🤟 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
- 02.09.26: Edinburgh, St Margaret's House - The Education Space - 6.30-8.30pm Solidarity Research Scotland - Edinburgh Hack
- 19.09.26: The Ivory Hotel, Glasgow - Reading with Laura at Hot Towel Party (tickets TBA)
- 22.09.26: 'Dense Bonds Collective' Study Session 1 - Broadside, 123 Alison Street - 6.30-8pm - Discussing ideas of 'Capacity' with Hannah Proctor
✒️ 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!