Social FKN Media, the eternal struggle. The Twitters, the Facebooks (or is it the Metas now?), the Instagrams, the Mastodons, etcetera, etcetera. We all have our own struggles and opinions on the matter. While some have gone on to the No Social Media Club route, some others fully embrace it, and some, like me, struggle in between.

Currently, I am in four social media spaces, mostly, Twitter, Micro.blog, Mastodon, and Instagram. 

I closed Facebook over three years ago, for obvious reasons, and haven’t looked back ever since. Mastodon has always been around, I am not super-active on it other than all my posts from MB do get crossposted to it. Twitter and Instagram are my biggest struggles. Twitter, I have rage-closed my account twice. Instagram, is the same, at least three times I have closed it just to re-open a new one.

At this point, I just need to be honest with myself and accept that I do find some value in these two platforms. As long as I keep them under control, as long as I keep them boring.

Boring?

Yes, boring.

Boring is good. Let us take my Twitter, for example, I try to keep a very low following count, I believe I am following about two hundred accounts and I am sure, I can go even lower. Most of these accounts are normal folks, with which I actually interact, from time to time, maybe one or two “news” websites, mostly gaming, and pixel artists. And I intend to keep it this way.

Instagram. I closed it, early this month, and reopened it just a week or so ago. I unfollowed most people, I am following about one hundred and eighty accounts, only five of those have a blue checkmark. I muted most of the people's stories and I do my best to not even touch the discovery tab. I am always “up-to-date” within two scrolls, thus, no doom-scrolling. I rarely post anything anymore, it is more of a way to still have some contact with some people and that’s about it. The app lives out of sight, tucked into a folder.

As long as I can get these two platforms boring, I get to keep my sanity.

So far it's been good. So far I haven't felt anxiety or the need to rage-quit.

So far...

Jason Schreier:

BREAKING: Sony is buying Bungie, the maker of Destiny — another seismic gaming deal that comes just two weeks after Microsoft purchased Activision Blizzard.

Bungie put Xbox on the map. Now it’s part of PlayStation Studios. Filed to Bloomberg Terminal, hitting web soon

Come again?

Both parties did a decent job keeping this secret —several Bungie staff learned it from me this morning as I tried to break the news.

Bungie held an all-hands meeting at 10am PT to tell everyone at the same time as it went public

Earlier today, Annie went off on Marley. I mean, sometimes kiddos get bratty, and it is our job as parents to call their attention. Annie was angry, and for a good reason. Normally, in these situations, I pitch-in.

Today, I didn’t.

Momma Bear was not having it. So, I chose not to partake or intervene. Every so often, it is better to leave mom alone, let it run its course, rather than getting caught in the crossfire. 😅

So, once we arrived home, I volunteered, to take care of the laundy.

Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri 🦀🌹:

I don’t follow this guy, in fact I block him, but I just wanted to say that boycotts are a form of protest which is just as important as free speech, and anyone calling them censorship is the real bootlicker. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from criticism or protest

Again,

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from criticism or protest

Savvy?

Last night, the West Ada School District Board of Trustees approved a motion to remove the notification of Covid-19 positive cases within the school environment to parents. Previously, parents/guardians were notified if a confirmed positive case was present in one or more of their student’s classrooms. Board members discussed the pros and cons of the notifications and in a 3-2 vote approved discontinuing these notification letters. The Board also directed the administration to start the creation of an endemic plan for current and next school year.

Just to add up to the anxiety of sending my kid to school.

And so, 52 hours later, Tales of Arise has been completed.

It’s a pretty extensive story, to me, it felt like I’ve just watched an entire season, or perhaps two, of a good anime show.

There’s more, apparently, other quests, and a New Game + have been unlocked. I am not entirely sure if I want to replay this whole thing again. I might check it out a bit just to see, but, gotta move on to another games.

Some king, royal figure from Spain visited Puerto Rico today. And what did we do? We destroy a statue of Juan Ponce de León as some kind of protest?

Puerto Rico: statue of Spanish explorer toppled before King Felipe’s visit

A statue of the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León has been toppled in Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan, hours before a visit to the Caribbean island by Spain’s King Felipe VI.

🎵 Isla benditaaaaaa

Neil Young Pulling Music From Spotify Over Joe Rogan’s Vaccine Misinformation

In an open letter to his management and record label, Neil Young has asked that his music be promptly removed from Spotify, citing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on the platform. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them,” he wrote. “Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.”

Yikes!