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These silly random holidays always have a way of sneaking up on me when I least expect it, and today (July 14) is apparently National Nude Day!
I don't widely publicize it, on this blog especially, but one of the 'two main pillars' of my life (in terms of how much time I spent invested in it, and the things I am the most well-known for in some circles online) -- besides for example my interest in chatbots and my RiveScript chatbot scripting language -- is that I am a nudist.
Don't worry: I won't be linking to any of my nude socials from this site, though I do the opposite quite regularly. My friends in the nudist world have the privilege to see a much fuller and more authentic version of me (mind, body and soul), and I do frequently link to my personal websites like Kirsle.net from over there, even with my real full name attached to these pages!
Despite being a social introvert, I am not shy about my nudism and in fact I found the lifestyle to be extremely beneficial towards building up my self-confidence and tearing down my anxieties. Back when I was a teenager, I was so self-conscious and reserved and anxious for days to even exist in the world, and I owe a ton of my progress towards self-acceptance to my experiences with the online nude communities.
Speaking of shyness (or lack of), one of my most successful side projects in recent years is a social networking site I built for nudists & exhibitionists called nonshy. I launched it back in August of 2022, and without even doing much to advertise it, the community grew purely by word of mouth to over 12,000 members now. After I was laid off from my day job in Big Tech early this year, I established a business of my own in order to monetize nonshy and that has been going very well! I wrote my story about this project recently, in "high level" and generic terms, on my previous blog post if you'd like to read more about that!
Let me know if you'd like to hear more about this from me! I could talk more about it (again, in 'high level' and 'safe for work' terms here on my blog), about my experiences with anxiety and how everybody important in my life came to find out about this at varying points in time (and about how nobody actually really cares at all about it -- even when I've had co-workers stumble upon these profiles of mine online!) I write a lot about personal topics like this as well on my other blog, which I don't mind sharing a link to if you ask me in private!
Apparently, Work Naked Day is a thing and it's today (first Friday of February).
...not that I really need an excuse to work naked.
I don't widely publicize it, on this blog especially, but one of the two major 'pillars' of my life (in terms of years invested), apart from chat bots and RiveScript is that I'm a nudist. I like to go naked around the house or (outside of pandemics) go to social nude events; it's not even a sexual thing, but about the freedom of not wearing clothes and all the benefits that come with that (body positivity, fostering good community in a social context, etc.)
In my ideal world, nudity would be normalized and you could be able to drive to the office and work naked and for others to not even really notice or care, and treat you the same as they do when you wear any other random outfit for the day. I have dreams about this exact situation sometimes, and they're always nice. Everybody has naked dreams, many find such dreams embarrassing, but not me -- my dream characters don't care and neither do I; apart from my clothing (or lack thereof) the 'story' of the dream is all the same as normal.
I'm also interested in spirituality topics in recent years, and a thing I often hear from people in those circles goes like this:
"The reason you don't know what you want is because you already have it."
I want to be able to work naked, and -- though it isn't exactly the way I envisioned it -- I already can. I've been working full-time from home since even before the pandemic, and with nobody here to see and with no risk of an HR complaint, I can work naked if I want to. For the odd video call I can throw on a T-shirt and "Donald Duck it" and otherwise get to work in the way that feels the most comfortable for me.
This has been a rough week for Facebook with all the Cambridge Analytica drama, and it's as good a time as ever for me to start withdrawing from Facebook and other social media.
Announcing that you're going to #DeleteFacebook, on Facebook, is cliche af so I'm not going to do it there. This week I've been wiping my Facebook profile clean (not that deleting posts actually deletes anything from their database) and all that remains, currently, is one profile picture, a cover picture, and a Keybase verification post that, of course, I don't mind being public. After I find out alternative messaging options for some of the friends I enjoyed chatting with on Messenger, I'll delete the account.
Facebook's drama isn't the only crazy thing I heard about this week, though: there's also the CLOUD Act, and it is far worse.
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