I am something of a steemit flake. I try to post, do a few comments, stay a little active but I admit it, my heart is just not in it these days. It is not just steemit, I am sick, sick, sick of knowing that every keystroke is recorded and fed into a giant googlemind AI humanity devouring fustercluck of surveillance. It galls me to know my hard earned money is stolen by government goons and then spent on tracking my every thought and move, partly so they can figure out how to sell more shit to me but mostly so they can figure out how to control me. It kinda takes the fun out of the whole "internet experience" for me any more.
When I started on steemit I could not figure out what to do, so I started entering contests. I still think the people sponsoring contests are doing more to help minnows get rolling than all the discord groups combined. The contests are HERE, on steemit, discord is over there... Some of us are overwhelmed enough by steemit, discord is just too much to digest, at least in the learning phase. Contests help generate ideas for posts, they help you meet a few steemians, they put a little crypto in your wallet. What is not to love?
Today, I came on to read through my feed. I posted yesterday, something that was pretty hard to write and then one person read it, it got a few autovotes, and now it is off to the dustbin of steemit obscurity. So it goes. Still, I did not really feel like posting again today. But I saw in my feed that there was a new contest. one started by an "old friend" - someone who was doing contests back when I was a total newbie, someone who is still at it. And the contest gave me an excuse to post some fun photos that I took last year. The theme is "Disturbing Sculpture" photos. I can do that!
You will have to go here to see my entries and to enter the contest yourself if you have some creepy sculpture photos to share! You may enter two photos, so of course there were three that I could not choose between. I did a roll of the dice, and posted two of them in the contest comments. This was the one that did not make the cut:
From the New Orleans outdoor sculpture exhibit at the Art Museum in the City Park, photo taken with whatever cell phone I had back then... lol! It is a very interesting piece, I think. What does it make you think of?
I would name it "I'm From The Government, I'm Here To Help."
THANK YOU to "The Old Dog" (@kus-knee) for this great contest, and for YEARS of great contests on steemit!