Out of the blue question, but does anyone have any solid recommends for #writing programs that might be federated or less corporate for #journaling ?

I used #livejournal back and the day and tried #onenote and #googledrive but I’m trying to move away from them, and lately feel overwhelmed by the amount of ads that I experience on my devices.

Thank you in advance

Watching the ‘Skin of Evil’ episode of #startrek TNG for the first time in a few years, I was really surprised by how much I empathize for the blob who was discarded on an empty planet, misunderstood and lashing out, consumed by feelings of emptiness.

I hate what happened to Lt. Yarr, but there’s something about its desperate thrashing as a misguided attempt to connect to others that hits so differently as I get older.

I spent the last two years thinking small, worried about lifestyle inflation as I changed industries from grocery to social services, imagining my food costs had exploded. Going over my finances this weekend, I realized that I’m actually somehow spending less money now than I was in 2021.

Time to look forward to investing and setting myself up, hopefully with more optimism and excitement than I’ve allowed myself in the past.

This probably should have been an apple note, not a post.

Sometimes I worry that left leaning people’s greater likeliness to leave platforms over moral objections, mixed with media’s continued insistence to lazily pull public opinion from these sites will continue to drag us to the right, or do random things like cancel tv shows I love due to ‘low engagement.’

And then a good friend will send me a random bird link of a cat meme and I pretend to click it rather than tell them for a hundredth time that I don’t support that site. 🤦

Today is my one year anniversary on Mastadon! I happened to see a time stamp and felt I should acknowledge it.

In my time here I’ve come to realize how much my relationship with the internet centered around advertising and commerce. I was lucky to have stumbled onto a kind server filled with great folks who put in a lot of work to create this wonderful community. Thank you all for letting me be a lurking fly on the wall, and allowing me to learn from you every day.