I deleted my Twitter account back when Elon Musk took it over and rebranded it as "X".  Last week, after Mark Zuckerberg announced the loosening of fact-checking and of safeguards against hate speech (in addition to donating a large sum of money to Trump's inauguration fund), I decided to cut ties with Meta.  I've deleted my Instagram account and am in the process of backing up 20-odd years of data from my Facebook account, and will then delete it.  I have setup an account on Bluesky.  I like it a lot, but their word limit is frustrating for a wordy guy like me.

Now, if I could just figure out how to do away with Amazon...

After the disastrous 2024 election, I've also given up on U.S. commercial media (CNN, MSNBC, etc.) but will stick with my long-time favorite news sources: the UK's Guardian, Canada's CBC, the venerable BBC, etc.  And, for her clear and cogent political news summaries, Heather Cox Richardson.

I started this blog back in 2003, when blogging was a thing.  Over time, and to my great surprise, readership increased steadily.  Eventually I was getting tens of thousands of views per month and my posts were being re-posted on other much more popular sites.  But I never set out to be widely distributed or some type of "influencer."  I was just documenting my spiritual journey and random thoughts.  Then I got onto Facebook and slowly shifted my output onto that platform.  For a few years now this blog has mostly lain fallow. 

But now I'm shifting back to this musty trusty old blog.  I don't have any kind of grand strategy for content, just occasional "deep thoughts" from a nobody, the way it used to be.