Generally, I have the great privilege to be left to my own devices. I’m on few enough email lists that it’s rare something comes in that I don’t recognize, and apparently few enough unofficial email lists that I only get true spam… maybe once a month. I can’t remember the last time a spam caller left a voicemail, and I don’t think I get junk mail at all.
On this website, I haven’t emptied my marked-as-spam folder in ages, so I can tell you truly that one 20-item page starts in September of 2018 and covers clear into mid-2024.
…so you can imagine my bafflement last week when I logged on to over two hundred comments, almost certainly all spam – and if not, there are maybe two actual people hidden in there, somewhere. They’ll make up a statistically significant amount of the full sentences. What is this? Why is this? And… no, I don’t think I want an answer. Just suffice it to say that I’ve read enough generic compliments to last the rest of the year, and enough Adult Comic advertisements to be glad I never got this kind of spam when I was a minor. Yeesh.
Happy first major snow of the season, all those who celebrate. It’s a much more beautiful kind of inundation.
