With the news that tomorrow is going to be a bloodbath in the markets - allow me to humbly submit #OrangeMonday

My grandfather, a Transylvanian immigrant and WW2 vet had a saying: “don’t believe nothing you read and only half of what you hear”. My father a shop teacher and Vietnam vet added his spin: “don’t believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see”. My contribution: “don’t believe nothing you see and only half of what you think”. TikTok is back. #tiktokban #tiktokback

#introduction I am a designer, musician and dad living in New York city’s most glamorous borough: Staten Island. I’m a tiktokrefugee who’s really taken to red note. Also very interested in the #fediverse concept. Ready to learn, chop it up.

Ok - I am here now - though a text scroll was never my preferred method of socializing. I like the idea of this being more distributed and it seems a little less goofy than blue sky which is choked to the gills with ‘blue no matter who’ people who have not thought things through enough.

Public misery, never higher or more prevalent. I think it’s peaked and it will be receding. There will still be problems and plenty of misery - but the public performance of misery has outlived its use. #publicmisery #misery #performedmisery