busy at work as usual. anyways go to your local protest and join your local political organization
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I’m feeling a lot of energy drain from US politics and news, as well as teaching my class. I started teaching night classes the semester before COVID-19 hit, and summers aside, I haven’t taken a break since. I have a full time day job, so that’s no joke. I finally prioritized myself and rescheduled my trip to Japan, which I was supposed to leave for the week everyone got sent home. It meant taking a semester off though this fall. It’s the right decision, but I’m basically just trying to survive the semester at this point. My day job has a lot going on too.
Just gotta be patient with myself, get rest, hopefully get some exercise after that rest, and wrest myself out of this energy hole I’ve dug myself into. I am proud of myself for keeping the kitchen clean, and did a deep clean and vacuum of the living room yesterday. It feels much nicer in here now. :)
Trying to balance gathering online resources and personal stuff. Working on being a more positive influence in discussions I have online, which is draining.
I was referred to read the book “They Thought They Were Free” by one of the bees here and it’s great. I have a copy of it on document and my library has the audiobook version. I am studying Spanish and sometimes I think I’m such a hack at it but today’s lesson with my sweetheart Argentinian teacher made me feel like I’m making progress. Some dickwad at a karaoke bday party gave me covid last week. Today is the first day of being covid negative. Paxlovid sucks, though. I finished building an RSS for myself so I can pick the good newsources and let the shitty ones be. I also finished studying pixelfed and cherry pick last week. Old friends are reaching out to me because the state of this country (the US) is scaring the shit out of everyone and they are coming to me to teach them about decentralized socials and because I worked as a human rights journalist/analyst for over a decade.* I guess they find comfort in talking to me. I donated money to archive.today and uhhh sh.itjust.works. Will donate to beehaw. My cherry pick instance is worried about being hosted here in the US and I told the mod I’ll try and help them figure out a move. So any thoughts on that would be great.
I finished building an RSS for myself so I can pick the good newsources and let the shitty ones be.
This is such a, well, simple thing people seem to have forgotten still exists. Pair it with Firefox, uBO and NoScript, and it’s like reading a paper from 20 years ago, except just shit you might be interested in.
Exactly. And even if there isn’t an RSS available some of the paid RSS servers will webscrape for you. I have been building my own webscraping code but it works. I just decided I need to put some distance between myself and the abusive way we are presented news these days.
Congratulations for discovering the reason I’m here. News has become a toxic space I felt a need to fix somewhere … it’s the First Amendment, and everyone’s worried about guns. And let’s not get started on the 14th.
I don’t remember a single thing I did this week. Work and bite my nails, I guess.
I was gonna say I’ve never even heard of a local protest but I actually found one through Lemmy. There’s a single post buried in the subreddit naming the organizer and it’s a suspended account. I’ve seen three or four different start times and two different addresses. It’s at the capital building, how many of those do they think we have?
Is this how it’s normally done? Is this worth losing my job for? I don’t want to be a coward but I don’t want to lose my home and have it turn out this was a prank.
Paint your nails so you’ll stop biting them 💅 (worked for me anyway)
Pick and choose your battles, love. This is a long road. You don’t have to physically be present for every battle.
Well, I certainly learned some humility.
You did great. Your intention was in the right place.
