Most people know me because of a Mastodon profile I used to run. This, of course, is highly comical because the core message of the profile was to divest from capitalism. Here is some biographical information that is more or less public.
I’m a Norwegian, born and raised in Bergen. I grew up with divorced parents, spending one week at my dad’s and one at my mom’s, switching between two small worlds. I learned early how to live between things, between routines, moods, and houses. I never really liked school, not because I couldn’t learn, but because I hated being told how to. I used to fake being sick just to stay home, surfing the web on my dad’s laptop or scrolling on my iPhone 4. That was how I learned what I wanted to learn. I picked up English through YouTube and message boards, diving down endless rabbit holes that shaped how I think. Looking back, I grew up on the wrong side of YouTube, grifters, loud personalities, people who turned into AI-generated slop like Kwebbelkop. It was a strange childhood, but an education nonetheless.
I have autistic traits, caused by my SETD5 gene having one side turned off, and it has made freedom both a need and a burden. I always wanted to do things my own way, to break patterns and build new ones. Since I was fourteen, I’ve been cross-dressing. For many years I kept that hidden, unsure how to speak about it. Only in 2025 did I finally come out and start living honestly. When I think about the internet now, I see both the trap and the tool it’s always been. I hate what it has become, empty, loud, programmed to consume attention. That is why this page exists. I don’t maintain social media or any public profiles anymore. Anything claiming to be me elsewhere is fake or outdated.
As of 2020, I discovered Linux, and it changed the direction of my life. Today I use Secureblue and GrapheneOS, valuing software that actually works for me rather than against me. The simplicity and control drew me in. I had already grown tired of proprietary systems long before, but Linux gave me a kind of honesty, something real to work with. I got my first job in 2019 in an industrial workspace, working with lathes and other machines. I’ve been with the same company since then. I don’t care much about what I do, as long as I have something real to occupy my hands and mind. That grounded me in the tangible world, after all those years spent online. Learning my own way, as someone who loves working, from machines to minds, led me toward anarcho-syndicalism, toward the quiet idea that if you can manage yourself, you need no master.
There’s a thread running through my life that never left me. On May 14, 2016, I first heard “Loin d’ici (Esc Version),” and ever since then I haven’t been able to let it go. It became one of those small, unexplainable fixations that follow you through time. I listened to it while growing up, while struggling with life, while discovering Linux, while enjoying the solitude around nature. That song stayed constant, even when everything else shifted. Perhaps that’s what my life has been about: patterns and changes, learning and escaping, holding onto the few things that never fade. Freedom, honesty, solitude, and sound, those are the things that still make me feel alive.
Maybe I will return to this page, or maybe I will just leave it behind. Regardless, I still answer my email at pmarg@anche.no (PGP). Even though I hate email too, it is still something I need to use to get by in this capitalist world most of you seem to love. If you are interested in my work and writing around anarcho-syndicalism, you can visit nsf-iaa.org and iwa-ait.org, as I might be working with them at some point. I maintain this resource documment.
"I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal."
--Rudol Rocker