Catching Up with Recent Social Media Threads

I set a goal for the New Year to spend less time on social media and more time here. It's not that I don't want folks to be able to catch up with what's going on with me and Sally, it's that social media writ-large feels like a dying a medium. I've only ever been on social media to promote my own writing and/or to see pictures of my friends doing awesomely fun stuff, but even with that, it's a little too easy to just pontificate mindlessly on those sites. 

Which is dumb. I have a site for that, it's here, and it's actually mine.

So anyway, here are some recent social media posts. I'm posting them here, so that you can catch up if you want to. I've presented these in chronological order.

Upgraded from LinkTree to a Dot Card. Check it out. dot.cards/dannoecabeza

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— Danno E. Cabeza (@dannoecabeza.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM

This next post came last week. While most of the country sat under freezing, blizzardy conditions, the Northeast had seasonal cold, accompanied by high winds. I rode my regular bike commute and skied in those conditions... twice!

Not an ace cycling day in any way. I did not dig it. #BikeCommute #BikeNYC

— Danno E. Cabeza (@dannoecabeza.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM

Hannah took this next picture out at Ski Butternut. We had a great day despite it being windy enough that the main lift spent most of the day on Wind Hold. 

This selfie is awesome.

Solid day today. Windy but pretty damned good overall.

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— Danno E. Cabeza (@dannoecabeza.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM

Selfie with Zop ('96) up at Okemo under the same conditions. But an AWESOME ski day nonetheless.

Day Two. Different buddy. Different mountain.

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— Danno E. Cabeza (@dannoecabeza.bsky.social) January 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM

This one came earlier this week. Temps have moderated, but more to the point, it's MUCH less windy. 

Decently day on the bike this morning, especially compared to last week’s frozen wind storm. Felt good out there. #BikeCommute #BikeNYC

— Danno E. Cabeza (@dannoecabeza.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM

Finally, there's this: 

Google has correctly intuited that I am an older guy who’s way into fitness. They then used this data to push an endless stream of quack fitness “hacks” into my YouTube feed. How does this make sense? Don’t you push quack fitness hacks on folks who *don’t* know anything about fitness?

— Danno E. Cabeza (@dannoecabeza.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM

Folks who actually *know* fitness should know better, right? Like, I’m not mad that Insta shows me an endless stream of ski gear. I like skiing & frequently price stuff that’s on sale just to get a sense of the market. But “Try this hack to lose your belly fat”? Really? I swim 10 miles/week.

— Danno E. Cabeza (@dannoecabeza.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM

I’ve started blocking these ads just because they’re so annoying. But I legitimately think there’s an endless supply of them.

— Danno E. Cabeza (@dannoecabeza.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM

If you're wondering, Google has since stopped showing me these ads. So... yay?

Three cheers for cookie tracking, I guess.