(IN)TANGIBLE changes

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Just sent this to my newsletter subscribers, but I want to add it here for posterity:

Greetings,

As my metalwork is suddenly starting to take off on a local level (I’m actually in the process of selling a few pieces which is still wild to me), it’s time for a different path with (IN)TANGIBLE. I really like the name and want to use it for something else, so this email is going to shift to being an announcement of when I release a new issue of the (IN)TANGIBLE zine, the home for any and all of my long(er)-form writing and cartooning (read: anything that I both love and that takes me more than half an hour to compose). It’ll be available in both digital and handmade physical editions.

If you want to keep up with my day-to-day Informalities / brainstream / sharing of personal micro-culture, Parenthetical Recluse continues to – and will forever - be my weird little slice of the internet. AND it has a comment system (again)! Here’s the RSS feed: https://parentheticalrecluse.com/blog?format=rss

(Instagram’s my only social media these days; you’re welcome to find me there if we haven’t already connected.)

Anyhow, you’ve got my email so feel free to reach out anytime. In the meantime, my best to you and yours and a heartfelt thanks for the multitudinous years of support through all the ups and downs and zigs and zags of this particular creative calling.

See you soon – be well.

tww
mon/2025dec01

The Last Days of social media

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Agree with everything here, a perfect encapsulation of the cesspit - and solid ideas for a future. I’m very likely retreating to my blog / newsletter combo before too long; the socials are way past their prime and if I’m going to be online, I’d rather it be somewhere I enjoy myself. Mainly talking to myself in public.

The choice isn’t between technological determinism and Luddite retreat; it’s about constructing alternatives that learn from what made major platforms usable and compelling while rejecting the extractive mechanics that turned those features into tools for exploitation. This won’t happen through individual choice, though choice helps; it also won’t happen through regulation, though regulation can really help. It will require our collective imagination to envision and build systems focused on serving human flourishing rather than harvesting human attention.

Social media as we know it is dying, but we’re not condemned to its ruins. We are capable of building better — smaller, slower, more intentional, more accountable — spaces for digital interaction, spaces where the metrics that matter aren’t engagement and growth but understanding and connection, where algorithms serve the community rather than strip-mining it.

newsletter fuckery

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Latest (IN)TANGIBLE went out yesterday, but not without Buttondown woes. DNS etc etc, settings that worked for years suddenly stopped working, failure to send, yadda yadda. Ended up scrapping the whole custom send domain thing because fuck it. Not worth the brainpower to fix something that I still haven't figured out why it needs fixing. So, subscribers, if the email arrives from a different address, that's what happened. 🤷