I’ve been thinking about blogging a lot lately. As a certain once popular micro-blogging site descends further into chaos and irrelevancy, I’ve been missing the days when I could just spout my opinions on things into the internet without a care in the world.
Somehow it’s been over two years since I last wrote a blog post here. Why? I still have things I want to say. Words to write. I feel it would be helpful for me to get stuff out of my head and onto the page, at least virtually.
Threads is some kind of replacement for the thing that shall not be named, but let’s be honest, that thing wasn’t a great replacement for blogs either. Short, pithy, posts about what’s happening right NOW in your head don’t really make for nuanced reading. Then there’s the constant barrage of negativity, bigotry and hatred that seems to seep from every pore of that anti-social media machine.
I want to enthuse about stuff I like. I want to write in longform as I wrestle my thoughts into something resembling coherency. I want to go into far too much detail about what’s exciting me and not worry about the reply guys shooting me down for it or shitting on my new obsessions.
I also want to be in control of what I can write and not worry it’s going to disappear in a cloud of chaotic smoke.
Now, I’m not fully in control of this site. I gave up my own hosting a while ago as it wasn’t being used and I needed to save the cash. But I can always move back again if WordPress start being douchebags. I have enough control. So, it’ll do for now.
Is blogging back? I dunno. It might not get back to it’s heyday but I think I need to be writing again so I’m going to give it a try.
Mince and Skirlie 