Our story so far: Back around November of 2024, for reasons that will no doubt be obvious to anyone not living under a rock, I decided that my contributions - however minuscule or infrequent - to the content of social media sites that belonged to fascist billionaires represented a moral failing on my part; that I could no longer in good conscience be a reason anyone might want to keep visiting those sites. So, I stopped posting to Facebook. (I'd already quit Twitter before then.)

I was also suffering from some anxiety at the time, and found that anything that even looked like a social media site was raising my heart rate. So I quit using Mastodon, too, even though it's a lot more in line with my open-source values than the other ones.

I've tried, with varying levels of success from month to month, to maintain contact with friends and family in more personal ways... but I haven't managed it with everyone, and I do miss people. Still, for the most part, dropping social media has made my life a lot better. I encourage everybody to do it - that shit's bad for you. Seriously, don't get me started on this, I'm like a recently minted nonsmoker.

And yet, I still sometimes notice something interesting, or think up a goofy thing to say, or have a vacation picture I'd like to share, and I don't know what to do with that stuff anymore. I haven't been doing anything with it at all for a pretty long time. It would be nice to have a place to put that. And as luck would have it, I'm fairly okay at this "internet" thing, so I instantly leapt into action, and 15 months later I got around to setting up this website.

So, here's a picture of the "Old Faithful Geyser of California" in Calistoga, to start us off. We'll see how it goes from here, I guess.