Heather McDougal

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Writer, artist, costumer. Critical thinking without belief is cynicism, belief without critical thinking is naivete. Or something like that.
I don’t live in fear, but I do hang out there a lot

Still tiptoeing around the writing thing. After the fire, PTSD pretty much took away my writing ability, but recently plots have been swirling in my head, which is a great sign.

Still, I'm living with my mom, who is starting to have falls and forget things, and needs help, so it's hard for anything to coalesce.

So I've been making artwork, which uses a different part of my brain, except they contain narratives too. So goes the healing, I hope. Looking forward to writing again.

There! Finished.

Been taking Midjourney images and painting them on things.

The bag on the left is unfinished.

This pigeon has buried 7 wealthy husbands who all died under mysterious circumstances.

ME, 10: I want a big mansion

ME, 20: I want a cool apartment

ME, 30: I want a small hut that stands on chicken legs & has been hidden away deep in the forest

“I think we [journalists] got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk and their staff decide all these major journalistic questions.”

I couldn’t agree more with journalist @adamdavidson in this thoughtful and reflective Q&A about joining #Mastodon

https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/mastodons-moment #TwitterMigration

Mastodon’s Moment – The Markup

A conversation with Adam Davidson

UPDATE: Here's the latest chart.

We're now at 14,000 new users joining per hour.

By the end of the night, we might have 7 million Mastodon users.