Being made redundant. Walking in the woods and listening to the birds. Trying to find a spot to lie down. What else can I do. Full stop instead of question mark because I don’t expect answers. Just wanted to write it down somewhere.

Sad.

And Marquee Moon by Television randomly started on the radio, and we turned it up as loud as my 6 year old would allow.

It lessened the blow of fastening behind an EPA-traktor, the bane of Swedish country roads.

On the drive to my son’s swimming lesson I’ve seen 4 deer grazing in a field, geese flying overhead, a herd of Highland Cattle pottering around a meadow, a bird of prey swooping down then up into a fir tree, and the sun shining down upon us all. Spring is here, people, and it’s such a pleasure and relief.

While I live in Sweden and hold Swedish citizenship, I’m British, and I was hoping to find some news about the terrible shooting in Örebro from a mainstream news source outside of Sweden. Apparently that’s impossible now without coughing up.

Newspapers putting their websites behind a paywall is a great way to encourage news seekers to search for alternative news sources.

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Turns out Stardew Valley is a good game to have on your Nintendo switch when your 6 year old has chickenpox.

Neither of us knows what we’re doing. Mostly just hitting stuff and wandering around.

The egg hunt was somewhat anticlimactic, but catching a first fish, and building a pointless bridge were oddly rewarding.

My (almost) 11 month old and I both have colds. On the one hand I hope that’s all they’ll be. On the other, his developing chickenpox now is better than later.

Ugh

My 6 year old has been sent home with chickenpox. Considering he’s in good humour. Tv, ice cream, and squash isn’t so bad when you’re feeling down.

I think I might be more worn out than him atm

😅

I took away threads. A lot of pleasant interactions. And some less so. Who needs this?

Goodbye David Lynch.

I’m tentatively dipping my toe into Threads’ waters and found it mostly a positive experience. Although there seem to be reactionaries to almost anything, there is engagement nonetheless, and many positive and supportive interactions.

Although I did recently allow Instagram to open a threads account and it seems mostly to be people arguing, which is more comical than anything.

Pro-censorship is an odd stance to take.

Apparently I can’t read back more than a month now. I’m surprised that this saddens me so.

Perhaps it’s the morphine.

Perhaps not.

Perhaps a skill to reaquire before doomsday.

When I try following hashtags I realise that many users haven’t posted for 6 months to a year, which suggests that others also quickly bored with mastadon.

I kind of want to keep posting. It’s like a little diary.

But then a lot of my posts are unavailable to me. At least with X they’d still be there.

I could just buy a diary I suppose. But writing longhand hurts nowadays 😆

I can’t write a single post without mastadon trying to add hashtags for me.

Back then I felt that most views seemed to be represented. If that is no longer the case, surely it’s because people left. I don’t know.

Maybe I should try X to see if it’s become as bad as sometimes claimed.