Now that every single major social media has been completely shittified by either surveillance capitalism, lobbied lawmakers, LLMs and/or the people who are either indifferent or enthusiastic about the first three things, maybe I have the perfect excuse to abandon the frenetic routine of microblogging and start focusing on something that may be less satisfying in terms of immediate dopamine hits, but that is sure more fulfilling in the bigger picture: I’m starting a proper blog.
Chances are if you are reading this you already know me, but if you don’t I’m Celeste, a chronically tired nonbinary lesbian vegan anarchist who loves insects and hates cis men. And I also adore yapping about all sorts of stuff. Content here will probably include diary-like entries, tutorials for digital piracy and private software, curiosities about weird tiny animals, movies reviews, socio-political rants and commentary and mind-fucks about antispecieism, transfeminism, nonmonogamy, queerness and lesbian culture.
The critter in the picture above is a globular springtail (probably of the species Dicyrtomina minuta, size 1-2mm), captured by photographer Dmitri Pavlov as it ventures into a magical forest of myxomicetes. Despite having 6 legs, springtails are not insects and belong to their own class Collembola. These lil fellas have a tail-like appendage folded under their belly, called furca, that is constantly held under tension: when the furca snaps, it acts as a springboard and launches the springtail at extremely high speed, allowing for fast movement or evasion from a predator.