Radha Krueger
January 23, 2025

Now is the time to embrace chaotic good.

Radha Krueger
January 23, 2025

If you haven’t notice already, social media as we once knew it is gone. This new era is very different, and it will continue to evolve. It’s more important than ever to find ways that make sense to you to stay connected to people. It might take a little more effort until the next new things comes along.
What can / should you do to stay connected?

Make plans to see friends. Put it on your calendar so you actually do it. Go see people in real life. (This is the most important one.)

Try another social platform or look at how to tune the ones you’re on to see only what you want to see. (They’re all going the same direction because people are using social media differently, so let go of that longing for the olden days.)

Subscribe to emails for venues, local businesses, community calendars and news outlets you like. e.g. The city of Gainesville has a great mailing list of local events.

Get phone numbers and connect with your friends directly. Yes, try Messenger, WhatsApp, Discord, Signal, etc. to create nice small groups that you manage to chat with our friends and community, but those are free services that can easily go away one day, too.

Make your own website to save things that are important to you. Retain custody of your own stuff. Blog about things you think are interesting, make a list of websites you use regularly, post your recipes for yourself, curate what you want to share with people about your lived experience. You’ve been doing this all along here, so why not do it on a website you control rather than one that controls you!

If you want to pick my brain or get an assist on any of these things, I’m here to help.

Radha Krueger
January 23, 2025

CONSENT is every time.

Edit to include context so you can understand why this is such a gross take on the reason for the divorce:

“Their marital relations deteriorated after the birth of their first child and by 1992, H.W. began experiencing health problems. In 2002, her husband started physically and verbally abusing her. Two years later, she stopped having sex with him and petitioned for divorce in 2012.”

French divorcee wins appeal in case over refusing husband sex
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxel6zkwwxo

Radha Krueger
January 23, 2025

So much ignorance. Like a toddler throwing poop from his own diaper. This whole clown show is a disaster.

Letters from an American | Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-22-2025

January 22, 2025 (Wednesday) – “Marc Caputo of Axios reported today that Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of all the January 6 rioters convicted of crimes for that day’s events, including those who attacked police officers, was a spur of the moment decision by Trump apparently designed to get the issue behind him quickly. “Trump just said: ‘F*ck it: Release ‘em all,’” an advisor recalled.”