🤟 Welcome!
I'm Joel: A writer & researcher based in Glasgow.
This is my personal website.
It's a place for me to collect and share things I'm doing
And to stay in touch with people as I try to extract myself from various corporate web platforms.
😱 Me
Photo by Bryony McIntyre
🎵 Music Player
Now Playing:
Field Recordings from the Making of Útóipe Cheilteach, 2021-2024 by Celtic Utopia // MUDGUT by Mountain Hovel Circle // Wendy Eisenberg by Wendy Eisenberg // Extinction Burst! by Guttersnipe
🩰 Upcoming
- 20.10.26: 'Dense Bonds Collective' Study Session 2 - Edinburgh, Banshee Labyrinth Cave Bar - 7-9pm - 'Betrayal' with Giovanni Mormant & Laura C. Forster
- 21.10.26: Glasgow, Unison Scotland, 16 Albion Street, Glasgow, G1 1LH- 6.30-8.30pm Solidarity Research Scotland - Glasgow Hack
- 22.10.26: GLARC PRESENTS: Raivo Sloan (tape launch), Harry Gorski-Brown, tues. - McNeills, 106 Torrisdale Street
- 25.10.26: Glasgow , Offline (108 Niddrie Rd) 15:30 - 18:00 HOW SERENE: Screening of Celtic Utopia / Útóipe Cheilteach Followed by singing circle at the Ivory Hotel from 7pm.
✒️ Guestbook
📝 Microblog
- 07.05.26 Updated events and gallery.
- 02.02.26 Updated events, added bitrot webring.
- 21.11.25 Added letterboxd, deleted Insta.
- 10.11.25 Shared site via overlong Insta post
- 05.11.25 Finished first version of the site
- 04.11.25 Started site on Neocities
🎬 Letterboxd
🐮 A Gif
Keep Typing, Cowboy
🤔 Why?
I’ve never had a personal website before. This is partly because I’m wary of “a culture of compulsory self-promotion” and partly because I didn’t have much to promote. I used to really enjoy doing html websites in my teens though, and as I’ve found it increasingly impossible to justify using platforms like Instagram and Twitter (both now deleted) I came across the amazing Bitrot website/project, and people in Glasgow exploring new (old) ways of inhabiting online space. The principles that attract me to this and that I’ll try and stick to here are: free or cheaply accessible content & tools, no corporate platforms or hosting, celebrating free expression & creativity, decentralised, collaborative, using simple code that is geared towards easy replication and skill sharing (along with low server use), fun to use. Come join in!