SomeEgrets

Birdout: Paradise

@SomeEgrets

disaster bird

i can't go to hell - i'm all out of vacation days. i watch space rocks and yell at computers for my day job. probably too old for any of this

 

i think i might be burned out on internet social. it's hard to keep doing it. it's hard to even maintain the amount of attention i'm already giving it

 

i am the cause of most of my own problems

 

furthermore, capitalism must be destroyed

 

birdsona: ?????

 

🌎 Ontario, Canada

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webbed site
egrets.ca/
blog + rss
chirps.egrets.ca/
SomeEgrets
@SomeEgrets

Egrets' really cool and rad pinned profile copost for attractive people (final cut HD remix director's edition)

hello, ex-coposters, and everyone else skimming through these archives after the End of the Chworld. welcome to the bird zone! (im the bird)

i'm a not particularly noteworthy technology avian who works in academic science doing such activities as:

  • programming (bad)
  • sysadmin (bad)
  • analysis (bad)
  • being a bird (im super good at this!)
  • supporting scientists (bad) trying to use any of the aforementioned things
  • being very very tired, just absolutely exhausted 24/7 (i am actually very good at this!)

i'm not actually an egret! that's just a funny name. weirdly, almost nobody else seems to use it, so if you see it on another site, there's a reasonable chance it's also me there as well!

most people call me "egrets" or just "bird"

my very cool birdsona for attractive people is actually a Grey Catbird [audubon.org]

At feeders, will eat a bizarre assortment of items including doughnuts, cheese, boiled potato, and corn flakes.

i really enjoy nature and specifically bird photography, although I haven't really been able to do much of it lately. sometimes i'll post some of them under the tag #birdposting, though

i apologize if i wasn't very follow-ey or sometimes slow to respond or just not feelin' up to replying to things at all. i think I'm so very close to just being a complete social media burnout. i needed to keep my follow list small while i was here to avoid burning out. there were so many cool people on this site and i appreciated seeing you around even if our social circles never intersected in the end

i don't think i'm moving to any other social media sites after this. i don't want to return to viral posts and clout chasing and people thrown in an internet argument arena by dark patterns. i don't want to return to microblogging. tumblr was never my jam

were's some other places you might be able to find me!

SomeEgrets
@SomeEgrets

Some Egrets' Ultimate Pinned Cohost Closing CoPost for Cool And Attractive People (that's you)

so i wanted to put up a thing to pin before this site goes read-only and frozen in time forever. something between a goodbye and a highlights reel. i don't have a big eloquent eulogy to write up here, but i'm gonna miss this place. like so many others are saying, i feel like spending time here cured me, or at least broke some of the dark pattern habits of, other social media. i've been saying it in a few other posts, but i don't think i can ever go back to metrics-driven, or short-form social media

so with that out of the way, i want to kind of revisit some of the cool rememberies from this site, both as kind of one last road trip around the place, and (perhaps more practically) as a place to put a bunch of cool stuff in one place

none of this is exhaustive. a lot of people will be downloading full chost logs, and @staff have said they'd like to archive the whole site if possible. i'm not going to scour the whole site for everything, a small collection of things i remember being good will suffice. i think things should be allowed to be ephemeral and imperfect, anyway

anyway, before we go any further, i think some cool people here deserve a shoutout in no particular order. i can't possibly tag everybirdie here but a few names definitely stand out!

with that said, let's flap to it!

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