Hi Darling Ones,
How goes your holiday season?
Mine started early this year when Sister #2 arrived on December 10 to help me around the house and hang out in Minnesota visiting her MN friends.
Max arrives tonight. Jaycie comes in tomorrow and then we’ll be holidaying it up — a Very St. Martin Christmas, Christmas, Boxing Day Lunch, and Rock & Roll Bookclub Dirty Santa. Everyone leaves on December 31st and by then I’ll be ready for a long winter’s nap with Wendell & Los Gatitos.
ANYWAY, Sister #2 is the reason I’m finally giving up Twitter.
My Twitter days have been numbered since Elon Musk started stinking up the joint. But, I kept making excuses not to leave because I love Twitter.
I joined Twitter in March 2007 and didn’t see much value in it until the 35W Bridge collapsed in August. I remember checking Twitter constantly, watching for my friends to check in.
Since then my love just grew. I looked forward to watching award shows with Twitter. I mourned losses with Twitter and celebrated with them too. I’ve watched some of these people get married, have kids, go through divorces, and loss of parents. I love the little clutch of weirdoes I follow on twitter.
Twitter has always been my social media choice. I don’t like Facebook and I like Instagram, but it’s not Twitter.
Why am I quitting Twitter? Because my sister asked me to.
When your Jewish sister (she converted) asks you to quit an anti-semitic hate farm, you quit.
It is, after all, the very very very least I can do. I can’t keep her and her friends safe. I can’t obliterate anti-semitism. I can keep my thoughts off a breeding ground for hate filled with people who want to bring harm to Jews.
It’s terrifying out there for her and Jewish people, so I quit Twitter.
It makes me sad to leave, but not as sad as anti-semitism makes me.
If you want to find my random musings and cute cat pictures you can find me on Bluesky. If you’d like an invite, hit me up — jodi@iwilldare.com
I’m jodiwilldare there and pretty much everywhere else, except here, where I’m just Jodi.
Love,
Just Jodi