Herons are some of my favorite birds. If you come here often you'll understand that most birds are some of my favorite birds.

This is another photo I took on the amazing Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive.

When you watch herons you really see the connection to dinosaurs. I'd hate to be a frog, lizard, or fish when these guys are coming along with their giant, stabby face knives.

If you'd like a copy of this photo on a print, coffe mug, or some weird options like shower curtains, you can find them at my Pixels.com shop.

2022 was a year of distrust.

Everyone distrusts “the other party”. No one trusts the government or the media.

Crypto was revealed for the scam it so obviously was.

Elon Musk bought Twitter and ravaged it. Or saved it, depending on your political leanings.

Facebook, I mean Meta, Faceplanted with the Metaverse. A name they stole from Neal Stephenson without credit, by the way.

ChatGPT taught us that AI can write extremely convincing gibberish almost instantly.

So what are we to do?

Bring Back Blogging!

One initiative is to bring back blogging and RSS Feed Readers.

It is truly frightening how easily our opinions can be swayed by the algorithms of social media sites that are geared not to inform us or entertain us, but to engage us so we will continue consuming their ads. The more we argue and fight, the more we refuse to stop scrolling and thereby consuming their ads.

So how about we go back to algotrithm free browsing? Back to a time when WE chose who we wanted to hear from and what we wanted to read.

The Bring Back Blogging website is encouraging people to do just that. They are asking for bloggers to commit to publishing three posts in January 2023.

I've submitted both this site, Galactic Beacon, and my other site jeffa.tech.

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