Catching Up on Blaugust: Top 5 Bloggers
I follow quite a few blogs in my RSS Reader, but these are the ones I'm always excited to see come across my dashboard.
Topic
bloganuary
A collection of 41 issues
And I actually...
On the last day of Bloganuary, I can't say I did terrible about it.
Great, even.
Not gonna lie, I did falter around the last two days and I felt like I had to scramble a bit for a prompt, or something to write. But it was successful
An Armadillo Armor
"In what ways, large or small, did you armor yourself (i.e., set important boundaries) this month?"
It's a silly thing, but significant to me.
Hanging out with friends at the coffee shop last night, we talked about cartoons (as nerds wont to do). I managed
This is cheating.
Having a kiki with a friend while complaining about online dating, I decided to reactivate my OKCupid account.
Since we're on a "what changed?" type of groove, let's continue that trend. ...Well, not much since I was last there. I didn't take
nothing/spite/since the shoe fits
i made the mistake of paying close attention to the news
and feeling sad
so finding a link to schadenfreude
made me feel better
and i felt my empathy leaving
those people are going to suffer too
while they sing praises
and i feel like i'm going to
Looking Forward
What am I looking forward to? What can I give myself to look forward to?
* Janelle Monae in concert! And this time, connect with other FAMdroids.
* Coheed and Cambria in September!
* Slumber parties!
* seeing a goofy-looking Valentine's day-themed slasher fic with a friend
* obtaining some sort of movie
the minimum dosage
For Mastodon to not only supersede Twitter but to thrive in its own merit, it needs to not only listen to the vulnerable among us, but implement changes for a better Internet culture. The tools have been there, and so have been their highlighted shortcomings.
Now what will they make
What Was There
Speaking of Decluttering, I need to sort through my bookmarks and see which ones are still active.
/gamegame/gamegamebegin.html
This was a Flash game, very artsy and scribbly, and while I was in college I'd play through it when I was feeling down. It kept me inspired
Whenever You're Ready
Remember a time when: you were ready for a change. How did you know? What did you do first?
As usual, it varies on how I get started. But my biggest changes had one thing in common:
I got fed up.
It was too exhausting, or repetitive, or I was
If you could un-invent something, what would it be?
You know those things that pop up when you visit a site, pestering you to sign up for their newsletter, or enable ads, or allow cookies, or create an account, or sign in, or just be a really big annoying ad?
They're not technically pop-ups (they open within/
