I guess only by me, who is also 70 years old 🤣💖

NOT THE MERLIN APP 😭😭

I second Tauer — Au Couer Du Desert was my daily fragrance for YEARS, and everyone loved it on me

Doing drugs then being on your phone is for sure the worst way to spend precious drug-time

Was talking to my father recently, and he pulled my older brother out of Hebrew School back in the early 90s because they wouldn’t stop trying to teach him about the country — it creeped him the fuck out.

Truly scary how on-board some temples in our area were about “this IS the allegorical place!”

Like, I haven’t even BEEN on this type of social media for very long, and I’ve def understood the (general, self-protective) rules to be:

1. Fuck around at your own risk
2. If you want to learn anything, shut the fuck up and listen to the people who say “this topic directly affects me”

A “paranoia spidey sense” definitely sounds like a thing a totally-hinged person would have and talk openly about…

IT STINKS

IT STINKS

IT STIIIIINKS

So part of my view here is: there is a lot of forms of faith, and personal experiences with it globally, that are NOT this traumatizing violent extremist Christianity at baseline. And for me, I feel that American Judaism needs to, in a sense, be “reclaimed” from its appropriation by Protestantism.

But also, of COURSE American Christianity is an awful conflation of Protestant extremism, white supremacy, and right wing ideologies — I’m from a Reform Jewish background, and have watched in horror how American Jewish identities have been CO-OPTED and appropriated by American Christianity!

Being a (very privately) religious leftist, it is…..disappointing when I see other leftists be so viciously and unilaterally anti-religious.

Like, y’all know that, globally, a LOT of people you claim to be allies of and “support”, ARE religious and regard that as a big part of their lives, right….?

YOOOOOOOO

I REMEMBER GRINDING SOOOO HARD FOR THIS!!!!

CONGRATS CONGRATS CONGRAAAATS!!!

And also, all this to say:

I wish that had more than like 2 people to show my stuff to in-person or via text 😭

So, I guess what this really is is an apology:

I’m sorry that I cannot share out my work, even on a platform and to an audience I WANT to…because I’m afraid of the omniscience of thieving AI companies and the intrusive role they have on using the internet to share things, even inconsequential ones.

Which is not to say I think I’m so unique or important that the AI thing matters, in a practical sense.

But….i’ve always made my art for an audience of one.

And even though I now WANT to share some of that….I know my audience is NOT the AI models or web crawlers.

And that just…makes me kinda sad.