I am still working at Amazon, but about to go on leave. My other job called me two weeks ago needing me to work more hours so I put in notice. One of the rough things about being at a crazy job is they are all crazy jobs, and you just have to find what crazy works for you. At Amazon they drug test constantly so at least it leaves a long paper trail on me not being a party animal at all. I have never failed a drug test at any job, and this reference helps prove it. Ironically a huge set of news reports dropped on Amazon right as I was packing up.
Bluesky is a new social media app people are using. My profile is here @Poedaughter7.bsky.social if you want to add me to friends. I am fully terrified of how many crazed right winged politicians keep showing up in news photos with social media owners these days. Also my email is getting packed with spam from all the social media that said it would “never” sell my information. I can see why people want to try something new. Old social media uses an algorithm to decide what we “want” to see, and it often picks very wrong. Somedays I think we should all just switch back to Myspace, Yahoo, and Livejournal for updates.
The day after the presidential election, the social media landscape shook.
On Elon Musk’s X, more than 115,000 users deactivated their accounts, the largest-ever mass exit from the platform. At the same time, traffic on Bluesky, a smaller rival to X, began to soar, with daily usage climbing some 500% in the U.S., according to data from Similarweb.
“We’ve been growing by about a million users a day for several days,” said Bluesky CEO Jay Graber in an interview with NPR on Monday. “It’s proving out the model that we thought would be the right approach to social [media]: Give people the tools to control their experience and they’ll have a better time.” Putting more control in the hands of users is what distinguishes Bluesky from X, formerly Twitter, and other rival social media sites.
Rather than having one “master algorithm,” Bluesky allows for a more personalized experience. By default, there are three main feeds: One shows accounts you follow, another shows what your friends follow and a “discover” feed surfaces posts linked to your interests.”
Things may have issues in my town, but my car is working again after repairs. I can travel to better lands soon. An old acquaintance got mad when I would not date her mean and ugly brother, and has been spreading rumors about me all over downtown. She is unfortunately a popular bar tender, and can spread bad gossip all day long. People in the state I am in blindly go along with lies asking for no real proof at all. Just because something has been said many times does not make it true. This has fully destroyed night life for me in the Virginia area forever. Fortunately there are many good music shows and social events outside Virginia for the holidays, and I am going to go there soon with my newly working vehicle. I plan to move away from this state I hate with all my soul soon as my life was so much better in other areas that it is beyond describing.
From my new book of poems I am going to publish online called “Poems From The Pain Hole: A Collection Of Poems About An Abuse Toilet That Claims To Be A State.”
I will miss the first pet dogs most of all. Remember when the worst thing about the White House was the crazy shelter-adopted biting dogs? We will all miss those days soon. Meanwhile Trump is one of only three people elected that did not bring a pet to the White House as a fun fact. A real lesson in pet owners and empathy in people.
I got promoted to the blue badge at Amazon night shift, and got a guarantee by HR my pay issues will clear up in a few weeks at my teaching job. At long last things are getting better!
I am going to get all the healthcare checks I can get for the next couple of months. Evidently healthcare is going to go back to medieval practices for women soon due to politics. Blaming women for needing healthcare is like blaming turkeys for Thanksgiving. They should hide deeper in the woods, or they are asking for the shotgun!
The best video game to play for Halloween is Adventure Quest 3D on Steam games. It is free to play, and has some hilarious vampire versus werewolf Halloween battles going on yearly.
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