don’t google tummysticks lol

I was a bit heated before, but you’re right it wasn’t bad in the beginning. But for myself, I ended up using it too much, to the point where I essentially planned out my weekends so I had things to post.

I guess you could say it was some ego-driven nonsense that motivated me to always be online and always having something new and fresh to show and always one upping myself to be bigger and better and bolder photos. But all of that burned me out. And in the end it was all so superficial 90% of the time.

Truthfully, eventually at some point, it just became depressing scrolling endlessly and seeing the best photos any photographer could want. It was just too much. That’s not entirely Insta’s fault, but also on me for not setting any limits or boundaries. But since uninstalling, my mental health went up noticeably quickly and I never looked back to use it because it serves no need for me.

Fuck Insta. Garbage predatory app that depresses the fuck outta me. Why the fuck would I want an open source version of that? I don’t need social media that badly, I’ll survive just fine without it. Too many people perceive and live their lives through social media and doing it for the gram. Fuck that noise.

bruv, he was merely making a joke lol

I’ve been consuming the news daily since 2015 with a heavy focus on politics as well as history for additional context. It’s been a rough decade and I can acknowledge that it has always took a toll on my mental health in the past, but the last year it has felt worse.

Ever since Project 2025 and the November 2024 election, something inside me just changed or snapped or broke maybe. A substantial shift I felt for months, not just mere hours or days. A desire to give up. A need to stop. A hopeless feeling of is anything even worth it anymore?

This was a state of a few things for me looking back reflectively, I can see the cause and effect within myself with a lot clearer eyes than before.

I still read the news daily, even at the toll of my mental health because I can’t hide or run or deny what is objectively happening in reality. I can’t let myself ignore people getting kidnapped, deported, shot and killed by “cops”, the dismantlement of rights we’ve had for over a century, I just can’t, nor I won’t blind my eyes to what’s happening.

I did take a news break for a few months and it did vastly help my mental health, but it slowly took time to feel better. I am better now, but it’s still very far from ideal. I take regular news breaks. I stray away from over-dramatic or sensationalized news bites than end up just being a twitter screenshot with nothing substanclian or proven, just noise. I rely on solid, proven independent journalists and outlet that aren’t all backed by billionaires.

I’m talking about ProPublica, Mediapart, The Texas Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 404 Media, and plenty of others I’ve got bookmarked as well as a few Podcasts, but those are left leaning for the most part because reality has a liberal basis.

I will say one thing that’s truly help. Whenever you’re reading the latest headlines, just ask yourself this: is this news or is this noise?

Didn’t expect to see a Robocop meme today, but I’m all about it!

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“I suspect that we all will start wearing full face masks again.”

Maybe to terminally online people, but for a majority of people, masks aren’t going back up. The US population as a whole isn’t going to do significantly anything.

annnnnnnd that’s enough lemmy for the day

I watched Ferngully for the first time again in likw 20 years maybe. Movie still holds up exactly like I remember and now I can’t stop singing like Tim Curry mmmm Poison slime, toxic slug mmm that’s what I love mmmm. Tim Curry is the mutha fuckin man!

But but Phoronix just told me yesterday that Linux users went dramatically down on Steam from 3% to 2.99%! Almost like this weekly/monthly claim of Linux users “crossing” another imaginary threshold line hold as much value as this comment /s

Learned nothing? They learned he was vastly profitable to their mega news corps masquerading as “news” sources by billionaires.

Mm knowing that makes me never want to go anywhere near OnlyOffice now, oof.

I’m a a solid blue state and the general consensus is no one even cares anymore.

Also in a way it’s not made our jobs easier. It’s difficult to argue cutting “defense” funds, but it’s a lot easier to be against a “war” department.

I think you underestimate how much damage this regime is creating. All the programs gutted and shuttered (so far) might not even come back, it’s not as simple as turning something off and on again. Some crucial programs we’ve got taken away are already lost. And the damage being done in just the first year is still only the start. Everything from Projeckt 2025 is still being actively done. Remember when P2025 was mentioned everywhere? Now it’s crickets, because it’s nearly game over for at least a generation. It’s good to remain hopeful in difficult times, but be very wary that it’s going to get a lot darker when this regime feels the walls closing in. There will be bloodshed and it will be an ugly mark on our history.

what movie is this from? I feel like I’ve seen it before many, many years ago.

I’ll never go back to getting my ears YANKED by the headphones cord while walking around the house. I’ll take a little 1-2 sec beep beep over physically traumatizing me ears any day.

I’ll believe it when I see it. Everything right now is just a giant distraction from The You Know What PDF Files

Wasn’t this just everyone’s normal experience growing up? Or do I need to do an ADHD test or something?