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Thirteen Percent

13% of women who have been raped attempt suicide. I was groped, not raped, and I still have these thoughts.

#rape#sexual-assault
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scars

I had just finished telling my therapist about the sordid saga surrounding my sexual assault: Webs of the Very Online, banishment directives and what life in the crucible of vibes was like. The look in her eyes started off as incredulous, then switched to sad. Her usual eloquent manner of speech shifted: Wow, that really sucks. Over the past 3 years I’ve told the tale to various friends, and those same sentiments of wow and really sucks came through. The details themselves now seem so mundane...

#vibecamp#tpot#2025
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Unfame

I’ve already written about the first time I felt fame, but I just as clearly remember the last time I felt it. It was at FarCon 2024. It was after about 5 or 6 people had come up to me that I said to myself: I missed this. In 2021 someone called me web3 Courtney Love, and I think I was at the height of it at FarCon. Not in a good way, not in a bad way, but in a certain kind of way. I could finally see both sides of it: Some people said Oh, her! when they saw me, and others said Oh, her. I was...

#fame#vibecamp
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Diary Of A Fallen Socialite - The Gala

In an effort to get some near-weekly content out: A writing experiment that averages out to being a fictional accounting of my former life as a socialite whilst being rooted in factual events.If you were at this party, you know this picture.The StartThe party is aptly named; -gala. I walk in, and the first thing I notice are the walls. They are adorned with memes: It’s a very San Francisco party. They are mostly conspiracy related, and look really cool. I idly wonder if my costume i...

#tpot#party#socialite

Who I Had To Be To Get Here

2024 was a turbulent year for me. To talk about my 2024, though, I have to first talk about someone else: Deirdre Olsen.The Weed SceneThe year was 2019, and I had moved to Vancouver the year before to take a job with Tantalus Labs. I was working for Tesla of cannabis, and I really thought I had died and gone to heaven. I was living twin lives as a regulatory affairs executive and a social media celebrity.This is SunLab, Tantalus Labs primary production facility - I miss it a lot.SunLab was am...

#vibecamp#2024#cannabis#activism
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Being Seen

The view was breathtaking. I was at a mansion in Beverly Hills, having just watched some fire dancers put on an amazing show. I took a break to go back to the upper level of the mansion grounds, and look out over the hills on the rest of Los Angeles. I thought back to Vibegala 1 and 2, and how I had done the same back then. Those were my first real mansion parties, and I still remember the first time I looked out over the Berkeley Hills. I felt the same things both times: Overwhelmed, and tha...

#vibecamp#vibegala#being#seen#connection
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Doing The Right Thing

I’m still working on a piece about exiting Gray Tribe, but here are some immediate thoughts on disillusionment.I’ve been thinking a lot about activism, idealism, and when they do more harm than good. Trying to pinpoint the exact moment that I caught the activism bug. My formative media diet had a lot to do with it: Star Trek: The Next Generation was a centerpiece. Simplistic morality plays that often painted things very black and white; some things were wrong, and someone needed to do somethi...

#activism#idealism
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Next.JS Dynamic Imports

The final code for the project is here, and if you prefer a video walkthrough it's available on my YouTube channel here: The Quest For BeatsI needed to use an external component for a Next.JS project I'm working on: mixmotion-player which is a React front-end for assets stored on Mixcloud. Mixmotion is a client-side only react component, meaning it has some dependencies that make it tricky to integrate with something that does server side rendering like Next. It will depend on globals like wi...

#nextjs#code#devrel#react
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I Was Sexually Assaulted At Vibecamp

This is part 1 of a 2 part series on being sexually assaulted in 2022 at the first Vibecamp, and how that experience impacted me. Content warnings for depictions of sexual assault and PTSD. Background information that may be helpful is Erik Torenberg’s post on the ideals of Gray Tribe. A large amount of people in the Vibecamp community / The Network State movement identify as belonging to this social group:I was sexually assaulted at Vibecamp 1 in 2022. I was waiting at a bar, my left hand ho...

#vibecamp#trans#networkstates
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I Was Stalked At A Vancouver Rave

I went to the Vancouver edition of the Boiler Room event series on Friday, and was having a good time until transphobia reared its head in the ugliest of ways.What HappenedIt started when about halfway through the event I was leaving the bathroom, when a group of 2 girls said ‘THIS IS FOR GIRLS ONLY’. I found it ironic, given there was a large paper sign posted at the entrance stating the bathroom was trans friendly. It was the first time I’ve ever been accosted in a bathroom, so it shook me ...