People of a Nonbinary Gender, The Snark is Back, with a Vengeance

30 Dec 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark

This post is going to be a super-quick one, since I'm currently going through a bit of a dry spell as far as creative inspiration (for both my music and writing) goes (although it might not be apparent to anyone else, from looking at my stats alone)....

Has China Finally Gone Too Far in its Stance Against Gaming?

30 Dec 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

China, in its concern for/over gaming addiction, has drastically cut allowed gaming time for children. This is most likely the wrong approach. A few days ago, I read in an old copy of my local newspaper that, starting in September 2021, the Chinese g...

FLoC Me! Yet Another Reason to Ditch Chrome for Brave, Firefox or Tor

30 Dec 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

I presume that you already know that there are a number of nasty things that Google does to gather data on users of its G-Suite Web apps and search engine, so I'm not going to go into detail on exactly what all of those are. However, it does do this...

Today, in a Conversation with an Anti-Vaxxer

29 Dec 2021 4 minute read 10 comments Great White Snark

I recently published a post about how the bungling of handling COVID-19 is a political problem more than a medical one, having read a medical professional's personal account of what it's like to work during the COVID-19 pandemic, an account that got...

Being "nice" and "kind" to everyone (especially when they have a vested interest in killing people) is Libertarian Centrist nonsense.

28 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

If you hold an open mic for just any old dingus to walk up and talk for however long they want, you'll get exactly that. The signal:noise goes to 1:∞. All the US school board meetings where people have public comments railing against critical race th...

Kevin Gates or Broke

27 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

Today, I spent five hours exercising dogs and mucking out kennels. Then I went home and had a one hour lunch break before heading to my gardening job for an office block. I spent three and a half hours there, before heading to the house I'm looking a...

So Much for That

27 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

About a month ago, I started writing content on read.cash, as an experiment, to see what the earning potential is like. While it certainly seemed better than on Pub0x (I earned more in my first two weeks there than the six months I've been here), I'v...

There's a certain satisfaction to doing a job well, even when you're not keen on the job.

10 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

I've just finished day #2 of a four day contract to do some gardening work over the course of this week and next, for an office block. (Their previous guy was useless and messed around a lot. Apparently, I've done more in two days than he did in six...

The World's Most Unusual King: King James of Zion (A Mormon Sect)

2 Dec 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

As best as can be determined, James Jesse Strang (1813–1856) was the only monarch ever crowned within the borders of the United States. Strang was an influential and senior member within the Mormon church community. Following the murder of Joseph Smi...