Thread by @AlexandraErin

Hey, if I can be breathtakingly real?

I am not doing well, personally. First holiday season without my mother.

Last year I took December off social media due to burnout and I am thinking of taking a couple weeks off as a break, focusing on my newsletter but ignoring Twitter.

Doing so is going to nuke my income from orbit, but as long as I'm being real: I've been so scattered lately that my income is well down from its normal levels anyway. I think better to seek a clean reset and come back strong than try to limp along.

If you want to help out and keep up with me until I'm back, you can buy a subscription to my newsletter. You can also get a free one. Both help me in different ways.

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I didn't plan this but looking at the calendar... it's the 10th today, two weeks from now is Christmas Eve so I think I'm going to just say I'm off Twitter, after this mini-thread, until December 26th.

I'll still crosspost newsletter posts, as I don't have to open Twitter.

If you want to help me get through December when my visibility and output are way down, feel free to drop a tip or holiday bonus or gift or whatever you want to call it here.

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I feel very conflicted about doing this right now, at this point in history, but I'm not bearing effective witness now and I feel like if I pull back and re-center myself I might do a better job of it.

If anybody would prefer a more traditional gift as a gesture, I do have a wishlist. It might be 90% scarves, I haven't updated it much lately.

Or go donate books to classrooms and incarcerated people, which I try to do on Saint Nicholas Day most years.

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Anyway. I'll be back on Twitter in a bit over two weeks.

Love thy neighbor, be excellent to one another, and there's still just one rule I know about, babies: GOD DAMMIT, you have go to be kind.

Four days into my Twitter hiatus and with more bad news having arrived, I'm thinking about what skills I want to learn from it and one thing I've hit on is discipline and moderation.

With that in mind, I will be making up to one tweet per day, as that's harder than not tweeting.