As American students are preparing to return to the classroom during a pandemic–in flagrant disregard of everything ranging from our scientific understanding to matters of good taste–we keep hearing from politicians how essential education is. Of course, if they actually believed the words coming out of their mouth, you’d expect them to be a little […]
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A Canned Response to My Viral Tweet
This is a bit different from my usual blog post, insofar as I don’t have much of a point except that I’m tired of repeating myself. The other day, I was frustrated about Pinterest clogging up the Google Image Search results and tweeted a really simple and well-known life-hack to counteract their search engine manipulation. […]
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The World Needs More Furry Bloggers
Despite the awesomeness and diversity that the furry fandom offers the world, there is a very narrow subset of furry content creation that has attained popular appeal within our community. If you want to create and share furry art, there are at least a half dozen furry websites dedicated to furry art (including FurAffinity). If […]
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#PrideMonth
I rarely think about the labels that describe me. That isn’t because of privilege (I spent many years painfully aware of them), but because my friends are incredibly supportive and we’ve been able to cultivate an environment where I’m not constantly reminded of why I don’t “belong”. (It took many grueling years to achieve that, […]
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Welcome to Soatok.blog
Hi, I’m Soatok! I’m a bit of what you might call a nerd. This will the future home of my musings, side projects, and research notes. You can expect less “here’s me explaining a thing I’m an expert in” and more “here’s me writing about learning new stuff”. I will also be writing about the […]
