Belated huzzahs for all the good health news! Benign is such a beautiful word.

Best of luck, Atropa!

In related news, I had my now-annual breast MRI last Sunday, and got the results on Tuesday--nothing concerning, see you next year.

My plan for Monday involves reading, listening to non-political podcasts (I'm currently binge-listening to Normal Gossip), and trying to avoid any interaction whatsoever with the news.

We’re expecting snow tomorrow. I didn’t make it of the house today, so might need to get up and get out in the morning for mik and a few items.

This Washington Detroit game is bonkers.

I just got home from a dance and expected to have a couple more hours to enjoy the last day of TikTok, but apparently they turned it off at midnight eastern time! Dang. It was so entertaining, but I don’t think I’ll go download whatever other app. Sigh. It’s frustrating because yes, I’m sure it’s spying on me but so is Facebook and I don’t think it’s more ok for Facebook to be doing it just because they’re an American company? It’s still shitty?

I'm signed out of Facebook until the 26th. (I hope I can stay strong.)

Places like this and Bluesky are all that are going to keep me sane while I detox.

I deleted my IG and will go sign out of FB now. Bluesky is holding my interest.

Yay benign boobs, msbelle!

David, online options are good. But yeah, fucking nightmare to switch. I am still so excited about your Japan trip and Matilda’s stay. I know you will love it!

I have logged off all meta apps for now. I hope to stay off them indefinitely. Bluesky is working for me. And snapchat.

I dipped a toe into Red Note (Xiaohongshu), which is pretty intriguing.

Disassociating from the news for a few days. Working on a music project with the local historical society, am starting a class on running non-profits, and reading.

Well, I thought real hard about leaving Facebook before, so I guess now I really ought to do it. Shame as I only just introduced my mother to Instagram so she could watch the Ben Fensome Pride and Prejudice videos. Will the board take me back?

I tend to drift away from b.org because I can't keep up. Then I visit again, swear I'm going to stay involved, then forget, rinse, repeat. Indeed, Facebook is mostly a more asynchronous way for me to keep up with you people. But it looks like almost all my other social avenues are becoming morally insupportable. It might be time to take a good hard look at gmail.

I wonder if I still own any address books?

Hi Emily!

This place is like a refuge. I still miss when it was more active though.

FB has become more than 50% posts that are ads or groups/people I follow not follow and most of those seem to be bots or accounts that just repost crap. Lots of AI images, fake stories, clickbait.

Hi, msbelle!

Yeah, I wonder when the revenue loss from driving people away outweighs that gained by promoting sponsored content? I don't really know how the financials work, anyway - some of the groups that show up in my feed are very niche, it's hard for me to believe someone's paying to have them promoted! I will miss having pictures to remind me of who everyone is, though, or at least what anime character to associate them with.

It is nice that if I post needing hairpats, someone wil probably respond on FB almost immediately. What are people doing to keep up with important news asynchronously? Email lists? Webrings? How far backwards do we need to go, and can we, or were we always financial Wiley E. Coyotes, running past the end of the cliff and not realizing until too late that venture capital and speculation was the only thing keeping us up? Did angelfire make money? Geocities? Do I still have a site somewhere?

Hmm. It's possible I over-post.

I'm limiting my screen time to a minimum while to go through the eye surgeries. The one eye that is done objects to the brightness, but I am not going to bother with any settings until I am past recovery on the 2nd eye which gets done Tuesday. So conveniently I will be mostly offline for the next couple weeks. I did go on FB today to post a picture for my son's 33rd birthday.

It is a gentle way to start to minimalize my engagement with FB. Other platforms have never held my interest. I've registered but never became active.