making "positive" change

[acroyear]

I'd basically realized that since joining FB, my outlet for "one-liners" and trivialities has moved there instead of being here on LJ.  As such, this has become the outlet for Disney links (usually copied to FB), science and computer stuffs, and political rants and links, with the later kinda dominating.  This has also made my journal very negative over the last year, a negativity that has not been able to go away just 'cause "we" won the election.  There are still many things going on, things that I feel urged to share to those who might listen.

But I also know I don't need to share it with everybody who reads me for "me" (my life @ faire, my life @ team wench, my vacations, my geek-i-tude, my hassles in failing to keep the house clean or ever having any free time, my cat and rabbits, my love of disney and dr. who, my love of science, my love of music, or just the fact that we're IRL friends).

Many have opted in this type of situation to create a "politics" filter to allow friends to not subject themselves to such posts when they'd rather not.  However, that has the side effect of requiring that everybody who might read the filter

1. be on LJ
2. be listed by me as a "friend" (or even, someone I read regularly)
   
3. be interested in adding it to things to read

Really, I'd rather just require #3 above.  I don't want to lock out the outside world, nor do i want to feel obligated to having everybody who wants to read also be a journal that I have to see (I certainly don't have time for that during the day).  I merely want to give my real friends a choice to not have to see the often negative or political things that I link to and rant about.

SO, I'm creating a "community" (of one member, but anybody can comment) that I'll use as my outlet for that sort of thing (anti-creationists, politicians abusing their power, liars for Jesus, "compassionate conservatism", and all the ways the current administration is utterly failing to make good on their promises of cleaning up from the LAST administration regarding the bill of rights).  If I feel something posted there deserves a personal link as well, I'll put a one-liner reference to it here and nothing more.

I'll post here when things are ready, so anybody who wants to follow can.  In the meantime, anybody who's read my rants here over the last year and just thought "dude, lighten up" will see a change.  I hope.

Comments

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

Other options exist
1) Use LJ-cut tags "rant on X", "rant on Y"
2) Have a separate single person LJ (e.g. acroyear_politics) for the political ones

Personally, I would vote for number one. It will make it easier for you to back things up (if you are interested in doing so); will keep some continuity; and make it easier for people like me to speed read LJ when we need to.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

I thought about #1, and it is a lot more work, especially with the ease by which deepest-sender assembles the blockquote text that I usually reference. It also doesn't change the statistics and still keeps my blog as mostly negative. Just because the negative is "click here to read" doesn't mean it isn't overbalancing my blog's overall impression.

I thought about #2, and the issue with that is it means having to log out of one blog to post to the other. there's no easy switch in deepest sender (though there is in scribefire), and deepest sender is what i prefer to use to post. i'd rather still say it's me writing it, and i don't feel obligated to back it up as such - I do that through records off the RSS feeds.

I think I'll write up a fake-cut post for anything *really* important (much like d'Glenn does now-a-days, since Lord only knows which of his blogs actually gets a post he makes ;) ), and maybe an end-of-week (actually, thursday would be best) collection of fake-cuts which I can write a tool (using the Java API) to automatically assemble for me.

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

You can also put your one-liners & trivialities here for people who aren't on FB (or don't want to login).

or take a leaf from one of the several people who try to post X good things/Y timeframe.