anti-social

Last week I found myself browsing a lot more social media than usual. Mostly I keep to Mastodon, which seems mostly a pleasant place to be. Last week I discovered I still had a Threads account that was tied to an Instagram account I never post to. So I started browsing Threads. Then I started browsing BlueSky. Pretty soon I found I was craving and ingesting massive amounts of Threads, BlueSky and Instagram posts. A lot of these posts were of a political nature and I found myself getting in equal parts stressed, angry and combative. It all came to a head last weekend when I was following posts on all three networks about the masked men blocking the Port of Dover and another group of angry masked men causing violent disruption in Portsmouth (due to a boatload of people arriving at the coast). Things felt bleak. I was getting anxious and angry about things I had zero control over. I popped over to Mastodon and only one person in my feed had mentioned the Dover blockade to literally no…