Microblogging is so much easier than macroblogging! Which is probably bad.

I've been a pretty active microblogger for a long time now. My husband and I didn't meet on Twitter but we did quite a lot of bonding over it in our early relationship, which was during the first Trump administration (a wild time for Twitter, and the Internet in general). When Elon Musk acquired Twitter and it started getting very bad I tried out Mastadon, people didn't really go there though and so I went to Bluesky next and I maintain a pretty active presence there. Which is probably bad for me, on net, but I do like a lot of the website and the people there. I do think it's atrophied my ability to think in longform. Maybe even damaged it but I do find it's coming back so it's not as bad as that. I like to post short updates about what my family is doing, I like to post sarcastic commentary on the politics of my country (which are an absolute dumpster fire, obviously, but it's a way to cope). A lot of time when a post takes off you'll notice that a lot of people are taking it in a…