I really do appreciate that you check out the blog, Chris- thanks for supporting my lonely voyage 😉 I do try to keep the blogs running, and they do receive some traffic.

Facebook: good for cat videos and saying “Hi!” and “I’m still alive!” or “Here’s a funny meme!” to friends and family. For everything else it is almost but not quite as bad as Twitter/X. It fills heads with hatred and fear, and normalizes toxic cruelty. And Zuckerberg bows to Trump, just like the other billionaires.

Unfortunately, Facebook is the primary news source for something like 50% of people of the three billion people who have an account, which means a lot of folks are being fed a lot of scary lies. Old fashioned blogs and RSS feeds are an easy way to ‘disconnect’ from the corporate social media mind-fuck, but apparently that is too difficult for the vast majority of people.

It is, however, apparently ‘too hard’ to navigate to a different URL or login (and Facebook authentication is even an option here!) to post a comment.

I mean really: navigating to a different URL or logging in is hard? Back in my day, we had to build our modems from flint, bone scrapings, and the dust of ancient meteorites. Then we had to connect to the each BBS individually with separate phone numbers using hand-pulled cables carried on the backs of mules! 😀