In Cancun, with my husband, scouting the area during our trip for IVF eating tacos by the seaside

Me: "The best thing about being poly is if you were there ever was, it would be enough. But it doesn't have to be!" Him: "Yeah it could be some!
Me: "I mean it's most, really"
Him: "Yeah, it's most"

An orange and white fluffy cat being spooned by a woman in a tie-dye sweatshirt in front of the fireplace. The cat is smiling.

This is Toba. He is a fluffy cuddle bug who terrorizes his adopted sister and demands cuddles at least twice a day.

Why do they do that!?

Lolsob

Sagan was a prophet.

House on Mango Street is amazing from elementary to senior citizens

Same! The point is your friends are writing. I don’t care about celebrities or academics or strangers. I just what my friends write. But you know careers and kids and shit … understandably takes priority. Same with me! I have so many essays in my head I want to write, but alas, lesson plans.

One minute straight of loud purring and affection that is so overwhelming she just cannot stop moving #catskies

Social media begins by serving you, and then it ends by you serving it.

Then your friends’ posts start disappearing in favor of group aggregate posts. I watch this happen with Facebook, Instagram, then TikTok. (I remember when TikTok was very enjoyable and did not have ads.) The model itself requires turnover.

you exclusively see either of your friends or content that you really like. After a while, once the base is big enough, entities want to start advertising or using the platform for incendiary postings that garner traffic to generate money. And then it’s an ad every third or fourth posting.

I wonder if it will become necessary, or already is necessary, to cycle through new social media providers every 3 to 5 years. My understanding of the model of how websites like this work is at first it’s all about the user and building a base, thus there are no ads and …

Well that was an lol.

Same.

Just been reminded of the greatest misprint I ever did see in an 18th century book

But have you gazed upon the exquisite visage of my cat?!

"We could not choose to leave the silos even if we wanted to: they are being constructed around us, demanding ever-steeper admission fees to ever-shrinking cultural conversations."

-- THEY KNEW (2022)

Thanks hon! Good to find you here, too. I do hope more friends join and jot down their thoughts. I am reminded, particularly in this era of anti-intellectualism and anti-expertise, that my love of the written word is the minority and not the majority.

Omg amazing thank you. Wanted to find everyone. How did you do that?!

find that here. Perhaps the loss of written activity is just the maturation of friends who don’t need to (or can’t) engage on social media because of actual life happening in the moment. Which is good, right? Still miss it though.

seeking the possibility of such interactions through threaded 300 character conversations. I don’t like the photo format of Instagram because what I love is printed word. I want to mindlessly scroll my friends’ thoughts where the photos are the afterthought, not the main attraction. Perhaps I’ll

I miss the heyday of Facebook so much because I miss reading the long form writings and status updates of my close friends. I go on there still, looking for a shadow of the observations, conversations, rants, engagements there used to be and nothing remains. But it’s a lost cause and I feel I am now