It’s been a relaxing morning
I woke up had a look at the weather forecast and decided that comfort was going to be the order of the day.
I eventually got out of the bed and went to the kitchen and blended stuff to make a smoothie type thing. I’d previously bought a smoothie thing from Lidl and had a fight with it every time I tried it – so I went back and bought the nutribullet thing. This morning was my first time giving it a go and it worked without any fuss or persuasion.
While I was drinking my yogurt, blueberry & banana, I put a coffee on to brew and a pain au chocolat into the airfryer. I love the treat of it all.
I took the coffee and pastry back to bed, put on some jazz to plink away in the background and decided to read the Good Housekeeping on the iPad – it’s pure decadence!
Outside I can hear a bit of wind (it’s actually the trees rustling) and the rain is hitting the window, so I have a feeling that the rest of the day is going to continue in this vein
The past evening or two I’ve been going through the list of folk I follow on X and looking to see if they have made the jump to BlueSky. Some have and some haven’t, some even got skipped, and that it possibly the part that made me happy.
Looking at the list and the batches of people – I can tell what I was watching or what was popular at the time – it’s like strata. However I’m a polite hoarder – and while I was interested in some folk at a specific time they have moved on, as have I, and the interests diverged. My problem is that I find it difficult to unfollow after that – not impossible though – but it just feels like I’m being mean. I know – totally weird!
Anyway – I could say that after the latest exploits of Mr Musk, I’ve decided to jump ship, but given that I was a poor user of the app in the first place, I can only say that it’s given me a bit more impetuous to move house to BlueSky.
What I like about BlueSky is the different feeds – and the different manipulations you can have. I have friends that repost a lot of things and some of it is outside of my interest base, so I can jump to an only posts feed that shows only the posts that they have written something in – yes it can have repost in it – but it gives a context as to why it was reposted. Or there’s the Mutuals feed where you see the posts of the people you follow, that follow you back. There’s also feeds for interests that doesn’t only contain the people you follow – it is open to all in sundry, introducing you to new people, ways of thinking, opinions – helps reduce the echo chamber.
My next mission is to see who, from my FB F-list, is on BlueSky, because as with twitter I’m less and less on FB too. I’m not mad about Meta and it kills me because I loved Instagram. I’m a photos girl (girl – ha! ok – photos lady) and the massive push on videos & reels is just putting me off – Why they just couldn’t develope a new app to rival TikTok – they could have used what they had as a foundation but instead they mashed out the photo aspect and it’s now all videos or selling stuff. I’m still there ’cause I love the feed that I’ve collected.
I can’t help but feel that FB destroyed the internet (ok that might be a bit strong) While it made is accessible to all, it homogenised it – gone are the various websites – the individuality. People no longer site hop, it’s all there in their feed. I know on Livejournal we had our friends page but each journal was created to the users taste – the different templates – (the same as here on WordPress) – your profile where you could list things you were interested in etc. Some of that is on FB but it’s not for people to find you or you to find them -it’s for companies to sell you things, to use the information – it’s not about friends it’s about profits, Metas profits. It just gives me dystopian jitters.
They know that people find it hard to step away from the familiar, to strike out on their own. It’s funny but moving to another app (no matter which or why) it really does feel akin to emigrating – you’re leaving all of your friends and family behind and you can just hope that some of them will find you again.
I want to blog or write or whatever this is – but I don’t do anything – I’m not joking – I really don’t do anything at all! It’s like I’m still living in lockdown.
I occasionally have an opinion on things but it’s never fully formed enough to even try to coax into words – I have been known to answer the questions “what do you think?” or “Did you like it?” with a simple yes or no. I’m not great on expanding my thoughts internally or externally.
I do journal – but it’s very stream of consciousness – planning what i might do in the day, what will I eat etc – or trying to figure out what is causing a particular bout of emotions that are being inconvenient. I rarely go back and do a what i did today – I write forward rather than backward. And you wouldn’t want to be looking for world events ’cause in the journal they don’t happen.
Previously I said this was going to be a bit of a mirror for my social media – that didn’t happen but I think I might have to pull up my socks and start filling this with little bits and pieces – just snippets.
So my big news is – I bought a skipping rope, gave it a try and now my left leg feels like it’s been tortured. I’m going to try and persist with it, as it was recommended when I went for a Lymphatic Drainage massage.
However if we know anything about me – it’s persistent and consistent aren’t always within my nature…
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