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Twitter is dead. its replacement, Bluesky, is in many ways a great site, but given its lack of privacy controls, requiring me to just block randos who follow me un-asked-for instead of allowing me to go fully private or to simply vet users before allowing them to follow me, it’s not a site i am currently capable of using.

and then there’s Facebook, which is… fine. except that it has in the last couple days begun inserting “recommended” pages into my feed joking about or featuring people threatening anal rape. so i’m taking a break from that.

and i find myself wondering just what it is i should be doing if i’m not spinning my wheels on social media? and that’s not something i’ve figured out yet. i have ideas. we went to to Japan in April, and i found my Japanese quite deficient for more than basic stuff, so i could get serious about that, since we’re planning to go back next year. i could also start writing again. i could take some exercise (see above where i said we’re going back to Japan next year; i did reasonably well for someone as out-of-shape (well, round’s a shape, innit?) as i am, but it could have gone better. i desperately need to strengthen my core.

so it’s not for lack of ideas that i’m at loose ends. but motivation is, as ever, lacking.