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+layout: post
+title: "the voice from the void"
+date: 2018-12-16
+categories: [posts]
+tags: [introduction, about, int]
+---
+
+>**hello,**<br>
+>is there anybody in here?<br>
+>just nod if you can hear me<br>
+>is there anyone home?<br>
+
+to start things off, i will try to make this as painless as possible. if you are reading this in a nice html and css formated form, it means i have done something right. if not, oh well, i have probably messed up some place that i simply cannot remember and have not come around to fix it yet (like everything i cannot figure out in a few hours).
+
+oh, and i am not sorry about the typos.
+
+# the not so egocentric me-time
+some introduction might be in place. i am vala or some variation of the word "printer", or at least that is what i am known as on my [favourite fediverse instance.](https://welovela.in/)
+
+i like to keep my realities separate, so if you know me by something else then i congratulate you for finding this part of me. i might sooner or later reveal a lot more about myself without thinking, but i have invented my identity as vala in hope that i can leave a lot of nosey spooks known as parents, potential employers and a bit of big brother behind me. they should probably not poke their nose in the inner workings of my mind anyways.
+
+**at the moment,** i am currently a neet. i am not proud of it, and would like to parttake in society like a normal meatsuit, but that might have to wait until the new year arrives. if it ever arrives. i am quite pessimistic about that with the current state of the world.
+
+# what interests me?
+i could probably make a long list over stuff i find interesting, but that would probably bore you. to keep it short here is a quick one.
+* decentralization
+* history and social sciences
+* c y b e r p u n k _ a e s t h e t i c s
+* anime (especially bad ones)
+* coding (i tried to make this website, but that is about it when it comes to my knowledge of this wizardry)
+* privacy and encryption, but i do not know how stuff works
+* a bit of c y b e r p u n k _ a e s t h e t i c s
+* cassettes
+* almost forgot to mention c y b e r p u n k _ a e s t h e t i c s
+* have i said c y b e r p u n k _ a e s t h e t i c s enough yet?
+
+# words of acknowledgment
+i would like to thank the wonderful people at [welovela.in](https://welovela.in/) for being a supportive bunch of internet voices that interact with me. if the internet is just a hallucination, this part of it is something that keeps me from bad tripping. reality can be a bit confusing.
+
+[@tA](https://welovela.in/@tA), [@Lunarised](https://welovela.in/@Lunarised), [@seliph](https://welovela.in/@seliph) and the rest of you lots, i really like you nerds. keep on nerding across my timeline.
+
+now you know a bit about me, so i guess we can call it a day.
+
+~ vala // printer
+
+> we are the kids of yesterday