Log Off & Draw: Breaking My Addiction To Microblogging

How Adobe Fresco is helping me change my ways

Last week was rough. It’s like that guy was sworn in and hit the ground running. From deportation, to eliminating DEI and Civil Rights which resulted in Target rolling back DEI before probably one of the busiest times for them, Black History Month, it was a lot. Did I spend too much time arguing with people on Threads about all of this? YES! And though my follower list grew to 200 plus over a weekend I know my block list is even longer. The cycle had started again with me and a microblogging platform but this time I was able to log off.

I’m a writer so naturally microblogging sites are where I shine, but over the years they have also been my demise. I couldn’t just be the pretty girl who was just silent and pretty. I had to be opinionated, sometimes loud and wrong, sometimes loud and right, sometimes loud and raunchy (doing “Twitter After Dark” at 2PM on a random Wednesday before it was a thing) I used sites like Twitter to speak my mind no matter who was listening. Especially when I was drunk.

It was a problem and it was that way up until like 2 weeks ago. I got too drunk, saw a post that triggered me, went on a rant, cursed some people out, said some things that would probably put me on some type of list then passed out. The next morning I woke up…