I’m hanging on to my account until June 30th—so I can say a bittersweet goodbye to Reddit is Fun—and then I’m deleting it; Reddit is only going to get worse from here, and I don’t want to be around to see it. I’m grateful that this mess has driven so many of us to seek out kinder, more thoughtful communities, and I hope said communities can retain their exceptional cultures as the Reddit exodus continues to escalate.

Here’s a link to Cory Doctorow’s article on the ‘enshittification’ of TikTok, which reads as supremely relevant here.

For me, poetry has the greater allure;

My prose is unsure and immature—

I’ve spent more time designing rhymes;

It used to be a hobby of mine!

A few of my favorite poets that come to mind:

Charles Baudelaire

Arthur Rimbaud

Paul Verlaine

Ezra Pound

Gregory Corso

Sappho

Sylvia Plath

Li Bai

Dostoevsky is one of my all-time favorites! The Idiot made me weep the first time I read it.