Your day was a deep dive into the Charlie Kirk controversy, culminating in you building a research page on Neocities to document his statements. You spent considerable time gathering quotes, analyzing data, and even started scripting a tool to pull all his YouTube video transcripts. Alongside this intense research, you managed several of your personal projects like jig and myriad, dealing with dependencies and Git worktrees. You also had a cluster of medical appointments on your mind, including an MRI scheduled for Saturday.
- You dedicated a significant portion of the day to researching controversial statements by Charlie Kirk, using Perplexity AI.
- You created a webpage, "Charlie Kirk's Record of Discrimination," on your Neocities site to compile your findings.
- You began scripting a Python tool to scrape all video transcripts from Charlie Kirk's YouTube channel.
- You were active on social media (Threads, Bluesky, Facebook, Mastodon), discussing the Kirk situation and sharing your research page.
- You worked on your
jigandmyriadprojects, making commits, managing dependencies withchezmoi, and using Git worktrees. - You managed your QNAP NAS, setting up and troubleshooting an Ubuntu container.
- Your calendar shows several upcoming medical appointments, including an MRI at Queen Square on Saturday, September 13th, and an appointment with Miss Brookes on Monday, September 15th.
- You downloaded and organized several Henry Rollins spoken word performances and the movie "Dracula: A Love Tale (2025)".
Your day started slowly, with the device locked until around 12:27. Once you logged in, you immediately jumped into your social media feeds and began reviewing notifications related to a Facebook post you made yesterday titled "lol bye," which referenced a Charlie Kirk article. This seemed to spark a deep dive, as you spent the next few hours using Perplexity AI to gather a collection of Kirk's controversial quotes about marginalized communities.
By the afternoon, this research had evolved into a full-blown project. You were working on your neocities site, creating a dedicated page to analyze and display Kirk's statements. You even downloaded a zip file of your research and started building an HTML page locally. In between development sessions, you managed media on your NAS, watched an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and ran system updates with topgrade.
As evening approached, your focus intensified on the Kirk project. You published the "Charlie Kirk's Record of Discrimination" page and shared the link on Threads and Bluesky, engaging in discussions about him. This led to further research, and you started scripting a Python tool to pull every transcript from his YouTube channel, using Claude Code for assistance. You also spent time managing your QNAP NAS, troubleshooting and successfully setting up an Ubuntu LXD container. The day wrapped up with more social media engagement and setting up a new Chrome Beta profile.
Most of your conversations today were public, centered around the Charlie Kirk situation. On Threads and Bluesky, after you posted your research page with the comment, "but why are you being so mean to charlie kirk, have some respect," you received both likes and engagement. One notable interaction was a warning from @rattlesnake.studio on Threads, advising you to clean up your "Kirk shitposts" because a hostile group was reportedly building a list of targets. On Facebook, you received comments from Ian Porter and James John Williams on a link you shared. You also had a brief interaction on Threads with david_bethune who challenged your characterization of Arnold Schwarzenegger as being consistently antifascist.
Today was a day of focused, project-driven productivity. You identified a topic of interest—the controversy surrounding Charlie Kirk—and channeled that into a tangible output: a research and analysis page on your Neocities site. This involved research, data compilation, web development, and even scripting a data extraction tool. You didn't just consume information; you actively organized and presented it. You also made progress on your personal coding projects, jig and myriad, and handled system administration tasks on your NAS and local machine. While there was a lot of context-switching between research, social media, and coding, it all seemed to feed into a central theme for the day. The only hiccup appeared to be some trouble with a Git index lock file and getting the Ubuntu container running on your NAS, but you worked through those issues.
It seems the political commentary around Charlie Kirk really captured your attention today, moving from a simple social media post to a full-fledged research project. It's interesting how a single event can trigger such a deep dive. Creating the Neocities page is a powerful way to organize your thoughts and present a factual counter-narrative. That said, the warning you received on Threads about being targeted is a sobering reminder of the potential blowback from this kind of public-facing work. It might be worth considering the visibility of your personal information and ensuring you're comfortable with the level of exposure.
On another note, your calendar is packed with medical appointments. You had one today at Epsom Hospital, and you have an MRI on Saturday, followed by appointments with Miss Brookes and the dentist next week. You're also tracking your Kesimpta and pregabalin schedule. That's a lot to manage. Make sure you're taking time for yourself amidst all this and not letting the intensity of your projects burn you out, especially with these health-related events on the horizon.
- Your Charlie Kirk Research Page: https://daveio.neocities.org/kirk
- Jig Project Repo: https://github.com/daveio/jig
- Myriad Project Repo:
~/src/github.com/daveio/myriad/ - Neocities Worktree:
~/work/neocities/ - QNAP NAS Login: https://nas-7t54.manticore-minor.ts.net:9443/cgi-bin/
- Linear Project Management: https://linear.app/dave-io
It's been a week of intense focus, shifting from deep technical work and personal administration to a full-blown research project. You started the week by tackling system configurations and exploring new AI tools, and ended it by creating a public-facing research page, all while managing a busy schedule of medical appointments and personal projects.
Your coding efforts were spread across several key projects this week, showing a pattern of maintenance, refactoring, and new feature exploration.
rebuild-dave-io(Sept 6-7): You spent the weekend deep in this project, focused on fixing a tricky Sentry integration. You methodically debugged CSP violations and CORS issues on the live site (rebuild.dave.io), even using Claude AI to help diagnose the problems. You committed several changes to improve logging and created new test pages (sentry.vue) to ensure error handling works correctly.dave-io(Sept 8 & 10): You performed routine maintenance on your main site's repo, cleaning up temporary files and formatting the.env.examplefile early in the week. Later, you returned to it to work on schema validation documentation and modify server-side code related to Cloudflare D1 integration.jig&myriad(Sept 11): Yesterday, you were active in these repos, managing dependencies withchezmoiand using Git worktrees to keep your development environments clean while making commits.- Charlie Kirk Scraper (Sept 11): Sparked by your research, you began scripting a new Python tool to scrape all video transcripts from Charlie Kirk's YouTube channel, a practical application of your coding skills to a real-time interest.
Two major themes dominated your research and personal project time: a deep dive into political commentary and a fascinating exploration of your own cognitive processes.
- The Charlie Kirk Project (Sept 10-11): What started as a reaction to breaking news evolved into a significant undertaking. You spent hours using Perplexity AI to gather controversial quotes and then channeled that research into building the "Charlie Kirk's Record of Discrimination" page on your Neocities site. You didn't just stop at publishing; you began scripting a tool to pull even more data, showing a commitment to backing up your perspective with evidence.
- "When Memory Works Differently" Blog Post (Sept 7): You drafted a deeply personal and insightful blog post detailing your unique reconstructive memory process. Describing it as building with "semantic Lego" and connecting it to SDAM, aphantasia, and alexithymia, you articulated a complex cognitive experience with remarkable clarity. This seems like a powerful piece of self-analysis that you were refining in Ulysses and Taio.
- AI & Tooling Exploration (Sept 5-9): You've been on a mission to build a powerful local AI toolkit. You spent a lot of time in LM Studio downloading and evaluating massive models like
gpt-oss,Llama 4, andGemma 3. This seems to be a strategic move to reduce reliance on costly APIs, which you discussed withadrobertson Threads. You also started building a 'Screenshot Classifier AI' in Google AI Studio and configured various CLIs (Twilio, OpenAI) to work with 1Password.
You've been navigating a significant amount of health-related administration and appointments this past week.
- Upcoming Appointments: You have a busy schedule ahead. Your calendar shows an MRI at Queen Square on Saturday, Sept 13th, at 10:30, an appointment with Miss Brookes on Monday, Sept 15th, and a dentist appointment next week.
- PIP Tribunal Research (Sept 5): You conducted an intensive research session on the UK Personal Independence Payment (PIP) tribunal process, consulting resources from Citizens Advice and Turn2us.
- Medical Communications (Sept 4): You received and checked a message from MyCare UCLH, staying on top of your healthcare communications.
- Candid Sharing (Sept 6): You shared a personal and candid post on Facebook about the significant dental and hearing issues you've faced due to Multiple Sclerosis, providing important context for your friends and followers. It's good to see that your post on Bluesky about having "no new lesions" on your last scan received community support.
You balanced your intense project work with a mix of media management and entertainment.
- Media Management: You spent a good chunk of time this week organizing your digital library. This included processing episodes of Bluey, downloading movies like Weapons (2025) and Dracula: A Love Tale (2025), and organizing Henry Rollins spoken word performances. You also configured your QNAP NAS (7t54), setting up Tailscale and even troubleshooting an Ubuntu container to create a more robust remote environment.
- Shows & Reading: You've been keeping up with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and have reminders to catch up on Alien: Earth, Foundation, and South Park. You also listened to Aldous Huxley's 1961 lecture series, "What a piece of work is a man."