Sayonara, Elon

[mobiusstripper]

I have tried to make this past year about building good habits and improving my life in small ways that ripple out. Today, I deleted my Twitter account, and I have no intention of going back. Should I have done this years ago? Probably, since using Twitter has always been like swimming in a public pool full of pee. But now it's also full of poo and algae and assorted pathogens, so I've officially put my foot down and called it quits. And all I was doing on there at this point was shitposting and getting into fights with people who might not even be real. So, fuck it, I'm officially done over there. I do have a BlueSky, but I'm probably going to focus more on cultivating healthy internet relationships in more intimate, old-fashioned spaces like this one. Tumblr is still raging like a neverending underground party most people thought ended years ago, and I also plan to stick around there until they manually unplug the servers.

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[mobiusstripper]

Tumblr is the fucking best. Even if its search function does suck and it's full of weird little freaks. It's so easy to curate your space and tune into the wavelength that matches up with the specific type of weird little freak inside of YOU. It always cracks me up when I mention something I saw on Tumblr to, like, a normal person, and they go, "Wow, Tumblr is still around?!" Yeah, it's still around, and it's poppin'! Like a subterranean disco full of weird little burrowing creatures. I love it so much.

[sewn]

Haha, exactly! I love that I can build my feed so it's an unholy mixture of political rants, pretty pretty gifs, Destiel memes, fanart, and absurdist shitposting. It's funny seeing people throw around those "wait, Tumblr is still a thing" jokes because like. It is Very Much alive, and it's funnier, weirder, more self-referential and inventive than it ever was. It feels more active to me now than a decade ago. Effervescent.