I end up on twitter a few times a week,sometimes more often.I tried to pare down what was political but there was no way because everyone is posting stuff or it gets retweeted.

I have noticed that anytime I comment lately I get a few responses and they seem to be mostly trolls so I will go through and report accounts.

Twitter definitely is making me feel worse right now, so I'm trying to stay off it. Also, giant work project is greatly limiting my ability to doomscroll endlessly.

JZ's work has extended work-from-home all the way through June of next year.

My work did that a while back and it caused me to sigh heavily.

My husband's work did that, too. Like JZ, he works at a hospital.

I wish people would look at that and just think. Hospitals aren't keeping their non-patient-care employees at home to make Trump look bad. They're doing it, because they know a thing about health.

I mostly follow my favorite authors on twitter. Which doesn't necessarily preclude politics, as authors are people who have to live in the world, and politics affects them, too. But it does cut down on some of the awfulness. Or at least improves the quality of the commentary thereon.

Todddson, thank you for the link. It did improve my day.

Gud: status check

Are you still alive? Delirious from fever? Starved and dehydrated because your "partner" can't be bothered to help keep you alive?

Cindy, I text vw almost daily. Our girls are 6 months apart and we talk constantly about parenting and such. The girls adore each other and have been very sad that we can't see each other right now.

I mostly follow my favorite authors on twitter. Which doesn't necessarily preclude politics, as authors are people who have to live in the world, and politics affects them, too.

Same. Writers + people I know + plentiful use of the mute/block features when Twitter tries to recommend things to me means my feed is fairly nonterrible most of the time.

Twitter is a hellscape. I'm there to talk to other gothy types, follow favorite authors, and hang with the Hannibal fandom. I'm trying to lure everyone over to Dreamwidth.

And I'm barely on FB, especially because the latest redesign means NOTHING shows sequentially for me, even with FB Purity. I spend most of my time on Tumblr.

I'm so frustrated, we are getting "encouraged" to come back into the office next month, although the county's numbers are still going the wrong direction. Our reconstitution plan will require us to work in the office 2 weeks out of every month, but that depends on the county status changing. In the interim, it's just "encouragement" rather than required.

And you know, I would consider going back into the office on a more regular basis, if I wasn't sure that at least some of my coworkers are not socially-distancing or wearing masks when they are out of the office. And we can't open the windows: it's a modern 17-story building. So the risk of going back in is not insignificant.

But the bosses (not my direct boss) are implying that work isn't getting done and so people must come back in. And that's not on us: the problems with the work have to do with the agency fucking around with our ability to telework. They shut off webmail without giving us more slots to dial in to the network, so of course people are less productive!

Grr, argh. I'm assuming this is coming down from DC, but it's infuriating when I know that my branch is actually doing really well and getting our work done.