I’m a cybersecurity and IT professional. I’ve spent my career in the public sector, which means I’ve seen firsthand how institutions handle — and mishandle — the data of the people they’re supposed to serve.
Outside of work, I run Linux, self-host my own infrastructure, and spend more time than I probably should thinking about privacy law, digital rights legislation, and why the default in tech keeps ending up being surveillance.
I hold strong opinions about:
- Who owns your data (you do)
- Who should be able to repair your devices (you should)
- Whether governments understand the technology they’re legislating (they mostly don’t)
- What FOSS means in a world where everything is a subscription
- Whose rights are real (everyone’s)
- What you should be able to spend your money on (literally anything that isn’t illegal)
I’m also a gamer with a library that got out of hand a long time ago. My Steam Deck goes everywhere. I have strong feelings about Witcher 3, Elden Ring, and God of War, and I buy visual novels specifically to support the indie developers making them, which is either principled or a coping mechanism, probably both. I write about games here too, because a site that’s only politics gets exhausting and games are worth taking seriously.
I’m a world-builder, and someone who has spent an unreasonable amount of time drafting model legislation as a hobby. I have a long-term plan to relocate to Iceland, which tells you something about where I’m at politically.
This site exists because I got tired of having nowhere to put things.
Currently
- Working in IT/cybersecurity for a public sector organization
- Building out self-hosted infrastructure because I don’t trust the cloud I don’t control
- Watching age verification legislation very closely
- Playing through my backlog with varying degrees of success
- Advocating privacy as default
- Advocating rights for everyone
- Annoying my elected representatives