Notices by Todd Tyrtle has MOVED (toddtyrtle@zirk.us)

@liztai Thanks so much for your kind words. I really appreciate it. I'm glad it is helpful for others. The exercise is really helpful for me as well.

I think thinking about issues is not necessarily a bad thing. But for me I try to catch myself if I'm thinking about "unactionably bad things." If there's nothing I or anyone who reads my post can do, then I need to leave it. Thinking and sharing about things we can *do* is essential.

I'm not always successful at that, though.

@liztai thanks for this.

Yesterday when the first lady and POTUS accounts switched to the new names and faces, I had an hour or so where I thought it was an intentional autofollow.

That's the last straw, I though, I'm out. Then I realized that it wasn't new follows, the owners of the accounts changed.

And then I realized: this is what I think of this platform. And so I'm downloading my data now and Instagram, Facebook and Threads are gone. Should've done it earlier.

So likely you'll be seeing more of me here. And maybe pixelfed as I like sharing photos of my rides and the like.

And it's gone...

@liztai Yeah - it has some but the topics are getting broader. Thanks to recent news I'd have to block "Canada" to get the worst of it out. Seems that the folks I'm following here are mostly avoiding that or tagging with us politics which helps a lot.

Wow - Weibo sounds more awful than I could imagine. Like some of the darker spaces of the English-speaking net.

@liztai Wow - I can't imagine worse than Twitter. I found Bluesky was reasonably good - until after the US election when there was a huge migration of trolls, bots, and people on all sides who thrive on spreading outrage. That last one is the kicker for me. I follow someone because we're like-minded and then it's nothing but unactionable outrage shared on their part.

@CakesOfPan My first step on other sites was to just be brutal about unfollowing. It helped some but some folks seem to spread their day spreading fear and anger. Multiply that by a a few dozen people like that and it gets out of hand.

JFC - my other newsfeeds (FB, Bsky) are driving me so insane I'm going to have to take an indefinite break. The news (which I'm staying abreast of on a "pull" basis - when I'm prepared for it), keeps coming every few posts and it's so disturbing I'm literally losing sleep. Time to come here where the filters work better and more folks tag and hide things under CW better. The algorithms also definitely DON'T help.

It's going to be a wild 2025 hearing just how wild every 5 minutes is NOT good.

3GoodThings: Managing Social Media, A Good but Challenging Few Days and Stories of People Helping Others

In today'd #3GoodThings I talk a lot about managing mental inputs - especially social media, a few good days at home, and then three stories of generosity. There's a bonus video at the end that just made me laugh also so I had to share it.

http://gooutsidetoday.com/2025/01/10/3goodthings-managing-social-media-a-good-but-challenging-few-days-and-stories-of-people-helping-others/

challenge by @Steve_P_Photos

1 photo per day for 26 days.
Titles start with 'A' and finish with 'Z'. Please don't repeat letters.
No people/human images.
No description in the toot.
Use alt text to fully describe the photo - a picture of a tree is not acceptable.
Copy the rules into the toot.

Day 20 (T - Thali)
#Photography #PhotographyChallenge #PhotographyAlphabetChallenge #Photos #Maharashtra #India #IndianFood #Thali