Notices by Ashley Brooke (egalandbooks@mastodon.world)

I cannot stand the victim mindset of parents right now. “My kid doesn’t have time for homework because of sports! I’m going to trash the teacher!” Uh, pull your kid from sports! Duh! “Everyone else has a phone, so my kid needs one! Whyyyyy are my kids addicted to tech?” Because you got it for them! You can say no! Be the adult. My goodness. Quit blaming everyone else for your own choices.

It’s my birthday and we have a power outage. Yay!

At what point do you stop considering people friends? Like, it’s been almost 5 years since I moved away from my hometown, these people have never come to visit me and expect me to go to them and they’ll try to fit me in, they don’t like my Facebook posts, they didn’t even come to my wedding. Like am I supposed to keep tabs on “friends” on socials forever and ever but actual friendship never happens? When do I cut it off?

Those of you who have left behind Meta, how did you replace professional groups? I use groups often and am unsure of a way to replace them.

It doesn’t matter how much you change your beliefs when the organization that you operate within will not question or change theirs, thus they inflict harm upon people.

This is why I take issue with the church as a whole.

It does not matter if I root out all of the misogyny in my belief system if the church still spreads the idea that women are less than.

No one should have to constantly pick through and “chew the meat, spit out the bones,” it should all be healthy.

With Meta rolling out AI accounts that you apparently can't block?, what is even the purpose of social media anymore? No one in real life engages on anything I post, yet we sit watching each other's life updates forever, my Instagram gets ignored, which is fine. These places are supposed to be about fostering community, and in truth, they've barely done that. If it weren't for my online friends from Twitter, which I now also don't use, I wouldn't use Facebook at all. I wonder what is the point?

Saw an irl contact pop up on my Substack suggested follows, so THAT’S getting deleted now.

I might be getting into Threads.

We are engaged!!!!

You are loved.

Is anyone still on #facebook I'm kind of thinking about signing out of that one next. All I do is post positive teaching things so I can look back on them. No one I know in real life hardly interacts with my posts. It just feels like a bunch of people watching what I do, but never interacting.

Guess who got chest pain during class? Ughhh, I am gonna die.

I wish pictures weren’t blurry here.