Dylan/Pickles
25 - he/him
Trans Dude, Satanist
Aries, INFP
Kin stuff tagged under "kin" or "kin junk"
Let’s try this again, shall we?
I make Ghost-inspired rosary necklaces! I did post these the other week but the listing got nerfed 🥲 so DM me if you’re interested!
They’re all hand-beaded by me and each necklace comes with a laser-cut grucifix in two sizes in either gold or silver :^)
anyone remember that book by the curious george authors abt the transgender kangaroo
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posting this over here too!
Yeah but you're a citizen, you exist in a society, in a wider world, and part of that is having a duty of being informed. Avoiding the news makes you vulnerable to disinformation and propaganda. It's also extremely privileged to be able to treat "the news" as something optional; those are people's lives, and yeah, maybe we can't solve it, but we have duty to bear witness and remember.
I'm sorry, but being informed is part of being a grown up.
huh? Listen, being informed is good, I try to be, but there's a difference between "I am aware of things around me" and "I am exposing myself to terrible things all time because I have to". Suffering isn't noble, and if we want to make a kind world, the first place we have to start with is ourselves. Feeling like shit is not activism, it is not your noble duty, and I can guarantee feeling terrible actively hinders any real work you're trying to do.
To tack onto this- for folks who can hyperfixate or are prone to pretty severe anxiety, it's also extremely damaging to say "you have to be dialed into the news at all times, no matter how terrible, no matter how powerless you individually are, or you're going to fall to The Propaganda"
Because for one- no, no you're not. But for two, one of the biggest, one of the most necessary means of controlling and living with that sort of anxiety or (speaking personally) dealing with post-traumatic stress is managing your exposure to things that can be upsetting, things that can drive that stress way up. If anxiety can render you wholly unable to function and you're exposing yourself to a machine made to keep you engaged 24/7 with it (and its advertising) by amplifying every Bad Thing it can find (which, sorry, no matter the source, this is how a lot of news works, it's still a business,) you're not going to 'bear witness,' you're going to drive yourself into an early and preventable grave, helping nobody, especially yourself.
"Focus on the things you can do in your immediate surroundings" isn't just advice, it's a survival mantra for people like me.
one time in my last job a woman came up to the register explaining that when she bought stuff a day prior the clerk forgot to scan a pair of socks worth less than €2 and it was only right for her to bring it back to the store and pay for it proper. unfortunately my manager was directly next to me at the time and took over the register to handle this serious issue. the receipt she had brought with her said which register performed the previous transaction that forgot the socks and the manager could find out who was running that till on that day. poor dude had a manager yell at him for a half hour about how much of an incompetent fuck up he was, he left the job immediately after but i couldnt tell you if he quit or was fired
i think about this moment a lot. the customer seemed like a sweet woman with only good intentions and when she paid for the socks she had a look on her face that said "i feel good because i did the right thing". and a guy lost his job because of a pair of socks. if shit like this ever happens to you and a clerk forgets to scan an item just think of it as a small blessing or that you had good luck or something. keep it.
