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Hey, if you're ever feeling awful because you're super overwhelmed by the news, too overwhelmed to do anything, but you feel like you can't stop without being a horrible person who's just sticking their head in the sand...

Try thinking of it this way:

Maybe the moral thing to do actually IS to never look at the news...

so that you have the energy and will and lack of huge, petrifying fear needed to help

We've seen over and over again, especially in the climate movement, how often it's small, local efforts at making a difference that really start to change things

There's no moral value to being burned out and depressed.

Yes, knowing what's going on in your state/country/the world is good if it's something you can actually sustain

But if you have to choose between following the news/doomscrolling/etc. and actually having the energy to help?

I think that in the vast majority of situations, morally, you SHOULD choose to do something to help

Showing up to your city council meetings, or cleaning up trash in your neighborhood, or volunteering at a food pantry, or registering people to vote, or joining the underground abortion pill network, or doing a fundraiser for bipoc-led nonprofits, or mailing books to people in prison, or seedbombing native grasses, or phone-banking for a nonprofit you care about, or building benches and leaving them at bus stops, or knitting hats and giving them to unhoused people to stay warm, or starting a community garden, or sponsoring refugees for immigration, or taking a stand at school board meetings, or, or, or

all do infinitely more to help other people than doomscrolling and sharing depressing news posts ever will

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Do Something in the Real World

Alright. Folks. Here is the thing.

Posting on tumblr, Youtube, BlueSky or other social media is nice and all. And it is very important to educate people. I mean, have of what I am doing on this blog is trying to educate people.

But I have realized, that it simply ain't enough. And this is why I am writing this.

I am sorry, folks, but y'all need to get going in the real world out there. And I mean it. No matter where you are, there is going to be some organization at your place trying to make a change.

Maybe it is a political organisation trying to get good people elected. Maybe it is a soup kitchen. Maybe it is some other mutual aid group. Maybe it is an organisation bringing stuff to disenfranchised people. Maybe some folks who band together to phone politicians. I don't what it is. But I can guarantee you, that almost for certain there is something around you, where people are trying to do good.

And you - yes, you! - need to join them. And you need to do it now.

As this is going online (this is prescheduled), I am out in some street canvassing for the German Left Wing party, because there is an election on Sunday. Tomorrow I will be out helping folks set up a protest against fucking fucking nazis. We are expecting more than 10 000 people to come on our side.

Yes, I know you are tired. And I know you might be somewhere on the spectrum. I am too. I am fucking exhausted. I am on the spectrum. Oh, and I am heavily physically disabled.

It does not matter now. We need to organize. We need to get moving. Educating some already similar minded people online is just not going to cut it anymore.

The world is out there. And you need to interact with it. No matter how much it sucks. Because I guarantee you, if you don't do it now, it is gonna suck even more in the future.

We should have done this before. Fuck. We should have done this latest when Greta Thunberg started her thing. At the most latest we should have gotten this going when the pandemic was happening. We had some movement with BLM, but we let it peter out.

No more.

The future begins now.

Hey students, here’s a pro tip: do not write an email to your prof while you’re seriously sick.

Signed, a person who somehow came up with “dear hello, I am sick and not sure if I’ll be alive to come tomorrow and I’m sorry, best slutantions, [name]”.

so matt's absolutely giving scorched earth orders behind the scenes right. Not only are publically visible transfems dropping like flies, but every third person who musters up the audacity to comment negatively on Staff or Matt about this vanishes fucking instantly

ITS MARCH YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

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