Have never found the internet less compelling than now.
@ablerism I wish there were better ways to make the kind of serendipitous discoveries that brick-and-mortar book and record stores offered—also flea markets, weird local stores owned by individuals who didn’t have to make way for the same corporate operations that are everywhere because of high rents… Social media could kind of pick up the slack with cool surprises, but we’re all so tired or angry or nervous …
@markstoneman Yes. Hard no to pine for Twitter circa 2010-11 too. But maybe a good thing overall; another crop of weird local stores in my area, seems like?
@ablerism I’m feeling a bit of that myself and am pleased to discover that I still have (gasp!) thoughts even without an immediate prompt/provocation from the internet. I was starting to wonder.