Long time no see!
Weeeeeeelll! I surely haven't been round these parts in a long time. My last post is 4 years ago, there are over a hundred new messages waiting for me - most of them are site announcements, the next most populous category is auto-birthday notices (one person I know, one person I don't and ... oddly, my own birthday but at my age that's probably useful because I do tend to forget).
After that I see there are multiple announcements of comments on my post now deleted - presuming that means people deleted their accounts or dormant accounts were pruned, and, bizarrely, comments left on my posts that I am not authorised to read - someone I previously knew has decided to unknow me?
There was an exciting new terms of service when I logged in, which turns out to be because the site is now located in Russia. Is this a good time to mention that the political situation in my country disgruntles me and I coincidentally have need of a side income? Ha! Of course not. Even if the server is located in Russia my data still has to pass through the US - so I'd just like to re-iterate my loyalty to the great American government (but not to the great orange Satan in the oval office, of course).
So, now that the place is Russian, does that mean a person would be less likely to get kicked for having old fashioned opinions - things like science isn't bad and freedom of speech isn't bad and being a human with a northern complexion isn't bad, and that being a person who identifies as a male but was born without a vagina isn't bad - and who thought it was a good and productive idea to shoe horn people into pigeon holes and call it justice anyway?
I'd best get back to work now. Plenty to do, but since I was in the neighbourhood I thought I'd leave a little something to mark the occasion.