09 apr 2025

I am not willing to run the website under the current circumstances. I'm open to it being hosted elsewhere, as long as the new location is outside of the United States, and a host willing to state that they value freedom for all people (that doesn't seem like much of an ask).

01 mar 2025

I have been a Rambler fan continuously since 1974, half a century, and besides having a lot of (mostly) fun, like to think I've contributed to work that helps other people make these now-ancient things go. So this moment wears heavily on me.

Americans, mainly white men and women, have made it abundantly clear that I, an openly gay man, and my queer friends and family, my black and jewish and multi-national friends, my transgender friends (who you may soon discover run most of the internet) all of the people that made this country and make it interesting, are now in danger. All of you who voted for these cruel incompetents are responsible. And voted for them after the "demonstration" regime in 2016. You can't claim you didn't know.

It is no overstatement to say that the republican party and their "MAGA" supporters are now true fascists, in the Nazi-Germany-1933 sense. Your parents and grandparents that fought WW2 and gave their lives would be ashamed.

You've made me ashamed to be american. You have made america analogous to nazism, bigotry, cruelty and greed. And incompetence. You voted for a misogynist creep, and got Musk and his sociopath cronies disassembling american infrastructure for their own greed. Corporations extracting our last dollar and our privacy. The damage done even now will not be repaired in your grandchildren's lifetime.

My current Rambler is probably my last. I've met many great people, who I will hopefully remain friends with. But the racists and the cruel angry men, I'm done with you.

-- tom jennings