Happening to me too. I thought it was my VPN.

at best a “Let’s get that mask back on.”

Ugh that’s basically what all my years of being medicated was. I’m never touching a psych drug EVER again.

Fucking waste of electricity

Hexbear users will trash me for it, but honestly who cares what they think.

Yeah it’s not very materialist of me but one must do whatever it takes to not fall into a pit of oblivion.

For the most part, consider me out of the “fight”

Maybe I could be trashed for this too because it’s too idealist or whatever, but part of the fight really is just loving and being loved. The enemy is anti-love, anti-human, anti-life, and anything to counteract that is an act of resistance. To spread love and peace and joy in your life to those around you. With the ‘butterfly effect’, who knows how that could ripple out? Even in the smallest ways it matters on some mysterious cosmic scale. Due to various circumstances of life, like disability for example, we can’t always be the ones fighting on the front lines. All I can do is love wherever I can, so that’s what I’m going to do. I really do believe even the tiniest spark of love matters in the face of the globally-spanning demon god of Capital, whose Trauma Machine attempts to smother us all in a blanket of sorrow.

You’re basically psy opping yourself with the Trauma Machine and it’s breaking you. That’s why you’re thinking this way.

After bearing witness to the countless atrocities of the evil empire and experiencing all that secondhand trauma, you have painted yourself into a corner of Despair.

I think at this point you’ve broken your brain so much that your only option is to get spiritual or something. Focus on love. Even in secular ways, there is something within a revolutionary that gives them hope and strength even after having seen worse things than we have. We have to cultivate that within us. The Trauma Machine is literally designed to break us so we don’t do that. Don’t let them break you with 24/7 atrocities streamed into your optic nerves.

I knew there was something off about that guy. He started putting out videos of gnosticism, and I thought hmm that’s interesting, what’s all that about? Turns out gnosticism believes that the world around us is like some fake projection, called the ‘demiurge’, created by evil entities to make you suffer, and therefore the solution to that is to just go within and ignore the world, turn away and walk away from it, become one with God and ascend. I think that’s sus, like why even incarnate then if you’re supposed to just ignore this? It honestly seems like such a terribly convenient thing to say to people when you’re trying to convince them that it’s pointless to act in the world, to change it, to resist oppression, that the world doesn’t matter and is fake, and you gotta just ignore it. very sus!!

Also his interpretation of game theory like, it makes sense, but it also paints a very dog-eat-dog picture of the world that zero-sum neoliberals love. I don’t know enough to argue against it, but I’m like >:(

love you

I did pick up on that, the way the different voices seem to have different stories. Richard’s is definitely interesting. Start A Fire = limerence, Blood From A Stone = emotional vampire, Sailing Off The End Of The World = avoidance/running away, and 'Til I’m Home makes me wonder if he’s desperately trying to find his way back to that same person he ran away from in the previous song lol 🤔

Quicksand literally made me cry because it’s exactly how I feel when my long distance SO leaves.

“cause I love, love, love, love, love you don’t let go of my hand… don’t go, don’t go, don’t go!!!” 😭😭😭

And yess I love No One On Earth, I wanna fall in love with an alien pls 🥺

It’s funny because I just take it to mean that they’re all about to fall off lol

Ah, of course…

Wow she really got soo defensive even though you weren’t really asking anything of her. That’s an extremely sensitive ego…

my kobo literally just lets me paste files into its storage through my PC

Do you think there will eventually be an ICE-like situation in Canada, too? Or they don’t have the juice for it?

This is clearly AI written. I can’t check the math myself, but it feels true though. I don’t know about the $140,000 number but I do personally know a couple with children who is struggling, and the mother literally can’t work because as soon as she starts working, all her money just goes to paying daycare. So all she would be doing is working to pay to work. It’s pointless. And yet things keep getting more expensive and they are starting to not make it…

I’m also currently in a position where I can’t work, and because of this I receive free healthcare and was able to enter the $0 SAVE plan for my student loans (though that will go away soon). I’m starting to slowly feel better, but I’m afraid once I start working again those benefits disappear and then I’m stuck paying ridiculous amounts for worse healthcare and other BS.

I’m at the point where if I touch my C:\ drive again I’m gonna disconnect the internet before I boot it 🤢

Probably just gonna copy and backup my files and nuke it, yeah

I honestly used to think that way and would have like, John Wick fantasies of justice against evildoers until I realized it was a trauma response to being abused lol. So many traumatized people running around hoping they could be a John Wick.

Dr. K - Streaming Culture Is A Time Bomb

The video is long but this guy is a psychologist who points out that as there is more and more injustice in the world, people are basically projecting their rage onto easy targets. People feel totally powerless to change anything about the people in power, so they direct their anger towards regular people who keep “getting away with it!!!” Like people who park wrong, people who start car accidents, somebody robbing a gas station. They wish for their punishment because they know greedy CEOs and corrupt politicians never will be. They project and displace their anger (36:00) . The Internet is basically a big angry mob now.

There’s also the way the algorithms/dark pattern design/clickbait is perfectly calibrated to activate your strongest emotions. Rage bait, outrage porn. They keep stoking the flames. Then when you’re in a state of anger and rage, you lose access to empathy.

And in general this is on top of a “just world” view where people are good and people are bad and bad people deserve punishment. It’s why prisons are so terrible.

Scientists suggest that balancing spiritual evolution with technological development is crucial for countries to address the human-nature disconnect and foster a better relationship with the natural world.

I keep seeing this pattern pop up again and again and yeah, I feel like that’s the next step. We used to see ghosts around every corner and then became “enlightened”, got high as fuck on science, but it turns out you can’t keep doing that New Atheist cold material void stuff forever. At least, that’s my experience… it eats away at me. I eventually came to believe in a soul, after enough anecdotal evidence from Near Death Experiencers. I’m not going to suddenly start seeing ghosts or anything. Dialectical materialism still stands of course. But the real connectedness comes from understanding… certain things.

I feel like Dr. K from HealthygamerGG has it right. He’s like a total fusion of both sides.

Oceanlab/Above & Beyond are my heart <333333 with some of their lyrics I swear it’s like they read my mind. Not to mention the beautiful voices they keep collecting. Like actual angels I swear to god. Have you heard their latest album, Bigger Than All of Us? Very spiritual meaning.

On Garuda rn, works good