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.

I’m spending more time here and on Bluesky and planning to lean in on that. I am going to stay away from Facebook this week, but there are a few things in relationships that I’m not sure I can replicate elsewhere that are important. My local neighborhood pages in particular, some old family friends, etc. so I’m not ready to make a clean break yet.

Insta and TikTok, I never really got into.

ION, It’s like 3° out and I just heard a noise and realized my neighbor is down on the ice fix fixing my dock that got damaged when a tree came down.

What are people doing to keep up with important news asynchronously? Email lists? Webrings?

I just saw someone on bluesky saying they were setting up a webring if you want to get in on that.

I feel like I must be missing something obvious but i can’t figure out how to log off of FB (I only use it on my phone, if that has anything to do with it)

Trying to get in the habit of bluesky and discord. I’m still at a point where i forget about them entirely for days at a time until something reminds me they exist

Will the board take me back?

Emily, honey, everyone wanders away from the caravan. You've wandered back and we're happy to see you - hot beverage of choice on the stove, drag up a cushion, tell us your doings.

I am thatparkerwoman on Bluesky. I am gently trying to coax my local Buy Nothing group to move off of FB and onto the app, but given the community it's going to be like the mountains of Kleenex that are pretty much all that's going in our trash these days: the people producing it are aware of the existence of alternatives and aren't interested; if that's as much as I can minimize output I will work with it and if an opportunity for change comes along I will jump on it.

Hmm. It's possible I over-post.

Seems unlikely.

Matilda and I went to Sketchfest last night to watch Celebrity Autobiography last night.

It's the same show I saw last year but most of the cast was different so it had a very different vibe. Last year they had Tony Hale and Thomas Lennon. This year it was Pamela Adlon, Richard Kind and Ralph Macchio. (Jennifer Tilly was in both shows and we were guests of her and Phil).

Pamela Adlon was incredible, with perfect comic voice characterizations for everyone from Carol Channing to (most memorably) Arnold Schwarzenegger. Richard Kind was a pro's pro, milking laughs out of Vanna White's memoir, and Sandy, the dog from Little Orphan Annie.

Went out to dinner in North Beach afterwards and it was fun.

ION, I think I've done all the Necessary and Essential things before the Japan trip. I followed up my epic battle vs. AT&T with a call to the bank to ensure our cards weren't flagged for overseas charges.

I just need an ESim card ordered that Matilda and I will activate in Haneda airport when we get there.

Now's the fun part of filling out the itinerary.

The lack of a group to join where only group member see posts is one reason why those groups won’t leave FB.

-t you can log off FB in one of the settings pages, I think. I also used on my phone, but went via web not the app.

I’ll keep poking around, msbelle

I got a new laptop. Well my parent's got me a new laptop. The early 2011 one would no longer communicate with my phone, run gmail through my mail, or operate the current Chrome.

Now I am all set up and I have no chords that will work with it. WTF did Apple stop using USB??? FUCKERS.

Will the board take me back?

I was about to answer this but amyparker said it better than I could.

Delighted to see your pixels, Emily. (And yours, Parker.)

Will the board take me back?

This is the place I will always come back to.

It took me a long time to figure out how to log out of all my meta apps. Which creeps me out quite a bit. I think it will be very, very good for me. I'm lisa70.bluesky.social. Also, I'm on signal and snapchat if you have my phone number. Or if you want it, just let me know and I'll send it to you.