blogging for bits

I used to blog all the time. You know, back when it was cool—and I was younger—and people still, uh, read stuff.

I should probably start making tiktok videos, but, well, that’s not my style.

I had a short but lively online tiff this past week with some guy who was complaining that he lost years of content because he was forced (for politically ideological reasons) to flee Twitter and abandon everything he’d ever posted there. You need your own website, I suggested, one that you contol. He lashed out at me and told me he had his own website but—and I’m paraphrasing here—that the world should just work how he wants it to work, and I could just—well, I won’t repost the rest of his opinions about my opinions.

I honestly didn’t think that suggesting being in control of one’s own words in this vast and changing ecosphere of technology and politics would be so controversial. Boy, was I wrong.

Yet, it did get me thinking that I haven’t been holding up my end of the bargain there, either. I’ve been writing… a lot. But I stuff those words away onto sites off the beaten track, or put disposable discourse into social media, these days Bluesky. I’ve been neglecting the simple blog.

I’ve been neglecting just writing for the sake of writing.

So. Here I am. Back. Simple. Just posting. Let’s give this a whirl again.