A Lovely Harmless Monster

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# About The Author

I'm matt bluelander. You can call me Matt Bee for short.

I was born in nineteen eighty-five in Appalachia, a mountainous region of the eastern United States, where I currently reside with my spouse and cat. The land I live on rightfully belongs to the Tsalagi people. I'm [nonbinary](/topics/gender) $$nb$$ and my pronouns are they/them, but he/him or she/her don't bother me. Local time is UTC -5 (-4 during DST, Mar. 09 — Nov. 02.)

I'm a [neurodivergent](/topics/neurodivergence) [anarchist](/topics/anarchism) [raccoon](/topics/raccoon&command=edit). By day I am a humble spreadsheet mechanic; by evening, I'm a writer and a programmer; by night, I am a sleepy critter. I'm trying my best to be a positive nihilist. I'm tired, but I have Izzy, my wonderful spouse, and she keeps me going 🦝♥️🐼

My current system is a [Thinkpad x250](/topics/computer) running Debian 12 with XFCE.

My favorite color is **purple**.

It is customary to display a list of my interests on the info page of a personal website, so you know if you should follow me, but I'm sort of interested in everything, and my level of interest in any particular thing waxes and wanes unpredictably. To be as broad and unhelpful as possible, I'm interested in sustainable technology, art, literature, music, games, history, science, politics, and law.

If you'd like to get in touch, [click here to send me a message](https://mattbee.zone/contact) or reach me at ``bluelander@tutanota.com.``

Thanks for reading! $$pat$$

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## Design & Credits

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This site was built with [kiki](/topics/kiki), a web 1.0 construction kit for the 21st century.

Color scheme and initial design based on [sadgrl's layout builder](https://goblin-heart.net/sadgrl/projects/layout-builder/)

Header image from *Phantasy Star IV*. Background image from *Wiz 'n Liz*. Avatar image from *Donut County*. Copyrights to the original publishers.

Shop icon by <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/retail" title="retail icons">pojok d @ Flaticon</a>

Many images on this site and in my projects are sourced from [Openclipart](https://openclipart.org/) and [OpenGameArt](https://opengameart.org). Thanks to all artists for their contributions to culture.

Nothing on this site will ever be made with the use of generative AI. If you believe one of the permissively-licensed resources I use was made with AI, please <a href="/contact?subject=AI use">let me know.</a>

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