It’s in my queue, but no, haven’t watched it yet. I understand the gist of it though, especially having largely stepped away and found out for myself just how addictive they design all this to be.

It took me a bit to brave the deletion, and last year I took IG off my phone (I check on the browser sometimes). But their goal, for them all, is more time spent on the service (and thus more ad $$$), than any real connection.

Agreed, I prefer twitter over others. I deleted facebook 2 years ago now, and haven’t looked back, so that’s been a net positive. But all the old SLP blogs have moved to Instagram, and on the whole, that makes me sad.

This mini-thread PSA is basically to say: I miss blogs, and want to see more blogs. And that means I also miss blogging, and I include myself there as being remiss at blogging. So instead of tweeting more, I plan to blog more. And occasionally link them here for you, friends.

There’s entirely too much noise to make much sense of anything, and its bite-size bits of information and text and threads make critical thinking especially challenging.

I poke my head in here once in a while but my time away has made me understand just how great a medium social media can be to fuel anxiety and how terrible a medium it is (right now) to feel connected to others.

All I can say is, FINALLY. There was ample opportunity and justification to suspend his account ages ago.

Glad to hear it! (Though also begs the question, what kind of tail?) Just got my first round today, so far so good.

Nope, I like them too. Plus they make me want to explore the world more.

Working on end of year reconciling to wrap up the books on 2020. Will be super nice to have that done. #BizSLP #SLPeeps

Seriously! This feels like an IOU jar, like, let us know you’re here and where you work/what you do, and maybe we might eventually find a vaccine for you.

And those ears!!

Added myself to the vaccination list for my state. I imagine I have lower priority as an outpatient provider in an independent private practice, but that plus my medical interpreting work has me hoping I hear something soon.

Wow!

I caught this at the end of my day, thanks for sharing, can’t help but smile watching this. Also, hello from NM!

That seems like a lifetime ago, wow! I bet it won’t surprise you that I still rock that big all the time, it’s still my favorite.

Ah, the perils of running your own website sometimes, when a routine update attempt throws a 502 wrench your way. But what a feeling when you finally figure it out and it’s back up and running once more. Whew.

Lol at the euphemism for voting early, but I’ll take it. We dropped off our ballots last week and it was a harrowing two days before getting notice that they were received and will be counted.

That’s a good point. Especially since the holdup is “it was telehealth” (despite it being advertised that that’s being covered since pandemic). So many issues, and normally this payer is pretty decent to work with.

The wildest part of course, is that it’s “an internal reason” that it’s held up, since I’ve filed everything appropriately.