Author archive

LinkedIn competitor as cancellation insurance    (2023.08.26)

A Twitter replacement for the LinkedIn could “become the natural home of refusé(e)s, the blacklisted, the cancelled”

Twitter accessibility politburo rightfully shitcanned    (2023.08.26)

Nearly two decades into its existence, Twitter does not and did not need an accessibility “team,” which was shitcanned by Elon Musk basically before he sat down for coffee. And rightly so

Arc, the latest software inaccessible at launch    (2023.06.02)

After 35 years (and true of basically everything in which I take an interest), how I tire of repeating myself. Another rich software startup is about to blow it vis-à-vis accessibility. This time it’s Arc (some kind of browser), and if they do anything about accessibility it will involve not hiring me

Buddy Cole taken off life support    (2023.03.04)

Scott Thompson as Buddy Cole – in 2023. As I point out every five minutes, once our generation and the generation right behind ours finally dies, gay will be over

Contempt    (2022.06.29)

Ben Sandofsky of Halide: Homophobe and blackmailer

John Waters’ best films of 2021–2023    (2021.12.02)

Now several years combined

Fiction fact-check    (2021.10.25)

Just how many contemporary novels even deign to admit that email, TV, and bathrooms exist?

Best and worst fagonomics articles (2021)    (2021.09.07)

An amazingly original piece of work devised a theory of which jobs gay men and lesbians would choose. Running through a set of statistical surveys, what jobs did the authors identify as typical of gay men and lesbians? You’ll never guess!

Apple already is a repressive régime    (2021.09.06)

It was particularly risible to read that Apple’s surveillance mechanisms might be reused by some kind of authoritarian or repressive régime. Apple already is one of those. Its authoritarianism merely pleases the political biases of the far-left Apple press