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jazzfishAs noted, I bailed on Twitter because they shut down access for third-party clients, including my preferred client, Tweetbot. This act of war pushed Tapbots, the Tweetbot developer, into overdrive on their Mastodon client Ivory. It went into wide release a few days later. I tried it out and while it's certainly an early release, it's enough like Tweetbot that I'm happy with it.
So, Mastodon. I'm at jazzfish@wandering.shop grr DW still wants to make a leading @ automatically DW-username-ize things (thanks to Nicky for the invite). My feed's mostly made up of my Twitterfolk that I could easily find plus a handful of other people I keep seeing retweeted / boosted and figured I'd go ahead and follow.
It's not as polished an experience as Twitter was and in particular I miss quote-retweet. But it's fun so far. (As with Twitter I'm using it primarily to read, and secondarily to retweet.)
Thanks to Mastodon I am following Cameron Reed (fka Raphael Carter, and oncecenturyplant). Cameron's novel The Fortunate Fall is probably my favourite novel that no one has heard of, and I include Mike Ford's books in that judgement. Yesterday she mentioned that "A mere 26 years after The Fortunate Fall, I am working seriously on another novel." So that's rather exciting.
In a followup she said "It's strange to have too many ideas after such a long period of creative nullity. Changing the hormone levels in my brain has been good for me." Which ... gives me some hope that I might manage to get back to writing, myself, at some point. That I might be able to rebalance my brain and my lifestyle to support that. But there's a lot to unpack there, too.
Bah. I was more functional working four days a week, for sure, but looking for that will make jobhunting Even Worse. And it's an open question as to how I'd do with a 20% pay cut. Between the not-quite-doubled housing cost and the general increase in cost of everything, that might require some serious belt-tightening. Bah.
So, Mastodon. I'm at jazzfish@wandering.shop grr DW still wants to make a leading @ automatically DW-username-ize things (thanks to Nicky for the invite). My feed's mostly made up of my Twitterfolk that I could easily find plus a handful of other people I keep seeing retweeted / boosted and figured I'd go ahead and follow.
It's not as polished an experience as Twitter was and in particular I miss quote-retweet. But it's fun so far. (As with Twitter I'm using it primarily to read, and secondarily to retweet.)
Thanks to Mastodon I am following Cameron Reed (fka Raphael Carter, and once
centuryplant). Cameron's novel The Fortunate Fall is probably my favourite novel that no one has heard of, and I include Mike Ford's books in that judgement. Yesterday she mentioned that "A mere 26 years after The Fortunate Fall, I am working seriously on another novel." So that's rather exciting.In a followup she said "It's strange to have too many ideas after such a long period of creative nullity. Changing the hormone levels in my brain has been good for me." Which ... gives me some hope that I might manage to get back to writing, myself, at some point. That I might be able to rebalance my brain and my lifestyle to support that. But there's a lot to unpack there, too.
Bah. I was more functional working four days a week, for sure, but looking for that will make jobhunting Even Worse. And it's an open question as to how I'd do with a 20% pay cut. Between the not-quite-doubled housing cost and the general increase in cost of everything, that might require some serious belt-tightening. Bah.
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