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It occurs to me this morning that I no longer have any social media. No one I used to talk to on Tumblr is still active on Tumblr, so all I use it for now is to reblog things. As the people I follow fall for new media that I haven't seen, the feed becomes more and more incomprehensible, and I feel very isolated.
I also feel like we tried a lot of things and we found out that the old ways are better. You know? Streaming was great but then suddenly we didn't own anything, so it's good to go back to buying DVDs. 'Social media' was great but then suddenly we didn't know anyone, so it's good to go back to a platform where you can actually speak to people.
Anyway, this is me feeling like I really want my Dreamwidth again because there are things here I can't do elsewhere, like *journal* and *talk to people.*
Exciting news for today is that it snowed overnight. Only a light powdering of icing-sugar snow, but that's remarkable enough for this far south in England in these days of climate change.
I also feel like we tried a lot of things and we found out that the old ways are better. You know? Streaming was great but then suddenly we didn't own anything, so it's good to go back to buying DVDs. 'Social media' was great but then suddenly we didn't know anyone, so it's good to go back to a platform where you can actually speak to people.
Anyway, this is me feeling like I really want my Dreamwidth again because there are things here I can't do elsewhere, like *journal* and *talk to people.*
Exciting news for today is that it snowed overnight. Only a light powdering of icing-sugar snow, but that's remarkable enough for this far south in England in these days of climate change.
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Date: 2026-01-06 10:38 am (UTC)From:Ugh, the algorithms! It's so frustrating when what you want is just a simple chronological display of what your friends are up to. It's why I can't spend time on Facebook or Instagram. Why would I want you to order my feed according to what you think is 'most interesting'? Gah! Horrible.
I was listening to a debate on BBC4 recently in which a climate scientist was saying that these are probably the coldest winters we will experience for the rest of our lives (as it continues to get warmer.) And then everyone was very depressed about that, so he quickly finished up by saying that that didn't mean that we wouldn't get cold years again, it just meant that we should appreciate them more when they came.
You will probably have an ordinary level of snow next year, and it will be more precious when it arrives. (Even though it only took me a day to be annoyed with it because it's now too slippery to go out on my bicycle.
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Date: 2026-01-08 05:16 am (UTC)From:(And the algorithm is often USELESS. I'd resent it anyway, but I extra resent it for being so bad at telling what I want to see. "Oh, you interact with a lot of local weather pages? How about we show you some local weather... from somewhere 500 miles away from you." "Ah, I see that you liked someone's post about about a today-only book sale. Would you like a dozen posts about sales that have already expired?")
It's true. There will be cold winters in the future, most likely, but the general pattern is an upward trend in temperatures. (We're expecting some snow tomorrow into Friday, but no one can agree on how much, haha. But our weather has been bizarrely warm and dry all season.)
I don't love or enjoy snow, but I do know we need it to fend off the "everything is on fire now" season. I don't *miss* the snow, but it's still not good that we haven't gotten much at all.