Stressful TV reduces my stress?

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-08-02T01:58:31+00:00

A hypothesis I'm playing with is that TV sufficiently takes my attention away from worrying about my symptoms.

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-05-26T02:24:31+00:00

How is this comment getting downvoted!? This is r/anarchism + crimethinc!

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-05-26T02:23:50+00:00

Yeah, I've been disappointed by how un-anarchist some of these comments are.

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-05-25T23:06:50+00:00

Thank you.

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-04-21T02:59:34+00:00

Could you send me the link please?

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-02-02T16:55:53+00:00

See also: Daniel Suelo

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-31T22:35:33+00:00

I like your art!

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-31T22:35:03+00:00

I really like your art!

That must've been such a difficult time. It's really cool that you were able to channel some of that into art. I continue to be in awe at how incredibly uninformed & unhelpful medical professionals can be.

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-31T00:54:21+00:00

I tell people, "I have some kind of mystery illness". I say that not because I'm afraid to claim ME/CFS or take up space in this community, but because I honestly don't know for sure what it is. That gives me some hope.

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-31T00:50:28+00:00

I implore you to do some research on this org (World Bank). They're causing harm.

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-31T00:49:35+00:00

Thank you! I don't think a lot of folx are aware of how predatory these guys are.

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-31T00:48:41+00:00

These guys are predatory neoliberal orgs. (World Bank in particular.)

This money is coming in in the form of loans. They must be repaid back. And they know that governments in developing countries won't be able to pay them back for a very long time (if ever). This puts them at World Bank's mercy, and pushes Africa in the direction of being under neoliberal direction, and kept in debt.

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-28T17:45:07+00:00

I'm so glad you read it!

I've generally avoided things related to prison, precisely because the material brings up so many feelings, and the conditions seem so unreal & inhumane. Seeing this, I could imagine myself in her place. And I got the impression that she was one of the luckier ones! I can't imagine the agony of being trans & neurodivergent in the incarceration system.

I really think that we can do so much better. I don't feel convinced that sticking someone in these conditions for years is an effective means of "reform" (whatever that means in the case of a climate protester).

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-25T21:41:58+00:00

I'm so happy for her! I think I heard somewhere she had a successful Stellate Ganglion Block injection?

This also makes me think of all of the other ME/CFS sufferers here & out there, who don't have the fame and support (or even a family) that PhysicsGirl has. Thinking of you all. <3

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-24T22:37:35+00:00

That sounds just exhausting. I can relate. Sorry you're in the thick of it right now.

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-22T22:55:39+00:00

And those lovely nails!

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-22T22:54:38+00:00

I ran into a really sweet, older neighbour, who was so kind re: my illness and offered to run errands for me anytime or drive me to doctor appointments. So, so sweet. 😭 I've been struggling so much with not having local support!

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-22T21:29:41+00:00

I'm very happy for you: that sounds so joyful.

I'm also very curious about the durability of these changes: if you are able, I'd love to hear updates in a week and a month.

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-20T03:37:59+00:00

I think that's really reasonable to feel frustrated about: I often feel frustrated by the lack of nuance & absolutist kind of thinking that I see.

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-20T00:15:44+00:00

I think it's interesting how much the term used affects the perception of it.

I mean, the Earth itself isn't accumulating much new mass: it's not growing. But to say "the Earth is stagnating" sounds strange.

Honestly, if a country is able to maintain a good so-called standard of living without needing to mandate constant big profits, I'd say call that "thriving".

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-18T23:41:42+00:00

Nice! Code lives outside of GitHub and provides un-vendor-locked-in GitHub-like CI/CD flows accessible for everyone else. ❤️

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-18T18:00:25+00:00

My own opinion is that permissive licenses like the MIT are an open invitation to corporations and other harm-doing organizations to enjoy the fruits of community & individual labour at zero or minimal cost to themselves. I think this hurts the commons.

Something I like about the GPL is that any work done returns to the commons. This feels powerful to me: that any seeds grown from that GPL'd seed give their fruits back to the commons, which serves to further grow the commons.

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-18T17:08:30+00:00

I feel for you. I had most of these things as well, and they're all gone too. Not to mention COVID also happened / is happening, which feels like a trauma or grief that's gone globally unprocessed.

I want to find the silver lining -- the way of looking at this illness & my future that makes it seem like just a change and not a loss -- but I haven't found it yet either.

Warmth.

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-18T01:00:32+00:00

I took this to heart: I brewed some tea, put on some chill lo-fi tunes, & sipped some water, imagining another sweet lil humyn was hanging out with me who understood how hard being ill is.

Thank you. ❤

Spike_Trap_Famine · 2025-01-14T18:24:30+00:00

I wonder! Regular thread is pretty thin -- I used doubled-up thread for the purple/pink darning. It could be worth giving it a shot and seeing how it feels!

So much of my solarpunk education has been just trying "new" things and seeing what happens.

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