As much as I'd love to leave Meta, I'm not going to the new social media app Blue Sky.  It's not going to be safe.  It may be safer than now, but how long until the bigots and trolls show up and ruin it, too?  How long until the big corporations start showing up and making every other post an ad? If its on the internet, it's not safe, period.  Never has been, never will be.  Even if one has a dedicated server, team or program to fight the bigots and trolls--they always find a way in and ruin it for everyone.  Its exhausting.  The devs may either sell out or quit from exhaustion and for safety. How long until Blue Sky turns into Meta or X? Or like countless other apps and forums...just disappears?  Covenspace, Witchbook, and countless other safe websites disappeared because of hateful willfully ignorant cowardly assholes. Also maybe I'm just being paranoid, but can we trust whoever created it to not just be a Fafnir Trump minion, collecting t...

The Vestalia has ended, and I'm back from my break. I haven't gotten to the divine messages from Vesta or Vestal Rhea yet, but I will. I've injured my toes this noon (last night, too, same toes), so I may not get to the divination today. I took a break for the Vestalia this week and got some great insight from the Vestals. Regarding my business and my mental health, I'm just gonna keep doing me and not what FB wants me to do. I figure it's like trying to lose weight for health--can't keep your eyes on the scales, otherwise you'll become enslaved by numbers and abused by FB's systems, and lose sight of the reasons and the goals.   At least that's how I feel about scales--I don't use em, because I know how I get if I do. Same goes for FB algorithms--who just feel like an abusive parent to me at this point--telling me that I'm lazy when I'm working my butt  I'm going to try to break myself from looking at those numbers, because burn out...