sewn elements for piece in progress “Lost Things, Found Things”

Maybe….we’ll see, eh? I was wasting time on Instagram…..again…..the other day when I came across a Black farmer, Chris from Sylvanaqua Farms, who shared his story about being harassed by racist trolls on Insta. Meta wouldn’t do anything about the gloves-off terrorizing of these trolls, but when Chris defended himself (verbally), telling them to get their asses off of his account if they couldn’t take the truth, essentially, his account was flagged and shut down. This, coupled with Meta’s CEO capitulating to the powers that be to just let fact-checking slide to the wayside made my blood pressure rise.

I remember years ago that my dad told me when his mom bought a used TV in town and brought it home to the farm, she brought it into the house (well, actually those things were heavy as a full-grown hog, so she probably didn’t do it alone) and said, “Well, there it is….it’s like I’ve opened a sewer pipe into the house.” She wasn’t wrong. But she’s more right now than she could have possibly imagined back then.