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About Me!

Note: There will never be AI (especially GenAI) on this website, as an Irish person the demand data centres in my country put on the national grid in one year is already over that of Dublin and Galway combined. Therefore, I cannot conscience the use of AI in my life. Increasing demand for AI (especially GenAI) has already and will not only result in increased environmental destruction and worker abuse globally (through the mining of precious metals, e-waste, and energy demand) but it will continue to have a direct affect on my community, causing power outages and increased dirty emmissions that are as needless as they are immoral. I have more concerns about GenAI than just the environmental impact but it is truly the top issue on my mind when it comes to this topic especially.

A small introduction

Hello! Welcome to my website. Like a lot of people, I have a complicated (and often disatisfied) relationship with The Internet. The idea of the personal or indie web really excited me, so on the I decided to make this website! I'd never done proper coding and I'm still basically just a bumbling fool but I hope you can find a nice corner of this wider small web experiment here. As for who I am, I'm Irish, I love art and music and I think they have the ability to both nourish and change our souls towards and better life and world, particularly to inspire action. I don't think it would be a suprise to say that I'm a fan of solarpunk. I'm also a Quaker. I don't bring this up to preach (we have a lot of big issues and questions here on this earth to answer and those answers can come in infinite forms, I find answers here but not everyone does, and that's one of the largest beauties of life) but because it gives a bit of context to why I am the way I am.

I'm disabled as well, being autistic and chronically ill. I've used a wheelchair for the better part of two years now and I will always strive to make this site accessible, particularly for people using screen readers. If you're reading this and have your own website, I highly encourage you to start adding image descriptions to pictures on your site! Likewise I won't every have any bright flashing images or lights, I want everyone to be able to enjoy my site.

My Interests!

Some fun facts:

  1. I am a former Scratch kid. I learned to animate using Scratch and did a coding club that used it but coding (especially like this) is terrifying!
  2. I am an avid Wikipedia user/sometimes editor. This has not made me good at html.
  3. I am a proud secondary school dropout who somehow has wound up in university anyway. I'm enjoying it for now though!
  4. Despite being a dropout, I somehow have better Irish than my twin sister who stayed in school.
  5. I use a flip phone! This makes it painful to get images to my computer or other people but otherwise I'm really happy with the decision, I think it has helped me have a much simpler and better relationship with technology.
  6. I've made or bought secondhand all of my clothes since 2022 with the noteable exceptions of one pair of overalls and a pair of coudory trousers from a sustainible/ethical company, and two t-shirts - one from a small artist bought via a not horrible seller (the company that actually made the shirt does have sustainibility and ethical qualifications, but I probably should have checked those more thoroughly at them time than I did.) and the other from a history museum in rural Brittany.
  7. I'm a huge Patrick Kavanagh poetry enjoyer. Of the 20 or so poems I have memorised, most of them are by him. I'm pretty sure if we met in a pub we'd get into a shouting match but damn that man could write.
  8. I use a lot of exclamation marks! Please bear with!
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Image/Other Credits

The background for the header comes from Swifty's hq!

The image background for the wider website comes from here on Creative Commons, which is an amazing resource run by Wikipedia of free-to-use images (always check if the owner of the image wants credit though, there's a few kinds of creative commons liscences!

Webrings!

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the top of a fuzzy, black sphere with two arrows rising from it, one curving to the left, one to the right. across the bulk of the sphere it reads NO AI / WEBRING in squiggly, uneven letters and next to those words is a small question mark

Notions and Ideas for Things