Same. Kept the account (which is fairly useless after all of the words/phrases/users I'd already muted and blocked to protect my peace), but I don't need to swim in that cesspool daily. Less social media, more books and music and nature. That's the survival strategy.

Sounds perfect!

Sending Bluesky greetings from a Lizard. Glad to see you on here. I'm trying to use this platform in the hopes of less algorithm interference. I barely see posts from folks I follow on the others.

Oh, no! That is sad. Ours closed, too, but a new smaller one opened a year later. The company is reconfiguring a lot of stores into smaller bookshops. Hopefully, you'll at least get one of those.

Two books did that to me: Heaven & Earth Grocery Store and Catcher in the Rye. I couldn't start another book for weeks.

I'm most often listening to my core 5: Stephen Kellogg, Carbon Leaf, Red Wanting Blue, Liz Longley, Alternate Routes. They are all very different but share the thread of lyrics that convey wisdom and calm chaos.