Guest Checks

I have decided to stop posting these doodles on Instagram for a few reasons. One happens to be their terms of use:

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-Instagram Terms of Use, "Permissions You Give to Us"

And the other reasons mostly stem from wasting time, doom scrolling, terrible cocktail photos, worse cocktail recipes, ads, the fact that it's not winter anymore and I would rather be outside doing real stuff, and I just don’t like the whole rigmarole of posting/hashtags/spam/etc.

I’ll put my doodles here in batches every week or so, and that way they are easier to keep up with and digest. So for now, let's just pretend that Instagram is a bar I used to drink at a lot, but then they stopped carrying my favorite gin, and now I only stop in from time to time if I’m in that part of town, and everywhere else is closed.