I was just thinking about this yesterday as I continued my strike of not watching any corporate media & briefly reading headlines. I’m getting some news through Meidas Touch & educated bloggers, but I feel…free! 💙✊🏽
I've made myself Lists here.. put all the information accounts into one list .. real people who interact with me into another etc.. that way I can check in and doomscroll and stay informed.. and yet also check out and have normal interactions to keep sane!
Today was a doomscroll day 😱
"There no point driving yourself mad trying to stay sane. You might as well go mad now and preserve the little bit of sanity for when you really need it"
Douglas Adams
It honestly hurts, I actively am like trying to avoid staying on top of topics that I would have previously cared a lot about just because I know the outcomes and information is going to be mentally exhausting and completely out of my control....
Sometimes I just wonder how many people go on being unaware or unfazed with what is happening.
Are we being too cynical? Sometimes it feels like a good majority just believe, I have a good job, my 401 account, can afford my luxuries, what can go wrong?🫤😕
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I just can't repeat my fear and anxiety over this new trump presidency. The last time I doom scrolled and binged MSNBC. This time I am protecting my mental health. The stupid people who voted for him will live with the consequences.
I can recall all the dooms day predictions I heard when Clinton, Bush, and Obama were running and became Presidents.
I can also recall how bad Trump was going to be during his first term.
People should fear that people will recall all the rhetoric and question the rhetoric from future campaigns.
Substitute “perpetually” in place of “currently” and you’ll have it about right. And cutting back on doom-scrolling isn’t an answer … that’s like an alcoholic telling you at Christmastime, ‘I’ve cut down to three bottles of Black Velvet a week.”
It feels like we’ve reached this point way too quickly, and our minds haven’t had time to adapt to the 24/7 availability of the world’s worst news in real-time. At the same time, not paying attention feels like ignoring bad things happening right in front of me, leaving me with a moral hangover.
This is exactly how I feel. I believe in knowing what the other side is up to. How can we defend ourselves if we stick our heads in the sand. However, listening to Trump or Musk makes me nauseous.
I get all my information about what's happening from memes nowadays. I don't read or watch news at all. Highly recommended, if something is not memeworthy I don't need to know about it.
Yes! I’ve always thought it was the responsibility of an adult member of a democracy to stay well informed but these days I do feel you need to balance that against not running screaming into the distance
To ignore the current situation is to empower those who seek to undermine our democracy. Now is the moment to engage, sharpen our communication skills, and uplift emerging Democratic leaders. United, we can amplify our voices and face adversity with strength.
Oh. My. God. Yes. I used to scroll the news daily. Now I try to keep it away till the weekends.. I recently started reading more books though so at least there was a positive outcome, at least for now!
I'd really like to see comics posted with their original signature so that the creators can get credit for their work. If possible, a link to them would be awesome.
Tech bros promised utopia for all instead we were all left jobless and redundant and institutions were all undermined. Emotions and hate grease the wheels of FB and X. It's imperative we boycott Amazon, Google, x, tesla and everything automated unless they treat us with dignity & compassion. #USToo
I've turned to BBC. CNN sanewashed everything and has no outrage for what they see. BBC is at least unbiased even if it cares much less about us. Focusing on the rest of the world instead of the USA might be beneficial to my mental health at this point🥴
Yes. I wish I was wealthy like the assholes ruining the country from this next administration because I would take a U.S. sabbatical for my sanity. Sadly only the rich will now be able to do that
no. U no longer live in an isolated tribe of 40 ppl fighting for resources against the other 40 ppl tribe - u now know of the plight of fellow humans across the world. U dont get to only be concerned with your clan alone. Your clan is now every1. U know bout their suffering and do nothing
Yeah, I’m getting the highlights from the comedians and otherwise staying out of it. Not my circus. I’ll catch up on the historicity of it all when the movies come out and the ptsd has had a chance to wear off.
President Biden must declare an emergency and arrest Trump for the Insurrection on I suggest Jan 6th, 2025 in order to save America and our world from a Devil named Trump.
This sums it up perfectly. I want to stay active and engaged, but want less and less to do with the corporate media and their sane-splaining and “analysis”. That’s how we got into this mess.
Yup. I need to know how bad it's getting around the world, but... I also want to be able to sleep at night. So... It's a balance between reading up and then going to watch My Neighbor Totoro for the 7,000th time. XD
Me since the week before the election. I finally gave up on it a week after the Election to retain my sanity. I have to allow space for some ignorance.
Music on the car radio instead of news, for me. I feel so guilty. But I want to live to fight another day. But I want info about what to fight and ammo for fighting it. It’s tricky!
So true. I have been unable and unwilling to watch the news since the day after the election. I’m sadly uninformed but still sane. I just can’t see the face or hear the voice. 🙁
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Today was a doomscroll day 😱
Life's been so much more fun ever since. 😄
Douglas Adams
Are we being too cynical? Sometimes it feels like a good majority just believe, I have a good job, my 401 account, can afford my luxuries, what can go wrong?🫤😕
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Ignorance is Bliss!
I can also recall how bad Trump was going to be during his first term.
People should fear that people will recall all the rhetoric and question the rhetoric from future campaigns.
I have and I think that is worse.
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The politicians will agree on
building back better bombs
as
Earth is burning
The jet set is set on destruction
The kids will know who had
Private jets and or frequent flier miles
Please
Study global warming at EcoShock.Org
6 billion people never fly
Greta is right
I’ve obtained the madman’s knowledge
Love triumphs hate. At times, the loving gets sorely bruised in the battle.
Knowledge is power, after all
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-to-stay-sane-as-a-cartoonist-in-trumpland
My tiny local news paper is enough right now.
Music App
Navigation App
Weather App
#planettitanic #humanextinction #societalcollapse
Bye now. (Wubwubwubwubwub)
Alas, woman in pink who had faith in humanity in 2017 does not reflect the sad, exhausted woman I am today
Will I find the strength of character to persist?
That is the question
yes that’s very much how I’m feeling.