hi, i’m back, i want to write more of these but very little is on my mind lately. here, enjoy this thing i made.
so after hearing about elon musk’s wishes to acquire twitter since april, maybe earlier? he finally become CEO and is furiously making sure he ruins it in any way he possibly can. mass layoffs that break laws, making verification a subscription perk and making sure to take it away from those who got it for free, ensuring that twitter is as advertiser-unfriendly as a place can be, and so much more, he’s fumbling twitter worse than yahoo fumbled tumblr.
and with all that bullshit, i still can’t bring myself to leave.
it might sound stupid, but twitter is the only place online where i feel like i have any sense of community. i didn’t totally realize it until people started discussing where to leave to instead. most of my socializing is done over twitter at this point, not all my mutual followers use other platforms like instagram, mastodon, tumblr, or whatever else. there’s really no consensus, and it’s weird. i’m not really ready for it.
when i stopped using tumblr so much, it was more gradual. in 2015, i just started reblogging and liking stuff less and less. fewer friends of mine were using it, i was starting university, eventually in a new serious relationship, and i just went on less until it was nothing. it didn’t feel like a loss.
i wish i could say that i don’t give a shit, that i can live without social media, log off forever, run into a forest, live in a tree for a while. but unfortunately that’s not me. it might be me with a lot more therapy. but i’m not there yet.
so anyway, they should bring back google+. we can all go there.
wikipedia article of the week
this article sent me down a 5 hour rabbit hole the other day. learning what differentiates a krai from an oblast from an okrug, all about how federal divisions were made around specific ethnic groups, the jewish autonomous oblast, it was literally so interesting i couldn’t stop reading and i had probably 20 tabs open at one point.
track of the week
okay, yeah, i like the 1975 now. the new album is so good i bought it on vinyl.
my friend i used to work with told me i would really like them and i tried many times to enjoy their music, but at the time it just wasn’t working for me. but this album really sucked me in, and then listening to their older stuff i actually began to understand what was so likeable about the music.
so i’m sorry if i told you the 1975 sucked. i take it back.
the signs as things i can see from where i’m sitting
aries - unassembled tv stand that’s been sitting in my living room for a week
taurus - fuzzy blanket
gemini - new yorker tote bag
cancer - ikea shag carpet
leo - my cat, lucy, who is a leo
virgo - my boyfriend transcribing a phoebe bridgers song
libra - glossier nalgene water bottle
scorpio - skinty fia on vinyl
sagittarius - serbo-croatian to english dictionary
capricorn - thinkpad x230
aquarius - curb your enthusiasm paused on my TV
pisces - noise cancelling headphones