your friend myk @mykola@weirder.earth

Hey friends, I hope all y’all are doing well. What, uh. What’s new?

Hi friends. It me. I’m here because the worst year of my life is wrapping up and I’m broke and unemployed, and I need to ask for a bit of help.

Trying to raise enough money to not stress about it until I land a job. Actively applying but it’s a bad time.

If you have anything to spare, would you consider booking a paid session with me via http://skewnorth.com, or even just contributing to http://ko-fi.com/mykola?

My credit card is maxed out, I’m down to 3 digits in the bank after rent and bills, and I’m currently having Covid symptoms. This year broke me in ways I didn’t know I could break, but I survived.

And now I need just a bit more help, if you can. I’ve got a roommate coming in a few weeks, and hope to be employed by feb. but rn I’m pretty anxious.

I’m sorry to ask, and grateful for your consideration.

I set up some amusing (to me) commissions on my ko-fi page to monetize some AI research I’ve been doing. Come get a reading from a generated tarot deck, or get a narrative analysis or construction!

http://ko-fi.com/mykola/commissions for more!

Hello old friends, long time no see. I’m posting here because I’m in a bit of trouble and I’m at a place where I need to ask for help.

I have burned out too badly to work. I am trying to make ends meet via coaching — I can help neurodivergent people navigate life’s challenges, and I offer coaching services via skewnorth.com.

But also, I’m deeply in debt and frankly don’t know what to do. Even if you don’t need coaching, anything helps right now and if you have something to give I have a ko-fi set up here: ko-fi.com/mykola

I really hate to ask. I hate this so much. But I’m desperate. For those of you who don’t know me and don’t know why a stranger is here asking like this, hi I’m myk I built this place and I pay for hosting. Also. I need someone to reach out to me about taking over paying. I am past all of my limits.

I hope y’all are doing ok. I’m sorry to show up for this.

Hey friends. My wife and I are separating. It’s amicable and mature, we grew apart and turns out all that work to mitigate our incompatibility was maybe not the best use of energy?

Anyway. In my feels a bit but okay. I’m looking forward to the next chapter.

Well, I turned 40 and I'll be sharing a huge life change soon. Things are hectic right now. I feel pretty unmoored, but optimistic.

The River is my favorite song on the album. It's about leaving town because the water rose so high from a chaotic river that he couldn't function. "Good luck, there's no way to communicate".

But he travels, and he changes, and he grows. And when he finally finds himself he comes back home, and watches the river recede, and is at peace.

There's a line in One Fine Day where he switches from "I" to "You" and until today I couldn't figure out who "You" is.

But "You" was me. He was talking to me, telling me how much hope it was giving him to see me experience the same growth and freedom that he did on that one fine day.

I had a surreal experience this morning. I put on David Byrne and Brian Eno's Everything That Happens will Happen Today.

And every track resonated with my soul and left me with a specific question for David Byrne.

And the next track, invariably, was an answer to that question.

It was like a weeping-angels style dialog with David Byrne talking about being Autistic and navigating life and love and figuring out what "home" means.

Some changes happening in personal life. Torn between grief and gratitude. Life has been really hard for a really long time; hopeful that this will be a fresh start in some important ways. #vagueposting

Is there such a thing as “the best mastodon iOS app” yet?

Really impressed with the mods here. Great work, y’all.

I haven’t used twitter since I left. I thought this would be horribly painful but it’s been fine. I haven’t filled the void with mastodon - or anything - and feel almost fine with that. Huh.

I am really struggling with my complete lack of success across all dating apps across all attempts to rebrand myself. Hard not to feel like there’s something wrong with me that i can’t see. I know there’s not. Just. I could really use some comfort.

I figure I’ll share this here, it was really well and widely received on twitter and is now being taught in classrooms and newsrooms around the world. I give you “how to talk about autism respectfully”: https://coda.io/@mykola-bilokonsky/public-neurodiversity-support-center/how-to-talk-about-autism-respectfully-84