The sheer number of people who try to gaslight folks who say rational things like “I don’t like certain things about this city and want to move somewhere else” by telling them they’re imagining it is astounding.

— ✨Yael Grauer✨ (@yaelwrites) April 27, 2018

Yes. The “wherever you go, there you are” philosophy only extends so far. When I decided to leave North Florida and never come back, people tried to gaslight me the very same way. “Oh, things are just the same everywhere. This is where you belong.” Or, “If you hate it here, the problem is with your attitude.”

No. Just no. I hated North Florida because it was terrible and toxic to me. Several people there literally tried to kill me. If I would’ve stayed there, I’d most likely be dead. I never would’ve been CTO of anything. Maybe CTO of a prison cell. The best — by far the very best — decision I ever made in my life was leaving Lake City, Florida. Bar none, no contest.

Gaslighting gobermouches can stay wherever they wish to. I, however, will choose what’s best for me and head out for somewhere that I can enjoy a life not punctuated by random stabbing attempts and the like.

This is how many queries are blocked even after extensive ad-blocking on local machines in our home network. This is using Pi-Hole.

Why yes, we do have 15 clients on a network for only two people. Actually, a lot more than that. Many are just locked down from leaving the local network, so never make DNS requests. I’m completely not joking about our home having a more complex infrastructure than some small- and medium-sized companies. Anyway, here’s the Pi-Hole blocking stats: