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I strongly dislike a lot of things.

Digital spaces can include or exclude their audiences through any and all design choices. The formatting, background, and font of every button is a signaler of the virtues the hope to portray.

I have a habit of being exclusionary with my work. It isn’t necessarily to slight those excluded, it’s more of a filter I place both consciously and subconsciously. As with any artist’s work, they are the most aware of the target audience, therefore part of that perception is wrapped into the work itself. The piece presents itself in drastically different ways each individual, allowing for a myriad of possible perceptions. For example, you could say this blog is ableist due to there being no text to speech option, yet the gray area found in digital mediums is the adaptability of it. Every device you could consume this on would have a text to speech option, so you’re sort of let off with those regards. Digitized stuff ey. My website is relatively redundant, both in content and available navigation controls.

Art is inherently exclusive. Always has been, always will be.

Let’s say I were to read this site’s posts from another set of eyes, ones’ less tainted by the horrors of our reality, or perhaps just more optimistic ones. I’d find whatever bloke who is writing this material a bit insufferable, in the sort of way where he’s making a good point, while being a bit of a prick about it. He babbles over all those matters you’ve just never cared enough to mull over, the ones that float just a little too far above what you call reality. There’s something soothing about it, the ingestion of a rant that doesn’t shatter your world.

“inclusion often sustains exclusion while pretending to fix it”

I cannot detail the ins and outs of what I am catering to in regards to the needs of my readers. As with most things I do, it simply is not for them. It would be disingenuous to trade my integrity for a more consumable medium. They can find their corporate slop bowl somewhere else. However, in all seriousness, I make it a priority that each post contains at least two or more mediums. Hyperlinks to images, videos, and definitions are commonplace here. I’ve updated all images in past posts to include alternative text, allowing for a wider