Y'all are chasing working artists away from this place by harping on how "sad" and "pathetic" it is for them to hope for a large follower count here.

It's not about attention. It's about their bottom line. More followers means more commissions, more customers in their online shops, more direct exposure to people with hiring power. It's honestly really cruel to keep acting like they want adulation when really they just want to pay rent.

They have ample reason to mourn what they built.

Oh my.

@Mediaite conservative writer Isaac Schorr misread the Twitter account @joinmastodon as "John Mastodon," and said that the open source social media software was named after this imaginary person. https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/hypocrisy-and-fear-all-the-way-down-at-twitter/

I write #songs sometimes with little #mantras
in them. Things I don't necessarily believe, but want to believe. Nearly ten years ago I wrote a song with a lyric that says "in this very moment, everything is ok." Pretty simple, really. I guess I hoped that if I sang it enough times I'd eventually find a way to be a little less anxious and more present.

Today a friend of mine wrote a blog post about seven words that he tells himself to ease his #anxiety. It was those seven words. He attributed them to me and my song. We had never even talked about it!

I'm just floored, and I guess wanted to express it somewhere. You never really know how something you say or #create might impact someone. #Songwriting can be a tough gig sometimes. Putting so much personal stuff out there ... It ain't easy. Sometimes it doesn't feel like it's worth it. Today it feels like it's worth it.