🤟 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:
Kurdistan Kurdistan Compilation by Various Artists, Destino Scifosi by France, Slutworld by Slut Intent, Glorias by Al Wootton
🩰 Upcoming
- 19.02.26: Left Bank, Leeds, 7pm - Radical Reading Room Book Event on Friends in Common
- 19.02.26: Cowley Club, Brighton, 2pm Friends in Common Book Talk
- 22.02.26: HOW SERENE singing circle - The Ivory, G41 3AY - 7pm
- MARCH GLARCIVERSARY - 10 Years of GLARC - Full Programme here
✒️ Guestbook
📝 Microblog
- 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 (in the process of deleting) and Twitter (long since 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!