It’s also why I no longer buy it. It’s a PITA to eat.

Tusky for client. Lots of good medium sized instances (avoid mastodon.social). I’m on mas.to for a general account and mastodon.scot for a local one (both reliable, run by the same person).

Not every country has elections either.

Largely new friends. Interestingly those who had children later seemed to cope better with the balancing act between parenthood and socialising.

Now in my sixties and still CF. In my thirties the only real down side was the loss (largely) of friends who had chosen to have children so could now no longer come out to play.

But life was good, on the whole.

And still is.