Time to flush.
Welp. Goodbye to Twitter … again. Twitter (or Xitter, where X is pronounced Sh) and that evil assclown that runs it, can suck it. Time to flush. This time I’ve even deleted all of my old content and made the profile private; only squatting on the handle there to stop someone else squatting or, worse, sock puppeting it. Deleting all of my ~35k posts from 10+ years took a while, but I’m done with it, in more ways than one!
I’ve also given up on Threads, after all I couldn’t even get people interested enough to give away a free book, ffs. I think I’ve also given up on Tumblr again too. People on Threads and Tumblr can follow along with the profile I have on Mastodon if those enclosed services ever end up being interoperable with the ‘verse, as they claim they will be, some sunny day. Anyhow, I don’t reach people on either, no matter how few (less than 666 on Threads) or many (supposedly ~13k on Tumblr) followers my profiles have, so no one will probably even notice.
This week I didn’t post any OG at all. I just … burned out on all the social media disappointment. I’ll try and restart that in the coming week. But, I’m weighing in my mind whether to make it blog-only, instead of posting them to social. I could go either way. If you’ve thoughts about that, let me know. But, social media … I just … after 10+ years trying to reach people and encourage them to check out stuff on the blog and library site … it’s just an endless Sisyphean struggle bus. I’ve talked about being disheartened by it all before, especially as I was trying to be only in the ‘verse on the defunct HRMTC I/O instance, and not having people join me there. But, after giving up on that, and trying to be back on the big corporate socials for about a year now almost, and having it all go down the drain, as it ever was but faster, it is really hitting me hard again. So much effort, essentially wasted. Ugh.
I’m also tired of complaining about it. I’m sure you’d rather hear about something else too. The best outcome for everyone is the one where I stop kvetching and whinging about it, amirite?!
But, hey! I’m still here. And, you’re here! That’s a win win! Let’s celebrate that together!
In addition to the usual work on site, blog & c., I’m still waiting for Spotify to get MMR4 in their catalog; when that happens I can flip the switch on MMR5. I’m also waiting for something to come in for the next mailing, and I expected it in the first couple weeks of this month, so that’s not actually late yet … and when that arrives, or I decide I can’t wait any longer, I will get the next merch mailing out to ongoing supporters.
In other news, the first migrating geese started flying overhead on the way south this week, and somehow I had forgotten about them; so the sound of them honking was quite a surprise until I remembered. This is, essentially the signal of a short period between of pleasant weather and wide open windows until ~Nov 1. The library cats are all about binging on Cat TV with Smell-O-Vision™️! It’s nice for me too.
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