Taking My Turn, Easing Onto The Off-Ramp

-- As posted online earlier this afternoon to social media, 

recorded here for posterity --

With the start of a new month I am finally feeling emboldened enough to follow through with the long held intention of exiting this increasingly divisive site.  I’ve been operating on the platform for 15 years, 10 on Instagram and also Blogger.  The aforementioned platforms I will continue with in order to at the very least share art & opinions, as both are generally less trafficked with one-sided, needless attention traps (albeit owned by the same mega corporations responsible for what I politically and morally object to here).  Should you need, I can be found easily on either under my usual name.  Even more importantly will be the simultaneous deletion of my (rarely accessed) Twitter account, more a gesture of objection to E. Musk and his mismanagement than the portal itself.  Be well — it’s nothing personal, really.  Just something I’ve aged out of as the site has evolved/de-evolved into something of a different beast.

Needless to say, that deceased wren encountered on our property with eyes gouged and gut decayed (see previous post) has been taken as nothing if not *a sign* to keep my distance from Twitter. Shooting down my Facebook is (somewhat) less politically driven, as evidenced by remaining on Meta’s sister site Instagram, but it seems apt to “kill two birds with one stone,” nevertheless.

^ Final three "Tweets"

(representing author's present concerns)

#exitinggracefully