This is just a short note to say that Facebook has deactivated both my Facebook and Messenger accounts, and I can’t seem to get back into them and won’t be creating a new one (see my post about leaving Facebook). If you want to stay in contact with me, please chase me down on another platform. I’ve got a bunch of contact methods listed in the header of this website, but I’ll list them here too:

After several years hosting my blog on Wordpress.com, I decided that I didn’t want to pay the A$120/year renewal fee just for the privilege of hosting blog at my own domain name (which I already own), especially since I’ve already started paying for US$5/month for a Digital Ocean droplet to host a couple of other things. So my blog has moved from WordPress to Hugo. It’s not currently super pretty because I didn’t spend much time on the themeing, but it is functional, and all my content is still here, and I don’t think I’ve broken any old links or made any significant URL changes.

In light of recent news, and following my (regrettable and hopefully brief) return to Facebook, I made the below post as a comment on a forum I’m a part of, in response an article that had been shared about Facebook putting profit before public good (also: 9 Horrifying Facts From the Facebook Whistleblower). I decided that, despite a lack of polish, it was worth me re-publishing here: So this is a topic that’s near and dear to my heart and makes me very ranty.