Kimberly O'Connor

Today’s post is about Google, which has renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on its maps for American users and removed Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and Pride Month from its calendars. Its also reducing its DEI efforts.

Two weeks ago, I decided to get off Google, thereby exploding a bomb in my organizational system. I was using Chrome as my primary browser; Gmail as my email; and a couple of years ago I switched all my writing to Google docs. Oh and my teaching with so. Many. Slides.

After some web research (conducted through Safari, haha), I chose Brave as my new browser. I decided to switch back to my very old Yahoo account for email, and subscribe to Microsoft 365 for my writing, which also included getting an Outlook email account.

To transfer the Goole docs to MS, I decided to pay about $16 for VaultMe. The initial process was pretty quick and easy… although two weeks later, I’m just now getting the hang of my new set up.

I have no idea if getting off Google is even that meaningful, but I can say it’s not as difficult as it initially seems to do it.

Now, to get off Amazon… and get one of those stickers for our Tesla, since it’s so old we’ve paid it off and it’s not feasible for us to trade it in right now. Maybe this or this. (I did see a post on Blue Sky where Sheryl Crow donated her Tesla to NPR… nice, Sheryl Crow).

Here’s another poem for you about (among other things) money.