The key is to detach yourself from dependency upon governments so you can live your life in peace as they collapse around you and their dependents perish.
This is brilliant and needs to be the motto of a new, real news channel. Like...
"Bluesky News, the balance between staying informed and going insane."
Ive been struggling with this balance since the 90s! The older I get the worse it gets because Republicon voters I know really are horrible people who only give a shit about themselves. No amount of staying informed or being honest matters to them! This has bothered me more than anything in my life.
Yes. It’s bad. I went to bed at 9 last night and spent hours trying to breathe and tell my body to calm down until midnight when I gave up and took a muscle relaxer just to knock my ass out. I’ve barely been on, just a few minutes here and there before it’s unbearable and I try to distract myself.
Gawd, yes! I turned on the news for a wee second to catch up on the aviation disaster. Mid report, they suddenly went to the felon. I about broke my leg getting to the remote to cut him off!
Observe, don't absorb. I do a little mental exercise. Every time the rage or sadness wells up, I remember that it is energy. I imagine rolling that energy into a ball, transmuting it, & flinging it back out either to aid others or crack the protective shells around Trump/Elon etc. It's therapeutic.
No, I've given up on being informed. I can't be an expert on everything. Solidarity with the disenfranchised. Follow the science. Down with capitalism. I need to prioritize my mental health and what I can do in my community.
I'm with you. I m getting too old for this!!! The feeling of helplessness and anger at the same time is aging me at a much faster rate than I would like. It's 10x worse this time around .
I have to take periodic breaks from information binging to ram my head into an anvil Looney Tunes Coyote-style. I am hoping for a comfortable spot somewhere between omniscience & full frontal lobotomy. Wish me luck, I gotta get ready to facesmash that metal thing again...🤤
It’s horrible. I want to be informed but I can’t deal with the news that I’m reading. It’s just one bad thing after another without any signs of improvement. It just keeps getting worse. It’s not a surprise, since Project 2025 clearly stated what the plan was, but it’s still a gut punch.
If everyone takes up a cause or two and pours themselves into it, we can divide and conquer them the way they have us. It also protects our mental health from being bombarded by the chaos.
And fighting their boomer parents to give a shit and recognize the Nazis in the white house? It’s like ripping back the curtain and pointing at the wizard in Oz but they fake blindness and only see the giant green head in the sky. 🤦♀️
most fuck’n certainly. My adult life was dedicated as a civil servant. I feel just as invested emotionally to my colleagues as the need to protect my family.
It's exactly what they want. Create chaos, we become overloaded with trauma and compassion fatigue and give up. Then when they offer us a stale crumb of bread, we get giddy and thank them. We can not give up or walk away. It is exactly their plan. Do what you need to do to rest and then fight.
I cannot hear his voice and I cannot listen to any more sane-washing. Ah but for the FOMO, I listen to podcasts. They deliver the highlights and they’re not compromised. Check out The Bulwark and Pod Save America ☮️
What passes for sanity is overrated, as it seems to involve the embrace of lies or at least coping through ignoring reality. I think the concept is flawed, and the pursuit thereof is pure folly
I cut out cable news after the election except Maddow and Lawrence. I follow enough well-informed ppl I get enough info to be informed without being on edge all the time. But it's hard.🫣
"If you don't read the news, you're uniformed. If you do read the news, you're misinformed."
I'd much rather live life accepting that there are things I will never know and are beyond my control, than let the clouds a thousand miles away block my sunny day.
Yeaaaaah, I kinda wanna delete my social media accounts because I'm tired of all the fear mongering and panic (not that there aren't concerning things happening) BUT social media is also where I get information that's not censored or manipulated. I also like getting my news through memes.
I've deleted all social media apps other than this one. And I'm still spiraling daily. At least with this one i know I'm more likely to get real information that is worth spiraling about 😅😭
Yes. I pull back when I see something crazy then come back at a later time when I'm more emotionally present (can be a few hours to a few days). If it's a few days then that's better bc the news (should) have stabilized on that topic by then.
Yes...ooo...me!...me! I'm right on the edge. Is there a cure that? Or...is there an App for that? Or...how much wine would it take to postpone it...say, by next week? (I've got driver's ed tomorrow.)
Yes. I deleted my meta stuff but the urge to still google is tough. It’s a fine balance of “set a timer” and reading a headline that immediately makes me want to vomit. Nobody said this would be our world when we were kids. It’s a wild time to be in existence.
I feel like my doomscrolling is some weird form of being a modern sin eater for the people who can't look.
Like really, a few friends in our little circle can't stomach the news lately but know it's important. They ask me what I've heard & I regretfully respond- do you really want to know?
I'm with you. Honestly felt like I was having a heart attack Tuesday I was so flipped out. I stopped all MSM, FB. Just this sane place, and some Meidas Touch videos. Waiting for the great reckoning where we overthrow maga.
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It finds a level
"Bluesky News, the balance between staying informed and going insane."
And then I wonder if that’s what the people in Germany did.
After he was sworn in I felt depressed.
Now I’m furious.
Decompress and come back if and when you're ready.
BlueSky does.....but DOESNT REALLY have an algorithm:
That’s not an AIRPLANE! quote, I really mean that.
🐾💙🤷🏻♀️
Thank you.
Rising fascism, climate change, bad AI outcomes, existential fear of societal collapse, pandemics?
1 more and we can roll a dice :)
*okay more incoherently than usual
Decompress and come back if and when you're ready.
BlueSky does.....but DOESNT REALLY have an algorithm:
I'm on literacy and reproductive justice.
What are y'all gonna focus on.
Much already.
Decompress and come back if and when you're ready.
BlueSky does.....but DOESNT REALLY have an algorithm:
Fuck Trump, his cronies and his minions.
I'd much rather live life accepting that there are things I will never know and are beyond my control, than let the clouds a thousand miles away block my sunny day.
These next four years will definitely lower the average American life expectancy from stress alone
I won't let them overwhelm me like last time
Like really, a few friends in our little circle can't stomach the news lately but know it's important. They ask me what I've heard & I regretfully respond- do you really want to know?