Well, I have woken up to Cohost not being a thing any more

We have known this was coming for like three weeks. Cynical people suspected it would eventually happen for a while. It has only fully properly hit me now that it has happened.

I feel empty and lonely. Cohost was the button where I click it on my phone and I see all my friends. I had to remove the button from my phone now, because otherwise I just click it and make myself sad. I've replaced it with an RSS reader, and that's extremely not the same.

I find myself looking at bluesky and mastodon more. There's some former cohost friends there. I don't really like feeling split between two sites. Is it bad/annoying to crosspost my thoughts between the two sites?

I ran this blog for like 6 months or something before I started chosting. I guess it's now where I make the long posts. Except for when they go in zines.

Thinking of zines, here's a drawing from my next one.

This was kinda an attempt to capture how I feel. I'm not a very good artist but idk. I'm using the cohost colour palette for the next zine.

I really hope people are seeing this. I don't have likes or comments on this blog, I've run wordpress in the past and hated the maintenance efforts required to keep it working so this is more static and I think these days technically having comments means I have to worry about data collection and all that shit so fuck that. I still want to hear from you if you're reading this - if it's from a post on a social media platform by all means reply to that but otherwise you are absolutely welcome to email me! My email is millennium at milliesquilly dot com and there is an honest-to-god mailto link up in that site menu so please drop me a line, I promise I'll read it and reply and we can exchange some nice hellos at least.