So many takeaways here in Solnit’s article in The Guardian! This is the piece Marti has been talking about. I have to prep for Tuesday Writing Workshop so I’ll leave you with just three points.
Self-care is an integral part of caring for others.
Uncertainty is the nature of reality. We do not know what’s going to happen and we can find a way to act anyway.
Hope and despair can, and often do, live side by side.
I am migrating over to Bluesky. Zuckerberg’s threads is suppressing political content and anyway, who wants to support another Trump-groveling tech-bro douchebag?
I’m at deemallon.bsky.social. It feels like Twitter in the old days and a lot of my favorite commentators are already there. I can’t even explain why it already feels so much better than threads, but plenty of others on the site are noting the same.
BTW Bluesky is an open-source social network owned by a public benefit corporation. Founded by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, I won’t spend too much time spitting in his direction because what’s done is done (meaning, he could’ve just held on to Twitter).
Having a good social media stream is more important than ever because I’m barely watching cable news still.
There’s more to say about where we all source our news but I gotta go. Here are a few collages. The first two are purely paper, the rest digital combos.
I like the forward movement of female figures in what feels like haunted landscapes. I didn’t set out to make that but there you go.
You got me to move to Bluesky Thanks. dmhartmus@bsky.social
Yeah! I’ll find you, Diane.
One of the sentences that stood out to me: “Certainty is a way of feeling safe but it’s not how reality operates.”
I’ve checked out Blueskys a little since learning about it from ECM. I haven’t done any social media like that since quitting FB in 2018, but I can go there to read. Yesterday, I saw many familiar names there already.
Nancy
Its been around for a few years but I think people were less dissatisfied with threads until recently.
going. good
You talk about this all the time. Just going.
Somehow it seems so simple but…
But it’s anything but. Many friends are needing to be still for a while. Away from the news. Regrounding. And I love the way Solnit creates permission for that.
I never got into Twitter, nor did I ever sign up for Threads … I just lurk on Facebook and Instagram … blogging will always be my preference (even as I find it harder to write and respond these days) … still, I’ll give Blue Sky a try, perhaps reading it in lieu of the MSNBC watching that I used to do (happily past tense for now)
Found you already!! I’m excited that you and Deb Lacativa are there.