An Outsider

About me:

Like the famous Ramones song, I have always been an outsider.

I don’t care about sports or current celebrities, I don’t follow trends, I don’t use any mainstream "social media", and I hate religion (I am an atheist). I don’t fit in with most political groups either; philosophically speaking I identify as an anarchist.

I am also an ethical vegan (no harm to animals, for the animals' sake!), with the caveat that I hate bees and wasps and I am very distrustful of ants; I have no remorse about killing them or using honey and beeswax (to me they just seem like mindless work-monsters that sting or bite! An early childhood incidents with wasps left me hating them bitterly).

I like some vintage things and I'm sentimental to the VHS, pre-internet era, but I don't consider myself a Luddite or anti-technology. I just feel like technology is in the hands of the wrong people and focuses on either nonsense (such as AI obsession and endless "smart" devices) or downright evil (drone warfare and surveillance state dystopia) when it should be focused on useful stuff like clean energy, clean air and water, and low-cost medical interventions.

I do not own a smartphone. I never owned a smartphone before. And I hope to never, ever own a smartphone in the future. (I currently use a Nokia!)

I don’t use “conveniences” like Doordash, Uber Eats, etc. I do not have a Spotify account. I do not use Amazon. And I absolutely never use Google.

As you can imagine, I fall out of step with the vast majority of people. Even if I wanted to make friends, it’s hard to do so because I simply cannot comprehend the way most people live and the things they care about and find interesting.

It's super cool to find spacehey and hopefully it might be a place to connect with people who are a little bit outside the mainstream, like me.

I also have a Neocities page: https://anoutsider.neocities.org.

You can email me, too: anoutsider AT mail DOT com :)

Thanks to https://spacehey.com/tinyperson27 for the cool layout!

Who I'd like to meet:

Vegans and people thinking of trying veganism!

People who have ditched smartphones or the rare unicorn like me who never had one, or those who are thinking of trying it.

People who don't like mainstream bullshit.

People who feel alone in this bizarre 21st century and somehow don't fit in with this hell.

People smarter than me who have clever ideas and cool skills.