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[galadhir]

I have just joined Bluesky, but it does seem to be very worthy and very focused on the big issues of real life, so I don't know how long I'll last over there.

I'm doing it again already, spreading myself too thin. That's it now. No other sites of social media allowed. I already know I can't keep up with one, let alone two. (Or three, in fact, since my non-writing real life friends and activities are all on Facebook.)

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[watervole]

I'm currently avoiding everything that focuses on big issues.

I can't cope with them.

If Facebook prioritised the pages I actually want to see - my family and my re-enactment groups - then I'd still be there. But it inevitably picks out the entries with lots of comments, ie the ones dealing with painful political issues.

As I can't vote in US elections, I can't do anything about Trump - it all stresses me for no possible gain.

So, I dip in briefly now and then and read individual groups.

[galadhir]

Yes, I mostly use FB because that's where my belly dance groups keep each other updated. So I go to the groups and read the group feeds. I know what you mean about it being full of politics, although at the moment it seems to be full of people shouting about Reform UK.

I have to say that I think the MAGA problem seems to be coming to Britain with Reform, and now is probably the time to stand up for immigrants and queer folk and the disabled by standing against Reform.

If Reform get in, all the problems that make us so depressed about America will be happening in Britain instead. We can't do anything about Trump, but we possibly can do something about Farage. Just imagine the national embarrassment of being ruled over by Nigel Farage and his cabinet of losers!

So yeah. I hate it. I hate that it's become necessary to take a stand in politics, but I'm going to do it anyway because I too don't want to live in a police state.

[watervole]

Reform are nasty - and very bad on climate as well.

Fingers crossed, I may have found a job for a refugee Ukrainian locally.

[galadhir]

Oh that sounds great! Go you :)

[watervole]

Edit note for book - search for 'firelighter in the in its'

[galadhir]

Oh thank you! My proof reader didn't catch that one! I'll have it fixed by the time the paperback comes out. :)

[watervole]

Good to know it got caught in time - I used to edit fanzines, I proof read by instinct.

[julesjones]

Bother. I caught a couple and highlighted them to tell you about, and had forgotten by the time I got home. (Even when I don't have pain/nausea I've often got the more subtle aura effects, including the memory of a drunken goldfish.)

[galadhir]

Oh please don't worry. I actually managed to get it proof read but only after I'd announced it going live, so the chances are that whatever it was has been picked up already. I know what it's like to not be able to remember things. You have my sympathy!