I'm sharing a piece I made a few years ago.

Without the Steemit Chop:

Have others had trouble getting onto Steemit?

I only noticed yesterday later in the day. I normally am only online in the morning. I work on artwork, post things and try to respond and read others posts. However:

Then I Unplug for the remainder of the day.

I just need to, as online life can be not only a time stealer, but can make one feel 'odd'. Feelings of covetousness or the Fear Of Missing Out etc. All of that, which IS built into the system, is just not my bag, so I unplug.

Of course later in the day I like to check in

and yesterday I found I could not access Steemit. I often enjoy my morning coffee over Steemit and saw I it was down still then. Then I read that Facebook and Instagram etc were down a lot for people. What can one do?

It made me realize even more how reliant we all are on the Internet.

I think what most scared me was when I looked up if Steemit was down I saw that you can see who hosts Steemit. When I followed that link it told me Amazon.

So, then I looked that up and I realized HOW much Amazon does host.

I knew they were our new overlords, but heavens I didn't know they HOSTED most of the internet. I suppose we are in the new feudal times in a way.

This sadly sort of put me off my normal morning routine.

And here I spent time online looking up things rather than being able to read and comment on all of you and also found it harder to consider getting to work on some artwork today. It sort of upset the apple cart, as they say.

Thus, sharing this older piece seems safer.

As I'm not even sure, when I am done typing this, if it will be able to be posted or read by anyone.

This piece sort of seems apropos as well

as we are all sort of like fish in a bowl or an aquarium. We are all on display and easily seen by those who 'feed us' and 'keep us alive'. I hope you day is good and that you can visit your online bits of your life.

If you like this piece it is for sale, guess where? You got it, online...Here is the link if you are interested I kind of like it on the phone:

One must be mercantile whilst the market still is open, eh?

If you feel so inclined please upvote, resteem, and by all means leave a comment.

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