I hear you. It’s hard to escape the anxiety though. It’s not just the news. It’s watching myself be erased as a trans person, losing my health insurance etc.

Paying attention to the news is one way I try to know what’s coming down the pipe.

But yeah, I could use a break.

There are active forums that still exist. The ones I use are centered around my hobbies.

Remembering that Nazis are people too. And that they will bleed when you punch them.

On a more serious note, not a lot right now to be honest.

Remembering to connect with nature I suppose. Breathing through the fear of fascism.

Again, the phone and the service, at least, when I was homeless in 2019, was covered along with other social services such as SNAP and Medicaid.

And again, I completely agree about not handing money out online. Just disagreeing about homeless folks having accessibility to a phone or the internet. And Public libraries or anywhere with wifi (if you have a phone) are other options.

When I was homeless, I had a cell phone. It’s pretty hard to find work without one. And I don’t know if it’s still the case, but at that time if you are on any sort of government assistance you could get a phone paid for.

As it is really difficult to get out of poverty without one.

That sad, I don’t hand out money on lemmy. There are folks in my community I know need help too.

Everything Elon touches

Exactly this. And all or nothing thinking like nobody is innocent. It’s like CBT 101 of stuff to let go of.

They meant an opinion less influenced by the opinion of the surveyor.

They lack empathy for the out group.

And often folks like that don’t really have much empathy for the in group once the masks come off.

Thanks. I looked those words up and now have a better understanding of the difference!

Because children are a status symbol to them. In domination cultures, such as colonial capitalist white supremacist patriarchy, males constantly feel vulnerable because they are always jockeying for position in the hierarchy.

Having lots of kids, such as Elon musk, it’s a sign of his animal virulence. Actually loving the children and raising them, well that is ‘women’s work’.

And the women in those relationships have been conditioned to depend on a benevolent patriarch to protect them from more predatory ones. And even single mothers who have adopted that patriarchal mindset, will attempt to instill it in there children, because it’s what they believe is the nature of the world and how they best believe that they can help their children to survive.

Assuming, that there’s not sadism. Which can certainly come from both the male or the female parent in a patriarchal society.

And I learned most of that from bell hooks. The will to change goes into all of this extensively.

There is a grain of truth in all of that.

It was essentially an IT department under the executive branch, that I don’t think anybody had even been staffed at since September. Trump basically renamed it and gave it a new mission statement.

They picked a department, and converted it into Doge. They did this essentially to bypass congressional approval, because the department was already there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service?wprov=sfla1

We still enjoy using the fireplace, even though our home is heated.

Sounds like Elon is a good candidate for addict camp.

Rhyming words with pitch. I was in 2nd grade. And I wasn’t trying to get away with saying bitch, it’s just a word that my parents used and it popped into my head.

Girl who sat next to me told.

There’s no list.

It’s evolving and folks can make up new ones that suit them whenever they like.

Hexbear has a fairly large list users can choose from. As the admins will add new pronouns for one person if requested.

And yeah, ki is badass. Not human centric and reminds us of our larger family of all life on this rock.

Language is evolving. Especially around pronouns. Might be better to ask what folks favorite new pronouns are.

I like ki. It’s the singular of kin.

https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/an-argument-for-all-new-pronouns-we-are-ki-we-are-kin-d30674618eaf

15 years.

The time between losing my first child and having my second.

An individual can do very little.

Which is why we organize, strike, and practice solidarity, together.

If you want to help, look for left movements in your area. Food Not Bombs for example.

Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom.

Because Hyrule and I got to be both the princess and the hero. Plus being able to summon a royal bed whenever I want to take a nap is nice.