F-CK

 I’ve worked as, in social media terms, a public figure. I’ve been threatened, stalked, and everything else you can imagine being done online, up to and including the creation of wiki articles outlining fictional crimes I have apparently committed against humanity. Where possible and appropriate I’d log IP addresses, aliases, times, dates, and hosts, pass it on to police in the jurisdiction the little turd trying to get a reaction lived in, and carry on. That’s what you do. I also had two Facebook accounts. One was my actual account, which I kept private, and didn’t use my legal name on. The other was public. Now I’m no longer a video games community manager I wanted to go back to using my personal account, but because the [total lack of] behaviour of that account has changed so much with my using it, they keep banning me. This is Facebook’s f-cked up mechanism to “help protect” my account from third parties. It’s so incredibly focused on the idea that all changes in activity denot...

I changed what I ate for a while, back at the end of 2019 and early 2020. I started out wanting to lose weight, and having heard so much about how effective "the keto diet" was I did a lot of reading. I discovered that there's no such thing.  Before you start yelling that of course there is such a thing, let me clarify. The problem I have is that those writing about keto dieters all assume the worst about food choices made to maintain ketosis, and they use the definite article (*the* keto diet), where in reality it's an exclusion that guides a person's diet, i.e. it's *a* ketogenic diet, using the indefinite article. If I come across the definite article used in relation to keto diets I move on to the next thing, because there are probably millions of keto diets, and most are entirely undocumented, untested, and unique to their dieter. Talking about this eclectic and messy mass of individual eating habits as "the" anything is really reaching.   I did...