Had to write a quick blog post about how to keep up hope and not to give into misery and doom and gloom. #blog #slowliving #resistance
Do not despair
Quick notes on how not to lose hope and how to keep going
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Mervi Eskelinen
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Do not despair, do not surrender. Have hope and keep caring.
Mr. Spock 🖖@spockresists.bsky.social · 8h agoI saw this post and wanted to address it. If you look at social media today, you’ll see good, empathetic people admitting they are losing hope. They look at climate change, rising authoritarianism, and corporate greed and feel entirely powerless. If you feel this way, I want
Media tekee parhaillaan Vasemmistolle parasta vaalityötä ikinä yrittäessään paniikissa estää Minja Koskelan johtaman puolueen suosion nousun. Koska mikään ei ole niin varma merkki siitä, että Vasemmistoa kannattaa äänestää kun yht'äkkinen median vero- ja velkapaniiki.
Today’s politics (and other decisions) are heavily based on hatred and bitterness. It bothers me a lot and I want to change it somehow.
Started reading Slow Horses by Mick Herron. Yes, one of the books adapted as the series. Very different kind of writing from the books I’ve been reading lately. The streak goes on.
Just finished reading Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid. Very entertaining, laughed often, teared up a bit. Lots of the stuff on the series had been taken pretty straight from the book. Reading streak goes on!
Bluesky has added automatic n/n on threaded posts. If you reply your own post it marks the first 1/2 and the reply 2/2. And so forth.
People need to start making personal websites again. Here’s some inspiration:
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A curated directory of personal websites from around the world. Discover unique portfolios, blogs, and creative spaces.
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This week I’ve felt pretty drained every day. Now it feels like a headache/migraine coming.
Eikö ole oikeastaan vähän röyhkeää ajatella niin, että jos MINÄ en onnistunut pelastamaan maailmaa ilmastonmuutokselta niin ei kukaan muukaan varmasti onnistu koska ihmiset ovat niin perseestä? Voi olla, että tulevaisuuden ihmiset ovat parempia pelastamaan maailman.
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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If everyone just quit their jobs at the same time I reckon we could all get away with it x
People really don’t like it when you point out the mistakes in their llm ai generated images and other slop.
Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made
re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly
Colin McMillen@mcmillen.dev · last wk.[taps the sign] According to USGS GNIS "Per Secretarial Order 3453, Lake Ontario has been renamed to Lake America. The basemaps for GNIS are in the process of being updated." So Google (& Apple, OpenStreetMap, & everyone else who ingests GNIS) will start calling it Lake America within a few weeks.
Now reading Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid. The second book in the series. Read the first one months ago. And yes, I’ve seen the (first season of the) show.
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Hello Art Friend, This year has been running on a pace of a sprinter. Or maybe it's just how it feels. For younger people it goes on a very
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Finished In Too Deep by Lee and Andrew Child. This sets my Reacher novel reading on a hiatus. I reserved the next book, Exit Strategy, in the library. But it’ll take a while before it arrives. So I’ll continue the reading streak with something else.
NYC/Northeast USA- 2 kitties looking for a home after losing their human! See thread for more info
Shecky@shecky.bsky.social · last wk.Y'all. I know you're tired of my running on about this, and I *want* to give you a break over the weekend, but I CAN'T fail these cats. They need a HOME. They're affectionate, relaxed and in decent health, and their issues are MINOR and EASILY MANAGEABLE. All we need is to find That Person.
The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.
Paremmissa uutisissa: pieni tolkun säde Naloksoni pelastaa henkiä. Siksi sen pitäisi olla kaikkien potentiaalisten tarvitsijoiden saatavilla helposti, ilmaiseksi ja nimettömästi. yle.fi/a/74-20243160
Kymenlaakson hyvinvointialue alkaa jakaa opioidien käyttäjille nenäsuihkeita, jotka estävät yliannostuskuoleman
Kymenlaakson hyvinvointialue alkaa jakaa yliannostusten ehkäisyyn tarkoitettua naloksoni-nenäsumutetta maksutta.
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