[Microblogging] It begins

xyzzysqrl recently did a thing about how it's nice to have a dumping ground for short little single-screenshot three-sentence reactions to things, but that Twitter is horrible and worth fleeing with all urgency.

Later that same day I tweeted a dumb little Pokemon Go thing, despite my actual therapist I was actually seeing for actual anxiety/panic attack issues actually telling me that step 1 toward recovery is to stay the fuck off Twitter. I am guilty of having this same problem, as it turns out.

So, in the interest of not being a massive hypocrite after I'd advised my good blogmog friend to bring that stuff here, maybe I too should just use Dreamwidth for my little bite-sized reactions. On one hand, uploading screenshots is a bit more of a process over here, but on the other I would no longer have to edit down if I have a four sentence reaction that's 15 characters too long to fit in a tweet.

So, I'm going to at least try it here and see how it goes, tagged with "microblogging" both in the tags and in the post title. I don't do this nearly as often (before last night's Pokemon Go thing, the last original non-retweet tweet I made was two weeks ago,) but if you don't want even that much extra junk on your reading page, you can... uh... can you blacklist tags? Maybe? Is that a thing people can do?

Anyway.

[Microblogging] Today's adventures in being outside

*Approaches street corner where the nearby Pokemon Go gym is, because it's there and vulnerable*

*What appears to be the tail end of a police chase ensues; a car comes spilling out of that intersection and the immediately pulls over, flanked by four or five police cars who do the same. Sirens are blaring. One officer gets out of his car, draws and points his weapon at the non-officer car, and starts barking orders at its driver*

Me: O_O



You know, now that I really stop and think about it, maybe I didn't need the extra coins and gym experience that badly.