By justloriI had a post blow up on Bluesky this week. Not like, a million views or anything, but for someone with only 3000- followers, to post something and have it reposted almost 100 times with460 likes (as of right now)…well, that seems like a lot.
And I talked to Kevin about the fact that even being known a little bit causes me a little stress. Fear. Cause while I am so unimportant in the overall scheme of things, and—at least as of right now—I still have protection under the first amendment, well…I still wonder what will happen to the dissidents when things start to go wrong.
I wonder if Mark Elias or Jay Kuo or Mehdi Hassan or Rachel Maddow or Brian Taylor Cohen or George Conway or Ron Filipkowski or Heather Cox Richardson or Molly Jong-Fast or Lawrence O’Donnell will wind up in a gulag somewhere.
And as ludicrous as it sounds, I wonder if I will, too.
I mean, probably not. But that I am even considering it is insane. Here, in the USA, home of free speech. That I would even consider that free speech could be silenced here should tell you all you needs to know about what it’s like to be a liberal here, now.
If you could un-invent something, what would it be?
I want to say something flip, like broccoli, but I guess that wasn’t invented so much as cultivated, so that’s out. Or something all hipster bougie like social media, but the truth is, for all its shortcomings, I absolutely LOVE social media, in all its varied forms. And I don’t want to say something like Crocs, cause while they are extraordinarily ugly, they serve a very practical purpose.
Same goes for guns, as much as I hate to admit it.
I’m sure that this isn’t the best answer, and that I’ll think of something better at 3 am, but for now, I’m going with single-use plastic bottles. They are a blight, and there is no reason for us to have them except laziness. Glass bottles were lovely, and immediately and theoretically infinitely recyclable.
Single-use plastics are lightweight and convenient, but their environmental damage is off the charts. They accumulate in landfills, lakes, streams, oceans. They harm wildlife, contaminate the water supply, and their manufacture alone causes greenhouse gas emissions.
They are not worth it.
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Found you on Bluesky and followed you, but have to ask how you have 3000+ followers? I like social media too, along with blogging obviously, but no one notices me regardless of what I write. That being said, how amazing that you raised that much interest in a positive idea. Well done.
Hi! I wondered if I would get any traffic from Bluesky…but I’m really unwilling to marked consistently there.
Honestly, what I did is follow a crap-ton of people. I got about a 50% follow-back rate, so I followed tons of “democracy” starter packs. Once I crested 1000, it kind of organically grew from there, but I will still follow a starter pack every once in a while when think things look stagnant. 💙
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