Karma sure has a way of biting one's ass.

(MSN.com) "Users on X...have been fleeing the platform. The ripple effects of the election season and Musk's support of Donald Trump have given a rise to a deluge of misinformation and toxic discourse on the platform being forced into users' feeds. As a result, X alternative Bluesky has seen a sudden surge in user signups and daily active users."

If he can post there, we can quote it.

Since journalists, politicians, and others would just send it from their phones during an event. I don't like it either, but Musk must have ordered US federal agencies to post things like alerts/advisories on X before posting it on their own websites and email distributions.

I decided it doesn't. All it does is depress me and make me anxious -- first of all because this breaking news is often a garbled mess excitedly reported by people who don't know shit, and second because more than 99% of the time I can't do anything about it. It's not like I'm an Emergency Medical Technician completing my paperwork at the fire station when the alarm goes off.

I've done logistics for emergency transfers of blood and organs. My wife has delivered babies, stabilized victims of accidents or violence for transport to trauma centers, etc.. She was in the front lines facing the COVID-19 pandemic. She's been doing that kind of work for decades and loves it. When she's on-call and something requiring her immediate response happens her work phone rings, often in the middle of the night.

The site formerly known as twitter is mostly unactionable noise. Fuck that. I'll have all my unactionable news in the morning with a cup of coffee, thank you, all neatly sorted by people I trust. If something happens that requires my immediate attention I'll be on-site already or someone will call me. I also have numbers I can call if I find myself caught up in a "late breaking news" situation. I'm not going to be a looky-loo standing on the sidelines with my "smart" phone posting crap on the internet.

DU is my only social media. Other sites are just too damned noisy. I actively blacklist them. I don't want their shit and I don't want them taking metrics on me. DU would be intolerably noisy too if not for my trash by keyword list, my ignore list, and the excellent moderation here.

I was required to follow several federal X accounts for my last job. I needed to be on top of certain things in a rapidly changing environment.

My new job will be quite the opposite, it's in a facility that bans phones and outside communications. It will likely be a more peaceful life. All hell could break loose outside and I would be sheltered from hearing about it, so that should help with my ADHD and anxiety.

Thankfully, I live in a progressive state where shoppers aren’t allowed to openly carry high powered assault weapons in stores. If retailers don’t prohibit them in “carry” states, I have to believe that other customers would shop elsewhere, where they do restrict them from their businesses.

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